optimism!

lots of snow in the Alsace, I'm sure Bruce will give us an update

actually it has been snowing here, it's still on the ground at around
1200m.

oh... in fact.. it's snowing right now again


So nexts week forecast is still warm then??

Not round here any longer. It's 3C and there's snow mixed in with the rain.
Bring back summer!

Who needs snow - it only brings tourists - but at least we get to eat :-)
--
Simon Brown, Postfach 159, CH-7031 Laax
www.hb9drv.ch

"Greg Hilton" wrote in message
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So nexts week forecast is still warm then??

David Off wrote in news:3f804b25$0$20492
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http://nightsystem.com/xax/madeleine/index.htm

Nice pics for October! Will this kind of snow hang around above 2500mish or
will it have sod all affect on the coming season?

Greg

wondering wether to come out to L'Espace Killy for opening weekend or not!

Greg Hilton wrote:
David Off wrote in news:3f804b25$0$20492
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http://nightsystem.com/xax/madeleine/index.htm


Nice pics for October! Will this kind of snow hang around above 2500mish or
will it have sod all affect on the coming season?

Greg

wondering wether to come out to L'Espace Killy for opening weekend or not!

Well the opening weekend is usually late enough to be ok. The last
couple of years I've done Courchevel on the opening weekends (the only
time I can afford to ski there to be honest) and the snow has been good.
Last year it snowed a lot in November then got hot in December which
ruined the Christmas snow, then it snowed again just in time for my
holiday in January. This seems a pretty common weather pattern but
after this summer who knows what surprised are in store.

Anyway this is the great October r.s.r.e snow debate. I don't really
think October snow is much to get excited about, it is far too early and
there are far too many warm days left in store in a normal autumn. Last
October I was basking in 20+C temperatures by the banks of the Lac
Lauvittel at 2000 meters.

Still it will help the Tignes pisteurs fill in some of the crevasses on
the Grand Motte.

On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 19:49:14 +0200, David Off
wrote:

Ian Spare wrote:

The tempaerature has dropped, it's down to 10' now, there may have
been some snow higher up but it's foggy now and I can't see more than
200m


lots of snow in the Alsace, I'm sure Bruce will give us an update

*waves*

Certainly a lot visible on the Ballon d'Alsace, as well as in the Jura
to the south, which is (the bit I can see) only about 1000m or so. No
frosts at our level yet, but it's not going to be long now. I'll be
bringing the chillis and other summer plants indoors tonight...

--
Ace (bruce dot rogers at roche dot com)
Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk
All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club.

Lech Zurs Snow

This will all probably be gone by tomorrow but it looks good at 3:15ppm
this afternoon :-)

http://www.lech-zuers.at/start.asp?c...navi=aktuelles

PG wrote:
There's optimism for you... barely into October, and they were testing
the snow cannons at Les Arcs 1600 all day yesterday. And snow forecast
down to 1000m over the weekend......

Pete
www.grasski.org

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:40:51 +0200, "Neil Swingler"
wrote:


The view coming home from work today was very winterly in Zurich with snow
down to 1000m. Forecast is for the snowfall level to rise to 2000m after
tomorrow.

Still hoping to match last years Flumserberg season start of Nov 10th.

Yeah - but a lot of it had melted by the middle of December - I
remember going up and finding it raining around then :-(

Gav

Ace wrote:

Certainly a lot visible on the Ballon d'Alsace, as well as in the Jura
to the south, which is (the bit I can see) only about 1000m or so. No
frosts at our level yet, but it's not going to be long now. I'll be
bringing the chillis and other summer plants indoors tonight...


If I'm not mistaken some of the Jura and Vosges resorts opened in early
November last year.

David

So, 18C forecast, instead we get 20cms new snow here in Laax Dorf.

Thanks for nothing :-(
--
Simon Brown, Postfach 159, CH-7031 Laax
www.hb9drv.ch

"Simon Brown" wrote in message
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17C for next Wednesday :-) Who needs snow so early?
--

On 08/10/2003 09:26, in article ,
"Simon Brown" wrote:

So, 18C forecast, instead we get 20cms new snow here in Laax Dorf.

There were cars coming into town (Neuchatel) with snow on this morning so I
guess there was snow up in Chaux de Fond and Vue des Alpes.


Thanks for nothing :-(

And on the way to the office I get a great panorama across from around
Gstaad via the pre-alpes to the Bernese Oberland all of which you can see
from here got a lot of new snow over the last few days. Not an office day:-(

Ian