No sign of summer: Winter hits the Alps again with snow

Summer is really steering clear of the Alps, with the mountains covered in snow in recent days.

On Wednesday 12th June, many places above an altitude of around 1500 metres were covered in a blanket of snow. A far more wintry scene than summery one.

Snow fell overnight on Tuesday in the area, in addition to continuing later in the day on Wednesday too.

In some valleys between Brenner and Hohe Tauern in Austria, wet snowflakes even fell down to 1200 metres. It also snowed heavily across parts of south-east Switzerland.

At higher altitudes in the Alps however, there was enough fresh snow for around 20 centimetres to accumulate, as the pictures from the Hintertux Glacier in Tyrol show below.