Significant Post-Easter Snowfall in Alps and Rockies
Significant Post-Easter Snowfall in Alps and Rockies
Published : 07-Apr-2015 06:25
Although increasing numbers of ski areas are calling it a day on the 2014-15 ski season, heavy snow is still falling in parts of the Alps and the Rockies.
Snow has been reported at many areas in the Alps since Easter Sunday and it is still snowing in the Eastern Alps where several Austrian resorts have seen constant snowfall for the last 24 hours (Zell am See pictured yesterday above).
In many cases it is the last week of the season in the country and the temperatures are expected to rocket up to double figures by the weekend, but in the meantime there are 'mid winter' conditions.
Across the Atlantic up to 20cm of snow has been reported across the US at ski areas from Vermont through Colorado even to Squaw Valley in California where most resorts closed early for the season last month after the terrible winter for snowfall there.
North of the border the biggest snowfall reported was at sunshine near Banff in Canada with 38cm in 24 hours to Easter Monday, there's still more than a month of the season to go there.
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