Two cheers for the Alpine weather. 20cm could fall in places between Friday and Sunday morning. Our Snow Report wishes for more.

Despite snow in Austria at the weekend, high pressure looks set to dominate the Alpine weather for the next 10 days.

Temperatures are almost spring-like - though the eastern Alps should see more snow on Saturday and Sunday.

We're going to get another bout of mild and wild weather before the skies clear on Christmas Day.

Temperatures are yo-yoing about in the Alps: but there is plenty of snow at altitude.

The avalanche risk is already up to 4/5 in the French Alps - which more or less rules out off-piste skiing for now.

Generally, the early-season cover is excellent above the 1600m mark - but it will warm up this week.

More than half a metre of snow will fall in places over the next two days, and it will get colder too - for a while.

In the central and eastern Alps, there's over two metres of settled snow at altitude.

The next storm will probably be the heaviest - with over a metre of snow expected in some places in 24 hours.