 Poster: A snowHead
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This is a disaster ski holiday, it has rained for the 6th time since 18th December in Verbier.
Once again today it is raining really heavily out there and we're staying at 1800m
Even up to 2200m it is iffy with rain and sleet
The snow is ruined if there is any left below 2200m.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Just spoke to a friend, raining at 2300m a bit further south. According to the weather service it is the worst start to winter for 20 years with day after day of torrential rain to 2200-2400m.
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It rained upto 2800m in Jan 2004 at Alpe D'Huez
slidergirl,
You have my thoughts, I had the same crappy weather in Arinsal last week 
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it has been snowing over the last few days in other places more east 
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According to the weather service it is the worst start to winter for 20 years with day after day of torrential rain to 2200-2400m.
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Well it doesn't feel like that here. This New Year week is certainly not a good one. Yesterday and this morning were grotty, but it's turning to sleety snow here (1550m) at the moment and in the last 15 minutes the cars and road outside have turned white. Christmas week was good, with fresh snow overnight several times, and most pistes pretty good above 1500m, with the artificial they'd blown in that very cold weather and some nice natural stuff on top. Not the best Christmas conditions ever, by any means, but probably about average. Some more sunshine would have been nice but there was no rain, and fantastic work by the piste service meant the resort was in good shape. And next week looks good too.
As ever, mountain weather is very localised and the Alps is a big place. To write off the early season across the whole area is too sweeping.
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going to somewhere higher next year, like La Plagne or Tignes - the runs that are open are congested and can't sustain the traffic on them and the queues are a mile long
I am nearly in tears ere.
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slidergirl,
Only thing I can suggest is go to the bar and get drunk. That's what I did last week.
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slidergirl, really sorry to hear your holiday has been so miserable. But rest assured that the highest resorts will probably be just as crowded as Verbier as everyone from the lower areas will be crowded into them. I realise that some people are stuck with Christmas/New Year holidays but this is the very busiest week of the year almost everywhere and very early in the season to be sure of decent snow depths. If New Year is absolutely unavoidable I'd personally avoid most - maybe all - the big name resorts with hordes of package trips.
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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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No queues and decent snow here in Sainte Foy. Raining for the last 2 days, same as everywhere else, though.
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After a morning of heavy rain it is now snowing heavily in Montalbert La Plagne and temperature is falling
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You know it makes sense.
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Yes, sme here. Very heavy snow now at 1550m - I knew that would happen if I left my car out of the garage because the forecast was for rain. So you have me to thank, folks. I'm about to go out and move the booger.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Just spoke with someone in Alpe d'Huez.
It snowed heavily Mon, followed by heavy rain on Tues and Weds.
As of about 2pm France-time Weds, it is still raining in the resort.
Also spoke with someone in Saalbach on Mon.
Cover is patchy and brown on the bottom half of the mountain, but still adequately skiable.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It was raining heavily in Meribel this morning, and turned into heavy snow early afternoon
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Update - it's snowing here now! Woot!
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heavy rain heavy snow heavy rain keeps changing here in Flaine either way I'm inside, its rubbish!
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tompringle, well it sounds as though everyone else has managed to change rain to snow so maybe you and me (French PDS) can expect some later 
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looking out (it's clear at the moment) the snow only goes down to around 1500 - and it's pretty slushy. Better up at 2000m maybe and should be a good base once it's pisted tonight.
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Stewart - ditto here in 3V. Powder this afternoon was great. Keeping above 2000m was the trick - Les Menuires was slushy.
Bit different from this time last year at -25 degrees !!
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It's a funny sort of a night tonight. The sky is clear, it's been dark for hours, it should be pretty chilly out there, but the temperature is gently rising. Good job there doesn't look to be much precipitation about.
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I'm looking forward to the epic powder that must be above 2000m here.................I've only experianced the rain in the village today, bring on tomorrow!!!!
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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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alexchapman, hmmmm. It's slightly damper than usual all the way to 3200. Though by no means properly soggy, and very nice when you can see anything further off than the end of your nose.
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well at 1450m I am looking out at heavy snow falling. The freezing level has risen over night and snow is here to stay... at last.
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You know it makes sense.
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| pam w wrote: |
| It's a funny sort of a night tonight. The sky is clear, it's been dark for hours |
The last few nights in Tignes have had clear skies but the clouds & snow have returned by the morning. I always thought it should snow at night and be clear and sunny in the day 
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well it's absolutely chucking it down now - big heavy wet flakes of snow, but it's definitely snow; plough been up the road twice this morning already. Probably very nice stuff up at higher levels. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Snowing again here at sea level in Scotland. Great day at Cairngorm 2 days ago, though most of the powder was skied out could still find some untracked areas off piste and the Aonach Bowl was untracked first thing - though it didn't stay that way once the WWP opened. Great run down to the Ciste Carpark via the Aonach Ridge at the end of the day.
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sympathetic to those whose annual holiday isnt too great
we stopped going to 3V in teh first week of Jan when 3 years running we just skid rain and whiteouts
and i dont think i'll ever go back to verbier after 4 or 5 years back when early marhc was like summer - took over an hour from getting on first lift to getting skis onto snow
hope it improves for all
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Proper dumping here this morning! Woohoo!
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