 Poster: A snowHead
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Going to la thuile on Sunday and from today fir ten days it says 2 metres if snow... stone me thats a lot...after over 35 years of skiing I've never been anywhere that has this forecast.. anyone else going to the area
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wow - we are booked to go in April.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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billy no mates 
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Now thats a good idea...i can live in hope, 4 of us might have to share with next lot coming out
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Deffo remember a trip there with one metre many years ago. Late 90s? Had to shovel the car out and there was one car parked by the road that had been completely covered by snow pushed up by the plough
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You'd better hope there's not 2 metres of snow, which would probably close all lifts and could make road access very difficult.
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That will be those overly optimistic weather sites at it again. You’ll probably get a couple of inches...
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Was around 60 cm forecast here near chamonix for the two days might have had 15 at most, we have been here six weeks and every fall has been far less than predicted, looks like the French are as bad as the uk for rubbish forecasting
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@robs1, But Meteo France don't put amount of snowfall on their site!
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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: |
| You'd better hope there's not 2 metres of snow, which would probably close all lifts and could make road access very difficult. |
From my perspective would give a wonderful freshen up and base for April.... if we are still allowed to visit Italy by then  .
Have to confess I checked my travel insurance did cover in terms of cancellation last night and have made the decision not to book the 4 private lessons (2 mornings for my daughter), plus 1 morning for me and 1 for my other daughter at the same time, as not sure that I would get the money back from that as there is normally a clause which is if you know there may be a reason why you will have to cancel when you book something it isn’t covered.... wondering if this falls into that category?
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@NickyJ, the FCO havent said not to travel so you know of no reason why you would have to cancel...surely
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You know it makes sense.
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usually they take rain forecast & multiply it by 10
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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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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| @NickyJ, the FCO havent said not to travel so you know of no reason why you would have to cancel...surely |
I phoned travel insurance company this morning and they don’t take that stance... though that was exactly what I said to them.
If you know of a reason “why you MAY need to cancel at time of booking” you aren’t covered.
She did helpfully suggest that I contact ski school to see what their cancellation policy under these terms are. I can see it is in their interests to offer the ability to cancel if the resort can’t be reached as without it, I am not going to pre-book. By me pre-booking they get the money into their accounts. We are in the lucky position that we can all ski without lessons. With my children doing 5 mornings of ski school during Feb, I wanted to asses how that went before deciding exactly what to book for Easter (plus was useful you spread out financial payments!)
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Poster: A snowHead
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| chocksaway wrote: |
| @robs1, But Meteo France don't put amount of snowfall on their site! |
Or you don't know where to look
MF predictions were
Tue 40cm
We'd 30cm
Thu 20cm
For the MB area at 1800 meters
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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 have used snow forecast .com
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| robs1 wrote: |
| I have used snow forecast .com |
Are they French?
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Confusing snow depth with snow fall?
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@yorkshirelad, Off to La Rosiere next week, 2 metres in the village and 3 metres on Mont Valasian, in my experience that's usual for 1st week of March, we always expect to dig the car out at least twice during the week. More snow expected for Sunday.
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| Lee Shaw wrote: |
| @yorkshirelad, Off to La Rosiere next week, 2 metres in the village and 3 metres on Mont Valasian, in my experience that's usual for 1st week of March, we always expect to dig the car out at least twice during the week. More snow expected for Sunday. |
Please keep us updated.
Looking at 14 March
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Do keep us updated. I am also wondering how you will get on in the airports getting to and from La Thuile. I hope to fly out on the 20th.
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| davidof wrote: |
| robs1 wrote: |
| I have used snow forecast .com |
Are they French? |
Not sure but they cover all ski resorts world wide, you get 6 days forecast free if you want more you can pay for it
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| robs1 wrote: |
| davidof wrote: |
| robs1 wrote: |
| I have used snow forecast .com |
Are they French? |
Not sure but they cover all ski resorts world wide, you get 6 days forecast free if you want more you can pay for it |
British.
Based out of Cardiff.
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yep La Thule is catching some this week around half meter on SF, wepowder, meteoblu and animations on swissmeteo ...it will be on thaw freeze so take care.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@davidof, Go on give us a clue - not on the standard pages that I use.
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@Mike Pow, Will do
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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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| chocksaway wrote: |
| @davidof, Go on give us a clue - not on the standard pages that I use. |
Metro France have 3 day snow accumulation pages buried in their site. Following is one for Avoriaz which I have bookmarked. It’s possible to tweak the URL to find a French resort near La Thule, perhaps La Rossiere.
http://www.meteofrance.com/previsions-meteo-montagne/neige/avoriaz/74110
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks @Ozboy, I read the BERA every day and that only gives 2 days so I was intrigued by @davidof, showing 3 days. That is very well buried as you say, I have worked it back to Tignes and its now bookmaked.
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