Tag - Snow Report

It’s been a week to remember in the Alps. As you probably know already, the southern half of the French Alps were walloped by a mighty storm on Sunday and Monday, and Serre Chevalier notched up 120cm...

The forecast was spot on. The snow came yesterday and it’s been falling heavily across the Alps ever since. I’m writing this on Monday afternoon and in places the accumulations are now significant...

At last! The big freeze has reached the Alps. Temperatures have dropped through the floor, and across the northern half of the region there’s been fresh snow, too. It’s not what you’d call a dump –...

As anyone who saw last Thursday’s snow report will know, winter is on its way back to the Alps. It’s taking longer than we first thought for the really frigid air to reach the mountains: but...

Winter is about to make a comeback. It may be hard to believe right now, whether you’re in the Alps or back home in Blighty: but come Monday we’ll all have our bobble hats back on. We can thank a...

After a month of gloriously wintry weather, it looks as though spring has now sprung in the Alps. Today, the weather is mild and sunny, and at village level the temperatures are going to be balmy:...

The weather’s pretty quiet in the Alps right now – mostly sunny, mostly dry, cool but not cold. So today we thought we’d fire ourselves up with some Rocky-Mountain powder porn instead. As...

Now it’s Italy turn. There’s been moderate to heavy snowfall across the eastern half of the Italian Alps since Saturday, and many resorts have clocked up 25-35cm of the white stuff as a result...

Let’s hope everyone’s wrapped up warm today – because it’s just got a lot colder in the Alps. A big lump of cold air has drifted in from the east, and the top temperature today in Tignes isn’t...

Anybody who’s taken their family skiing in the Alps this week should be feeling pretty smug today. The sun’s out. The snow is soft and deep. Temperatures are low, but not frigid. You couldn’t...