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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I assume a "200 year storm" means one that happens once every 200 years, rather than one that lasts 200 years? A bit like the red spot on Jupiter lol. I would really be unpopular at work if I am stranded in the Alps for 200 years.
Then again - I guess i could live with that.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| freeheelskier wrote: |
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Hmmm, I hadn't considered that one.
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Have to say, spent the morning skiing above our office in Les Houches, and conditions were fabulous. Hard base, but absolutely no-one around. best skiing so far this season. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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These two photos, taken from the same place, show that there is more snow now (left) than there was in January 2007 (right). But we subsequently had perfectly good snow in March and early April. We weren't here for the school hols, but friends who borrowed our place at half term had no complaints - I think snow arrived just in time. That season, the snow just before new year (actually end December 2006) was appalling - by far the worst we've seen here, and no comparison with now. Fortunately there was a big dump of snow on New Year's Eve. Before that, much of the Les Saisies bowl was brown, with just dirty white streaks for pistes. Now, the whole bowl is white.
Aspect becomes critical. This photo is taken across a south facing slope, at 1550m. The other side of the mountain (including slopes with no cannons) is competely white.
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pam w, can you still ski back to your apartment?
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kitenski, yes, the piste is just beyond the snow cannon and is fine. We could in Jan 2007, too. In fact it's always been possible to ski to the bottom of that piste to the end of the season though sometimes it's been brown and grotty below our level.
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We skied down to Hauteluce this morning - all the way to about 1150 I think it is - the bottom red is particularly enjoyable, in snow terms, as it's nice slooshy soft snow, a change from all the hardpack.
However, I really don't like seeing white pistes snaking through dead brown vegetation - it's just not the same, so on the whole we've stuck to the areas which are white all over - though some of them are beginning to be "harvested" to keep the pistes in good nick. I'd hate to spend a week's holiday on nothing but man-made strips.
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| sanman wrote: |
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the Met Office in the UK.... said that the Alps/Europe is in for a 200 year storm at the end of February
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Hahahahahha these are the people who can't even tell you reliably what the weather is like TODAY in ENGLAND !!!!!!!!!!! They are the biggest waste of public money I can think of, without getting political |
As it happens the 30 day outlook for the month ahead consistently and accurately predicted the arrival off and the continuation of the very cold spell late autumn / early winter.
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And on that note, this from the Met Office
'UK Outlook for Thursday 24 Feb 2011 to Thursday 10 Mar 2011:
It looks likely to stay rather unsettled in western parts of the UK, with further wind and rain at times, and also occasionally towards the east. Again, drier interludes are also likely in between the wind and rain. Meanwhile, much colder air will be sitting over eastern Europe and Scandinavia, with a small risk of this extending over the UK from the east at first, which would turn things much colder with perhaps some wintry showers.'
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I paraphrase:
It will probably be like it normally is. But it might be like it sometimes is. 
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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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Different times but same panics. There's plenty of the stuff.
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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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freeheelskier, I enjoy your posts. Keep them coming.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I haven't read the whole of this thread but I have just booked a week in Courchevel 1550 from Sat 26 Feb and I have come on looking for reassurance that it will snow fairly heavily in Courchevel between now and then.
You don't have to back this up with scientific forecasts, ....a strong hunch will keep me happy
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Come Saturday, it'll be 3 weeks without significant (?any) snow. micky, no hunches, but fingers crossed. What IS pretty certain is that the place will be heaving with French kids.
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pam w, We usually go last week of Feb in previous years and hadn't found the kids a problem, fingers crossed.
FiFi_Trixibell, Flying from Gatwick and staying in Hotel Chanrossa with Ski Power, never been there before but reports suggest it will suit me and my son, what about you ?
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1550 is a lovely part of Courchevel.
There could be a lot of snow between now and when you go.
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bar shaker, That's what I like to hear
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Micky & FiFi_Trixibell - Me and the OH will be at 1650 the same week (Sun to Sun)
I've been watching the snow reports and discussing with a colleague who is far more informed than I regarding weather patterns, and we have both concluded that the snow will indeed start next week!!
By the time we get there, there will be a fair amount of the lovely white powdery stuff to enjoy.
Completely unscientific statement of course, and possibly based mainly on wishful thinking, but I have faith in the Snow Gods.
I always have the Beer and Food Gods to fall back on if it doesn't happen and quite possibly the Sun God to give me one of those lovely ski tans (ending halfway down the neck and halfway up the arms, with a touch of white for the eye sockets...)
Roll on 27th
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laundryman, doesn't say more than we already know, no new snow in the near future, warm this week and nobody really knows for next week as yet???
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| Forecast reliability : fairly good until Saturday - poor thereafter. |
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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kitenski, the possible foehn was the pièce de resistance.
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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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Nope, I refuse. I can feel the arrival of a "Dump Alert" early next week, its on its way, I can feel it....
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Had a word with Easyski today and current thought around Deux Alpes is a little snow next week and then loads over the holiday week.
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You know it makes sense.
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snowball, ooo, thanks. Just what I wanted to see for the SOPiB11 - Serre C is not that far down the road from her 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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snowball, based on local knowledge, a reliable forecast or hope and half term looming 
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Poster: A snowHead
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hope and half term looming
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yep, that'll be it.
Just before half term our national press (lead by the DM no doubt), will start showing pics of snowless slopes and disappointed kids standing on brown patches. They have even been known to ask local photographers to get pics of "no snow" - one Brit photographer I know was asked to do just that last time there was a bit of an issue. He declined.
It'll snow, of course it will, but this weather seems fairly stuck the way it is. What are the marmottes doing?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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What, Bode Swiller, "just four weeks ago this piste was snow covered and the snow went down to the valley floor. Now you have to go up 1,000m above the valley floor to ski. There's global warming.
A week ago the marmottes were hibernating/eating each other.
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current thought around Deux Alpes is a little snow next week and then loads over the holiday week.
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Marvellous. Hordes of arrogant Parisians besieging the ticket offices and demanding their money back because 'it's unskiable' and 'it's snowing'. I shall have fun telling them to bog off. 
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then she tried to delay payment of both the original deposit and the balance. So arrogant.
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We had the same with our apartment - turns out they weren't from Paris.....they were Newcastle fans....
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mountainaddict, I haven't had any problems with Newcastle fans.
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Hordes of arrogant Parisians
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Lizzard, They are not more arrogant than people from Stockholm or London,
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freeheelskier, possibly not, but I don't see the natives of Stockholm and London en masse every February, so I wouldn't know.
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FAQ
) we'll go do some hill walking 