The Snow Thread

Rain has fallen onto all the snow outside and pavements are now like ice rinks... fancy a slide to a fractured tailbone anyone?
This is the phase I fuckin despise after it snows. That's why I always like a very fast transition to mild after any snow, to avoid this glaze phase as much as possible.

I'm receiving 12" tomorrow night.

It's snowing proper hard outside right now. Could be a fun night.

2" of snow now and it's really powdery and light. Saw a car slipping around trying to climb a hill when I went out. 

Now it's actually about 0°C. Not sure why it's like that, but the snow that was falling when I went out was more round solid pellets rather than snowflakes, so that could be it.

How much have you gotten so far?

From Sunday to Tuesday, we got 7.9” (20 cm). There’s a current snow depth of about 9” (23 cm) in my yard.

It has snowed quite a few times here already this winter, but always at above freezing temps and it never lasted longer than about 2 hours. Very disappointing.

Thought this was cool. Last weekend's snow as seen from the international space station.

This December has really been one of the snowiest winter beginning I can remember, up to now we have already got more snow and more days with snow on the ground than in many of the past few years as a whole!



During the first few days of December we already had a quite remarkable snowfall with about 20-30 cm of fallen snow, which for this period of the year is already a lot (some pictures about it in here). The following week was cooler than usual, so snow melted really slowly and up to the 8th of December there still was a solid snow layer on the ground. Then last weekend we had a second, even more impressive, snowfall with brought up to 40-50 cm of snow at my altitude (about 650 m) and up to 1.5m in the high part of my valley (altitudes above 1300 m). 
Now you could wonder: why don't you show us some pictures earlier? And why you are writing it in such an un-enthusiastic way? Well, last week I was not at home because I was out for a business trip for all the week, and so I've just missed the most impressive snowfall of my place during the last 10+ years     And because, when I was working, my sister started to send me pictures like these (these are taken more or less during a break after the first day of snowfall, it went on for another whole day)







Really impressive also the pictures posted by our local online newspapers from the high part of the valley, like:
The little deer saved ski instructors [1]


A couple of pictures from Bardonecchia:


[2]

Endless problems with transports
 [3]




Today the view from my place is still like this:



Which also means that we have been having snow on the ground for more than two consecutive weeks, which is really rare here at my place. 

how is that site? I haven't checked it yet! Didn't expect it'd be useful for British posters.