Live from the Valais, I can tell you that alarm 8 was actually very nice. Three days of powder and, surprisingly, three days of sunshine later, we've now got Alert Nine, which is valid until Monday, when Alert 10 should appear. Ullr has taken pity on the starving south and is now sending snow to areas of the Alps that haven't had any snow yet. The problem is that our god of winter and skiing is sending it all with a high snow line and wind. In addition, the snowpack foundation is really bad there, so that even the fresh snow is only of limited enjoyment. In the north, the foehn storm is transporting our painstakingly collected snow from alert 8 and is again causing a poor snowpack build-up.
Where is it snowing:
This alert applies to the French Maritime Alps up to the Hautes Alpes and the Southern Alps from Ticino to Slovenia. The snow line will be quite high in the Prealps and Maritime Alps, exceeding 1500m in places, but in inner-Alpine Ticino, for example, it may drop as low as the valleys. So it is difficult. In general, it is significantly lower than 1500m in valleys in the Alps.
The amounts:
Should be between 30 and 50cm in the Maritime Alps and in the regions of the Southern Alps with less precipitation and around 50-60cm and occasionally up to 80cm in the south-western valleys from the Adamello region, parts of the Dolomites to Slovenia. Fresh snow until Monday west:
Fresh snow until Monday east:
Where should I go?
I would only look at it and not go there, because there is hardly any base, there is a lot of wind and the footing is poor. If it snows again in the south soon, you could consider going on a powder pilgrimage south, but now it's only for locals. Everyone else should rather leave in Alarm 10, which should arrive on Monday. Powder to the (local) people!
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