Snow Man

Well we've had a few snow showers, nothing really of note, nothing stuck around long enough or even long enough shwers of snow to stay around really, but you never know, maybe Saturday may yeild something for me!

According to the lates PPN charts, I should be having something, yet nothing is falling from the heavens!

I can probably write Preston off for snow? for the two years I've lived here now, no snow, this is why University should be back home!

Yea, Im going on the 12th of Jan to Alpe D'huez, its looking pretty damn good for me now, I've jsut gotta keep an eye on the avalance risk, and there are 42 of us going so we've gotta keep everybody safe, but as its looking now, we shud have some nice runs, and hopefully most of the runs will be open.

Looks like there is some heading for the Alps from the 2nd of Jan and could be around as long as 2 weeks, leading to avalanche risks, but non-the less a lot of snow that is needed!

Looks like theres some nice percip on the way for parts of the French Alps by next weekend! Hope so!

Thats a great site, thanks! I've got just over 3 weeks until I hit the slopes, thankfully Alpe D'huez has snow, but I would like it to have plenty more, c'mon winter get you butt in gear!

Thanks for the pic John! Makes me want to go right now! Alpe Dhuez is currently at -11C at 2000ish meters, (I can't remember the actual height at where the webcam is based, lol) 95cm up at 3000m 60cm lower down. More snow expected today and overnight, I hope we get no warm fronts and we keep the snow that is there, it will provide a very good base for the rest of the winter.

The French Alps finally seem to be getting somewhere now, quite a bit of snow expected over tonight and the following couple of days, I've gotta hope that it all doesnt melt away. If the pattern change that looks possible for us in the UK occurs, we may open the flood gate to some cold on the continant, that will actually stick around!

The current snow level at 1860m on Alpe Dhuez is now 20cm. With Quite a bit more due this coming Friday. Up at the top at 3300 its now pushung 90cm, Im jsut hoping its going to stick around long enough for another nice dump and really start packing this in. I just hope we don't get rain <_<

Alpe Dhuez is getting a real pasting today! It's looking good for getting some base snow down, I dont know how long it will last for, hopefully this might stick around, and not melt, be about time to get a good base really, then build on top of it, lets hope so! Update: 80cm at 3330m The webcam is situated at around 2000m and thats is a whiteout at the moment, its a pitty we're going to have to wait until the morning to get a good view of it there, although the weather could be sticking around for a few more days yet!

Some snow today up on Alpe Dhuez, not a huge lot looking at it, but at least theres a bit! lol B)

Lets Hope So!

Hi again guys, been missing for much of the day on here lol, but glad to see this threads got people talking! and thanks for all the info! John HCI means Human Computer Interaction, lol, I work with it a lot at Uni, its basically how websites (well general computer realated stuff, lol) interact with the users, how things are layed out, colour coordinated etc, some websites are really poor for this, just thought I'd let you know! Yea, Im actually going on the 15th of Jan, Im hoping that winters got in to gear and we've got some nice levels of snow compacted down and some nice fresh powder. There is supposed to be a dusting I think at some point this week, what will last of it, we'll have to see!! I don't know how many of you do ski or do board, but have you realised how many times your board gets run over by skiiers, and poked witht their sticks, lol, just thought I'd point that out after a very friendly French geezer nicely skiied straight over my nice new board and the bottom of Palafour in Le Lac last Season, nice of hime, I have a nice scratch there too this day! lol Snow Man

Yea cheers John, I have used that before, its not the best of websites for HCI, it doesnt really explain much, lol, and it makes me sad when I look at the Webcam, haha, heres hoping theres a dumping there soon!!! Cheers