Mmmm I have a flight from INN tomorrow evening back to UK...could be a long night.
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Never normally post, just lurk but just had a text that our flight to the UK from Salzburg on Saturday morning is now departing from Linz! It hasn't stopped snowing here in Maria Alm since we arrived last week and the resort is only at 800 meters. Good luck to anyone arriving in Austria tomorrow.
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nozawaonsen wrote:
Military in Tirol on alert too. And the Avalanche train is being prepped in Innsbruck.
These areas could reach avalanche level 5 by the end of the weekend. Karwendel, Rofan, Kitzbüheler Alpen, the Zillertaler and the Tauernhauptkamm.
Erm, what is the avalanche train?
Currently trying to figure out where to go tomorrow, as I’m guessing we might get some closures on Sunday.
@nozawaonsen, yeah, that’s where my mind was heading too. I also had visions of some kind of rescue train getting access up and down the valley, but that makes no sense either, as the road runs next to the rail line.
I was just in the phone to my mum, “big storm coming tomorrow”. “So you’ll be staying in then?”
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We haven't booked anything yet but looking for the week starting Sat 19th Jan in the French Alps so holding out for a bit more snow in the next couple weeks. Last year in Les Arcs was the opposite problem, 1950 completely snowed under.
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Interesting stuff! Have flight booked for munich 9pm sunday arrival. Wondering if it would be unwise to pay for my accommodation in advance in case I can't get in. Thinking zell am see. Any high passes on that route does anyone know?
I have a recollection you can get to zillertal valley by train from munich so that might be better bet, but surely train would be affected by so much snow too?
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Scarlet wrote:
@nozawaonsen, yeah, that’s where my mind was heading too. I also had visions of some kind of rescue train getting access up and down the valley, but that makes no sense either, as the road runs next to the rail line.
I was just in the phone to my mum, “big storm coming tomorrow”. “So you’ll be staying in then?”
driving up the Inn Valley there seems to be a railway line part way up the north side of the valley. Maybe it’s that line?
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...over two metres more to come over next 10 days. ...
I remember the vid. in 2012 of Black Hawk helicopters in Austria blowing snow from trees to prevent them bringing down the power lines
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The latest GFS continues a recent trend of shifting the next storm slightly further east for mid-week next week. CMC and ICON look similar. Switzerland still looks like it should get good precipitation but more of a glancing blow for France. Still time for guidance to wobble around a bit.
Southern Germany has been underperforming on cold and snow the past two days. Some lowland places should see a few hours of heavy snow tomorrow, but this is not shaping up like the long duration, significant event that looked possible a day or two ago. But the Austrian (and pre-Alp) resorts are buried no matter what.
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Slight sense of calm before the storm. Not too snowy in Saalbach right now.
@nozawaonsen, I assume that this must have been posted around mid-afternoon, when there was a slight lull. I went up around 3.00pm and it soon started dumping heavily (again) - as it was when we skied down at around 5.30pm, and after that all evening. The general consensus betrween those of us who stay in Saalbach all season is that we've never seen it so good - and there have been many other years when we got sizable dumps in early January. It's not just the quantity of the powder that is making us extremely happy but its beautifully light quality. Also being able to ski through the streets and to the doorstep
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I can’t wait!
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For those interested just driven on a10 from Altenmarkt to Salzburg airport, flowing well. Snowing steadily at airport but no delays.
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@tatmanstours, yes it is particularly fine and light at the moment isn’t it. Almost like some sort of... powder!
@waynos, traffic certainly flowing in and out of Saalbach ok at moment. I see warnings of Mega-Verkehrschaos later through...
Following from LWD Salzburg
“HIGH danger, numerous large naturally triggered avalanches
Afternoon
Morning
Avalanche danger is HIGH (4) over widespread areas. We urgently advise against all backcountry skiing and freeriding tours. Great sink-in depths, zero visibility, high avalanche activity. Many large, often very large avalanches are likely this afternoon and tonight, also with immense reach. Exposed transportation routes can be at risk.
Avalanche Danger
Danger is HIGH (level 4), and at the upper border of that level in the Northern Alps. The main threat stems from naturally triggered avalanches which release all by themselves. This afternoon and evening, and during the night tonight, numerous medium-to-large, where precipitation is heaviest even very large avalanches can be expected in all aspects. Due to potential snow dust development, these can reach very far indeed.
