Snow Reports for the 2010/2011 ski season

Snow Reports for the 2010/2011 ski season

As ski resorts across France struggle to stay open until the end of the season due to lack of snow and unseasonably high temperatures, resorts across America are recording record snow falls and planning to stay operational until June.

The 2010/2011 ski season started off with much promise right across Europe. November saw unusually cold weather with significant snow falls across many parts of the Alps, including the Three Valleys ski resort of Courchevel and into the UK. Record low temperatures were recorded in Wales and there were many severe weather warnings. The cold front moved out from Siberia and brought snow storms to the Alps by the end of November and at the start of December the UK was paralysed by heavy snow falls and it was the coldest winter on record in the UK for over 100 years.

Heavy snow fell right across Switzerland, Austria, Italy and France through out December, causing much disruption to the roads and airports with Geneva airport being shut on more than one occasion. Right across France road traffic was disrupted.

Unfortunately the New Year brought little by way of further snow and days and weeks of sunny weather and blue skies, meant ski resorts started to suffer with hard packed snow and icey conditions. There were the odd few centimetres of snow every now and then but nothing very significant for the French Alps.

However, on the other side of the ocean, America saw heavier snow falls than average and lower temperatures. Squaw Valley announced it would be staying open until the end of May due to the highest accumulation of snow on record (over seventeen metres) and many other resorts across America are experiencing late season snow falls and great conditions.

Back in Europe, France especially, temperatures of well over 20 degrees in the sun and even 7 or 8 degrees at well over 2000 metres saw the snow melt quickly and piste conditions turned to rocky and patchy. France has been experiencing spring conditions since the end of February, with many pistes closed a month before the end of the season. Courchevel ski resort officially closes on the 25th April 2011, but the pistes will struggle to last that long and already the mountains are greening up and it looks more like early summer than end of winter.

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