 Poster: A snowHead
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I’m in Trysil from 30th March - 3rd April. Forecasts seem all over the place? Can anyone hazard a guess as to what to expect? Just hoping for some semi decent skiing and no rain!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Chucking it down in Saas-Fee this morning but only the village lifts open due to the storm. Chains mandatory on the road up from Saas Grund, road to Saas Almagell currently closed due to avalanche danger.
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Snowing moderately at 1800m in Dolomites last 24 hours but freezing level around there too. 5 to 10cms of soft medium heavy snow on piste and building but blower pow it ain't, maybe up higher or further west. Still pleasant.
If it's one thing the apps repeatedly get wrong in my experience it's the freezing level. I think bergfex had it at as low as 600m a few days out, nowhere near that at any point.
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bergfex use to exaggerate always and everything.
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| Snow&skifan wrote: |
| BobinCH wrote: |
The rollercoaster continues… snow, cold, wind, warm, rain, rinse and repeat
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Has Verbier the village/town had any heavy rain this winter?
I was under the impression that you’d escaped the long spells of rain or warmth experienced in much of the French Alps. |
It’s been the same in Verbier: quite a lot of rain at resort level. But a lot of snow higher up (was chatting with a Televerbier staff at Mont Fort 2 weeks ago and they’d already had 6+m of accumulation up there - and its snowed quite a bit since). I have been travelling between Verbier and the 3V and it was the same in both places. Awesome ski higher up. A bit less so when you go down (except early in the season where it’s been incredible in both places).
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| PJ Maza wrote: |
| I have been travelling between Verbier and the 3V and it was the same in both places. |
Intrigued… what takes you between Verbier and VT - fetish for resorts starting with V?
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Just started snowing again in Val D’Isere village. Those arriving this weekend should be in for a treat with more on the way as well.
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@Fridge03, ummm not so sure I’d describe it as a treat . It’s quite a wild weekend in store , snow rain lots of high winds, foehn , and no sun .
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So for the weekend should go to Verbier?
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| smudger wrote: |
| I’m in Trysil from 30th March - 3rd April. Forecasts seem all over the place? Can anyone hazard a guess as to what to expect? Just hoping for some semi decent skiing and no rain! |
We're there over Easter as well, we've been a couple of times before at Easter and its sometimes a bit slushy in the afternoon down in the resort areas but up top it's always good snow. They've had a good winter so far so there's a good base of snow, the forecast looks quite mild into next week but I think it will be OK
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Heavy rain today in NW Italy below 1600m.
Small slides above 2000m.
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Foehn storm north of the Alpine ridge north of the Maurianne and Tignes , Snow creeping over the Italian border into the back bowls of La Rosiere and Sainte Foy but no further NOT for the first time this March .
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You know it makes sense.
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No further? The storm goes all the way across Austria...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@Scarlet, ? ? Read again I’m referring to the snow creeping over the border not the Foehn storm
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Poster: A snowHead
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Easter weekend has been a bit of a write-off so far with high winds, lift closures and Sahara sand. The rain/snow is now coming over the Alpine ridge and snow forecast this evening and tomorrow when temps will cool down. Next week looking much better from Monday pm
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It’s poured all day up to 2000m in Val Cenis, hoping temperatures dip quickly or there’ll be nothing left further down.
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Monday looks deluxe.
Around 12-24in of fresh above 2000m.
Tropical rain below that level.
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@davidof, you mention in your article that these Saharan dust events are increasingly common. Do you have a source for this?
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@denfinella, it was something I saw in an article that says with a warmer Atlantic the south of Europe is now under more frequently under SW airstreams in winter and these are also bringing sand from the Sahara which in increasing the warming affect in Alps as it lowers the albedo of the snow.
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My white car was completely covered in sand this morning as Dijon. Rained mixed with sand all the way to the maurienne valley.
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Arrived in Auron late afternoon to heavy sleet after a very wet drive up from Nice. Looks like it's snowed all night and due to snow all day with only sector open today.
Snow line about 1500m so expecting some rain but should be good up top. Southern Alps seems to be getting the goods this season, wonder if this in any way correlated with EL Nino.
It's a first visit to Auron, quite impressed so far from what we've seen.
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@davidof, thanks. Certainly the points about the Atlantic being warmer and the albedo effect make sense to me, but the one about SW airstreams being more common is new to me. (Not sure why this would be the case - I think there is a pattern of jetstream positions becoming more entrenched, which could lead to periods of SW-erlies lasting for longer if they do occur?)
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The rain is back.
Two days of nonstop rain below 1500-1800m.
Raining pitchforks in town right now.
Will be 30cm of fresho tomorrow above 2000m.
First lift to the summit beckons.
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Holy weather crazies! Enjoy the pow this week…
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@BobinCH, I’ll be the other side of Mont Blanc for the week from this weekend. That drop in temperature and spike in precipitation may be a snow day above 2000 metres?
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You know it makes sense.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
The rain is back.
Two days of nonstop rain below 1500-1800m.
Raining pitchforks in town right now.
Will be 30cm of fresho tomorrow above 2000m.
First lift to the summit beckons. |
So out with the snow-blades again then ? 
Meanwhile in the real world.....
Here at 1400 damp squidgy snow on the terrace, that's been melting as soon as it falls, and it's strange how precipitation falls as rain/snow within a couple of degrees difference from one day to the next i.e can be snow at +2.5 one day and then rain at +2 the next.
First lifts again and downhill gear as snow below 1,800 is heavy and patella ripping, just have to set the OH's up now.
Can hear a fair bit of blasting going on!
Terrace Webcam panning around the garden/terrace
https://stylealtitude.com/serrechevalierweathercam.html
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@BobinCH, I hope your forecast is correct...BUT
Meteosuisee says it's going to be HOT and sunny all week.
I prefer yours!
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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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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Zero iso zooming up to 4000m in the Western Alps by the end of this week -- at night.
Global boiling is in full effect for April.
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Blimey!!
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Flew over the Alps earlier, they are looking absolutely caked. Great view of the Matterhorn .
I'm convinced I previously saw the Margherita hut on a different flight, but it was out the right side window so maybe not (Matterhorn was out the left this time, both Milan flights, I presume they use the same corridor regardless of wind?)
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Zero iso zooming up to 4000m in the Western Alps by the end of this week -- at night.
Global boiling is in full effect for April. |
And for most of next week by the look of it - could bring a very rapid end to the season in lots of resorts ....
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Snow is amazing up high at the moment and more falling today but best enjoy it quick before the rollercoaster loops the loop again!
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Parts of Austria and Italy, such as Innsbruck and Milan, are going to hit +30c this weekend.
Alpine temps are froo da roof.
Europe's summer has begun in April.
Up in Northeast US, there is a winter snapback.
Killington got a good snowstorm this week.
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| MontyP wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
Zero iso zooming up to 4000m in the Western Alps by the end of this week -- at night.
Global boiling is in full effect for April. |
And for most of next week by the look of it - could bring a very rapid end to the season in lots of resorts .... |
Where you seeing the same for next week? Looks more of a mixture of temps.
raccourci clavier environ
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I'm off to Zermatt in the morning for a week.The terrain is high enough to find good snow even during these warmer spells so I'm not overly concerned.
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FAQ
Meribel actually.
). It’s a bit of a journey between the two though!
