End of April Snow Showers
End of April Snow Showers
Published : 25-Apr-2015 01:04
After a dry week in most of the world's ski areas, the snow has returned to the Alps, Scandinavia, Scotland and parts of North America over the last 48 hours.
One of the biggest snowfalls reported was 40cm in 24 hours on the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier at Kaprun in Austria. Another Austrian glacier, Molltal (pictured above), reported 20cm of fresh snow at the same time.
In Scotland fresh snow has been reported at Glencoe, which along with Cairngorm is currently open, but plans to close for the season next weekend due to a lack of business.
The start of May is a big festival weekend at many Scandinavian ski areas, and Voss in Norway has reported 29cm (just under a foot) of fresh snow overnight.
Across the Atlantic there has been several inches of fresh snow in New England with Killington in Vermont and Sunday River in Maine both reporting a little bit of powder to end the week. On the other side of the continent Whistler too has had a few inches of new snow up top, it still has three weeks of its season left.
Most of the remaining areas that are still open in the northern hemisphere will end their seasons tomorrow, with only around 30 staying open in to May.
Larger snow showers are currently being forecast for the coming weeks in the Alps with some projecting more than two feet of snow may fall on higher slopes at resorts like Zermatt.
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