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Ok, just for a laugh, please provide your forecast for the weekend commencing 9th December, either for that weekend or just simply x cm new snow will have fallen by then. Broad or as narrow as you like, ie Austria will have had xmm of new snow, or xyz resort will open to abundant powder (and no you can't forecast that for Whistler)
Feel free to use scientific methods as well as mountain men, tea leaves and pure guesswork.
Then we can look back in 2 weeks time and see if anyone was remotely close or not 
Cheers,
Greg
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brian
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Ok, I'm going to plump for a pattern change at last.
The Azores high will ridge northwards towards Greenland, plunging an arctic airstream down across the UK and into Europe. It will turn progressively colder, freezing down to 500m by midweek.
There will be a medium sized dump followed by further outbreaks of snow showers favouring the Jura, Eastern Switzerland and Western Austria.
France and Western Switzerland will struggle on with minimal dumpage but at least be able to turn on the cannons !
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What's your own guess kitenski ?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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brian, and wishful thinking?
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My guess is that Europe will have a huge dump towards the end of next week. This is based on the fact that I've taken the plunge and spent three times as much on going to Whistler as I would have spent going to Val d'Isere, or Courchevel, and so sod's law means that it'll blow up in my face. However I've had one too many pre season holidays with no snow, and this year is going to be different.
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brian
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Temps will stay warm (by that meaning too warm for snow cannons) until this coming weekend (2nd Dec), with firstly France and then Switzerland, Germany and Austria rapidly cooling over the following few days. There will be flurries of snow (up to 30cm high up in some areas of Northern France, but more widely only a few cm) over the weekend of the 2nd/3rd but this will only affect France - Austria, Germany & Switzerland may get a few flakes high up, but very little.
Then it will get slightly warmer all over Europe for a few days, but towards the back end of next week, temps will drop again and there will be onset of serious winter with heavy snowfalls in all areas, with Western Switzerland, Southern Germany and Eastern Austria in particular coming in for a serious dumping (in excess of 50cm by the 9th December). Northern France will miss out initially, but just before or during the weekend of the 9th/10th they will start to get heavy snowfall too.
The puppy poo has spoken...  
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All hail the puppy pooooooooo...
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Ok, my guess is it is going to stay unseasonably warm by this weekend, with small amounts of snow in the week after, and then start cooling down by the middle of next week, with abundant snow in some parts near Vienna by the following weekend.
Purely based on the fact I'm out in Vienna for a week
Cheers,
greg
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What about.
"The high and dry will remain centred across Europe for the forseeable future but a series of low pressure systems will track ever further south across the UK. Huge dumps are delivered across the Scottish mountains as easyjet deliver skiers from Geneva to Glasgow." 
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Significant dump (say 30cm) at higher levels (1500m+) mid next week (06 Dec).
Temps falling w/b 11 Dec will dump down to lower levels on 14/15 Dec and continue dumping for a White Christmas
Shock heatwave for Whistler.
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Wed 29-11-06 15:53; edited 1 time in total
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brian
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You lot are all cheating by forecasting up to the 9th, you're supposed to start there !
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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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Bansko and La Ros will recieve the only good snow in the whole of Europe meaning everyone will have to head there, turning them into the new Val D'Isre and the new, well, La Ros respectively.
All other resorts will die a slow and painful death. 
...Heaven help us all...
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You know it makes sense.
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There will be weather on the week starting Dec 9th
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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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I predict regular, large falls of snow on and around St Jean d'Aulpes, Portes du Soleil, culminating in a flurry of snowy activity in the week immediately prior to 3rd March; temperatures will hover around or below freezing for the entire time. It will then stop, the skies will miraculously clear, blue skies will be evident with sunshine daily from early until 4.00 p.m. but never so sunny as to make the snow slushy and the bottom halves of my trousers wet. I know you asked for w/c 9th December, but I'm not going then........
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Poster: A snowHead
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There will be warm spells interspersed with some cooler spells for the 2 weeks following December 9th.
Variable amounts of precipitatoin will be mixed with periods of dry weather.
Winds will blow intermittently from the north occassionally veering to the south with occasional easterlies and westerlies and will vary in speed.
The sun will come up in the morning.
My a**hole will point downwards.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kramer, you will really enjoy Whistler. There are some fabulous restaurants too.
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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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Oh, and my snow forecast. Mild temperatures persisting into next week, then a deep front from the Med will sweep across the Haute-Alpes and Oisans from the 10th Decmeber onwards, dumping a meter of snow at altitude, and 50cm in the villages.
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The cold weather will finally arrive in Newcastle and no one will wear a coat
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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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| chrisb wrote: |
| The cold weather will finally arrive in Newcastle and no one will wear a coat |
I was up there one New Year it seemed to be the colder it got, the less the females worn. Short skirts (read wide belts) and plenty of string tops you could hang your coat on.
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| DB wrote: |
| chrisb wrote: |
| The cold weather will finally arrive in Newcastle and no one will wear a coat |
I was up there one New Year it seemed to be the colder it got, the less the females worn. Short skirts (read wide belts) and plenty of string tops you could hang your coat on. |
You were wearing a coat? You must have stood out from the crowd!
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There will be sun, rain, snow and clear periods. There will be periods of high wind, followed by periods of calm.
Numerous temperatures will prevail that will be, variously, above and below the seasonal norm.
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I predict large build up of hot air around this forum, lightening later to some concrete data, with possible sporadic bursts of overoptimistic depth measurement by resort marketing people.
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If Brian is right I will turn on the snow cannon (Pressure Washer) at the farm and will be skiing in the fields.
Further afield La Ros will get massive dumbs through Late December leaving a 3.5 m base for my arrival in January.
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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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| johnboy wrote: |
| Further afield La Ros will get massive dumbs through Late December |
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DB,
Well, you know what I meant
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brian
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