Heavy snowfalls return to the Alps

Ski resorts across Europe have been blessed with more heavy snow after a relatively cold, dry spell over the past few weeks. Heavy snow started falling on Sunday and it is forecast to continue until later this week with many resorts expecting over a metre of fresh snow.

According to the Ski Club of Great Britain’s daily snow reports, up to 30cm of snow has fallen in Verbier and 35cm in Zermatt. The French resorts are also fairing well with 20cm falling in the last 24 hours in Avoriaz and Tignes. Cortina in Italy has had over 30cm of snow since Sunday and Courmayeur over 40cm. Across the Alps the snow looks set to fall heavily until Wednesday night and then will restart again before the weekend.

This new snow has added to good snow bases in many resorts after one of the best starts to the season for over 25 years, and means the slopes will be in good condition for the half term holidays.

The Ski Club Rep in Val d’Isere reported the following conditions today: “Powder, powder, powder! Absolutely awesome skiing. Fresh tracks everywhere in light powder.”

In Davos the Ski Club Rep said that: “Over 30cm of snow fell overnight and today was a real powder day. There was just so much snow everywhere. All runs were unpisted so it was just delightful finding fresh tracks.”

The Ski Club of Great Britain offers the most up-to-date and accurate snow reports worldwide. Snow reports for 250 resorts are updated every weekday, and in 37 resorts where the Ski Club has reps, reports on detailed snow conditions are updated 7 days a week.

The snow reports are available on skiclub.co.uk, plus visitors to the website can view real-time webcams, weather forecasts and a twice-weekly overview of snow conditions. Also on SkiTV.co.uk is the ‘Snowcast’ – a downloadable podcast which gives a summary of snow conditions from the experts as well as all the latest snowsports news.