Snow for the Euros.

[p.blz]

I'm currently in Cham and there has been three nice powder days in a row here....thigh deep and very light on the Grands Montets yesterday. Git some before it gets warm again.

[Ripzalot]

a fantastic weekend at villars. knee deep offpiste, shin deep ON piste. i love it when they don't run the groomers.

[subtle plague]

pic will chnage only on 13.04.05 it looks awesome.
ill check the rela weather maps but it seesm ill HAVE to go to engelberg.
but there aint no good storm skiing..

[ulty_guy]

just back from kaprun, austria. there was a lot of snow, but it was heavy to say the least. all in all, ya can't complain when you're skiing knee deep in april.

[verbier61]

pic will chnage only on 13.04.05 it looks awesome.
ill check the rela weather maps but it seesm ill HAVE to go to engelberg.
but there aint no good storm skiing..

looks like pratonevoso (SW alps, the ski resort closer to genoa - I mean genoa, not geneva ) will open again cuz they've been dumped like and more is comin'

[subtle plague]

hmm the überpic is gone already.
the was a RED dot next to engelberg.
and i checked the real maps. still very indifferent.
some models make the snow apocalypse above 1500m (lower in the furthest west) some don't.
It WILL snow a lot. but it is not yet certain whether it will be 50 or 150cm and how low the snow leves will go.

[Ripzalot]

hmm the überpic is gone already.
the was a RED dot next to engelberg.
and i checked the real maps. still very indifferent.
some models make the snow apocalypse above 1500m (lower in the furthest west) some don't.
It WILL snow a lot. but it is not yet certain whether it will be 50 or 150cm and how low the snow leves will go.

i saw some red as well earlier. but don't get excited about specifics like that. these maps are general - you can only assume that something within the color bands will get the forecasted amount, not everything.

i also notice that the forecast gets overly optimistic the warmer it gets. this may be why last season it always seemed to be over-forecasting consistently, while this winter (late jan to mid march) it was spot on.

the so. french alps will get hammered - but what is still open? (and semi-close to me in lausanne?)

[Lostinthetrees]

hmm ...
some models make the snow apocalypse above 1500m (lower in the furthest west) some don't.
It WILL snow a lot. but it is not yet certain whether it will be 50 or 150cm and how low the snow leves will go.

MeteoSuisse forecast snow levels (Vaud/Valais) down to 800m this weekend.
It should be low, but wet/high moisture content. Get HIGH, for blower! (no kidding!)

Ski it quickly, though. The temps are forecasted to pop back up by mid-week.
Moisture predicted all week-long, but snow levels will rise, too.

At last, this is the time Super St Bernard should be open, but they closed last wkend.

[Lostinthetrees]

Checked out new forecasts:
Snow levels down to 16 - 1700m in Valais.
Warmer north and cooler south.
Today; the Sno4Cast 3 Day shows the storm may be 12hrs+ later than expected in the Alpes Vaudoises.
But, they upwardly revised the snow amounts to fall over the 3 day in the Vaudoise.
Looks better for Sunday at G3...if winds stay reasonable.

Overall an unsettled picture in CH, but the French/Italian Alpes to be hammered.

[subtle plague]

La grave !!!!!!!
La Grave !!!!!!!
generally the south will be nuked.
right now it is snowing in southern france down to 700m (but i guess this is more at the pyrenean side where most of the cold comes down.)

[vertigo]

La grave !!!!!!!
La Grave !!!!!!!
generally the south will be nuked.
right now it is snowing in southern france down to 700m (but i guess this is more at the pyrenean side where most of the cold comes down.)

i've been in the alps the last 4 weeks and just as it seems the snow is finally f****ed a little bit more comes along, but this looks like it's going to be a proper big dump! i'm off to la grave on sunday until the snow runs out if any maggots are about and fancy meeting up

[Arno]

i've been in the alps the last 4 weeks and just as it seems the snow is finally f****ed a little bit more comes along, but this looks like it's going to be a proper big dump! i'm off to la grave on sunday until the snow runs out if any maggots are about and fancy meeting up

I'm out in Alpe d'Huez for 23/24 - may head over to La Grave one day if it looks good. Maybe post an update on conditions nearer the time?

[TeleAl]

Friday 15 April 2005 13h15
Location = Leysin
Altitude = 1264m.

