Jump to content


Netweather Blog



Photo

Alps Ski And Weather Forecast 17th December

Posted by Jackone, in Alps Winter 2011-12 17 December 2011 · 776 views
skiing, snow
Current Situation

The past week has transformed the snow conditions over the Alps.

http://www.skiclub.c...lastsnowed.aspx gives details of the heaviest new snow in the Alps.

Synoptic Charts



Currently there is a surface High Pressure...


Photo

Alps Ski And Weather Forecast 9th December

Posted by Jackone, in Alps Winter 2011-12 09 December 2011 · 946 views
snow, skiing, alps and 1 more...
Current Situation

After a very mild start to the season, there has been a great week of weather this week, with heavy snow over parts of the Alps, as ever Altitude helps but snow has fallen to resort level quite widely. The Ski Club of GB website has more details as ever on the following...


Photo

Alps Ski And Weather Forecast 2nd December

Posted by Jackone, in Alps Winter 2011-12 02 December 2011 · 1,296 views
snow, skiing, alps and 1 more...
Introduction

It remains a very disappointing start to Winter for the Alps, with very little snow for the lower slopes, However the cold overnight temperatures have meant that snow cannons have been in operation, and a large number of resorts have been able to open. However the lack of snow has meant that the opening Ski races schedule for Val...


Photo

Alps Ski And Weather Forecast 25th November

Posted by Jackone, in Alps Winter 2011-12 23 November 2011 · 855 views
snow, alps, winter, skiing
Introduction

Very much a NW SE split for the weather pattern for the Atlantic and Europe on current charts. General low pressure covering Greenland and all the way across to Scandinavia, with deep low pressure off the east co
ast of Iceland. Low Pressure...


Photo

Alps Ski And Weather Forecast 18th November

Posted by Jackone, in Alps Winter 2011-12 18 November 2011 · 963 views
Snow, Alps, Winter, 2011-2012
Current Situation

There is High pressure centered (1028mb) over SE Europe, with pressure over 1020mb for most of mainland Europe. winds over western Europe are coming from a mild SW direction for much of the Alps and for Western parts of Europe including Southern Scandinavia. Colder air is restricted to the far north of Scandinavia where this a...


Photo

Alpine Winter 2011-12 Look Ahead

Posted by Jackone, 13 November 2011 · 983 views
Snow, Skiing, Pyrenees, Alps
This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the Snow and Skiing conditions for the Alps for winter 2011-12.

A cursory look at the webcams across the Alps will show that snow levels are currently on recent at this early stage, and that temps over the Alps have been milder than normal so far in November.

As an example the following table shows maximum...


Photo

Winter Preview & Summer Review

Posted by Paul, 26 October 2011 · 539 views
winter, summer
A couple of long range forecast related items to talk about today, as we've released our winter preview and also our summer review...

Summer
Starting with the summer review, we know that our long range summer forecast didn't go to plan this...


Photo

V6 Radar + Atd Lightning On The Way

Posted by Paul, 11 October 2011 · 429 views
netweather, radar
It's been a while since we had any major news about the radar, so I thought today would be a good time to share some with you..

In short, although the V5 version of the radar is still fairly new and in it's final beta phase, we've decided to jump straight on to V6 and are currently working hard to put that in place. The new system will use the same...


Photo

Bbc Feature On Retail Weather Today

Posted by Paul, 15 August 2011 · 533 views
retail, weather
For those of you who may not have seen it, Netweather was featured on BBC Breakfast this morning within their feature on how weather affects retailers.



You can watch it here:
http://bbc.in/o686kz

As well as the website and forum, Netweather...


Photo

Rain Watch - 6th August

Posted by Paul, 06 August 2011 · 515 views

As has been forecast for the last few days, we're seeing some really heavy rain moving up through Northern England and into Scotland today, already there are reports of flooding according to the BBC:

http://bbc.in/p1HDy3

And you can see why - this is the 12 hour accumulated rainfall taken from the...