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France and Switzerland are on track for 40-100cm above 1500m this week.
Verbier, Tignes, Val Tho, Avoriaz, maybe St Anton, are in the crosshairs.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Whitegold wrote: |
France and Switzerland are on track for 40-100cm above 1500m this week.
Verbier, Tignes, Val Tho, Avoriaz, maybe St Anton, are in the crosshairs. |
We can all read weather reports twatface.
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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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| Layne wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
France and Switzerland are on track for 40-100cm above 1500m this week.
Verbier, Tignes, Val Tho, Avoriaz, maybe St Anton, are in the crosshairs. |
We can all read weather reports twatface. |
Seriously is there any need for that? This forum is descending down the pan!
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| Whitegold wrote: |
France and Switzerland are on track for 40-100cm above 1500m this week.
Verbier, Tignes, Val Tho, Avoriaz, maybe St Anton, are in the crosshairs. |
Looking good on the webcams this morning
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Layne wrote: |
| Whitegold wrote: |
France and Switzerland are on track for 40-100cm above 1500m this week.
Verbier, Tignes, Val Tho, Avoriaz, maybe St Anton, are in the crosshairs. |
We can all read weather reports twatface. |
Wow… really unnecessary
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Imagine posting about the weather on a thread called weather reports and being called a twatface…
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@jirac18, et al., i'd be more sympathetic if one could point at a few posts (1 not enough, although I don't recall even 1) where @grayslush added value, was thoughtful, or insightful and ideally, not trolling e.g. that skiing was finished for ever?
Anyhoo, rained heavily on and off all night in Chamonix but presumably snow somewhere, heavy cloud so can't eyeball but decent snowing now.
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@Layne, NOT ON , I’ve started this page for the last two years because abuse has driven the originators away. You might note that on the first post it says be nice . Anyone using that sort of language is not welcome . Please refrain or don’t take part .
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Poor form but let’s face it, he gets a free ride in this forum. Wind up merchant, deliberately bating folk, and been consistent with it for years now.
This is a great thread and the main reason I’m on snowheads. (I don’t post often)
The effort by almost all is very much appreciated.
Snowline dropped in the 3v area as forecast but think it may have rained longer then predicted higher up.
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I can’t believe anyone is defending name calling. Anyway I like Whitegold’s posts and the most recent one is probably fairly accurate!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Looks like there was around 30 to 50cm overnight above 2000 meters in the French Northern Alps but accompanied by high winds. Not a bad start in the end. Still a lot of grass pushing through the snow at Val Tho this morning but will be ok to ski where they made snow on piste.
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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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@snowymum, I’m certainly not defending it. It’s poor.
He is however a wind up merchant but is never personal or calls names.
Each to their own.
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@sparkzter, is "wind up merchant" a non-technical term for an early alpha release of ChatGPT -6? (The neanderthal trained one?)
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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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The weather gods produced, I follow Arosa as its our first trip. -5c and a ton of the white fluffy stuff  .
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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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@under a new name,
Could well be!! I’ve still managed to avoid any use of ChatGPT so far.
I’m a fan of non techy terms as I’m a simple bloke. 
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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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Interesting to see the forecast borne out on the spread of webcams - ie, significant snow in western alps, dusting in dolomites
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@snowymum, me too. He's clearly a passionate skier for decades and is unfortunately correct on the direction of travel of skiing in an era of climate change, albeit hyperbolic at times
I always think the best thing to do with trolls or abuse is just ignore, otherwise the thread gets dragged into it (I should follow my own advice here)
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Great response now back to the Weather outlook please .
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| polo wrote: |
| @Ackie68, yeah it's just one of many options that far out.....but look at ECM 12z....freaky.....colder chart as cleaner scandi high, albeit we want the high further north ideally |
The GFS 00z and 06z is holding on to that idea of "lavalamp" cut-off low bubble, ECM seems to have it further south and GEM much further east....could be one to watch to see if GFS verifies it towards 1st Dec....
