eleventh February 2024
The half-term week has begun with some welcome contemporary snow within the Alps & The Pyrenees. We additionally report on circumstances throughout the Pond. NEW
As much as 30cm has fallen in some components and could be very welcome after a dry spell of round three weeks.
See right here for our final report on circumstances as we forecast the change within the climate:
It’s not fairly as a lot as was hoped for because the storm approached from the south-west.
The south-west Alps have seen the most effective of the snow, although some has fallen within the north-west too.
Certainly one of our common readers, Valais Dude, is again in Switzerland.
A time of turbulent climate within the #4Vallees of Valais. Temperatures and snow line going up and down. A few colder days are actually in prospect pic.twitter.com/WeRAbrenp5
— Valais Dude (@ValaisDude) February 11, 2024
We may have a full report as soon as the storm has handed.
It’s trying good within the Pyrenees too after a lean spell.
In North America there stays some blended circumstances.
In components of the USA heavy snow remains to be falling in California, Utah and Colorado.
“Sturdy wind over the previous few days, together with heavy dense snowfall, has created very harmful avalanche circumstances,” mentioned an announcement from the Utah Avalanche Centre on the weekend.
There are some respectable circumstances in Jackson Gap in Wyoming.
In Canada the poor winter continues.
The snowpack in British Columbia is nearly 40% decrease than common.
The province’s newest snow bulletin says ranges stay “very low” at 61% of regular, in comparison with 79 % of regular this time final yr.
The bulletin exhibits the snowpack is particularly sparse throughout the South Coast, starting from 30 per cent of regular on Vancouver Island to 47% within the Decrease Fraser area.
The Stikine area in northwestern BC has the very best snowpack within the province at 90% of the common.
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