 Poster: A snowHead
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Time for admin to make sticky and replace 20/21?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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some optimism for early Nov south of the alpine ridge for Zermatt/Cervinia
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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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@polo, I could not have put it better myself 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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So, is it going to snow?
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@telford_mike Yes!  But if you want to know where, when and how much you will need to wait for someone more knowledgeable to come along.
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@polo, be great if this came to pass 
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@twoodwar, yep sun-mon unlikely to change much, starting with a very high snowline.....wed into thurs is key for me to get decent first low level widespread snow on the ground...can also see latest GFS has that little disturbance over genoa same day
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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2m of snow right on top of Obergurgl… that’d be good for my first ever December ski holiday (had to ski somewhere in 2021)
Been enjoying watching the cannon fire each morning.
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You know it makes sense.
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@mountainaddict, just look out the feckin window / webcam in due course 
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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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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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GFS 12z Op next 7 days
Caveat with all snow charts....none of the models agree with each other, and none of them are very good beyond 3 days. They are basically all wrong unless showing lots of snow.
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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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You are right. The one you post is correct because it shows about 1m of snow around Obergurgl.
That'll do.
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No it must be wrong, I want a massive Retour d'Est... 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Well on the basis that more snow is more accurate then todays 06z were more correct than anything from yesterday, and just now the 12z are reaching a new level of widespread righteousness
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@polo, Scotland went from 5cm to 1cm, what more proof do we need
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Does anyone know any kind of tutorial, video, book, dictionary, masterclass or what not that enables us to understand all this jargon?
I'm very interested in this topic, but as the Germans say, "I understood train station" (I don't understand s***)
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Perfect, many thanks!
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@Gustavo the Gaper, this site https://www.severe-weather.eu/ has a fair amount of tutorial type posts on weather. Wepowder seem to have started doing some mountain weather related tutorial posts too https://wepowder.com/en . As much as poking through the various graphs and maps from GFS & ECM can be interesting the forecast summary on Wepowder is a much quicker way to get much of the same information (GFS & ECM are two of the main meteorological organisation which publish forecasting data used to create the weather forecasts you see on the news etc). A good place to go if you want to look at the various charts is https://www.wxcharts.com/ , no tutorial info there though. However much of the talk on this thread seems very home grown, I doubt many weather sites will tell you what "fantasy island / FI" means (it is slang for saying that the forecast is too far in the future to be reliable)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| munich_irish wrote: |
| I doubt many weather sites will tell you what "fantasy island / FI" means |
The term Fantasy Island is used widely on weather forums. Perhaps not on wepowder as I think their articles are translated from Dutch?
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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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@munich_irish, how had I never found wepowder before! Thanks - great website.
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@denfinella, despite always having a interest in weather & climate (many moons ago I did an astrophysics degree but also was interested in geophysics, climate etc) I have never looked at weather forums (spend too much time on this one!). I had assumed the term originated in some long ago UK television programme so very UK specific. Not something the folks at Wepowder would have picked up (yes they are Dutch but the non Dutch content appears to be originated in English not mangled through a translator).
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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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| munich_irish wrote: |
| @Gustavo the Gaper, this site https://www.severe-weather.eu/ has a fair amount of tutorial type posts on weather. Wepowder seem to have started doing some mountain weather related tutorial posts too https://wepowder.com/en . As much as poking through the various graphs and maps from GFS & ECM can be interesting the forecast summary on Wepowder is a much quicker way to get much of the same information (GFS & ECM are two of the main meteorological organisation which publish forecasting data used to create the weather forecasts you see on the news etc). A good place to go if you want to look at the various charts is https://www.wxcharts.com/ , no tutorial info there though. However much of the talk on this thread seems very home grown, I doubt many weather sites will tell you what "fantasy island / FI" means (it is slang for saying that the forecast is too far in the future to be reliable) |
Great, thank you so much!
WePowder is great, they gave a workshop a while back here in Rotterdam, I even got their book, but didn't know their website was that complete.
The layout does look an awful lot like www.wintersport.nl, I wonder if they're somehow related. (Btw, probably the best / most reliable/complete ski resort website I've seen)
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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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New snow =
50 cm Kaprun
40 cm Zillertal / Hintertux
35 cm Sölden
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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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@Peter S, ‘The planes the planes!’ Also old
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Lovely view of snow covered mountains on the way into work this morning
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Look set for decent snow in Cervinia/ Zermatt today. A start if it happens
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Snow down to village level in Cervinia, Zermatt and Les Deux Alpes. ( guess where I’m skiing from Jan?)
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| twoodwar wrote: |
| Snow down to village level in Cervinia, Zermatt and Les Deux Alpes. ( guess where I’m skiing from Jan?) |
Zermatt all the way!
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All of them
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| twoodwar wrote: |
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Why wait until January? Hosing it down in Obergurgl; guess where I’m skiing next month? (I played it safe)
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Fair point, but money sadly plays it’s part. 
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FAQ
on the east side of the Pennines hardly any rain has fallen today, such is the effectiveness of the rain shadow in these southerly tropical events. This is the same set up as Storm Desmond in 2015. Just hope it isn’t going to be a recurring pattern until next April 
