Now that the weather has quieted down, a pair of notes from Switzerland
After I had written the country post on Switzerland, oh, January, I received a couple of e-mails from Meteoswiss, the Swiss weather agency. The first e-mail, they passed along a pair of links.
The first was to the Wikipedia page for the foehn wind, which is the Alpine version of the downslope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foehn_wind
Next, they wanted to point to the COSMO information page, a model developed by MeteoSwoss that is integral to their forecasting: http://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/web/en/weather/models/cosmo.html
Then, a few days later, we received another e-mail with a link to a new English climate page at Meteoswiss: http://www.meteosuisse.admin.ch/web/en/climate/swiss_climate/swiss_climate_overview.html
Thank you to everyone at MeteoSwiss who was able to help teach we Americans something new!