 Poster: A snowHead
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Well fantasy weather watching/musing, but it seems to have been mostly dry across the alps for 3 weeks, so I would be enjoying classic spring skiing I reckon if I could have made it out this weekend as planned.
Crisp pistes first thing, softening quickly in the sun would be my guess, so following the sun around for a decent day with perhaps some lovely off piste corn and the cold beer at the end with a pair of short sat on a balcony is almost as good as a powder day!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I did manage to get some Zweigelt back home, which was a welcome development, and its been sunny, two out of three isn't bad I suppose
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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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Here comes the late season snow! Will anyone be able to take advantage...
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No................. fool
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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That's cruel.
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Jeez, that looks great.
'.... it reminds me of a different era, this is what we were able to do each winter before the first of many lethal virus pandemics spread around the world, grandchildren....'
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It’s still teasing us with the possibility of something interesting 27th to 30th. Final flourish May 1st weekend?
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@BobinCH, hmmm... bit far out, but hey simple ski touring is back on the menu in Austria from 01 May...
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@nozawaonsen, false alarm last time. Fingers crossed!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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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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It’s still teasing us with the possibility of something interesting 27th to 30th. Final flourish May 1st weekend?
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A bit more support for some action end next week...
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Poster: A snowHead
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@BobinCH, can you ski in Switzerland now?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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People are ski touring although it is currently strongly advised against (and guides haven’t been working) due to risk of additional pressure on emergency services. From 27th April the first set of restrictions will be relaxed with hospitals opening for non urgent procedures and shops opening. We haven’t skied since the lockdown but are hoping to get out touring on May 1st weekend and have a guide provisionally booked for something interesting...
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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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Wow, lucky you enjoy. That article about the swedish place is making me salivate.
Wonder will the summer season, if it is viable at all, have extra numbers to make up for time people missed. Foreign holidays may also not be viable so the mountains may get a lot more domestic tourism.
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@8611, can't see many (any?) countries allowing cross border travel for non essential things like holidays during 2020, locals like @BobinCH, who don't have to travel to the Alps may well have a cracking May touring season!
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Well hopefully an enhanced domestic tourist market could sustain the businesses through. Would be awful going back to resorts in a few years time and seeing empty businesses that didn't make it.
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@Whitegold, A prediction no doubt as we’re only four months into it , doesn’t mean you’ll be wrong however
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I see 2016 was the last hottest year on record, and that proved to be a good year for the alps. Late season snow to 1500m thru May, and a very good early start in November '16.
Heavy rain has arrived in the NW and it feels much cooler than models were predicting. Reckon the snowline will be around 2000m in NW over the next week.
GFS 12z to next monday
A lot of change going on in the 8-10 day range. Was looking like a quick heatwave for the alps starting around 4-5th May driven by low pressure near Azores, but now seeing a shift towards flatter westerly, so chance of another low digging in. Strat winds turn net easterly tomorrow at 10 hpa and forecast to go below average next week for only the second time this season (other being early Dec).
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Incoming 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@BobinCH, you’re well placed, can’t see how we’ll get a chance here before May 11th without breaking the law, 135 eur and all that. Hmmm, not the end of the world I suppose.
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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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Looks like big dumps Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Hopefully it stays cold enough and the sun comes out on Sunday. Was supposed to have been doing the PdG this weekend...
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seems a fitting image, fresh higher up though! @@BobinCH, are you allowed out to tour from May 1st?
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You know it makes sense.
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@kitenski, it was never banned in CH just advised against. With shops opening and schools going back in the next few days I think we should be ok. Friends have been up today
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Snowline circa 1650m here - so would be good up the road 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Was some light snow down to 1700m here, but all washed away now as FL rises to above 2000m.
The final strat warming is well underway, leading to -NAO and -AO into mid May. So like a broken clock when I predicted a negative AO winter, I was right twice....and the second one is still a week away.
But it's showing up consistently now, especially ECM which has thrown out some amazing charts to celebrate deconfinement on May 11th? Ok won't go there.
Here are the latest Op runs, ECM, GEM and GFS. The old GFS had a bias to push everything too far east, only to slowly retrogress nearer to time. New GFS seems to have similar issues, though often it will lead as well.....so another one to watch.
Normally after an undercut you get a northerly, didn't happen this week, but the background will be better next week with high pressure reaching up towards Greenland.
And the means....
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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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Those poles are 130cm
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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And more coming mid May! May is the new April?
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Slow on the draw, but it is worth noting China, Czech Rep and Norway all reopened a handful of (smaller) ski resorts in mid-Apr.
This photo is from Czech Rep.
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