Updated Mar. 30, 2020 12:55 PM
Wintry conditions will continue to hang on across the Balkan Peninsula this week as a number of storms track across southern and eastern Europe.
"A cold front will move across central Europe and into eastern Europe early this week," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Rob Richards.
As showers followed the front into Poland on Monday, snow continued to pile up in southern Germany and the Alps. A fresh blanket of 30-60 cm (1-2 feet) of snow fell in the highest elevations.
Simultaneously, a storm moved into the eastern half of the Mediterranean Sea, funneling more moisture into southeastern Europe.
These two storms will work together to bring occasional showers across much of southeastern Europe into Tuesday.
Meanwhile, cold air following behind the front in the north will allow temperatures to decline through the week.
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After starting off the past weekend near 15 C (59 F) in cities like Berlin, Germany, and Warsaw, Poland, the mercury struggled to reach 5 C (41 F) on Monday. Highs around 17 C (63 F) in Budapest, Hungary, and Bucharest, Romania, on Sunday were replaced with temperatures in the single digits C (40s F).
As temperatures drop to around or below freezing through Monday night, areas that received mainly rain during the day could experience a change over to snow, especially in higher elevations.
In the south, temperatures outside of the mountains will remain too high for snow. Periods of rain will spread from southern Italy to Greece into Tuesday.
Widespread rainfall totals are forecast to remain under 25 mm (1 inch), but any locally heavy downpour can lead flash flooding, especially in areas that have received repeat downpours through late March.
As this storm races off into the Middle East by the start of April, another storm will form over the Balkan Peninsula.
This storm will pull more moisture into the region, which will keep showers over far southern Italy, across the peninsula and into Turkey on Wednesday and Thursday.
At the same time, this storm will pull colder air farther south. Areas forecast to receive just rain through the early part of the week can expect wet snowflakes mix in through midweek.
Mainly snow is forecast for the highest elevations in the Dinaric Alps. Fresh snowfall can pile up to 30 cm (12 inches) across the higher elevations from Albania and northern Greece into western Bulgaria.
Slippery conditions due to snow-covered roads can cause travel delays across the region into the end of the week.
AccuWeather forecasters say mostly dry conditions are expected to return to southeastern Europe by Friday and persist into the weekend.
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