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Hi everyone. I have literally no clue when it comes to these charts. Do any of you know what the snow is currently like (and likely to be like) in Serre Chevalier the week of half term? Appreciate that may be like asking to predict the future!
Current forecasts say quite a few days of snow next week but not sure how much in reality .
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Raining and between 3-8 degrees driving up from Geneva to Meribel this evening.
Turned to heavy snow on the road up to resort. Temps -0.5 at 1450m on the car and 5-10cm fresh so far and coming down hard!!
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@Travelmum, let me look in my crystal ball, are you serious asking what will happen next month
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Well in fairness we can at least say that there will be fresh snow now, I think its prob got a reasonable amount in the recent retour d'ouest type storms and in that sense there should be a reasonable amount of snow on the ground at half term
As per actual conditions they would depend on temps and more recent snowfall in the days leading into and during half term so you'll have to wait till about 3 days prior to your trip for that
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https://wepowder.com/en/weblog/2026/01/24/pa5-snow-midweek-with-a-teaser-this-weekend
Good news all round (with powder caveats in brackets, each including avalanche risk complications). Much needed snow for the Dolomites (no base yet). Lots of snow for Pyrennees (with occasional rising snow line). Some snow sneaking over to the Northern Alps (not enough for proper off piste). Snow for France (also with rising snow line) and the Piedemont (cold but maybe smaller amounts than France and the Dolomites).
A lot to mull over if trying to optimise an off piste trip but a useful headline would be more snow for quite a lot of the Alps!
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Nice top up in 3V overnight, about 5-10cm or so.
Interesting wepowder forecast for Tues/wed but I’m still not convinced NW French Alps gets anything significant, maybe 10-20cm. The flow is looking too SW and it appears some of them more northerly/inner valley locations may suffer from that.
Perhaps more of a W/NW flow later in the week.
Or maybe I’m completely wrong on this, polo sees much more bullish.
SW Alps however will continue to hit the jackpot, they’re having an unbelievable season so far. It seems that we have been in this flow for weeks upon weeks.
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Define SW Alps please
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Define SW Alps please
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@battlecat, in this case it's roughly south of a line between Grenoble and Turin that's been doing well for snow.
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Any hope for sunny weather for Mont Blanc area? Going on Monday through to end of week and a bit worried it’s just going to be a whiteout for the whole trip 
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| Any hope for sunny weather for Mont Blanc area? Going on Monday through to end of week and a bit worried it’s just going to be a whiteout for the whole trip |
'Fraid it's not looking good @londonskiing. Chamonix forecast is the same as the UK - murky & grey for the next 2 weeks, with rain in the valley. (I've been wanting to get up the Scottish ski areas, which seem to be permanently in fog... )
You'll have to find some trees for visibility. It'll still be better than not skiing and at least you'll get some fresh snow at altitude 
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You know it makes sense.
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
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| Any hope for sunny weather for Mont Blanc area? Going on Monday through to end of week and a bit worried it’s just going to be a whiteout for the whole trip |
'Fraid it's not looking good @londonskiing. Chamonix forecast is the same as the UK - murky & grey for the next 2 weeks, with rain in the valley. (I've been wanting to get up the Scottish ski areas, which seem to be permanently in fog... )
You'll have to find some trees for visibility. It'll still be better than not skiing and at least you'll get some fresh snow at altitude
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Figured. It looks to be better at the end of the week for my resort with some sunny interludes. I guess just as long as it isn’t misty and visibility is fine… better than no snow at all though!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I'm keeping the faith for my trip next week. Enough time for some sun to appear on the forecast... Hopefully!
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Poster: A snowHead
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It has been puking snow down all day today in campiglio. Knee high fresh snow on the piste first thing and it is only just starting to stop
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I’m in the Monterosa (Alagna/Gressoney). 25-35cm new snow last night and reasonably good viz today…..it was a good day. But still too many rocks lurking just below the surface. It was snowing lightly late-afternoon at the top but not enough to make a difference. And forecast says sun tomorrow. Hoping that the 10-20 cm forecast for Tuesday night shows up.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Do any of you know what the snow is likely to be like in Serre Chevalier the week of half term? |
Yes! Mystic Mountainaddict can exclusively reveal that the snow will be...white and....cold 
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Its snowing a bit in Denver.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thinking of headed to Champoluc a week from tomorrow for a few midweek days. Do you think there will be any off piste available?
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I’m in the Monterosa (Alagna/Gressoney).
