Gargellen, Axamar, Montafon, Ischgl, Sportgastein, and Obertauern all opened this weekend with impressive overnight totals ranging from 15 - 40 cms. Terrain was limited, but enough was open to get some quality deep November turns in. Check out the snow depth data from Gargellen over the last few days. You can see the big increase as of this morning.

Snow will continue to fall today (Sunday), before tapering off west to east around mid-morning. Expect another 5 - 15 cms, deepest in the western Austrian Alps.

The next big snow producer arrives Monday afternoon in the French/Swiss Alps and quickly spreads into the Austiran Alps as well. The storm track will produce mainly northwest winds during this event, with the typical Nordweststau regions favored. This includes the Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Isere, and Hautes-Alpes regions in France, and the Nidwalden, Vaud, Wallis, Schwyz, Freiberg, and Glaurs regions of Switzerland. Once again, the western Austrian Alps will do best during this storm.

As far as totals go, the favored regions of the French and Swiss Alps should see 30 - 60 cms from Monday through Wednesday. South of the Isere region in France, expect 15 - 30 cms with less as you approach the Italian border or the Mediterranean. With northwest winds, the inner-alpine area of Switzerland will see lower totals as well.

The western Austrian Alps will see another 20 - 40 cms with higher amounts in the northern parts of Tirol and Vorarlberg. Snow will taper from west to east starting Tuesday night and ending Wednesda morning in the Austrian Alps. 

Not many changes since yesterday but here is the snow forecast from the European model. The storm track should be far enough west for some snow in the Pyrenees as well.

We'll have less than twenty-four hours before the next storm rolls in, this time from the west with a southwesterly flow couertesy of the jet stream, both of which you can see below.

This storm track/jet stream combination will usher in some warmer air from off the Atlantic to the southwest. Thus, snow levels may be an issue with this storm, at least to start. Still, this storm has the potential to bring impressive totals at upper elevations, and with a southerly component to the wind, the southern side of the Alps should finally get in on the action.

Ok, that's all the details for now on that one. I'll have more details as we get closer.

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Luke Stone
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