© DPABaffling pictures emerged of August snow in Austria and Germany
Stunning pictures baffle the world as Austrian mountains covered in up to 40cm of snowWe're in August and people across the EU should be enjoying summer's sweltering temperatures.
But baffling images show Germany and Austria covered in SNOW as temperatures dropped up to 15 degrees from one day to another.
The pictures shows different mountainous areas in the two bordering countries turning into a very early winter wonderland.
Of the two, Austria was most hit with up a downfall over the weekend that left it with up to 40cm of snow.
The city of Salzburg, according to
WetterOnline , saw the heaviest downfall. But areas at less than 1000 metres of altitude were also covered in snow.
The ski town of Bad Gastein, for example, which is south of Salzburg and at 900 metres of altitude, awoke to a dreamy white landscape as it was covered in up to five centimetres of snow.
Residents of Obertauern, Rauris, Sankt Jakob in Defereggental and Hintertux on Sunday morning were welcomed with snowflakes amid zero-degree temperatures.
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