0
0
Share with your friends










Submit
  • Home
  • About
  • Advertising
  • Privacy
  • Property
  • Contact
  • Sitemap

Logo

Navigation
  • Ski Resorts
  • Where to Ski
  • How to Ski
  • Snow
    • Snow Report
  • Gear
    • Ski Clothing
    • Ski Equipment
  • Family Skiing
  • Ski Holidays
  • Deals
  • Summer

Heavy Snow Kicks Off a Wintry Week in the Alps

By Sean Newsom | on November 6, 2017 | 0 Comment
Snow Report
Heavy Snow Kicks Off a Wintry Week in the Alps | Welove2ski

80cm of new snow in the Hintertux ski area this morning. Photo: Hintertuxer Gletscher/Facebook

November 2017 is off to a flying start. The Alps have just been hit by a storm which has dropped a metre of snow in places.

The 100cm of fresh snow recorded on the Stubai glacier near Innsbruck is the biggest total we’ve seen so far – and generally the Austrian end of the central Alpine ridge has had the best of it. This morning, the Hintertux reported 80cm of the white stuff from the storm, and Obergurgl 65cm.
 

 
Here’s how the Stubai looked earlier today.

Heavy Snow Kicks Off a Wintry Week in the Alps | Welove2ski

Photo: stubaier-gletscher.at

There’s been heavy snow on the Italian side of the ridge, too. Pictured below was the Buffaure ski area – near Canazei in the Italian Dolomites – early this afternoon.

Heavy Snow Kicks Off a Wintry Week in the Alps | Welove2ski

Photo: visittrentino.info

It’s been snowing in the west too, though in not quite the same quantities. In Courchevel, for example, they reported 15cm at resort level this morning.

Heavy Snow Kicks Off a Wintry Week in the Alps | Welove2ski

Photo: Courchevel/Facebook

Here’s how it looked in Val d’Isere earlier today.

Heavy Snow Kicks Off a Wintry Week in the Alps | Welove2ski

Photo: Val d’Isere/Facebook

Just as important as the size of this dump is the fact that the rest of the week is looking chilly. There’s snow in every one of our forecasts for the next four days; and after a short-lived jump tomorrow, the daytime freezing point is going to stay below the 1500m mark.

What’s more, the mid-range forecast is predicting more snow at the weekend and on Monday. Here’s the ECMWF chart for November 13, courtesy of meteociel.fr.

Heavy Snow Kicks Off a Wintry Week in the Alps | Welove2ski

meteociel.fr

Should we be getting excited? Not yet. Remember the big, early storm of November 2016? That turned into yet another dry, mild start to winter in many resorts. We’ve got nearly three weeks till the start of the mainstream ski season, and seven weeks till Christmas, and as we all know the Alpine climate can flip from cold to mild at the flick of a switch. Note, for example, all that warm hanging about over the mid-Atlantic, in the ECMWF chart above. It won’t take much to nudge it back over western Europe.

So don’t go counting those chickens just yet. Dust off the skis by all means, but wait to see if this cold spell settles in, and more storms come barrelling down from the north. If they do, an early-season dash to the Alps will be well worth considering. Provided, of course, you target a high-altitude resort.
 

 
In the meantime, the new snow will do wonders for the glacier ski areas. Currently, you can ski on the Hintertux, the Stubai, Pitztal, Kaunertal, Rettenbach, Motttal, and Kitzsteinhorn glaciers, as well as those above Saas-Fee, Zermatt, and Les Diablerets in Switzerland. In Italy skiing’s on offer in the Schnalstal and Cervinia and you can also ski above Tignes in France.

PRAY FOR SNOW.

Share this story:
  • tweet

Tags: Snow Report

Recent Posts

  • Six Reasons We Love Going to St Anton by Train

    February 1, 2023 - 0 Comment
  • 7 of the Best Wines to Sip on A Dolomites Ski Trip

    January 24, 2023 - 1 Comment
  • 5 Ways to Make Your Tirolean Ski Holiday More Sustainable

    January 23, 2023 - 0 Comment

Related Posts

  • Fresh Snow in Italy – and Lots More to Come in the North

    February 15, 2022 - 0 Comment
  • Half-Term Snow in Both the Southern and Northern Alps

    February 11, 2022 - 2 Comments
  • Here Comes Another Snowstorm

    February 5, 2022 - 0 Comment

Author Description

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.

No Responses to “Heavy Snow Kicks Off a Wintry Week in the Alps”

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Free Updates

Join 16,000 clever people who get the latest Welove2ski content delivered to their inbox

RSSSubscribe 15201 Followers 10135 Fans

The Loveometer

Zermatt: Cool Chalets, Certain Snow and The Majestic Matterhorn
100 %
Tweenager Tips: How to Enjoy Ski Holidays with Older Kids
98 %
How to Go Green On Your Ski Holiday
98 %
St Anton, Austria: Wild Nights, Steep Pistes and Challenging Backcountry
97 %
Weird and Wonderful Ski Fads and Fashions
94 %
  • Home
  • About
  • Advertising
  • Privacy
  • Property
  • Contact
  • Sitemap
© 2020. All Rights Reserved. Created with love by WL2S