More Ski Areas Open in Alps as Weather Turns Warmer
Sunday, 7th December:
Some areas are opening early and some are sticking to their scheduled opening day.
Resorts across Les3Vallees & the Portes du Soleil in France opened at the weekend as did the resorts of The Arlberg in Austria.
Resorts in the huge linked Italian ski area of Dolomiti Superski also opened at the weekend.
Hundreds of ski areas are now open across the Alps.
The weather has warmed up with a further rise in temperatures forecast, but some ski areas in the north western Alps have seen one of the best starts to a recent in recent memory.
In Val d’Isere in France at the weekend cloudy weather returned, but there is still plenty of snow at resort level at 1,850m.
Val d’Isere. France. Image c/o Helen Gillespie/PlanetSKI.
Val d’Isere. France. Image c/o Helen Gillespie/PlanetSKI.
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In Les3Vallees the resorts of Les Menuires, St Martin de Belleville, Meribel and Courchevel opened.
They join Val Thorens that opened a couple of weeks ago with PlanetSKI in resort:
Some areas in France, like Avoriaz, Flaine, and the Mont Blanc range saw their snowiest late-November in more than two decades.
However, it is not bumper conditions everywhere in the Alps with some areas having below average snow depths.
This week there is no significant snow in the forecast and it will be dry and very mild with freezing levels often above 3,000m.
“This warmer weather means that snow conditions will take a hit over the coming days,” said Fraser Wilkin from weathertoski.co.uk on Sunday 7th December.
“On the positive side, the lower ski resorts of the north-western Alps (e.g. Portes du Soleil) have a lot of early snow meaning that, while conditions will deteriorate, it won’t all suddenly disappear, like it has done very early in the season in previous years.”
We will be updating this article on Monday with news from the Pyrenees and Scandinavia.
We have just posted a new and updated article on conditions in North America where some very welcome snow is falling with some resorts finally able to open after a delayed start to the season.
Do check back…
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