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See to have agreement now on the tuesday/Wednesday snow event.
Should be 50cm+ widely for the SW Alps above 2000m, lets says Ercins South.
French Alps should widely receive 10-20cm with 30cm at 2000m+ the further south and west, the better. Some more inner valleys probably a bit more sheltered, eg Espace Killy but still getting 10cm with 20cm up high.
And then for the southern ridge, Lombardy along the dolomites should receive another dump, widely 20cm+
Lower amounts for the northern Austrian ridge but still a decent freshen up, perhaps 5-10cm.
Enjoy everyone!
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| Astontech wrote: |
See to have agreement now on the tuesday/Wednesday snow event.
Should be 50cm+ widely for the SW Alps above 2000m, lets says Ercins South.
French Alps should widely receive 10-20cm with 30cm at 2000m+ the further south and west, the better. Some more inner valleys probably a bit more sheltered, eg Espace Killy but still getting 10cm with 20cm up high.
And then for the southern ridge, Lombardy along the dolomites should receive another dump, widely 20cm+
Lower amounts for the northern Austrian ridge but still a decent freshen up, perhaps 5-10cm.
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When you say Austrian ridge would you include Ischgl in that? Off there on Saturday and lots of the forecast sites seem to differ quite markedly in their predictions?
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Morning everyone. Any update for Sainte Foy?
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Morning everyone. Any update for Sainte Foy?
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See above  - French Alps should widely receive 10-20cm with 30cm at 2000m+ the further south and west, the better. Some more inner valleys probably a bit more sheltered, eg Espace Killy but still getting 10cm with 20cm up high.
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| Reezo wrote: |
| Astontech wrote: |
See to have agreement now on the tuesday/Wednesday snow event.
Should be 50cm+ widely for the SW Alps above 2000m, lets says Ercins South.
French Alps should widely receive 10-20cm with 30cm at 2000m+ the further south and west, the better. Some more inner valleys probably a bit more sheltered, eg Espace Killy but still getting 10cm with 20cm up high.
And then for the southern ridge, Lombardy along the dolomites should receive another dump, widely 20cm+
Lower amounts for the northern Austrian ridge but still a decent freshen up, perhaps 5-10cm.
Enjoy everyone! |
When you say Austrian ridge would you include Ischgl in that? Off there on Saturday and lots of the forecast sites seem to differ quite markedly in their predictions? |
yea Ischgl probs a good 10cm or so
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Does anyone know if there may be snow in Norway in the next couple of weeks? I'm heading to Myrkdalen
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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This could be the most random question ever but that rather large storm causing havoc in the US... could it make its way in some shape or form over to Europe?
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You know it makes sense.
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| skiandgolfnut wrote: |
| Thinking of headed to Champoluc a week from tomorrow for a few midweek days. Do you think there will be any off piste available? |
Yes. I haven’t been over to the Champoluc side yet. Been staying in Gressoney+Alagna valleys. The main routes down from the Punta Indren are in OK shape. Some rocks and ice. The area needs another 50cm to really open everything up. Hoping for 20-30cm Tuesday night/Wed morning. And I see another storm in the forecast for early need week. That should be sufficient. But it’s pretty good now.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| ster wrote: |
| Its snowing a bit in Denver. |
Denver area is still looking poor, with less than 50% of runs open in Keystone, Breckenridge, Vail & Beaver Creek. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Bergmeister, was meaning in the stadium during the AFC game last night
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Looking ahead after this system tonight/tomorrow there may be opportunity to pick up a few cm here and there over the coming 5 days or so from a showery NW regime but it will be very localised.
It then appears like there will be more of the same, a SW flow effecting the Pyrenees and SW Alps with more storm systems. This seems to be an endless cycle at the moment.
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Reading through picking up the general consensus is it's becoming more mild if the trends continue.
Was hoping for a chilly February half term trip, looks like it'll be four warm ones on the trot.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@James77, which part of the world?
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@Weathercam, As much as I enjoy a bit of summer in a glass I can't imagine drinking lady petrol when snow is coming down.
Watching here as in Val D next week.
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nice! SC definitely in the sweet spot. Bone dry here still in 3V. Would be happy if we can squeeze 10cm by EOD tomorrow.
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Rain mainly in Les Gets since 5pm. Not heavy. No idea if snow up higher or not or whether it will turn to snow. Tomorrow will be interesting
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@Weathercam,
Where’s the bottle gone ? Did you drink it ?!
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