Snow and weather forecast for the Zinal event

[István]

Guys,

I thought it would be useful to follow up on this topic in the next 2 weeks before we all leave to the event.

Anyone has any personal experience from the last 1-2 days on the snow conditions in Zinal?


Kindest,

István

[Benn]

Here are the Webcams:

http://www.zinal.ch/index.cfm?Page=Buil ... sMenuId=66

Hope we'll watch the snow falling before end of January.

[fivat]

Five days forecast:

http://www.meteoswiss.ch/en/Forecasts/P ... ions.shtml

It will snow on Wednesday!

Patrice Fivat

[SoepmasterJ]

Well, lets keep it: "hopefully it will snow on wednesday!" for now. The famous Zinal slopes closed today . I'm watching the rain out of the sky, but it's still uncommonly warm and sunny here (Holland, rain->often snow in the Alpes a day later)

[Dave]

Today, the temperature has dropped here in Belgium.
I saw on the internet that the temperature in the alps has also dropped below zero.
Now, all it's has to do is a bit of snow.

I also saw that a lot of pistes are actually closed in Zinal

I will to God, Jahwe and Allah (I hope it will help)

Dave

[fivat]

Good news: it could snow a lot from Wednesday and Thursday...
The specialists also say that the quantity could be more than 1 meter
But the violent winds could play a role.

Patrice Fivat

[jeanma]

A zillion candles burned up and a trillion prayers might have helped.

[Dave]

Maybe inhabitants from zinal can burn a candle in the church of zinal?

Dave

[fivat]

The specialists also say that the quantity could be more than 1 meter

Well, now they have changed their forecast...
It should be 50 cm in the week... maximum. We'll see.

Patrice Fivat

[Dave]

To bad, but forecasts for the mountains are always difficult

Everybody is disappointed, (so I'm I) but there is little we can do

Dave

[pokkis]

Is it now snowing or fog in Zinal ? On camera it looks like snow

[SoepmasterJ]

Here you can see the precipitation forming and (allmost) falling:
http://www.meteo24.com/_sfdrs.ch/index. ... 265127eac4
Just in the cm range upto now

[Dave]

If you zoom in, you can see there is an orange/red area near the border of Switserland that is comming from France.
Then the clock stops at 22h15.
So I think the snow will fall tomorrow.

But after that, there's nothing left of snow I think

Dave

Nice site this meteo24

Detail on meteo24 of switserland:
http://www.meteo24.com/_sfdrs.ch/index. ... 265127eac4

[István]

Guys, did it snow yesterday? Today?

The webcam looks kinda greyish... is it snow or rain?



Cheers,

István

[István]

Just managed to find the snowreport on the Zinal site (a bit hidden)

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General information Last Updating 20.01.2005 07:56
Today's Weather cloudy Depth of snow on lower runs 30 cm
Temperature at 1200 noon -3 °C Depth of snow on upper runs 50 cm
Fresh snow ( Resort ) ( Last 24 hours ) 5 cm Last snow fall ( Resort ) 19.01.2005
Depth of snow in resort/valley 30 cm Last snow fall ( ski domain ) 19.01.2005

Live Cam

Alpine skiing
Snow conditions powder Number of slopes 20
Condition of runs good-fair Local ski slopes 70 km
Slopes conditions down to the resort good / fair Ski slopes ( sub-regional ) 220 km
Installation open 9 / 9 Floodlit ski slopes until
Installation open from 08:30 Floodlit ski slopes Length km
Installation open to 16:15 Ski phone 0900 592 025
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This is what it says. So it snowed, but only a little


Kindest,

István