A snow reporting agency issued two powder alarms for heavy snowfall in the Alps yesterday. The company, which tracks snowfall in over 2,000 ski centres in the northern hemisphere year round issues a powder alarm when a ski area reports at least 20cm (eight inches) of snow falling in 24 hours – and that usually happens between late autumn and early Spring, not in
There has been up to a foot of new snow at ski resorts in Austria and Switzerland ahead of the final weekend of the winter for more resorts in those countries and other parts of Europe. Still open ski areas in Scotland, Scandinavia and the US have also reported new snow, as have resorts in Australia where the start of the 2010 southern hemisphere ski season is only five weeks away.
Although most of the world’s top resorts have now ended their 2009–10 ski seasons, there are still several dozen ski areas in more than 10 countries which are offering skiing and boarding this May Day weekend. Many have special events on to celebrate as well as low prices and sunshine. Some even have fresh snow! Saas Fee and Zermatt both received 5cm of new snow on their glaciers in the past 24 hours. Both are open in to May, Zermatt all year round.
With another 20cm (eight inches) of snow falling on Whistler in the past few days, the resort’s snowfall tally since it opened for the season last autumn has passed 1,430 centimetres or 47 feet, surpassing the 2006/07 record of 1,416 centimetres or 46 feet, making this season officially the second snowiest on record at the famous Canadian resort.
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Most resorts in the Alps and across North America have had healthy snowfalls in the past few days. The biggest single snowfall reported was 90cm (three feet) in 24 hours at Alpine Meadows resort near Lake Tahoe in California, but most other resorts in Western North America have reported at least a foot of new snow in recent days. Beneficiaries have included Jackson Hole in Wyoming and both Squaw Valley and Mammoth mountain in California, both of which are open well in to May and possibly later.
We may be entering the last month of operations for many leading snow resorts, but the snow is still falling thickly at many ski centres in Europe and North America. Current Paralympics host Whistler is continuing its record breaking 2009–10 season with another metre of snow in the past week. It still has at least three months of the season to run, thanks to its high altitude glacier skiing.
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