Europe Daily Snow
By Luke Stone, Forecaster Posted 2 days ago March 1, 2025
Retour d'est Winding Down Followed By a Quiet Week
Summary
The Retour d'est is winding down across the southwestern Alps, with some showers lingering in the Alps and Pyrenees through Sunday. The following seven days will be dry as a ridge takes hold over the region. The edge will start to break down toward the end of next week allowing storms to move in from the west.
Short Term Forecast
Some additional light snow is expected in the southwestern Alps and Pyrenees through Sunday, with generally 5 - 15 cm possible with isolated totals of 10 - 20 cm in north to southeast facing terrain in the Italian Alps. We will start to dry out on Sunday and stay dry for the next week a strong ridge develops over Europe. You can see an upper-level trough moving in from the west a few frames into the GIF, and that is what our next stormy period will look like.
The models generally bring snow back to the Alps and Pyrenees around the 8th. This pattern would favor the Pyrenees and southwestern Alps once again. It's too early for details but this storm could bring significant snow next weekend. This pattern should linger into the middle of the following week.
My next post will be on Sunday.
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Luke Stone
Forecaster, OpenSnow
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