LATEST SNOW OVERVIEWSpring has arrived for much of North America, with the western Canadian resorts as well as those further south in the American Rockies and California seeing mild weather and mostly sunny skies, with only light cloud and minimal precipitation. The exception to this was the East Coast resorts in the United States, which were in line for some stormy conditions providing good amounts of fresh snow. There has been a real mix of conditions across Europe over the past few days... | |
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Snow Depths Reach 6m On Two Continents, 5m on ThirdIn recent years the deepest depths have struggled to reach 4m or 5m at times. 2017-18 is seeing more uniformity across the three northern hemisphere continents. Depths in Europe passed the 6m (20 feet) mark at several Swiss ski areas in January – very unusually deep bases... | |
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Impressive Snow Depths in Sierra at TahoeNorthern California resorts are not far behind European resorts in terms of snow depths this season. Sierra at Tahoe is typical and it already reports an impressive 478cm (188 inches) of snow on the highest slopes. Although freezing levels are fairly high for the next few days, another storm system is forecast to deliver colder temperatures and the next big dump of snow from Monday night through to Thursday. Conditions will become excellent at all elevations once winds fall light as the weather system moves away. Sierra at Tahoe has seen 63 inches (160 cm) of snowfall in the past 6 days. | |
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 Increasing Irrigation May Lead to Glacier Growth...Some glaciers and once permanent ice fields have already lost 80 or 90% of their mass compared to their size in the middle of the last century, others... |
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