 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all.
Haven’t skied in a couple of years and trying to book a trip somewhere in France for early March 25.
Are there any good websites / apps where you can check historical snow depths for resorts by season?
I remember seeing some pretty good data when I looked a few years back (historical depths at bottom, mid, top of mountain, by month, for each previous season), however after scouring the internet I cannot find anything other than a few sites with pretty high level / generic information. Have the sites with more detailed snow history disappeared?
Thanks in advance!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Yeah have checked that, it shows amalgamated data from 2007-2024. Don’t know if I’m being thick but I can’t see anywhere to look at recent seasons only (last 5 years?)
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As above but "early March" wouldn't be far off max depth (on average) everywhere in europe I'd guess.
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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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| Albion43 wrote: |
| Yeah have checked that, it shows amalgamated data from 2007-2024. Don’t know if I’m being thick but I can’t see anywhere to look at recent seasons only (last 5 years?) |
5 years is much to short in statistical terms to tell anything, as my old geography teacher would say a place only has a climate after 30 years
Why 5 years?
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a rather crude method I have used is to look at the relevant resort webcams and then, where possible, change the date on the webcam setting so that you can see the situation on the previous years for any specific date. They dont go back that far, but some will go back quite a few years and so it is of some use. and you get excited looking at the pictures. Obviously its not scientific or even medium term in most case.
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@Albion43,
Try asking on the relevant (to you) resort threads in the Snow Reports forum.
Be aware of the French half term if looking at early March - think ends 10/3/25.
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| adithorp wrote: |
| As above but "early March" wouldn't be far off max depth (on average) everywhere in europe I'd guess. |
Tend to agree with this. I'm not sure exactly what you hope to find? Unless you are considering a particularly low or "un-snowsure" resort i wouldn't worry about there not being enough snow at that time. Trying to predict chance of powder is quite pointless as way too unpredictable. I'd probably be more interested in temperature than snow depth, but again you are just looking at a trend rather than an accurate prediction.
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Ski Club Of GB used to have very comprehensive data, but a few years ago they did a website re-design and binned it all because they thought not enough people looked at it.
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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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Not sure any statistical data will any of use, the climate change makes everything unpredictable.
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You know it makes sense.
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| snowball wrote: |
| Ski Club Of GB used to have very comprehensive data, but a few years ago they did a website re-design and binned it all because they thought not enough people looked at it. |
That’s fortuitous for me.
I printed a load of it when I was last a member (for a Freshtracks holiday) for resorts I love and for famously snowy winters such as 1999.
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