Late April Snow For Most of the World’s Ski Areas
Late April Snow For Most of the World’s Ski Areas
Published : 26-Apr-2016 09:13
After a week of heavy snow in the Alps and in Western North America (detailed in our report yesterday), with snowfall, unusually for this far in to spring, reaching right down to the valley floor, more of the world's ski regions are reporting significant snowfall too, with the start of May less than a week away.
The latest snow reports this morning include snowfall for Bulgaria, Scandinavia and Scotland, where again snow is falling down to the valleys for the first time since January.
(Hemsedal in Norway, above, which is still open, reported 10cm of snow overnight)
Most of the world's ski areas, including many summer glacier ski areas which are in a 'between-seasons-closed period', have now ended their ski seasons so the arrival of all the snow will be seen as particularly ironic in areas that struggled to get snow cover until January or even later in the winter. Here's at J2Ski.com we ran the last of our weekly snow reports last week and we can't recall a recent season like this!
The start of the 2016 ski season in the southern hemisphere is still about 6 weeks off but there's been around a foot/30cm of snow each at Ski La Parva in Chile and at Cerro Catedral in Argentina (La Parva pictured below yesterday, the picture at the top of this report is from Cerro Catedral).
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