 Poster: A snowHead
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Gulp....Two and a bit weeks until my Tignes trip and there's seemingly a rapid thaw setting in.... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes you can 
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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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Only if I can be the first to post: "OMG, there's no snow yet!*"
*at resorts below 1500m
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mountainaddict, can I just ask, what conditions were you expecting for late November? 
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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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| Ricklovesthepowder wrote: |
| mountainaddict, can I just ask, what conditions were you expecting for late November? |
Since when did the 14th count as "late" ?
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Only if you want to be roundly castigated for having unrealistic expactations.
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Never mind that, I've heard a rumour the sun's going to disappear late this afternoon. I know the "experts" say it'll be back in the morning, but can we really be sure?
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It feels quite similar to last year. Very promising Autumn snowfall, then a big thaw, followed by a 'will it or won't it' clear-skies tease leading up to the opening days.
Really high up at least is looking OK (Val T opens in 10 days, looks like full cover, although not especially deep), Tignes Le Lac is starting to look scrappy, but over in Val Claret they seem to be keeping Double M open...
It's definitely disappointing to watch it all deteriorating, given that I put in my first ski turns at about 1500m altitude in October! That same spot (and for hundreds of metres higher up) is now just damp grass.
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Its like the worst flirt ever - flash some leg (snow) then run off! 
Not all lost though, looked at the forecast for the next 2 weeks, there is some snow forecast for the 24th and 27th.
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| Not all lost though, looked at the forecast for the next 2 weeks, there is some snow forecast for the 24th and 27th. |
Kelv1n: Which forecast do you use for longer range? I usually go for Accuweather for a valley town like Moutiers.
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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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mountainaddict, The only forecast worth listening to is right here on the weather outlook thread...
Love those pictures
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Ricklovesthepowder, or any other snowhead, is there any way to get updated when the BBC update that forecast at all?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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getting really worried now, will there be snow on 25th january ?
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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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rob@rar, Oh yeah, last year turned out nice didn't it. However, I remember an almost entirely snowless Feb and March though (and then a last minute April topup where I found the best on-piste snow of the entire winter, because it was just the fresh natural stuff, not all mixed up with bet-hedging manmade as it was earlier in the season).
So anyway were it not for that freak December period, it could have been a right disaster.
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ribblevalleyblue, nope. May as well cancel.
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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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| Mr Piehole wrote: |
| rob@rar, Oh yeah, last year turned out nice didn't it. However, I remember an almost entirely snowless Feb and March though |
Yeah, although I was in Japan in February so didn't really care
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red 27 Cheers re. the pics!
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Depends where you're looking I suppose.....Montgenevre have just announced that they're opening this coming weekend, 2 week early, due to the great conditions!!
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The season is over, glad I got a ski in last weekend. Looking forward to 2013/2014.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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waynos, 
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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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Phew, glad I haven't spent much on new kit this season as I obviously won't need it....
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You know it makes sense.
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mountainaddict, sweet, where was that?
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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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I didn't mean 'there wasn't any snow on the ground'. I mean 'not much snow fell out of the sky'.
Well done you.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| I didn't mean 'there wasn't any snow on the ground'. I mean 'not much snow fell out of the sky' |
I know - but , fortunately, quite a lot fell out of the sky the day before our Austrian ski tour  . I was simply attempting to be slightly humourous by responding in like fashion to two points made earlier:
1. That I was initially highlighting warm weather and melting snow in Tignes.
2. That, in response, someone mentioned that Montgenevre is great at the moment - so it just depends where you look.
It was no trouble. Really. Cheers.
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| Sweet, where was that? |
The Silvretta area of Austria - on the border with Switzerland. We started a 5 day ski tour in Ischgl.
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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 snow looked amazing as I flew over the Alps on the way back from Istanbul yesterday. A beautiful view of the Chiemsee too.
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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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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| The snow looked amazing as I flew over the Alps on the way back from Istanbul yesterday. A beautiful view of the Chiemsee too. |
Oh yah, looking good too from the porthole of the ISS I must say.
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FAQ
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Early Doors Bash to Tignes on the same date was arranged with just skiing the glacier in mind? Hmmm....
It was a nervous moment in the last week of November and the first week of December. But then it started to snow and didn't really stop until Christmas. I've never seen so much snow at the beginning of a season. This was on 18 December:
