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French mountains blitzed by up to 3 meters of snow
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It doesn't stop. After December's snow drought it has snowed almost every day since New Year leaving some mountain areas with 3 meters of new snow at resort level, more higher up.

Snow ploughs struggled to clear the Route des Cretes at Hohneck in the Vosges



with up to 2 meters of snow depth in places after the area was pounded by a storm on the 15th



the Beaufortin mountain range has had a cumulated 299cm of snow at 1800 meters according to Meteo France figures. All of the Haute-Savoie and Northern Savoie mountains have seen over 2 meters snowfall at this altitude.



In the Haute-Tarentaise resorts workers have struggled to dig out lifts and snow parks to ready them for skiers, upper lifts have remained shut due to the avalanche risk


Snowpark, photo http://www.magdescimes.com/


Tignes, photo http://www.magdescimes.com/


Tommeuses avalanche, photo Wayne Watson http://www.alpineexperience.com/

Recent storms brought over half a meter of snow further south to the Chartreuse and Belledonne with further fresh snow expected Monday reaching out to the Southern Alps.

Snowfall figures to Saturday: http://pistehors.com/snowfall-17th-january-2016-24217862.htm
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davidof wrote:
.....Recent storms brought over half a meter of snow further south to the Chartreuse and Belledonne with further fresh snow expected Monday reaching out to the Southern Alps.........


I'll buy you a beer if we see any substantial snow today!

PS Your subject headline is getting very close to the style of the Daily Mail / Express Cool
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Weathercam wrote:


PS Your subject headline is getting very close to the style of the Daily Mail / Express Cool


I'm sure they will be running it in a couple of days along with. "How will snowfall affect house prices?"
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davidof wrote:
I'm sure they will be running it in a couple of days along with. "How will snowfall affect house prices?"


And aren't the avalanches caused by migrant numbers? Smile
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who'd have thought it, mountains having snow in winter, next they'll be saying it mostly disappears in summer.
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@davidof, I think: 'Glaciers grow in Alps - ski villages threatened' would be far more alarmist wink
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France only averages about 100cm of snowfall a month during Winter, so 1-3m in halfamonth is pretty significant.
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la Plagne






All photos @laplagne


Last edited by After all it is free Go on u know u want to! on Mon 18-01-16 15:32; edited 1 time in total
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amazing pics...nice work
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really brings it home just how little snow "average" is in Europe when you compare to some of the US resorts. Jackson Hole gets 420 inches average a winter, albeit that's measured from first snowfall. so 10.5m "average" !!! Grand Targhee is 12.5m.

Staggering really. And they complain when they get 320 inches in a "bad" year wink yet that would be epic in the Alps.

1998/99 I'd love to know in La Plagne what the actual figures were as that was an insane season I did where it just snowed and snowed and snowed after a little break in Jan. I still think it was less than an Average jackson year.

But those Feb 99 storms took the base from 45cm / 110cm to over 2.5m lower / 5.5 upper !!!!!!
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@Weathercam, There's 2" due tonight according to Snowforecast............. Very Happy
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