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| Weathercam wrote: |
@davidof, yes stopping off at Voissant just down the road from Miribel-les-Échelles.
Feeling a lot cooler today with a windchill in the breeze - glad I did that big bike ride yesterday!
I did try to persuade the Mrs to go back Monday so we could get as quick ski tour in on Sunday, but she wasn't up for it  |
You should have toured on the days you arrived, not sure the w'end will be great weather for being out and about.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Both GFS and ECM going for a cold second week of November.
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@davidof, tidy lines 
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| kitenski wrote: |
| @davidof, tidy lines |
Rare to see the French snow farming.
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@davidof, some nice photos from that sortie I especially like the family of snow grouse.
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Snow line on Sunday now looking considerably lower especially in the eastern Alps. The snowfall itself will arrive in the west on Saturday when temperatures are still relatively mild (2000m+). It looks like dropping below 1000m on Sunday, that means the back end of the snowfall in the western Alps will settle much lower. In the eastern Alps the majority of the snow looks like arriving on Sunday after the drop in temperatures and by Monday will be falling down to 500m.
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As of now, there's 117cm of snow forecast for Tignes over the next 9 days, with very respectable freezing levels. 
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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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| Old Fartbag wrote: |
| As of now, there's 117cm of snow forecast for Tignes over the next 9 days, with very respectable freezing levels. |
Is that likely to last until December, even if temperatures rise above average for the second half of November?
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Now that's the million dollar question....but it's a good start.
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You know it makes sense.
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@ManiaMuse, it all depends on how warm it gets between now and December. With very mild conditions any snowfall beyond the glacier would rapidly disappear. Obviously if it stays colder then less so. Any figure such as 117cm should be treated with a fair amount of caution (see page 1).
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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I bought Rose Tinted goggles for a reason and don't let my bubble go too close to sharp objects...it's going to be a fab start to the season!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No el nino this year. 
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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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Well I am getting pretty excited at the latest forecasts. Driving out to Austria for the winter on Wednesday and looks like the season may be starting.
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I think this should be called "The Optimistic All New 16/17 Weather Outlook Thread."
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My heart bleeds for colorado...........
Give us some doom and gloom for tha Alps in January please whitegold!
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As Scotspikey said, no El Nino this year. As far as long range forecasts are concerned, that is the best observation available.
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| ManiaMuse wrote: |
| Old Fartbag wrote: |
| As of now, there's 117cm of snow forecast for Tignes over the next 9 days, with very respectable freezing levels. |
Is that likely to last until December, even if temperatures rise above average for the second half of November? |
It will on the high resorts like Val Thorens. As per the photo of the disappearing snow, the november snow last year was followed by warm dry out to xmas. I was out in val thorens and they managed to keep the pistes reasonably ok. xmas week was harder as they wear and tear caused the odd stone to show through and there were lots of icey patches. but any snow of that amount now will stick at the high altitude resorts i would have thought. they have been building up piles of snow with the canons this week in vt so this dump will set the pistes up well for the opening on 26th
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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What is an El Niño?
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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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A sprinkle down to ~2000m in Zermatt today.
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| jimmy38 wrote: |
| What is an El Niño? |
A small latin American boy I believe
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You know it makes sense.
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| jimmy38 wrote: |
| What is an El Niño? |
It means if you want a White Christmas in the Alps you need to start praying to Sweet Baby Jesus! 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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jimmy38, El Nino? Google it.
And davidof, didn't something very similar happen October/November 2014?
What the weather brings now has little to do with what it will be like mid-December.
But we all live in hope . . .
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Poster: A snowHead
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That's not quite true in the higher resorts @Jonpim. Snow now will be the base for the november opening resorts. They are already piling up the canon snow to get ready to spread it about in a week or so.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Jonpim wrote: |
jimmy38, El Nino? Google it.
And davidof, didn't something very similar happen October/November 2014?
What the weather brings now has little to do with what it will be like mid-December.
But we all live in hope . . . |
Yes, last two starts to the season have been dreadful round my way but things can change from range to range. For example the next set of mountains, the Beaufortain, had good conditions and snow depths for most of last seasons. A single dump can make the difference between happiness and misery.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@emwmarine,
I agree. The next week of off and on snow is good early season news for the high resorts. If I was running a resort I would have the cannons going 24/7 in the cold weather. Places like Tignes and VT will be trying to get their resort runs functional during this cold window of opportunity.
In short it is better to have this coming weather than not.
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Plenty of snow down to 750m in the Eastern Alps at Zell am See and still snowing.
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Pretty cold in the Alps for the time of year over the next week with more snowfall looking likely on 11 November.
After that it looks like warming up a bit with some further unsettled weather though hard at this stage to get much of a sense beyond that.
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The Lecht, Scotland, today:
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Lots of snow around here - even down to the city late this afternoon. Glacier should be great later this week, possibly even enough to go touring on grassy slopes in other resorts tomorrow...
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