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Skiing and fresh snow around the Alps |
Poster: A snowHead
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There have been low temperatures and snow on glaciers throughout the Alps in the past few days. In Austria, the Hintertux glacier had 10cm of fresh snow on 20 June, and has a 195cm base....See: http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Hintertux/conditions
The Dachstein glacier had 15cm of fresh snow on 21 June and has a 230cm base.
See: http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Dachstein-Glacier/conditions
The Kitzsteinhorn glacier above Kaprun had 6cm of fresh snow on 21 June, on top of a base of 144cm.
See: http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Kaprun/conditions
In Italy, Presena glacier and Val Senales are open and had 5cm fresh snow on 21 June on a base of 150cm and 100cm, respectively. They will be joined by Cervinia, which re-opens at the weekend.
See: http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Presna-Glacier/conditions and http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Val-Senales/conditions
In Switzerland, only Zermatt is open, with a base of 190cm and 5cm of fresh snow on 21 June.
See: http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Zermatt/conditions
In France the ski lifts began running again at the weekend in Tignes on the Grande Motte glacier, while Les Deux Alpes re-opened a week ago. In Tignes, the snow base is 120cm, and there's been another 5cm of fresh snow this week. Les Deux Alpes has 270cm of snow on the upper slopes, but no fresh snow since 6 June.
See: http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Tignes/conditions and http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Les-Deux-Alpes/conditions
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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el Hen, pretty sure Easiski reported fresh snow almost down to village level only a couple of days ago.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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