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is it too early for the "Omg no snow" thread?

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paulio, are you being deliberately difficult? Read the link. It is often very much warmer up a mountain than down in a valley. That's what inversion is about. Davidof tried to explain. That's why waynos said that they can only blow snow on the LOW pistes, because the up on the HIGH pistes it's too WARM.
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James The Last said a MINIMUM of 0.5 degrees drop per 100m of climb.

i.e. it's MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for it to be colder higher up.

He's a weather expert, so that's good enough for me.
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Also, WHY are we both WRITING some words IN capital LETTERS?
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pam w wrote:
paulio, are you being deliberately difficult?


H enjoys it and it gives people a bit of a laugh during a long work day.
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paulio wrote:
James The Last said a MINIMUM of 0.5 degrees drop per 100m of climb.

i.e. it's MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for it to be colder higher up.



Eh?
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Look, it's very simple. The middle of the Earth is very hot (over 400 degrees), and space is very cold.

So the higher up you go, the colder it gets.
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Until a certain point when you start to get close to the sun, then it gets warmer again! As Icarus discovered. Twisted Evil
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well either this link is faked

http://www.vialattea.it/Data/vialattea_it/Webcam/collebercia1.jpg
or this one
http://www.meteo-system.com/stazioni/sestriere/sestriere.jpg

or some snow ( in excess of 1cm ) has fallen somewhere - and its at least where i am going
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paulio, you really haven't got the idea of temperature inversion, have you? Very Happy
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14 degrees this morning.....its getting warmer on the south coast. May have another BBQ this evening Cool

Water temperature has only dropped 1 degree since summer so might even get a bit of swimming in.
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stanton, I'm ignoring your posts on weather on principle - frequently over the last few years you have assured us that going skiing was a waste of time as there would be nothing to ski on.

Have been skiing on each occassion


Thankyou for your expert opinion.
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mountainaddict, that model is looking nice for the night between the 24th and 25th November! For the whole of the Alps even. We can but dream i suppose. most of my local friends here and hereabouts who work in the ski areas in winter are not too worried yet.

Still too early to worry too much. Loads of Eastern Europeans on the road home last night with skis etc on/in their cars. Is it a big holiday in the Czech Republic and Poland this weekend? The glaciers are going to be heaving! As I remember they were this time last year as well.
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especially for Paulio Twisted Evil

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espri wrote:
There's an interesting article (in German) from [b]wetteronline.de..........


Was that an Echo of my post a few posts up? Very Happy
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http://youtube.com/v/Gfyz2ZEKJzo
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I like those lasers being fired into the sky from those houses. Is that why the air is warmer higher up in the second picture?
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All the weather models you can think of , have fun !

http://www.westwind.ch/
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Can anybody advise on whether there has ever been a winter anywhere where there has really been no snow in ski resorts?

I've been skiing since '88 (that's 19 not 18 wink) and have always been lucky enough to have had decent snow. However, I think it was in about January 1990 when the TV news showed the French Alps as all green and ski resorts laying on mountain biking and hiking instead of sking Shocked . Did they end up with snow that winter?
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paulio wrote:
James The Last said a MINIMUM of 0.5 degrees drop per 100m of climb.

i.e. it's MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for it to be colder higher up.

He's a weather expert, so that's good enough for me.


He didn't write that at all. Or at least, he caveated it. (And no, he's not a weather expert, but thanks!)
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paulio, Don't forget in Annecy you will suffer from the Lake Effect on the weather. Toofy Grin
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I, for one, am enjoying paulio's alternative weather thread.
maybe its warm higher up the mountain because thats where the sheep, cows and goats are, and those bugs fart like troopers.
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SNOWFORECAST.COM have some cold temps modelled and a bit of snow arriving in Morzine next week...
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The blocking pattern sitting over eastern Europe is weakening and will lose it's influence next week. Temperatures are forecast to drop and the snow will follow.

Now stop worrying!
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The blocking pattern sitting over eastern Europe is weakening and will lose it's influence next week. Temperatures are forecast to drop and the snow will follow.

Now stop worrying!


Inflation is predicted to drop below 2% too
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Hmm, I just have a feeling that the weather gods will torment us for a bit yet, however, I also have a feeling it is going to be one of these years where it starts to snow and then doesn't stop for weeks. snowHead

What odds will you give me that the festive season skiers will be on here moaning that they couldn't see ten feet in front of them and had to learn to ski powder as the bashers couldn't piste it fast enough wink


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Getting there the top half of the mountain opens this weekend.

Alpine Snow Depth (2061m / 6762') 74.0 cm / 29.1 in
Mid Mountain Snow Depth
Updated at 10:55AM on November 17
Located at the top of the Sunburst Express (1855m / 6086') 49.8 cm / 19.6 in
It is across the pond



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Loads of Eastern Europeans on the road home last night with skis etc on/in their cars.....
On a pedantic note....wouldn't 'the road home' be taking them to Eastern Europe and not to the Austrian glaciers wink ??

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The glaciers are going to be heaving! As I remember they were this time last year as well.
We skied Stubai and Hintertux at the back end of last week. Stubai's overspill parking was well in use but the glacier never seemed to get that busy on the Thurs and Fri. Meanwhile, Hintertux was heaving on the Saturday (some pistes plagued by dangerous boy racers) but a lot quieter on the Sunday.
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Yeah Pitztal and Kaunertal were rammed last weekend...lots of poles and czechs
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stanton, Laughing Laughing Laughing
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mountainaddict, No, I was on the road home, and they were annoying me by blocking it or tailgating me! Evil or Very Mad

I always thought they would drive through Slovakia but apparently the roads are shoite and it is quicker to use the German autobahns and make a biiiiiiig loop around Slovakia and cause "chaos" on our roads. Laughing
Actually it was surprisingly busy all along the A8 in an easterly direction and also a fair number going down the A93 towards Kufstein. Normally, by the time I pootle out of work on a Wednesday, the road is fairly clear. Puzzled
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Samerberg Sue, Yep, I really liked the Iron Curtain Little Angel
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robboj, Did have it's uses didn't it Laughing
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No, I was on the road home
I guessed that - it was (as usual) my misguided attempt at humour.... Confused

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that model is looking nice for the night between the 24th and 25th November! For the whole of the Alps even.
....Since your post, that night's now looking dry everywhere!! Wish it would make its mind up!! France looking like it's going to get a fair bit of precipitation - but Austria still looking dry for the whole model run.....Puzzled
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mountainaddict, It is too far away for it to be taken seriously. Early last week it had us buried under precipitation this coming weekend, now there's nowt. It keeps me amused between translations, sometimes!
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Coming to a resort near you/us????

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article76455.ece
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Despite a lack of snow, Ischgl is starting to look positively white. Good PR getting this out.


http://youtube.com/v/hOzFdgCphq4

Who needs snow?
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Coming to a resort near you/us????

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article76455.ece


Ah! the depths to which they descend in the absence of a decent phone tap.

It has been unseasonably warm, until last weekend.

A very unseasonally cold -2C in Geneva when I opened the front door yesterday...
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Can somebody PLEASE explain 'inversion' to under a new name.

God, some people.
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