High ski slopes in the northern Alps are reporting fresh snowfall above about 2500m altitude today.
Zugspitze near Garmisch Partenkirchen in southern Germany is pictured above but snowfall has been reported on glaciers and mountain peaks over a wide area.
The snowfall has arrived as fires rage and temperature records are broken in southern Europe.
Snowfall is possible any month of the year at high altitudes in the mountains and the Alps have seen increasingly dynamic weather conditions in recent days and weeks, including gale force winds and torrential rain in some areas. This wild weather has closed lifts at times and in a few cases, such as the Slovenian resort of Kranjska Gora, led to land slips and flooding blocking valley roads.