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Title says it all - we have reports of heavy rain in the valleys this morning, in numerous locations, with temperatures forecast to fall rapidly over the next 48 hours for the Northern half of the Alps.

Current forecast is for the Northern Alps to get snow throughout this next week with the Freezing Level staying below 1500 metres until the weekend. The Southern Alps may not be so lucky but it is precipitating heavily in Serre Che this morning.

Eye witness reports from anyone on-the-spot gratefully received... :?:

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

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And from all of us on the J2Ski Team - wishing you all a wonderful New Year and some great skiing still to come.

Wherever you are - have a great one!

From this mornings data refresh it looks like the cold air may get a little further into the Alps - and bring the snow line down to 1,000 metres for the Northern French Alps, the Valais and a few chosen spots in Austria and Italy. The areas around Mont Blanc are sitting pretty we reckon. 8)

Here's hoping anyway - all eyes on the web-cams as it should start tomorrow.

Fingers crossed for a Happy New Year!

From our weekly Snow Forecast e-mails - as sent this morning :-

The weather is at last about to change in Europe. An active frontal system looks set to push in from the Atlantic around the 1st or 2nd of January to bring significant precipitation - and falling temperatures will ensure that means snow down to the valley floor in many areas.

The best of the snow is likely to fall in the Northern French Alps, Western Austria, the Aosta Valley in Italy and Switzerland - with some areas looking good for a right pasting! Accumulations of up to a metre, for some resorts, are possible in the first few days of the New Year. The Southern Alps should get at least a top-up but it's unclear at this stage whether the weather system will bring much-needed snow to the Pyrenees and Andorra.

Even better news is that this particular system could usher in low pressure conditions likely to persist through the first half of January - so there could very well be a lot more snow over the next two weeks.

Avalanche

We'll leave you with a word of caution if you're skiing in January - the recent warm weather has left a base of potentially unstable snow; so there will likely be an elevated avalanche risk. We quote from Avalanche Expert Henry;

As I mentioned last week, once the snow does fall, the new snow layer will be on top of a very weak layer that is out there now. This weak layer is fine by itself, but once it has something on it, it is really unstable.

Still a few days to go yet - so the forecast may change completely - but it is looking rather better than it has been!

Our current Snow Report for Flaine is indicating reasonable snow cover up top at least. And the forecast is looking fairly consistent for snow around the middle of next week, across the Grand Massif, so that should improve.

That is a way out yet so it could go either way... keep watching, but if you're there for two weeks you've got a good chance of further snow before you come home (fingers crossed).

There's a good selection of Web Cam shots here showing a depressing amount of grass and a lot of snow-making in progress... but the Jasna Snow Forecast is showing a possibility of a few cms over next weekend.

Good luck...

Hi Helena, the latest Snow Forecast for St Sorlin - updating this morning - shows continuing "good" weather through the New Year weekend... :cry: