the ski resorts of the Alps have regained their white coat

After weeks of absence, snow made its comeback in the Northern Alps this Tuesday, November 12. Many ski resorts in Savoie and Haute-Savoie were covered with a light white coat.

Winter seems to have taken over the mountains for good. This Tuesday, November 12, snowfall covered the various massifs of the Northern Alps. A first for many weeks, marked by the passage of an anticyclone and temperatures above seasonal norms.

Thus, several stations woke up this Tuesday under a light white coat. A boon for some of them, who plan to open their slopes by the end of November. In Haute-Tarentaise, the resort of Val d'Isère is due to welcome its first skiers on November 30.

Tignes is due to open a few days earlier, on November 23. This Tuesday, the Savoyard resort saw its chalets and ski lifts covered with a few centimeters of snow.

Just a few kilometers away, the villages of Bessans, Bonneval-sur-Arc and Val-Cenis have dressed for winter. Note that the Bessans resort opened part of its Nordic area on November 2 with snow grown using “snowfarming”.

In Haute-Savoie, the resorts are not left out, like Les Contamines-Montjoie, in the Mont-Blanc massif.

The same goes for the Grand-Bornand station. The Aravis were sprinkled with a light icing this Tuesday, as temperatures dropped at the start of the week. In the various massifs of the Northern Alps, nearly 5 cm of snow fell at an altitude of 1,800 meters.

But if these snowfalls have been long awaited, they are not expected to last. For good reason, it is an episode “isolated”according to Guilhem Mollard, forecaster at the Météo-France center in the Northern Alps: “The heaviest precipitation has already passed. (…) The return of an anticyclone is expected until the end of the week”he says.

Temperatures will be close to seasonal norms until next week when new disturbances could appear.