Up to 1m Of Snow Overnight in the Alps
Up to 1m Of Snow Overnight in the Alps
Published : 14-Jan-2017 12:02
There have been the biggest snowfalls of the 2016-17 ski season yet overnight in the Western Alps and the snow has kept falling in many other regions too.
Overnight snowfall totals from hundreds of ski areas including Verbier, St Anton, Chamonix and many other top resorts are in the 20-50cm bracket.
However the biggest snowfall reported as been 1m at Flaine (50cm at lower Grand Massif villages), pictured above.
Flaine has now had 1.4m of snow in the last 48 hours, nearly five feet of snow. It, along with resorts like Morzine and Villars, are amongst the ski areas that had had the least snow during the drought that ran from mid November until early January, but conditions have now been dramatically transformed at all these areas.
The timing is not good for transfer day and French resorts in particularly have been stressing that it is a legal requirement as well as a safety essential for cars to use chains ascending to the resorts.
Although the fresh snow means off piste skiing in the Alps will be possible and enjoyable for the first time in two months, the avalanche danger level is very high – level 4 - and skiing off piste is currently very dangerous.
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