An early appearance of winter has hit vast parts of the country with full force. Snowfall brought railway traffic to a halt in Salzburg yesterday (Mon). More than 200 passengers were trapped in trains for hours after trees collapsed under the weight of the snow and landed on the tracks. No one was injured in […]
Weather has no significant effect on migraine sufferers’ condition, a landmark study has found. Vienna’s General Hospital (AKH) announced today (Fri) experts of the University Clinic for Neurology could not find strong indicators linking weather conditions and abrupt chances of weather to headaches and migraine in a survey. AKH explained the researchers cooperated with Vienna’s […]
A worker maintaining a snow-making machine had to be hospitalised after a water hose burst.Officials in the Salzburg ski resort of Obertauern said today (Thurs) the 50-year-old mans right leg was seriously injured by pieces of metal hurled into the air due to the water pressure in the incident which happened yesterday afternoon.Obertauern is one […]
Police raided a house after an anonymous local reported its owner for keeping 27 dogs in poor conditions.Officials in Bruck an der Leitha, Lower Austria, said today (Weds) the animals were well-nourished, but added that the conditions they were kept in were rated as inappropriate by animal experts from a nearby dog shelter.Authorities are now […]
A teenager suffered a cut above his eye in a freak traffic incident yesterday (Mon).The 15-year-old was sitting in the passenger seat of a car being driven by his father near Bergheim in the province of Salzburg when a three-centimetre thick sheet of solid ice smashed through the windscreen window.The object, which was a square […]
Traffic experts have appealed to drivers to adapt their speed to the treacherous conditions they are currently confronted with across Austria.Strong snowfall has led to dozens of accidents on streets across all nine provinces last night and this morning (Weds).Six people had to be hospitalised in Vorarlberg this morning after a 28-year-old driver lost control […]
Vienna city hall chiefs have promised to increase the number of checks on Fiaker horse carriage drivers after a Wallach horse died at a tourist hotspot in the heart of the capital.The six-year-old animal collapsed and perished at the Heldenplatz Square on Sunday just a stone’s throw from the Hofburg Palace which features the […]
Temperatures will edge up again next week, meteorologists said today (Thurs).Weather experts announced that temperatures may increase up to six degrees centigrade in some areas in western Austria on Monday. Regions currently blanketed in around 30 centimetres of snow may experience some rainfall at the beginning of next week, while conditions in the eastern flatlands […]
Insurers have said they may have to pay out more natural disaster compensation than ever before as Austria has been hit by several devastating thunderstorms and floods.The federal Association of Austrian Insurance Agencies said today (Fri) damages to insured estates caused by freak weather conditions equals around 200 million Euros so far this year.The body […]
Carers at Viennas Schönbrunn Zoo said their new-born Western Rockhopper Penguins were not allowed into the water as their feathers were not waterproof yet.Visitors can watch the ten young penguins born over the past four and a half weeks hopping around in a separate enclosure.Zoo bosses said the audience favourites were scoffing up to 20 […]