The Climate Status Report Austria for the year 2022 shows that the past year was exceptionally warm in Austria, with relatively little precipitation. The country's glaciers were particularly hard hit by this combination of heat and low precipitation: high summer temperatures, a thin snow cover, and large amounts of Saharan dust led to rapid glacial melt. Alongside heat and drought, the year was also marked by individual severe storms with mudslides and flooding.

The annually published Climate Status Report Austria is produced on behalf of the Climate and Energy Fund and all nine federal states by the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) in collaboration with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) and GeoSphere Austria – Federal Institute for Geology, Geophysics, Climatology and Meteorology.

It's now available here.