Nothing happening here.
To the south, according to radar image, it looks like something is going on.

[subtle plague]

la grave 50cm and counting.
gondola closed. it will dump another 50cm (at least) until monday morning.

But also zermatt and Saas Fee are being dumped upon. I saw Red and violet Radar dots located right above them at 1pm today

the weather will stay rather cool the whole week. damn if 4 days weren't such a short time id come down to france or zermatt.
but the north will get something too on tues/wed.

[TeleAl]

Saturday 16 April 2005 18h00
Location = Leysin 1264m.
Fog all day, no real precipatation.
Seems we are on the line/limit of the storm.

Good to hear La Grave is getting dumped on.
Saas Fee, Zermatt also getting some according to web cams and radar, and splague.
Verbier?
Cham?
Colorful all in those areas. Any info welcome.
(Not that I am going skiing, but what the hell, good to know where it is.)

[vertigo]

In val d'isere at the moment, got completely dumped on last night. was thigh deep and more in places today. most of the mountain was closed off, including the connection to tignes. should be incredible when it all opens up.
off to la grave in a couple of days, so will let you know how conditions are there

[Lostinthetrees]

Weather-persons really got this one wrong...but, I am not complaining.

Snow down to the northern shore of Lac Leman (~330m).
3 - 4cm at 11PM, Saturday night. Crazy!

[Ripzalot]

and much more a-comin'.......

[TeleAl]

Sunday 17 April 2005 @ 11h00
Location = Leysin 1264m.

About a foot/30cm outside the door, and snowing.
Sat image shows this storm basically blew past,
dumping all the way, and returned to do it again from other direction.
Very nice.

[Lostinthetrees]

Sunday afternoon, April 17th - near Geneve.
At a park about 200m from the shores of lac Leman. Snow fell all day.



Unfortunately, G3 closed.
The high terrain at Verbier was closed due to low clouds/fog and snowfall.

...if you could get up the "hill". (Ripz, your SMS on Sunday was short on facts, so I thought you meant chains were required in Valle de Bagnes, not Lausanne!!!)

Monday; plenty of clouds/fog, some new snow, and the heavy snowfall amounts from weekend keep G3 shut-down again.

Trend to continue thru Weds.

[Ripzalot]

Ripzalot said they were only allowing cars w/ chains to head up the Vallee de Bagnes.

huh? where did u get that? i said i couldn't get from my house (lakeside) up to the highway above lausanne without chains. i never made it to the highway.

[TeleAl]

Litt, Ripz, WTF?

Let Albert Einstein figure it out for you both, but go skiing already!!!


Sit back relax and chill all the way there and back.
(where's the exhale-emotion-icon?)
Trains run every hour to Le Chable, where the lift takes you up to Verbier.
(where's the triple exhale-emotion-icon?)


Monday 18 April 2005 09h00
Leysin 1264m
Storm seems to have stopped, sometime early last night.
Clouds lingering at about 1600m.
Lots of snow outside door.

And it looks like the French Alps are getting hammered by the next storm already.
La Grave data welcome.

[Ripzalot]

Litt, Ripz, WTF?

Sit back relax and chill all the way there and back.
(where's the exhale-emotion-icon?)
Trains run every hour to Le Chable, where the lift takes you up to Verbier.
(where's the triple exhale-emotion-icon?)

train takes twice as long and costs 3x as much as driving. there was no viz on sunday so no matter. i didn't miss anything. if i had paid 63chfs for a train and wasted 4 hours there and back i would have been pissed.

haarmp.

[TeleAl]

Tuesday 19 April 2005 10h00
Leysin 1264m.

Was snowing earlier this morning.
Has turned now, but snowing higher up, only a few hundred meters higher.

This seems to be the tail end of the 2nd storm, from the sat image.

How did La Grave do?
Seems they were hit with the front/brunt of this 2nd storm.

[Ripzalot]

How did La Grave do?
Seems they were hit with the front/brunt of this 2nd storm.

i got a pm from vertigo a couple days ago and he said something about 50cms. but that was a couple days ago.

the radar activity just doesnt' want to stop. yellow/reds over graubunden, another big blob over the italian side, and now some bands are approaching from the west. it's nutz i tell ya!