 Poster: A snowHead
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It'll come as no surprise for regular visitors to this site, but the prospects for Christmas snow across the Alps are looking increasingly dicey. Peter Hardy reports for the Daily Telegraph on the current picture, with a resort-by-resort snow report.
As he says, northern Italy is fairing better than other countries, with some resorts in Austria doing reasonably well, but oddly there's no mention of Spain (which snow-forecast.com recently tipped)...
Here's the Telegraph report.
Also check the snowHeads Snow Reports threads for first-hand reports and other info.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The conditions in Isola 2000 look excellent at the moment with over 50% of the ski area open.
A cold front should cross over the Northern Alps from the north-west just before the weekend The mountains will at least look much more wintry all over and that piste conditions will be a lot better for the run-up to Christmas. Let's say 50cm in the Aravis, 40cm in the Mont Blanc area and 30cm in the Three Valleys and Tarentaise. More would be nice.
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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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A giant ridge of high pressure has been parked over Europe for a while, thus no snow. Looks like by Friday the 17th a change in the pattern with the ridge sliding east into Russia and the upper level flow becoming more northwesterly over Europe.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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And it will come as no surprise for regular visitors to this site to find me wading in with my usual "Told you so!"
Would anyone go skiing in December if Christmas was in January? So let's move Christmas.
Then we should move Easter to May-Day, and the ski season would actually match conditions, running from January to May.
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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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Jonpim, will you keep it down? SSHHH!!  ...January skiing is great - plenty of snow (usually), low prices and few people...
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Jonpim, with you all the way!
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In the 8:30 forecast on Radio 4's Today programme this morning, the weather chappie commented on a mass of cold air about to descend on central Europe from Siberia. He claimed that "there'll be some huge dumps of snow in the Alps over the next week or so."
I'd only just turned the radio on, so I don't know why he was talking about skiing. Was there a feature on the snow drought or something? Did anyone else hear?
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The weatherman said something similar on R5 this morning, following on from an item on Scottish skiing (or lack of it)...
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DavidS,
That makes sense - it must have been Radio 5, not 4, that I was listening to.
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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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http://129.13.102.67/wz/pics/brack4a.gif
(Incidentally this will change after every update to a day later)
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Mon 13-12-04 16:35; edited 1 time in total
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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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Iv'e looked at these maps, digested the information, and have one question....."IS IT GOING TO BLOODY SNOW"
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Poster: A snowHead
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This chart shows the projected rainfall (from the GFS model) for Geneva for the next week (Geneva was the nearest I could find to the French resorts) . The rainfall is shown in mm on the bottom of the chart. Light blue means snows in the mountains, dark blue means snow even at lower levels. For a reasonable rule of thumb, call the mm cm and you get snow depth (I think - I used to know a good conversion that was something like that, but would need to check). This would suggest 40cm over the weekend, but I would caveat that with the fact (a) my conversion may be wrong and (b) 6 days is still a reasonably long time ahead to forecast, (c) any commercial (etc.) forecast you'd normally see based on this would have had experienced forecaster modification (this will be the "raw" output), so may change it a bit (especially to take in local factors) and (d) it's for Geneva, not the mountains.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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