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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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Snow at 700m. Apparently 25cm up top. Should be good tomorrow with the return of the sunshine. Last week of lifts in Verbier
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@Weathercam, must have been snow somewhere in the south? guess the Italian side is out of bounds.....plenty fell up north, good covering down to below 600m in places near Annemasse when I passed this morning. Inspired by Bob's nighttime hikes am keen to try it later now that I have a fancy head torch.
Latest 8 day forecast from GFS 06z shows a few cm's still possible in the south west
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It’s always colder up around Morzine latitude 
Snow melts ridiculously quickly now even with below avg temps. I’ve watched the southerly faces turn green - white - green - white etc the last week
Still, expecting the north facing snow above 1500m to have held up well here. I’ll find out soon enough
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Interesting read about drought and snowpack in the Western USA.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/western-u-may-entering-worst-015010067.html
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Jeff Berardelli
Sun, April 11, 2021, 6:50 PM
Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a bit like a broken record, with some scientists saying the region is on the precipice of permanent drought.
That's because in 2000, the Western U.S. entered the beginning of what scientists call a megadrought — the second worst in 1,200 years — triggered by a combination of a natural dry cycle and human-caused climate change.
In the past 20 years, the two worst stretches of drought came in 2003 and 2013 — but what is happening right now appears to be the beginning stages of something even more severe. And as we head into the summer dry season, the stage is set for an escalation of extreme dry conditions, with widespread water restrictions expected and yet another dangerous fire season ahead.
Right now, the U.S. Drought Monitor places 60% of the Western states under severe, extreme or exceptional drought. The reason for the extensive drought is two-fold; long term drying fueled by human-caused climate change and, in the short term, a La Niña event in which cool Equatorial Pacific waters failed to fuel an ample fetch of moisture.
Consequently, this past winter's wet season was not very wet at all. In fact, it just added insult to injury, with only 25 to 50% of normal rainfall falling across much of the Southwest and California. This followed one of the driest and hottest summers in modern times, with two historic heat waves, a summer monsoon cycle that simply did not even show up and the worst fire season in modern times.
The Pacific Northwest, however, is faring much different this season. The northern half of the West experienced normal to even above normal snowfall this winter, on par with what is expected during a typical La Niña event featuring a further north jet stream storm track. That good fortune did not extend further south, however, with most areas now at only 50 to 75% of normal snowpack.
Since the West relies on melting snowpack to fill lakes, reservoirs and rivers, like the Colorado, water availability will be limited this summer. The Colorado River and its tributaries provide water for around 40 million people and 5 million acres of farmland. The amount of water flowing into Lake Powell, on the Arizona-Utah state line, in the coming months is only expected to be around 45% of the typical amount. Lake Meade, on the Arizona-Nevada state line, is only at 40% capacity.
But this lack of snowpack is not a one-time issue; it is a trend. Over the past 40 years, snowpack has declined by about 25% over the Western states. Meanwhile, the population continues to increase. Thus, as of late, water demand has been outstripping what mother nature can deliver.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@polo,
Still lots of good touring to be had in these parts. A little bit of walking required on occasion though!
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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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@zzz, @polo, we drove up to nigh on 1,700m today and later I saw that I could have driven to 1,900m which is pretty good as gives us access to N facing slopes.
The only issue today was that wind together with a sun getting more powerful by the day had produced a complex snow-pack, to say the least, that was very technical to ski, so much so that I think I might be off games with a strained knee, after ploughing and laying furrows of tracks through polystyrene crust to the powder below 
Video really shows how I was fighting it, and the tracks are more like tramlines
Great thing is that there are only a handful of people ski-touring here now and they all went to a more popular sector.
I'm going to have to get up to speed on how/when the snow will start to transform on the various aspects in these sectors, as in the past I would have driven to other areas I know well to tour this time of year as everywhere has their own nuances so it's not text-book.
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You know it makes sense.
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never mind the Alps and snow.. any idea when the UK will warm up and this easterly wind will stop?! It's been months now it feels ..
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Fantastic weather up here. In fact it’s been a good last 5 months on the eastern central side of the uk here. Definitely more sunshine and less flooding than normal these days. Temps have been low this month but so has the humidity and the lack of wind and very strong sunshine has made for a very pleasant spring with the daffodils still out here. The cool dry weather has meant there is still a patch of snow surviving in the North York Moors from February 
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Poster: A snowHead
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There is snow almost in my back yard from February. It is perishing out of the sun!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Will this season ever end? At altitude there is tons of snow and it doesn’t look like stopping any time soon! The wife is desperate for some sun...
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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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@BobinCH, This is just ridiculous. We are all desperate for some sun!! What is going on? (Yeah, yeah, I know, weather...)
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Relative scorchio next Thursday, one more area of low pressure next weekend, then summer
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Thought I’d kick off a new season forum on midsummer’s day if people are happy with that? Hope you are enjoying the Hitzewelle.
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@nozawaonsen, Absolutely. Looking forward to it. Let's hope more of us get to enjoy the snow this coming season.
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| nozawaonsen wrote: |
| Thought I’d kick off a new season forum on midsummer’s day if people are happy with that? Hope you are enjoying the Hitzewelle. |
+1 the new weather thread starting on midsummers day is one of my favourite dates on the snowheads calendar - it means we're counting down the days to the new season!
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Yea please!
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@nozawaonsen, +1
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@nozawaonsen, + 1
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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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@Handy Turnip, me too!
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@nozawaonsen, @Handy Turnip, +1 to both of you. Learnt lots about mountain forecasting through this thread. Thanks! And the occasional photos of love conditions are v welcome too.
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You know it makes sense.
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And seeing the news today about the loss if thickness on the Swedish glacier, I’d be fascinated to know how the Alpine glaciers have managed. There was the summer snow a few weeks ago but then the heatwave. Sadly I expect it’s not good news again this summer season……
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Hottest September day in Scotland for 115 years. 26c in the Cowal peninsular today. Just fabulous 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Anything happening in the Alps??
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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Why is last year's thread still stickied but this years is not?
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