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Avalanche during record breaking snow storm Eastern N French Alps, Switzerland (along the their Italian borders) & Western Italian Alps. Video by Sylvain

Record-breaking snowstorms across the N French Alps, with a whopping 2 m/6 ft of fresh snow falling in less than 24 hours. Also bringing a high risk of wet snow avalanches over the next 48 hours.
After a relatively poor snow season, the N French Alps (along the Italian border), the W Italian Alps and parts of the W Swiss Alps are currently receiving record-breaking amounts of fresh snow!

Val d’Isère, close to the French border with Italy, has received around 2 m (6 ft) of intense snowfall in less than 24 hours. The avalanche risk at the time of writing (late morning, Thurs 17th April) has been put up to 5/5 in Val, with deep, heavy snow at 1800 m. School’s out for the day and the access road is closed due to snowslides and broken trees.

Our friend Fraser Wilkin at weathertoski.com explains that this is an extremely complex situation arising from weather disturbances of both Mediterranean and Atlantic origin.

For more see my blog post on this link:
henrysavalanchetalk.com/record-breaking-2m-6-ft-snowfall-in-less-than-24-hours-off-piste-snow-report-n-french-alps



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