Backcountry skiing and freeriding tours are pointless (enormous sink-in depths, no visibility) and dangerous. The proneness to triggering is high everywhere in steep terrain (settling noises, glide cracks, remote triggering).
Conditions are comparably good in the Lungau Nockberge, where the danger stems from drifted gullies and bowls. Danger level 3: CONSIDERABLE. Snowdrift situation.”
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All very well for you all in or going to Austria !! Please can we have an update for the Western Alps, snow forecast for next week looks to be decreasing ??
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thunderer wrote:
All very well for you all in or going to Austria !! Please can we have an update for the Western Alps, snow forecast for next week looks to be decreasing ??
Yes please.
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Tell me if I’m wrong but looks like the forecasts are now more beneficial for NorthWest France now on Tuesday / Wednesday?
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@nozawaonsen, that’s great news
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Dry are a bone as far as one can see in Madonna go campiglio. Fly out in 3 weeks. Only want a dusting to make it all white. Oh well. It is what it is I guess.
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We started heading out this morning, but the snow is coming down so fast that they can't keep the roads clear and we ended up turning back. I'm expecting it to be worse tomorrow, so I guess that's my weekend back on the sofa
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We head to Val Thorens tomorrow, consoled slightly by the fact that we have 18 ski days.
Fingers crossed for snow at some point on the trip though....
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Very powdery in Saalbach. Not that windy yet. Not many people...
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Three weeks until the pre-BB. Help!
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Very powdery in Saalbach. Not that windy yet. Not many people...
I just hope we can get there!
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enjoy the epicness in the east.....GFS is usual 2 steps to east, 1 step back to the west on the 06z shuffle. ICON /ECM keep the faith.....the latter on Bergfex suggesting 50-60cm next week in NW alps. Whereas GFS 00z said 10-20cm followed by rain next weekend to 1500m. Depends which line you pick
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@scotspikey, 3 weeks away and you're already pessimistic? Much too far away to be saying that - especially if you're only looking for a dusting!
Also, for those saying that forecast snow for the NW Alps is decreasing... well yes, but only from the most optimistic forecasts. If you always take the best model run as a benchmark then you're almost always going to be disappointed.
In reality, the current forecasts (on GFS) aren't as good for the NW Alps as they were a day or two ago, but they're actually better than was forecast in the days before that. And temperatures are low, which means anything that falls should be snow. FI has been increasingly promising too.
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All guidance including the EC and ICON now show more of a glancing blow for the NW Alps next week. Models are significantly further east with the next trof and surface low pressure center than they were a day or so ago, although still well within the envelope of previous ensembles.
There's still a little time to swing more energy down the west side of the trof. Even a small shift west would help, but things are looking slightly less exciting.
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Interesting stuff! Have flight booked for munich 9pm sunday arrival. Wondering if it would be unwise to pay for my accommodation in advance in case I can't get in. Thinking zell am see. Any high passes on that route does anyone know?
I have a recollection you can get to zillertal valley by train from munich so that might be better bet, but surely train would be affected by so much snow too?
Look for trains from Munich then onward from either Salzburg or from Wörgl (Tirol). As long as it doesn't get to the stage that the lines are blocked you can get pretty close to almost anywhere via those. Zell am See, for example, is physically on the main east-west Austria line and can be accessed from either of those points.
If you take to the roads then I wouldn't head from Salzburg out through Bad Reichenhall and via the 'German Corner' through to Lofer as thats going to be tricky at best. The other routes on from Salzburg via the A10 Tauern Autobahn or from Munich on the A93/E60 via Kustein are autobahn and more likely to be clear. This is looking serious for at least the next 24 hours though, so be prepared for a night in Munich.
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Nice snowstorm ongoing near Munich. Generally 10-15cm OTG throughout the area. But the really good stuff has been staying west, east, and well south for the past few days. Generally pedestrian light to moderate snow but looks very wintry with strong winds and low visibilities. A far cry from the significant event that was occasionally modeled over the past few days, but still a large event for an area that does not typically get a lot of snow. The temperature is near freezing and rising slowly with the radar starting to break up. Localized banding will determine how much more falls in the lowlands today and tonight. Roads are still in passable shape until you get to the foothills. Epic snowstorm ongoing along almost the entire Austrian-German border!
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one of my mates has just posted on facebook that innsbruck airport is shut and he is stuck there .
@tim000, yep flights from and to Innsbruck cancelled or diverted. Many road closures too including as far East as Vienna (A21 closed in both directions).
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Erm, what is the avalanche train?
