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Snow Falling At Altitude Across the Northern Alps

By Sean Newsom | on January 30, 2017 | 2 Comments
Snow Report

After two weeks dominated by high pressure, the weather in the Alps is becoming more active. Snow is expected on several days this week, although it will be raining at lower elevations.

Forecasts for the end of the week vary, but there could be heavy snow in the central and the southern-western Alps on Friday and Saturday.

It’s already snowing across the northern Alps

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Snow falling in Ischgl, Austria this afternoon. Photo: ischgl.com

As I write this, on Monday afternoon, the snow is already falling at altitude in many resorts across France, Switzerland and western Austria. Unfortunately, it’s come in on a blast of mild air, and below about 2000m there’s likely to be rain – which is bad news for the lower resorts near Geneva.

Higher up, however, above the 2000m mark, we can expect 15-30cm of snow in some resorts – including Chamonix in France, Verbier, Engelberg and Laax in Switzerland, and Lech-Zurs in the Austrian Arlberg. Elsewhere across the northern Alps, 5-15cm is likely – at altitude, at least.

Here’s tomorrow’s snow forecast.

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Welove2ski’s snow forecast for January 31.

Skies are likely to clear on Wednesday, before the snow returns on Friday, along with slightly lower temperatures. The exact shape of that next weather front is still uncertain, but some forecasts are predicting moderate to heavy falls across many Italian resorts. We’ll need to wait a couple more days to be sure of that.

In the meantime, here’s a quick squizz at the webcams, starting with Serre Chevalier in France, which had about 5cm of snow at the end of last week – part of a storm that touched the south-western corner of the Alps. Resorts such as Limone and Sauze d’Oulx also had snow from the same weather system.

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Photo: serre-chevalier.com

Pictured below in the Brevent sector of Chamonix, with the clouds down already and the snow falling. The next couple of days here will be both murky and windy, as they will across much of the northern Alps.

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Photo: montblancnaturalresort.com

Here’s how it’s looking this afternoon above Wengen in the Jungfrau.

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Photo: jungfrau.ch

And this is Lech in the Arlberg, which shares its ski area with St Anton.

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Photo: lechzuers.com

 

 

Meanwhile, in North America…

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Lake Louise in Canada, which has 11cm of new snow today. Photo: skilouise.com

There’s been some snow across the Canadian Rockies overnight – but for the most part the weather in the western resorts of North American is dry, sunny, and almost mild for the time of year.

That’s quite a change from the extraordinary storms that have pummelled parts of the region since New Year. More snow is on the way. California should see another dump on Wednesday-Saturday, which could bring 30-45cm of snow to some resorts. Wyoming should see snow over the same period, and Utah and Colorado will get light to moderate snow on Friday/Saturday. However, we’re unlikely to anything to match mind-boggling accummulations of recent weeks.

Here’s a little reminder of how it’s been, courtesy of Powder Magazine in Jackson Hole last week.

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Sean Newsom

As well as founding Welove2ski in June 2007, Sean has written about skiing and snowboarding in the British press for 28 years. For the last 20 of them, he’s also been the ski travel editor at The Sunday Times.

2 Responses to “Snow Falling At Altitude Across the Northern Alps”

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    January 30, 2017

    Tanya Reply

    Some advice please Sean! Going skiing on the 4th of March and really wanted to go to Ortesei because I’ve never been to the Dolomites. It hasn’t snowed since December!! Should I shelve my plan and go back to Lech where I’ve been lots of times-including this Christmas when the snow was awful but is now amazing!? Love your website!
    Regards, Tanya

  2. Sean Newsom

    January 31, 2017

    Sean Newsom Reply

    Hi Tanya! I’d wait one at least more week before you make your decision, because it looks as though the Dolomites will finally get their snow over the weekend. There may be some more to follow next week: though this is not yet certain. Even so, I reckon the pistes will still consist largely of man-made snow: but that’s no great hardship in the Dolomites – the best pistes, up around Canazei, were almost as good as “natural snow” pistes when I skied them a couple of weeks ago.

    Sean.

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