 Poster: A snowHead
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Eisheiligen Tage... Could do with a change. Cold and wet since Thursday. All well and good at the right time of year, but...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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GFS forecast was good this week with heavy snow last night and this morning, trickling down to 1400m in NW. All four seasons made an appearance today. And looks set to continue until next week, with sun, rain and then decent snow on monday, 23rd May. Hashtag whatever winter is coming.
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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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Big shift in the weather just starting. Was about 9C in Salzburg this morning. Could reach 30C by Sunday.
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Dumping in the Aosta Valley
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Lots of snow in Les Saisies, too, and no doubt all over the place. Not at all unusual as @Weathercam's link underlines.
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Yes, 25 degrees yesterday so walked up the Col des Aravis for a couple of hours... today the snowplough has been through a few times at 1200m... back to sunshine tomorrow...
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A good 30-40cm of fresh snow widely across Switzerland according to SLF automatic stations. Engelberg is still open - could be fun tomorrow.
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A thundery break down in many parts of the Alps over the next couple of days after a few very pleasant warm and sunny days.
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Thundery breakdown continuing in many parts of Europe.
Matt Taylor at the Met Office
@MetMattTaylor Incredible storms across the Netherlands this evening. 300-360 strokes of lightning⚡️every MINUTE!
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@nozawaonsen, June 1st tomorrow so the metrological start of summer here in Oberbayern. Forecast : pouring rain low temperatures (the Tux will get a good top up though, so that maybe the silver-lining)
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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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Absolutely tipping down in Salzburg.
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Chilly for June.....
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Apparently there were 1.5 million lightning strikes in Europe over the last week according to blitzortung.org
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Good start to the Winter season in southern New Zealand.
Mt Hutt already has 30-40 inches.
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Jabba will be pleased
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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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A very wet and and cold May in Austria.
http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/klima/news/mai-2016-sehr-nass-und-etwas-zu-kuehl
Temperatures were 0.2C below average although that masks some much warmer temepratures at times, 32.5C in Salzburg on 22 May.
Since January 2011 there have been 53 months with above average temperatures, this May was only the 12th with below average.
It was (as was much of Europe) a very wet month, 46% above average and one of the 20 wettest May's since records began in 1858. Again this hid regional varitations with some areas between Salzburg and Vienna seeing 213% of average.
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Montana saw 3ft / 1m of snow last week and is still digging out at elevation.
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Les Arcs glacier looking pretty good!
Pics via snow-forecast.com Quote "re-opens for glacier skiing on June 18th and reports 80cm of fresh snow in the past month waiting on a 2.5m base. "
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Can't wee it being used in Austria or Germany as the agreements with the landowners are already agreed years in advance The Alms are important for the summer animals,any way. The Germans, Austrians and most other skiing nations just stop coming in big numbers after Easter no matter how good the snow is. Resorts start closing, either end of play on Easter Monday or the following Sunday ,(ironically called White Sunday)
Even trying to construct new reservoirs for the current cannons cause very bitter discussions; a local sloped to me (used by the FIS snowboard World Cup races and the home slopes for a couple of World Champions (Eckert and Lubbock sp?), met with massive objections. My physio is one of the slope "owners, so I got a blow by blow (sometimes quite literally because he was so frustrated by the tree-hugger's pathetic actions. The plan was designed from the beginning that it would be a biotope in summer and an environmentaltal scientist was aon board from the beginning and is still involved.
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The Germans, Austrians and most other skiing nations just stop coming in big numbers after Easter no matter how good the snow is
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In France they're thin on the ground even before Easter unless it's very early - numbers drop off rapidly towards the end of March, though snow is often still fine.
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| pam w wrote: |
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The Germans, Austrians and most other skiing nations just stop coming in big numbers after Easter no matter how good the snow is
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In France they're thin on the ground even before Easter unless it's very early - numbers drop off rapidly towards the end of March, though snow is often still fine. |
Which is healthy. We should be thinking of beaches and summer sports in the summer months not looking at snowheads.
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Unless the weather is poo-poo in UK as it seems to be more regularly ..........
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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Just been looking at Courchevel webcams (sad I know) and amazed to see that it would still be possible to ski Saulire.is this exceptional or normal?
thanks
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Crazy amounts of rain here the last few weeks. Ruetzbach (the river that flows from Stubbier Glacier) broke it's 5 year high water record twice this week (still less than half of the 10 year record! which must have been insane!), and everything else is flying pretty high too.
New snow on the peaks and around Schruns, and Stubai is due around 40cm of snow high up in the next few days... Unfortunately they closed early for lift maintenance/building new lifts early this summer, but any new snow will be very helpful for keeping the glacier in good shape for September!
Looks like the Inn's a bit too high for my favourite river wave, but I'm glad to see it's still working (it was pretty badly affected by high water last summer). Photo from Ted at White Descents:
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You know it makes sense.
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| geoffk wrote: |
Just been looking at Courchevel webcams (sad I know) and amazed to see that it would still be possible to ski Saulire.is this exceptional or normal?
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Look at the history on the web cam, you can go back to see what it was like.
There was a small snow patch through to end of july last year
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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It's normal to have the snow stay through June in the higher altitudes. When i've been in Val Thorens banging away at something in the apartment, then for a break wandering up the slopes, there is often snow left where the pistes were and on north facing slopes.
This year was very good late on and it hasn't been that warm so I imagine there would be a fair amount of snow above 2600 metres. I'll tell you in a few weeks.
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Poster: A snowHead
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It was still possible to ski to the resort in VT up until a couple weeks ago.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Whitegold wrote: |
| It was still possible to ski to the resort in VT up until a couple weeks ago. |
You can ski to the top of the resort today
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Chile and Argentina off to a great start this month...
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