Happy new year, Snowfiends, and welcome to the first snow report of 2013 – which comes to you drenched in January sunshine. For much of the skiing world, clear skies will be the theme of the...

If you’re heading out to the western Alps over the next ten days, don’t forget your sunscreen. After weeks of tumultuous weather, which started back in late November – conditions will get a lot...

The Alps are getting a late Christmas present today and tomorrow – in the form of drop in temperatures in and a decent dump of snow. Today, France, Switzerland and the Arlberg resorts of Austria will...

Christmas week in Courmayeur is always an interesting time of year. The 2012 version has given us a season’s worth of conditions in just a few days. From fabulous powder to pouring rain and then from...

Merry Christmas, Snowfiends! May all your holidays be long, relaxing, and thickly-strewn with good will, mince pies and the odd skiing-related present. And if you’re in the Alps at the...

In the northern and western Alps, December 2012 just keeps on giving. In many French and Swiss resorts it snowed every day at altitude from December 14 to December 19 – and the accumulations...

Blimey, Snowfiends – it’s hard to keep up with all the changes in the Alpine weather at the moment.  But the overall pattern is clear. Firstly – the frigid, wintry conditions that dominated the...

As regular followers of our snow report pages will know, the season has got off to a spectacular start in the Alps. Blizzards, bitter cold, the occasional day of miraculous, uninterrupted sunshine –...

And still it snows…Today it’s the turn of Switzerland and western Austria to get the heaviest falls, as you’ll see from our Alpine snow forecast map, above. In places, 50cm is expected. In the...

What a week! As anyone who saw yesterday’s bonus snow report will know, the north-western Alps have just been walloped by the white stuff. Over a metre has fallen in places – and there’s more to come...