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The biggest snowdump of the 2023-24 season is ongoing now. A combination of "Retour d'Est" and Südstau.
Epicentrum is the Italian side of the MonteRosa massief.
Just look at this mouth watering video from Macugnaga, 1 valley east of Alagna.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/EfxMpqEuQ8AhUvpD/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wow.
The forecast maps @Polo relayed here days ago showed Macugnaga as the snow epicentre.
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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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Meanwhile the northern French alps look like they're warm and sunny, with a fair bit of grass.
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Precipitation incoming, but.....
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| Origen wrote: |
| Meanwhile the northern French alps look like they're warm and sunny, with a fair bit of grass. |
Where exactly do you mean by 'northern French alps'... The Tarantaise valley which is generally excepted as 'northern French alps' is generally far from it - especially at altitude with snowfalls (before now and will now be even better) showing the best depth levels of the last 30 years or so (again I stress at altitude - not sure lower altitudes though).
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 the world that I can't get out to enjoy it. Maybe next weekend.
Did I read polo saying the set up is for it to remain cold?
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@Origen, above 2,000 it's not (well not in Chamonix) ... and there is more snow than I have possibly ever seen at altitude ...
We're definitely not getting anything right now though 
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Gressoney currently isolated
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| under a new name wrote: |
@Origen, above 2,000 it's not (well not in Chamonix) ... and there is more snow than I have possibly ever seen at altitude ...
We're definitely not getting anything right now though |
Yea exactly im a little confused! Lower slopes / altitudes is very different to higher altitudes this season!
Im in Val d'Isere and we are getting the biggest snowstorm of the season producing insane amounts of snow! Wind high too!
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Re snow line.
On the windward slope (Italy) the snow level is low due to precipitation cooling.
On the leeward side, snow line high due to föhn effect.
This is ALWAYS the case for
-retour d'est
-südstau
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The majority of resort buildings and slopes in the Northern French alps are, I would hazard a guess, below 2000m and experiencing a relatively poor season. For much of the Evasion Mont Blanc, Portes du Soleil, Espace Diamant and GM there is no fresh snow, the foehn will play havoc with existing cover and there's not much joy to be found in the precarious PN level for the next round of precipitation. The fact that a few spots are drowning in the stuff is not much consolation!
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| Origen wrote: |
| The majority of resort buildings and slopes in the Northern French alps are, I would hazard a guess, below 2000m... |
70% of the pistes in Les Arcs are above 2000m. Conditions are what you'd expect in these warmer than average temperatures (hard-packed first thing, softening as the day goes on), but there is plenty of snow on those slopes.
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You know it makes sense.
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Italopow right now is like Japow.
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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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@Whitegold, as in it's light?
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Poster: A snowHead
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well Denfinella got rained on in the Brenta Dolomites today, right down to the underpants. Dumping down in Monterosa though, where lifts are closed.
Yes, there are resorts with plenty of skiing above 2000m and many others with very little above that level. It's an extremely mixed picture, however people try to present it, for the very beginning of March. The Haute Tarentaise is an exception and I suppose that is what many people think of as "French skiing".
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| Origen wrote: |
| It's an extremely mixed picture... |
It is, which is why this season it's been extremely difficult to make any kind of valid generalisation about snow conditions.
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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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What is clear though is that the snow line is rising generally and this year it’s higher than I have ever seen it…through Jan/feb/march. Above 1800m you probably wouldn’t notice much difference, below that it is stark.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Sun 3-03-24 19:22; edited 1 time in total
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Origen wrote: |
| It's an extremely mixed picture... |
It is, which is why this season it's been extremely difficult to make any kind of valid generalisation about snow conditions. |
they suck
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Undoubtedly true in many places. In other places...
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| 8611 wrote: |
| @Whitegold, as in it's light? |
Deep and bottomless and hasn't stopped puking hard for a week.
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| Origen wrote: |
| well Denfinella got rained on in the Brenta Dolomites today, right down to the underpants. |
Thanks for that 
Yes, in Trentino (central / eastern Italian Alps) I'd estimate you need to go above 2,000m to find anything resembling winter powder. Not many slopes in that area go that high. There is loads of snow above 1400-1700m (from north to south) but the depth drops off pretty quickly below that.
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@davidof, where’s that?
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@Kramer, Montalbert La Plagne circa 1350m
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| Kramer wrote: |
| @davidof, where’s that? |
I think it's Montalbert as I'm monitoring La Plagne webcams as going to Montchavin next Sunday, which looks even more dodgy but rest of La Plagne looks good.
Edited once for embarrassing spelling mistake!
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Mon 4-03-24 20:43; edited 1 time in total
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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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| stevew wrote: |
| Kramer wrote: |
| @davidof, where’s that? |
I think it's Montalbert as I'm monitoring La Plage webcams as going to Montchavin next Sunday, which looks even more dodgy but rest of La Plage looks good. |
I see what you've done there.... 
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@Whitegold, yes but IS IT LIGHT
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You know it makes sense.
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Please.
I started this topic, about THE dump of the season, around the MonteRosa.
Not for pityful pictures from resorts meteoroligically less lucky.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Onnem wrote: |
Please.
I started this topic, about THE dump of the season, around the MonteRosa.
Not for pityful pictures from resorts meteoroligically less lucky. |
Thread drift, it's a bitch.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@rob@rar,
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Does anyone care about MontaLosa?
Now if you were talking about the Massif Central, that's another thing
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@davidof, wow!
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Prali, West Piemonte.
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| davidof wrote: |
Does anyone care about MontaLosa?
Now if you were talking about the Massif Central, that's another thing
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Were the Massif Central ski stations able to open in this warm winter?
Looks amazing just now.
https://www.sancy.com/pratique/webcams/
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| Snow&skifan wrote: |
Were the Massif Central ski stations able to open in this warm winter?
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With a great deal of difficulty le Lioran and Super Besse/Le Mont Dore opened partially. A bit gutting they get the dump of the winter after the winter holidays just when they are thinking of shutting.
The cross country (around 20 areas) didn't open, they are opening today though.
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Liftlines this morning are 200ft long.
Day of the season.
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Certainly odd webcams for Front de Neige Les Gets for example are very sparse looking but other places receiving vast quantities of snow. Presume some is related to altitude and also pot luck where it is falling.
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| James77 wrote: |
| Certainly odd webcams for Front de Neige Les Gets for example are very sparse looking but other places receiving vast quantities of snow. Presume some is related to altitude and also pot luck where it is falling. |
This dump is a Southerly so stops at the main Alpine ridge. Head a few km south to Italy and you can benefit
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