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brian,
Looking at the BBC Weather for tomorrow morning it is suggesting a temp of 2 degrees at low levels with a couple of big white blobs across the region. Do you think there could be some snow above 200m on the Sperrins or Antrim Hills?
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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 ..gong to Tignes on the 17th. Should I take my phat skis, or my rock skis ?  |
Decide on the 16th...
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brian
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johnboy, possibly, but if there is I think it will quickly be washed away as it turns to rain. I think rain all the way is more likely but the Met office should know a lot better than me !
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brian
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pam w, wow !
Batten down the hatches ...
Amazing that for the same forecast time, it's almost calm over Cairngorm.
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hd, another boards forum user , hello!
Considering going windsurfing this weekend, see how busy i am with work 
I guess your local spot is the south coast?
I'm stuck with rutalnd water most the time, not much wind forecast there for sunday.
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kitenski,
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Decide on the 16th...
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Good idea.... need to pack on the 13th
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| pam w wrote: |
Fantastic. Let's hope freezing levels are low enough. |
So by tomorrow morning there'll be nice cold air over the alps. Then warm front arrives tomorrow evening, initially bringing snow, then rain in the warm sector (hopefully only for a few hours and confined to below 2000m) and followed up by a cold front turning things colder again with snow right down to below 1000m by Sunday afternoon.
Cold on Monday with a bit more snow, colder still on Tuesday with snow easing off and staying cold but brightening up on Wednesday. Continuing cold (potentially very cold) and dry thereafter with winds from the north east.
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Last November, the average sea surface temperature in the Northern Hemisphere was higher than it's ever been (during the period of reliable measurements) and the Alpine season was a bit of a disaster. This year's figure is way down (nearly a quarter of a degree, which must represent one helluva lot less energy) and the coldest November since 1995.
Could this be a reason for optimism?
The figures are here:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/hadsst2nh.txt
On the same site, there are gridded 5 deg x 5 deg figures, so anyone who has the time could look at the North Atlantic and North Pacific separately for European and N. American forecasts (assuming my theory has any validity).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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freezing level has seemingly crept down to below 1400m as its snowing in meribel at the moment 
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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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laundryman,
Didn't know you were a weather nerd 
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johnboy, well I'm most other types of nerd! 
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You know it makes sense.
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laundryman,
Where did you find that data? Makes sense though
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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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Snowing at 1300 in stanton too
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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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Heavy snow in St Anton now at 1300
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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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changed from rain to snow last night, still snowing now.
Monetier opens this morning, should be fun 
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ski, phat mate, phatter the better. It snowed big time over the last 24 hours. I was just speaking to an ESF instructor in Les Arcs and these are the best opening conditions he can remember for a long time.
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| as I was walking around the lake at Tignes at 4am this morning |
Try a nice glass of warm milk and whisky before you go to bed!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Frosty the Snowman, yes, it was officially a Big Night. I'd finished my BASI course and some friends were at the end of their gap course so to celebrate we partook of the delights of the Crowded House, Blue Girl and Melting Pot. Strangely nobody have given any thought to a strategy for returning to Le Lac 
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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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rob@rar, The Boss and I have done exactly the same. The walk along the road is MUCH further in a blizzard  Sounds like a good time was had by all.
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You know it makes sense.
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Heavy reain here. The wee river that runs through the farm has just burst it's banks
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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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there's certainly a lot of weather about. lots of "violent storm 11" in the shipping forecasts tonight; in many of the western sea areas. That's not something you see very often. We're only getting force 10, but that's something we rarely see; a full gale is impressive enough. Waiting for the midnight pressure update from the met office to decide whether I have to get up early to think about flood defences. Anyone know the relationship between atmospheric pressure and differences from predicted tidal height. Average, on which predictions are based, is 1012mb, I think, and the last chart suggested we would have 970 tomorrow. 42mb could make quite a difference to the height of tide. I guess I am about to find out, empirically - a google search didn't find it.
When it hits the Alps tomorrow night........ should make for some good webcam watching, if a bit boisterous out on the slopes.
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brian
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Outlook for the alps from Wednesday until into next week in 3 words: cold and dry. Potentially very, very cold.
Good news for wrongsideof30 and any other pyreneean snow watchers, there is considerable potential for the cold air flooding western Europe from the north east to meet some moist med air round about the mountains from next weekend. When/where/if is very vague at this stage but I thought you might like a straw to clutch at
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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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Does cold and dry mean that the avalanche risk will reduce more slowly than if the weather was a bit warmer? There seemed to be a lot of loaded slopes when I was out there last week.
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Peter S, I'm booked for february and can't make 2 trips, please don't jinx the one I've got!
Seriously though, is there any reason to fear that all this early snow will mean less in January and February? Do previous records back this up? I hope it just keeps coming! 
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is there any reason to fear that all this early snow will mean less in January and February?
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no.
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brian
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^^^
What she said !
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rob@rar, interesting question. If only we had a qualified instructor around to help us answer it ....
Seriously, I'm far from an expert in avvy matters but I'd imagine that the sun will be getting to work on stabilising anything with a bit of southerly aspect but that steep north facing terrain will remain dangerous for a while to come. I, for one, shall be religiously reading the bulletins ...
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Peter S, I have taken heed and booked three trips. Am I obsessing?
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brian, Any thoughts on when the high may break down and be replaced by westerlies again??
Just before xmas week looks promising?
What happened to 'Carled' I used to love his Weather Attitude
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