GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you’re planning to drive in Geneva, check out traffic conditions before getting in the car, with a some bridges closed, opened, then closed again, and traffic snarled due to detours. The city’s Infomobilite site gives live updates; red line streets are best avoided.

Weather forecast: heavy rains expected in Geneva, Vaud, Valais and along the western border with France. Geneva can expect a downpour, 2.4 mm/hour around 17:00, according to MeteoSwiss, the national weather service.

Several flood and mudslide alerts have been issued throughout Switzerland, with Bern’s Aar river going over its banks in several areas and Lake Thun at a critical stage. News agency ats’s story about the countrywide situation is carried by a number of media this morning, with reports of strong warm foehn winds of up to 115 kph in some areas in central Switzerland, and temperatures up to 28C. A cold front will sweep across the country from the west later today, so the summerlike temperatures will rapidly disappear.

Geneva and Vaud forecast: 13-20C Tuesday, with heavy rain. Rain diminishing Wednesday and disappearing by Thursday, temperatures 7-19C.