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GFS 0z and ECM 0z differ in their evolution again, leaving me with egg on my face...!
The GFS continues in the same pattern as yesterdays 06z, 12z and 18z runs and builds high pressure over France and the UK. This then ridges north and east and connects allowing cold air to eventually flood in from the east. Quite wet - Austria and Switzerland do very well.
ECM is quite tasty...
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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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Where's the snow in France?
Well it looks to me like much of it may be coming in slightly further to the south and east...
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valdisere .com predicts 20 t0 25 cm,s on the border,so with graph above that stacks up what with val being on the italian border,happened last time when Fornet got hit, whats the chance of this low shifting a bit further north today ,or is it to late now
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phillip33, no I think Val D'Isere should get some and eventually quite a bit of the French Alps too.
It looks like the further east you are in the Savoie the better you will do, not too clear from that chart how well the Tarentaise will do, though you can see the snow snaking down the mountain ranges in the French Alps.
Frustrating that the whole system is tracking a little further east. Southern French Alps, Milky Way, Andermatt look like they could do well.
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Morning ll. ive just logged onto the look at the web cams for Val Thorens and there showing that its snowing as we speak.... How much ive no idea... Its snowing so who cares..... Get it! 
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nozawaonsen, southern alps are doing well just checked isola, thanks for giving hope, i cant wait till my florida holiday sun only no precipitation wanted or usually had !!! just a couple of cm,s is enough just to make it look pretty,thats what my wife said !!
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Nothing to speak of here in Morzine, just a little damp underfoot
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| zzz wrote: |
| Nothing to speak of here in Morzine, just a little damp underfoot |
Morzine is too low 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Currently looks that way. Something at the weekend maybe?
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You know it makes sense.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Looks like precipitation over the next few days is going leave a few people in France disappointed. Just goes to show how hard it is to forecast when the setup is marginal.
GFS 06z is rolling out now and shows a front moving across France on Saturday. This could deliver a small amount (<5cm) of snow to the 3V/ValD region and into parts Switzerland and Italy.
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philmes, sorry lost the faith, but still going on hols there,s snow,and to be fair these ruddy charts.................. until yesterday all was looking good then ....... even armed with all the info its very hard to predict as is bourne out on this thread!!! what will fall will fall,i,m going to take the advice of a few which has been said before, and go and enjoy, beats work
have fun
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For what it's worth I think you are writing things off a little early in regards to the next 48 hours. We'll see.
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The problem with the precipitation during the early part of this week was that the margins for miss or hit were very fine - a few hundred kilometres either way.
On the basis of the 06z run, Austria looks like the best place to be for new snow. Difficult to be enthusiastic though, and I don't see much chance of desperately needed real dumping in French alps for the foreseeable future.
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Austria looks like the best place to be for new snow
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Depending on the height of the resort???
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| philmes wrote: |
| I don't see much chance of desperately needed real dumping in French alps for the foreseeable future. |
aghhh our snowheads chalet pimps won't be happy with you saying that.
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this looks promising does it not?
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| Mattmulkeen wrote: |
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Austria looks like the best place to be for new snow
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Depending on the height of the resort??? |
Keep the faith matey ..........or d'ya think we going too low?
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our snowheads chalet pimps won't be happy with you saying that.
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Well if the chalet pimps prefer PR spiel to honest weather forecasting, they shouldn't read this thread!
Fascinating to watch this great swirling chaotic uncertainty. Imagine if we were poor African farmers, wondering whether the next rain shower is going to hit or miss our mealie patch!
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What are the chances of the Monterosa area getitng a decent snowfall over the next few days?
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Crispyapplepie, I can't see the snow on the webcam. Which one are you looking at? I hope its one i dont usually study as I can add it to my list for sneeky desk based longing sessions. Only a few more days untill I get to see it in the flesh...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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| davidof wrote: |
| philmes wrote: |
| I don't see much chance of desperately needed real dumping in French alps for the foreseeable future. |
aghhh our snowheads chalet pimps won't be happy with you saying that. |
To be honest the 'chalet pimps' in France probably have the least to worry about - it's the start of the month-long school holidays so chalets will be fully booked for the forseeable future. Concern is more for the people who have booked their once-a-year ski trip... honest predictions are obviously best because you don't want people to turn up and be disappointed... though neither do you want them to be unnecessarily disheartened.
What started as rainy drizzle and then sleet is now proper snow at village level (1100m) in this part of the Aravis. Won't settle off piste, but should hopefully give the pistes a bit of a refresh.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Light snow with heavier snow showers in Valloire and Valmienier, down to valley level (1430m). Looks like it might be "on" for some time.....
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Poster: A snowHead
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| miranda wrote: |
| honest predictions are obviously best because you don't want people to turn up and be disappointed... . |
Well honestly, if they are skiing in resort they can't complain about the excellent work that ski resorts have done this season. Generally it has been pretty skiable from 1300m and the sunshine is no bad thing really.
> Imagine if we were poor African farmers, wondering whether the next rain shower is going to hit or miss our mealie patch!
It is more like you've carefully irrigated your patch and through good husbandry managed to push a nice crop of coffee against the odds, then no-one turns up to buy leaving you with a stack of coffee beans.
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Imagine if we were poor African farmers, wondering whether the next rain shower is going to hit or miss our mealie patch!
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Absolutely. Puts it in perspective.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| miranda wrote: |
| now proper snow at village level (1100m) in this part of the Aravis. Won't settle off piste, but should hopefully give the pistes a bit of a refresh. |
Just wondering why it won't settle off piste??? 
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| kitenski wrote: |
| miranda wrote: |
| now proper snow at village level (1100m) in this part of the Aravis. Won't settle off piste, but should hopefully give the pistes a bit of a refresh. |
Just wondering why it won't settle off piste??? |
Ground too warm I expect?
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| kitenski wrote: |
| miranda wrote: |
| now proper snow at village level (1100m) in this part of the Aravis. Won't settle off piste, but should hopefully give the pistes a bit of a refresh. |
Just wondering why it won't settle off piste??? |
Because some places have nothing but bare ground off piste! on a brighter note, heavy sno here now!
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stevomcd,
will it make its way to Valdisere,please send it my way too,ive got a bottle of Cham in fridge waiting to be drunk
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| philmes wrote: |
Ground too warm I expect? |
is exactly what I was assuming and by 'off piste' I actually meant 'off the slopes' i.e. on bare ground and roads in the village. But trees and roofs and grass have all turned white now at the lowest levels - it's actually turned out to be more significant than I expected...
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stevomcd, excellent! Have been eagerly checking the webcam today!
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Bergfex says 20-30cm of snow right down to 700m this weekend. Get in! 
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miranda, ah cheers, bare warm ground I understand 
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