 Poster: A snowHead
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No to rain! That can bug off ...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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There will be rain, there's no doubt about that. The only question is the altitude at which it turns to snow. How MUCH precipitation is also an open question.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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anything below 1500m it seems will be rain.....could even be a bit higher.......
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could even be a bit higher......
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or even a lot higher at times, if Meteo France is right. 1800/2000m in many places (including Les Saisies and Ste Foy) according to MF - but that's Monday, and light rain. They see little or no precipitation at the weekend whereas snow-forecast foresees Biblical quantities of precipitation on Sunday. 
I suspect the truth is that the evolution is very uncertain and a huge range of possible outcomes are equally possible. We shall see.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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metoex.com also goes for a lot of rain Sunday night clearing monday morning!!!!!............
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1800/2000m in many places
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Please no... is there anything more dispiriting in a ski resort than rain? 
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meteox now goes for longer rain or snow depending on the FL right throught to late monday.
not sure what forecasting system they base theirs one, but it was bloody accurate on Boxing Day!!!!!!!!!
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@kitenski, if it's 1800, I'll *just about* be alright 
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if it was to drop to 1500m then I think a lot of places would benefit from whatever falls out the ski. At 2000m, its going to be a very wet and miserable day or two.
Cham-meteo giving poor confidence on all recent reports so case of lottery how it will play out. What i cant really get my head around is why a NW airstream would be as warm as it is looking to be? If it was South or SW I could understand it but northerly in my book = cool/cold and decent snowfall in the majority of cases as it hits the pre-alps
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Extended Weather Forecast (as reported by Météo-France Savoie) for Savoie and the N French Alps
Snow then back to sunny skies and warm temperatures!
Saturday 28th: N to NW winds, gusting up to 60 km/hr at altitude. Cloudy at times. 0° at 2000 m. Snow/precipitation starting.
Sunday 29th & Monday 30th: Sunday: Llight snow down to 1300 m. Monday: Snow, some bright spells and temperatures up to 0° at 2200 m. Strong NW wind at altitude.
Tuesday 31st & Wednesday 1st April: NW weatherly system continuing, with gusts up to 60 km/hr. Tuesday snow then Weds: sun and bit of high cloud, both days very warm: 0° at 3000 m at times duriing the day.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Reason for optimism in the next few days!
These are for Chamonix.
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I'd like that much better if that precipitation didn't coincide with practically every run predicting above average temperatures.
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Poster: A snowHead
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yep, that green spike is the stuff of dreams.....but not when the FL is on close to the summits 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So, here's a question for you. All these GFS wigglies have a 30-Jahres-Mittel line in red which I take to be a 30-year average. Yet they're never flat and, indeed, show a wobble with a period of about 6 days. How come?
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@hedley, it's more based on my amazing card-counting and memory skills 
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Ah fook it I'm leaving in 9 hours I'll ski on what there is
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@Boris, That's the spirit
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Snow at altitude all the way out for Scotland. Rain, snow, rain for the Lakes into next week.
MetO long term outlook into mid April is changeable but with spells of further snow and frost in the north. Sounds reasonable for Spring skiing, but will the demand still be there...........compared with all the enthusiasm back in November ?
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Parts of the Alps are going to see some pretty heavy snowfall in the coming week.
More tricky though is the freezing level which will be high at times (1500-2100m) and also strong winds in places for the start of next week.
But plenty of snow to fall at altitude in many areas.
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Any thoughts on the likelihood of that FL moving lower as the weekend unfolds...seems Cham-meteo giving confidence only to tomorrow at the moment.
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France
The rest of today (Friday) will see cloud gradually breaking up across the northern Alps to allow some decent spells of sunshine. The southern Alps will be generally clearer. Freezing levels will be between 1400 and 1700m.
Saturday should be mostly dry, but cloud will thicken across the northern Alps with a little rain possible in the far north later (snow 1800m).
Sunday will be mostly cloudy with rain or snow (1500-1700m), becoming heavy in the northern Alps later in the day. The far southern Alps should remain dry with variable cloud.
Monday will see further heavy rain/snow (1500m) in the north, dying out later.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Cham meteo is keeping his powder dry, but based on this ensemble some significant precipitation is arriving on Monday in Chamonix, we have some high altitude real estate round here, so not worrying too much about the snow line but 1500m would be nice.
20cm would set us up for Easter nicely.
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@jbob, wouldn't be unhappy seeing that.
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You know it makes sense.
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@under a new name, well his powder is dry no longer, he just posted this!!
MONDAY MARCH 30
Bad northwesterly weather - heavy precipitation in the morning
SKY CONDITION : overcast. Period of sunshine close to 0%.
PRECIPITATION : heavy in the morning - getting lighter towards the middle of the day - rain-snow limit towards 1600 m - expected snwofall towards 2000 m since previous evening : 50-60 cm.
WIND - aloft : NW strong - gale at times.
TEMPERATURE : low +3°C - high +11°C.
Very uncertain.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@jbob, wow! That changes a few things!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Meteo France are more pessimistic about the rain/snow level - they reckon 1900 - 2300m Sunday/Morning.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm pretending I didn't see that. Will be a nightmare at 2000m+
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@skinutter, meteo france are very often wrong - that's what I keep telling myself! Chamonix Meteo is usually pretty good. But it seems the weather signs are still a bit all over the place.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Lovely up brevent first thing, sunny, mild. That's what we want from now till end October. 
But not what's forecast ...
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keeping the faith for the Arlberg cold n snowy approach to Easter...
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what confidence of that cold spell @nozawaonsen, given it's still a week away??
May have to buy some mittens for my eldest who suffers with cold hands!!
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@kitenski, still a week away so still time for it to shift in one direction or another, but it does have a fair amount of support. Mind you it'll be cold for April rather than cold for January.
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Looks like a wet'n'wild few days out there - good luck to those starting their week's hols tomorrow!
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