The Pyrenees have seen some snow today (Saturday), and that will continue into Sunday. Additional accumulations up to 10 cm are expected, with a few cms possible in the western Alps. 

A stronger storm is on the way early next week with as much as 50 cm possible in some locations. This storm will impact the region from Tuesday through Thursday, and both the northern and southern Alps will see decent snow totals. This won’t be a huge storm but will provide a nice refresh over a wide area and some decent pow turns in spots.

As the storm tracks west of the Alps, winds will initially come from the west-northwest, which will favor the western and northern Alps. As the storm moves south of the Alps, they will have more of a southerly direction, which will then favor the southern Alps this will allow for both sides of the Alps to see solid totals as well as much of the inner alpine area.

Below is the latest snow forecast from the high resolution WRF model.

Snow levels will start somewhat high, but the cold front moving through on Tuesday night will bring them down quickly for most of the Alps  

Later next week, a few storms will track west of the Alps near the Pyrenees. The track and stretch of these systems likely won’t bring more than some rain and snow showers primarily to the Pyrenees.

In the long range, the models continue to show another active stretch during the first week of March. There is a still a lot of uncertainty for this period at the moment, but I do think more storms will be possible.

My next post will be on Saturday.

Thanks for reading the Europe Daily Snow!

Luke Stone
Forecaster, OpenSnow

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