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| Ackie68 wrote: |
| polo wrote: |
| @Ackie68, yeah it's just one of many options that far out.....but look at ECM 12z....freaky.....colder chart as cleaner scandi high, albeit we want the high further north ideally |
The GFS 00z and 06z is holding on to that idea of "lavalamp" cut-off low bubble, ECM seems to have it further south and GEM much further east....could be one to watch to see if GFS verifies it towards 1st Dec.... |
Noob question, what does 00z and 06z refer to?
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"A better way to quickly decode model times is thinking of 12Z as morning run of the model and the 0Z as an evening run, with 18Z as midday and 06Z as the overnight run. These conversions work for all other fields that use global time, though most use "UTC" instead of "Z."
@routine I think there is a link in the forum somewhere with basic lessons for people like us
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| routine wrote: |
| Noob question, what does 00z and 06z refer to? |
Weather models are run at various times a day and different number of times a day. 00z,06z,12z,18z is the time/name given to each run using the 24hr clock principle: 00z is midnight, 06z is 6am etc. It takes a few hours for each run to update on portals such as https://www.wetterzentrale.de/en/topkarten.php?model=gfs&time=6&lid=OP
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@routine, "z" time is effectively the same time zone as GMT.
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Thanks, simple answer after all!
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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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Its early days and of course a spell of warm weather / rain with high freezing level / snowline can undo it all.....but promising so far, with heavier snow forecast for a lot of places tomorrow.
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Lots of snow in places like Tignes, but hefty winds up high has already stripped a fair bit.
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You know it makes sense.
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Z is an nautical/aeronautical term from the NATO alphabet, and is spoken as Zulu. When used verbally on the radio it's easier/quicker/less easily misunderstood to say "Zulu" rather than "Unified Time Coordinated" or "UTC" or "Greenwich Mean Time" or "GMT". All flight plans and NOTAMS are in Zulu to avoid confusion when crossing time zones, and since most weather forecasting agencies are or have their roots in the military, the term Zulu is widely used. Why Zulu was chosen I dunno.
Back under my rock to watching the webcams and reading the enlightening posts here.
Ah - found it - as normal it's all the Yank's fault.
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/military
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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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@Judwin, Learn something new everyday, thanks
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Poster: A snowHead
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| elefantfresh wrote: |
"A better way to quickly decode model times is thinking of 12Z as morning run of the model and the 0Z as an evening run, with 18Z as midday and 06Z as the overnight run. These conversions work for all other fields that use global time, though most use "UTC" instead of "Z."
@routine I think there is a link in the forum somewhere with basic lessons for people like us |
https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=14852 is the beginners guide....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Chamonix Meteo was saying 50-70cm at 1,300m from last night to tonight. Can't see it being anything close to that so far. Looks more like 30cm at 1,800m from webcams, and a dusting in town.
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| hold_my_biere wrote: |
| Chamonix Meteo was saying 50-70cm at 1,300m from last night to tonight. Can't see it being anything close to that so far. Looks more like 30cm at 1,800m from webcams, and a dusting in town. |
tonight hasn't happened yet, I believe snow should restart later.
There has been around 30cm over 2300 meters in that area (as you estimate) but town is what? 1100 meters? There was about 15cm in Courchevel 1850 at the bottom of the pistes this morning.
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I won't say what I have just looked at and what it seemed to indicate...
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This is a thread in which many people talk in riddles.
"If the 1200z GFS indicates what some of us might infer, St Bartholomew's night will be one to remember. "
Mum's the word......
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Glancing at random ECMWF meteograms across The Alps, next week looks fairly cold with small top ups of snow daily, the possibility of a decent dump in the Tirol and Südtirol midweek.
Very briefly milder this Sunday and Monday.
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Yayyyy send us positive Tirol news!
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@hold_my_biere, yeah, a bit disappointing given what was supposed to have arrived by now per Meteoblue's forecasts on Saturday/Sunday. Hey ho. That's November. Just enough snow to be annoying.
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FAQ
Confirmation of large accumulations at altitude (above 1800/2000m) since yesterday, here nearly 50 cm of fresh snow fell at 2200m in Beaufortain.
