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How much fresh snow in the Vanoise?

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Meteo Fance's automatic weather station at La Plagne (at 3,000m) is showing the snow depth went from 90cm to approximately 270cm with yesterday's snowfall. Is that some sort of glitch - although a good fall of snow was forecast for yesterday, is it possible than 180cm of new snow accumulated in that part of the Vanoise?

Meteo data for the La Plagne station here.
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rob@rar,

I would say that there is a degree of "marketting in that number

http://www.lesarcs.com/article.php3?id_article=30

Les arcs site is giving numbers up to around 30cm of new snow - Maybe someone has built a 130cm tall snowman on top of the automatice weather station
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i checked that site this morning and it said 130cm,be nice if it was 270 though
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rob@rar, The resorts all seem to have gone into 'hype' overload. In a strange way understandable given the awful January most of them and their workers have had. There seems to be a massive media drive today to generate awareness in France of the skiing conditions (although most really only need to look out of their windows !)

The same is true down South with many 'resorts' apparently overstating numbers ( I say that based upon my wife's work conversations this morning where it is the topic of conversation, apparently those living 'in resort' are saying depths are being doubled! )
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rob@rar, SAP are saying 130cm's here:
http://www.la-plagne.com/php/bulletin-neige-SAP-vEN.php
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Kieran and Agenterre, I thought the Meteo station at La Plagne was automatic, so not sure if it can be accused of hype. A rogue reading perhaps, rather than deliberate mis-information?

notverygoodatskiing, an increase of 40cm seems much more in line with reported snowfalls elsewhere in the region.
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These are the average depths in cm for the Vanoise from Meteo France observations this am.
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Exp:     North  Flat   South
Meters
0900:    15       15      14 
1200:    19       19      19   
1500:    39       34      21
1800:    57       52      35
2100:    77       70      47
2400:   141      133     110
2700:   167      158     139
3000:   192      187     172
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davidof is that total snow depth rather than fresh? Prob a dumb question Embarassed but over a metre of fresh at high altitudes sounds like a lot of fun! snowHead
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Thanks davidof. Do you know what the figure is for fresh snow in the last 24 hours? I'd like to see how accurate the local and GFS-based forecasters were.
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I thought the Meteo station at La Plagne was automatic, so not sure if it can be accused of hype. A rogue reading perhaps, rather than deliberate mis-information?


Looks that way to me.
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Am in Les Arcs and if those figures haven't been doubled or tripled in some instances ,even with current snowfall i'll take up snowblading!
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rob@rar wrote:
Thanks davidof. Do you know what the figure is for fresh snow in the last 24 hours? I'd like to see how accurate the local and GFS-based forecasters were.


Remember that locally there may be more or less snow at the same altitude but one snow profile I saw showed 35 cm at 2400 m in the Vanoise and there was an average of 23mm of rain over the region and 24mm over the Haute-Tarentaise so somewhere like les Arcs may have a couple of cm more snow than say, Courchevel.

I originally said 30-50cm on Friday but hedged this down to 35cm on Monday based on what I 'd read in the various forecasts.

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It will turn colder over the course of today (Monday) with 5-10cm Tuesday and 10-20cm on Wednesday so about 35cm total.
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Hi just spent the day trying out all this new powder. Really fun but would say 20 -30cm max in Les Arcs depending on the slope and if it had the wind on it. Top runs on glacier and grand col not open so hard to say how much above 2500m is really there. Hope to let you know tomorrow if they open the higher lifts.
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