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Just back from Italy , over weekend most news items led with the big freeze in Italy, news mentioned -42 in Trentino, just wondering where you in Trentino last weekend and was it really that cold ?. If so did of the higher lifts have to close due to extremely low temps
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nop.
The worst was -8 for us when we skied around Arabba, Civetta, Cortina, Alta Badia and Knronplatz.
Austria was about two degree colder.
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kendub, checking the news items, it seems that a new Italian record low temperature of -47C was recorded back during the pre-christmas cold snap, at 5:15am on 18th December 2009, but for some reason was only just reported a few days ago.
The location is Busa di Manna, a 2550m 'frost hollow' near the Pale di San Martino range and had held the previous record for the coldest place on the Italian peninsula.
There were also sub -35C overnight temps recorded more recently on the 15th 23rd & 27th Jan 2010 in the same spot.
http://www.laprovinciadicomo.it/stories/apcom/114718_maltempo_record_italiano_del_freddo_-47_gradi_in_trentino/
A frost hollow is a location that can experience a particular kind of overnight temperature inversion:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/understanding/frosthollows.shtml
It would seem that the daytime temps across open ski areas would have been significantly higher, maybe why Saikee didn't notice any extreme cold.
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My car has an outside temperature probe and this has been verified regularly within 1 or 2 degree difference with those displayed temperatures from buildings and facilities.
I always checked the temperature when I started the day. The temperature at the top of the mountain can be colder but I have skied in Scandinavia to tell how cold the outside temperature was.
The wife and I have electric boot warmers which we would use if the temperature drops below -10. We also keep a heavy duty set of gloves in the rucksack to be used if our fingers become numb. I didn't experience temperature below -10 when I skied the two weeks in Ski Amade and Dolomites. I would say the colder temperature would be possible during the night but when skiing in the day time the temperature is warmer.
Think the coldest I came across was -26 degree C once at the top of Les Arcs without any wind. It was really uncomfortable.
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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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Off to Trentino region at half term - have just dug out more fleeces to take! Serious (but perhaps naive) question, at what temperature do you get signs of frostbite and what are those signs? 
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| Biddy Twiddle wrote: |
| Off to Trentino region at half term - have just dug out more fleeces to take! Serious (but perhaps naive) question, at what temperature do you get signs of frostbite and what are those signs? |
I've got frostnip at -28º plus a bit of wind chill. Happened on my nose; looks like pale/waxy patches of skin.
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