We’ve just been experiencing one of the “wettest” starts to a season for a long time. We are not complaining. It seems that up until December we’d had one of the driest years on record. Of course “wet” can mean many things. We prefer to use the term “precipitation”, so that can cover rain and snow. The local paper reports that it rained on 26 days out of 31 in Annecy in December 2011. Yesterday we suffered a miserable day in the mountains with rain up to about 1800m at times. Thankfully it turned to snow late in the day. Today the weather had cleared so Lee Massey (covers Morzine for Alpine Property) and I bunked off work this morning to check out the conditions. Lets just say we were pleasantly surprised.
The weather is due to close in tonight so expect some more snow, and they are forecasting heavy snow on Thursday. Keep abreast with the weather around the northern alps by logging into our weather page
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