It's good news for the glaciers...

Conditions in the high Alps have improved significantly, thanks to last week's snow.

Up to half a metre is expected in the eastern Alps

Half a metre could fall on some of the higher peaks in Austria.

More snow has fallen in the high Alps, although the glaciers could do with more.

Here’s a welcome sight: fresh snow on the Alpine glaciers. Austria has had the best of it – and in particular the Hintertux glacier, at the far end of the Zillertal. This is how it looked just below...

After a record-breaking summer, temperatures are set to drop to autumnal levels this week.

The Snowy Mountains of south-eastern Australia have had another dump.

Our latest Snow Report looks back at a sensational week in the Andes, and heaves a sigh of relief now the weather's cooled off in the Alps.

Some South American ski resorts have just been walloped by two metres of the white stuff. Our latest Snow Report has details.