Feb
11

EXCELLENT HALF TERM CONDITIONS
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Snow has been falling in the Alps as the half-term holiday starts. Now the sun is out. PlanetSKI reports from the Alps.

The weather has now cleared across the Alps.

Our latest images come from Obergurgl in Austria.

Obergurgl, Austria

On Wednesday the PlanetSKI editor, James Cove, was at the high altitude resort of Stubai in the Tirol in Austria.

With his eye on conditions elsewhere too:

The slopes of Stubai were near deserted, with a bit of fresh snow off piste too.

Stubai, the Tirol, Austria

PlanetSKI reader Martin Dennant is in Alpe d'Huez in France.

"This week Sunday and Monday were cold, snowy and windy" he told us on Wednesday evening.

"The sun came out yesterday and the wind dropped off today.... similar forecast for the rest of the week.

"Lifts are busy this week especially now the sun is out - French and public school holiday."

Alpe d'Huez, France, Wednesday 13th February - photo Martin Dennant

Alpe d'Huez, France, Tuesday 12th February - photo Martin Dennant

And we have more evidence that the sun is coming out across the mountains....

Les Saisies, France, Wednesday 13th February

This video from early Wednesday morning was posted by the resort of Zermatt in Switzerland:

Crans Montana, Switzerland, Tuesday 12th February

Chamonix, France, Tuesday 12th February

Courchevel, France, Tuesday 12th February

Kronplatz, Dolomites, Italy, Tuesday 12th February

And check out a video report from James in Innsbruck from Monday as the poor weather continued :

And here is earlier in the week around the Alps before the sun came out....

Avoriaz, France

Verbier, Switzerland

Hintertux, Austria

Here was the snow in Lech in Austria on Monday morning.

On Tuesday the piste bashers were out in neighbouring St Anton preparing the slopes.

St Anton, Austria

"Wherever you are skiing in the Alps (or the Pyrenees) this half-term, it looks like snow conditions will be pretty good, at least on-piste," says Fraser Wilkin of weathertoski.co.uk.

See here for Fraser's last main snow report for PlanetSKI:

Our weekly snow report is out

Over the last few days PlanetSKI has been skiing in Stubai, Kuhtai and Nordkette and seeing the huge amounts of snow that has fallen this winter with our own eyes:

The road to Stubai

Kuhtai, The Tirol, Austria

Nordkette, The Tirol, Austria

And if you'd like to know what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic, check out the latest as the USA and Canada gets yet more massive dumps of snow: