 Poster: A snowHead
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2/9/17
The first big fall of next winter
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Or not. Early snow has come - and completely gone - before. Let's hope the snow base does build up fairly steadily this season.
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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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@achilles, ....2010 in Valais. Lean October and Nov. Christmas, more snow than anyone could handle. Two metres on our steps, avalanche in the garden (children banned from moving around without us), and snow being trucked out of town.
2011 Christmas thin.
2012 terrible
2013 bad
2014 awful
2015 grim
2016 huge dump in November, then ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Grief, there were DHs on the fire roads, in shorts....for F sake. Christmas: nothing. Early Jan: nothing. Mediterranean sun. Finally, in Feb, a paltry fall, but enough to cover the pistes. Off piste dreadful.
Early snow can be a chimera.
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It's very good (and much-needed) news for the glaciers though. Stubai normally opens in about 2 weeks, and prior to the weekend that was looking impossible.
Everywhere else it'll melt, like every year when it snows at altitude in Sept.
A little photo round-up: http://www.fall-line.co.uk/photos-autumn-snow-alps-ski-resorts/
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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We've had snow settle in Chamonix in July... 
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Few weeks ago I was trekking in Aosta valley (Gran Paradisio), on the arrival day it was +35 in Aosta, while a few days later while crossing a +3000m col I was greated by a heavy snow. Weird feeling it was indeed ... it will all be fine 
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@under a new name, so was that the last snow of the winter before or the first snow of the following winter?
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Last year, it snowed from mid Oct to the end of Nov... and then the EK opened. One of the best weekends I've ever had!!
Snow in Sept won't last though.
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In NZ, we have a phrase "the snow in May will never stay"... May obviously being the last month before the southern winter, aka November for northern folk. To talk about snowfall in September being a season's indicator is absurd. Fun to speculate if nothing else!
Speaking of NZ and Middle Earth, this thread title reminds me of one Bilbo "Beggins" who set off on an adventure that took him across the Misty Mountains... wonder how they've fared in this recent storm 
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| Skiwi 55 wrote: |
In NZ, we have a phrase "the snow in May will never stay"... May obviously being the last month before the southern winter, aka November for northern folk. To talk about snowfall in September being a season's indicator is absurd. Fun to speculate if nothing else!
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Fair play to Lisa_BrentaSki (or is it another admin sock ?), top class trolling
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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A colleague with whom I travelled a lot in small third world airports insisted there was "fake luggage" which was put on carousels to reassure punters that something was happening. This is the fake weather thread.
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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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| pam w wrote: |
| small third world airports insisted there was "fake luggage" which was put on carousels to reassure punters that something was happening. |
Certain I've seen that at Geneva, three suitcases appear on the belt and then nothing for 30 mins.
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In the third world they're often those big stripey plastic bags tied up with hairy string. Something classier in Gva perhaps?
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You know it makes sense.
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Longterm forecast suggests another bad Alps season coming up.
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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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^^^^^^^There he is!!!
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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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| BergenBergen wrote: |
| pam w wrote: |
| small third world airports insisted there was "fake luggage" which was put on carousels to reassure punters that something was happening. |
Certain I've seen that at Geneva, three suitcases appear on the belt and then nothing for 30 mins. |
This is Manchester's trick as well; I think it's so they can say they've met their KPI's
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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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@Whitegold, I've missed your humour 😀
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In reality ours began several months ago, chalet booked, new kit bought, school holiday woes... I'm just hoping the most reliable things will be my truck and the snow.
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@albob, what a surprise!
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Is this the worst ski season since last year?
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I blame the marmots, they run around at night hiding all the snow
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I'm thinking of going to Les Arcs for Christmas will there be snow?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Flip Crawford2, yes
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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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| BergenBergen wrote: |
| pam w wrote: |
| small third world airports insisted there was "fake luggage" which was put on carousels to reassure punters that something was happening. |
Certain I've seen that at Geneva, three suitcases appear on the belt and then nothing for 30 mins. |
Nah. The Swiss don't do that sort of thing.
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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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Forecast for Hintertux next week
9-Days Weather forecast Hintertuxer Gletscher (3,250m)
today 2°C -2°C 0.2l 75% 7h
tomorrow 1°C -1°C 7cm 9l 90% 8h
Sunday 1°C -2°C 30cm 41l 90%
Monday 3°C -2°C 16cm 31l 95% 1h
Tuesday -2°C -8°C 15cm 16l 80% 2h
Wednesday 3°C -3°C 0.1l 15% 8h
Thu, 14. 3°C -7°C 5-10cm 2h
Fri, 15. -3°C -10°C 1cm
6h
Sat, 16.
-5°C
-9°C
5-10cm
1h
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Poster: A snowHead
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Longterm forecast suggests another bad Alps season coming up.
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How accurate are those LT forecasts eh @Whitegold, ?
My understanding is that accuracy longer than a week is negligible.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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LT Forecast, zero value. Gives blowhards something to talk about. He has a 50/50 chance of saying I told you so.
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