 Poster: A snowHead
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Well it's nearly June and it's snowing down to 1100m in the Alps ( and even lower possibly, I just don't know) .... No need for the Global Warming/ Doom Merchants to quantify / justify as it looks like there just may be hope for alpine skiing in the years to come 
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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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it was colder on the granon this morning than it was for the whole of the winter
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One swallow does not make a Summer.
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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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Whitegold, But it makes achange from those who spit! 
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Whitegold,
Been drinking perhaps?
PS - It's called snow ... and it is the summer... not what swallows are looking for
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Does this all mean the winter season is getting later? Will half term holiday ski ing mean May instead of Feb?
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Listen to the Farmers, they had it right last year & many years before.
Snow this time of year is not unusual at all.
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bizzare though there is more snow on the la ros cam than there was in feb and there wasn't a white patch to be seen last week.
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Just got an alert from Snowguess for up to 20cm in Selva.
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I checked the weather forecast for Zell am Ziller (Zillertal, Austria) pretty much everyday last season, and i didn't EVER see as much precipitation as this...
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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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stanton,
you are totally right this happend last year, except the whole valley was white, yesterday only above 1700m (thank god there are some plants i cant bring in!) but we are due more tonight!
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Well I spent the last two days in a marina in the Isle of Wight in a tiny boat with a freezing cold Force 7 winds and torrential rain. And a good book, luckily. We sailed home in a forecast window today, beautiful wind, changed direction just when we wanted it to, perfect. But not warm. I had four layers on, despite sailing down a very moderate wind, and was just about OK. Checked email on return to find snow forecast email for Notre Dame de Bellecombe, 20cms. But as someone said above, it's not unusual. It's just that those tropical temperatures in April made everybody think summer had come. That was when the weather was wrong, not now.
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w, Be thankful ! You would have had force 10+ down here yesterday  , Today you might just need 'power' ....
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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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Agenterre, it might have been more than a 7, actually, but I always hesitate to exaggerate! Force 7 is quite a lot in a 19' boat though. Even when it is tied up and especially when it leaks..... it's so unusual to have 24 hours of such very heavy rain. I must find out how much rain fell in that period, it felt like the heavens were opening.
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Poster: A snowHead
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OK, just looked it up, 50mm on the 27th. Not bad for the soft South.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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And that was the record daily rainfall for the Isle of Wight. 50.8mm, to be exact.
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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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pam w, but it was probably the "wrong type" of rain so stand by for hosepipe ban
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pam w i agree it has been a bit cold, was sailing on the solent on sunday and had to pile on the fleeces!
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Boris, it was undoubtedly the wrong kind of rain, especially when it was falling through the headlining onto my sleeping bag. When it falls so fast I think it runs off too quickly to do a lot of good, depending on the hydrology of the area concerned.
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pam w, I empathise !! We only had 120 km/h gusts .... and that was nowhere near a record as you will know !!
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Kersh, 16th June for us! 
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When it falls so fast I think it runs off too quickly to do a lot of good
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I've never really understood this  Ok I accept that the rain needs to soak into the ground and if it falls to fast/much it doesn't, but surely it runs into rivers which can then be used to top up resovoirs etc?
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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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Nice footage but it does show up the poor standard of piste preparation in the Alps 
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good video, 
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