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the essentials The record mildness and good weather in January 2024 had repercussions on the snow rate in the mountains, especially in low and medium altitude resorts. Fortunately, new snowfalls forecast for Friday, February 9 should delight residents of zone C who will be on vacation at the end of the week.
Will there be enough snow for the winter holidays? This is the question being asked by future vacationers from zone C (Paris, Toulouse, Versailles) who are planning to go to the mountains in the coming weeks.
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It is true that the weather in recent days has been mild with temperatures reaching more than 20°C in places, such as in Saint Lary village (Hautes-Pyrénées) where at the end of January, the mercury exceeded 23°C.
The temperatures still look like spring at the start of the week, before the gradual arrival of a deterioration from Friday February 9. This disturbance should fortunately be accompanied by highly anticipated snowfall. in the mountains and a drop in temperatures.
Another week of dry and calm weather – then the disturbed ocean current will return and it should snow in the mountains before the first February vacationers arrive. Accumulated precipitation forecast between now and Saturday February 17. pic.twitter.com/9QX5oyUM4l
— Guillaume Séchet (@Meteovilles) February 1, 2024
Around ten centimeters expected in the Pyrenees
“Despite this great gentleness (…), snow depths are only decreasing very slowly“, affirms Météo France in a press release. If the stations with their slopes facing south actually see their coverage decrease, those with their slope to the north only experience surface melting. However, an aerial video relayed by MétéoPyrénées shows a thin coat white.
As of February 2, the thickness was barely 6 centimeters at Soum-Couy in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques (2142 m) or 38 centimeters at the port of Aula in Ariège (2140 m).
Saturday February 10, we expect 13 centimeters of precipitation in Luchon Superbagnères (Haute-Garonne) at an altitude between 1,500 and 2,100 meters. The falls are expected to continue until early next week. Other stations, on the other hand, should be less well provided, since in Font-Romeu (Pyrénées Orientales), only 1.3 centimeters are expected this Friday.
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Bigger falls in the Alps
The Alps also suffer from a lack of snow. The coat is currently 64% of the seasonal normal. In the Southern Alps, the falls will be greater than in the Pyrenees: in Isola2000 (Alpes-Maritimes), nearly 50 centimeters should fall on Wednesday February 7 and Thursday February 8, before a lull this weekend. In Valberg (Alpes-Maritimes), the slopes should be covered with 40 centimeters of powder on Friday.
Next weekend will be very different from the current one, marked by a strong anticyclonic anomaly.
Establishment of a vast high-altitude cold block driving a rapid southwesterly flow over the country.
1/5 pic.twitter.com/vCLNenA9pl— Gaétan Heymes (@GaetanHeymes) February 3, 2024
The other massifs
In the other massifs, however, there is little snow. In Corsica, only the high peaks are covered in a white coat. Météo France specifies that the powder has even “virtually disappeared in the Vosges, the Jura and the Massif Central”.
