Still More Snowfall in the Alps

It is snowing again successful the Alps pursuing the immense snowfalls successful France, arsenic good arsenic immoderate skis areas successful occidental and bluish Austria, Italy and Switzerland astatine the weekend.

The snowfall contiguous (Tuesday 14th March 2023) is much wide than the play falls, with galore areas further eastbound successful Italy and Switzerland arsenic good arsenic successful Austria posting bully falls down to the vale floor.

The snowfall follows a somesthesia spike yesterday which saw galore areas spot day highs of +10 to +15C connected little slopes, and is expected to conscionable past a time oregon truthful earlier drier upwind for the remainder of this week.

(Obergurgl 14.3.23)

The play snowstorm brought up to 1.5 metres (five feet) of snowfall to skis areas successful the bluish French Alps.  Avoriaz, Cervinia, La Rosiere and Tignes were among the resorts posting the biggest jumps successful their precocious slope basal depths (at slightest a metre each).  Avalanche information levels person besides risen to 3 (considerable) oregon 4 (high) connected the standard to a maximum of 5.

Tignes had the deepest precocious slope basal successful Europe, up 109cm (nearly 4 feet) compared to this clip past week.