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Next year's eclipse is better than this one and you could see it in southern Spain for 4+ minutes at 40 degree altitude 10:48 local time vs. 7 degrees altitude, under two minutes at 45 minutes before sunset this time. Last night's Valencia sunset at the time of next week's eclipse:

I'm too lazy to break down that site like ChrisC did. In terms of volume it's fairly simple. The Brits and French ski in France. The Germans ski in the other alpine countries. The Dutch ski in all of them. Since the notorious British February holiday week coincides with one of the French...

Those comments on Instagram are flaming the authorities big time!

Note that the Northwest Stau, the most common pattern, also hits the Arlberg in full force. The classic Nordstau storms of January 2019 buried everything in Austria and eastern Switzerland with diminishing effect as you moved farther west. Northwest storms come off the Atlantic and can have a...

From 2023-24 1) Germany to Austria 2) Germany to Italy 3) UK to France 4) Netherlands to Austria 5) Germany to Switzerland 6) UK to Austria 7) Netherlands to France 8) USA to Canada 9) Switzerland to Austria 10) Denmark to Norway What proportion of skiers reside outside the country where they...

Apples and oranges (crowds vs.snow reliability). Post #40 above shows crowds on a total level and where they come FROM. As to where they go, Vanat lists the highest cross border traffic.

The Tarantaise is also favored by the green box storm patterns. Val d'Isere gets Retour d'Est in addition. West Stau must be the favored pattern for Alpe d'Huez, Deux Alps, La Grave, with Southwest Flow being decent too. Maurienne Valley is in between the two regions above, with Val Cenis...

I do not have the time to explore that link, but it should not try to contaminate crowd data with expected snow conditions.

I think the snowfall pattern is like the southern Alps, very volatile. I suspect higher average snowfall. Baquiera has 7 annual snow totals that averaged over 300 inches, but with data that sparse I don’t know if it’s cherry picking. There was some year in the past decade where the Pyrenees...

Tioga opening dates in years Mammoth was open to July 4: 1975 May 29 1978 June 3 1980 June 6 1982 May 28 *1983 June 29 1986 May 24 1993 June 3 *1995 June 30 1998 July 1 2005 June 24 2006 June 17 2010 June 5 2011 June 18 *2017 June 29 *2019 July 1 *2023 July 22 * Mammoth open beyond July 4...

There are two slingshot lifts serving those long fall lines on the Roca Jack side. That’s the area inaccessible in 2007, should be good for quite a while now.

Probably no more than 25C at 7,500 feet. Andorra La Velle at 3,000 was 32C from some signs on the drive back there.

That section of PCH has significant separation from the Highlands and nearby blufftop houses. But the wind probably blew embers into some of those coastal houses. Because of where I live I’ve driven through Altadena several times. The expensive areas with big lots in the east and the areas in...

Mammoth adjusts opening hours earlier starting mid-May or later for intense sun effect, long after normal daylight time has started. This is a completely different issue from making the starting time later due to light or snow conditions earlier in the season. Telluride’s policy for March was...

Yes it seems clear that La Thuile, Courmayeur and Cervinia can get snow from the west but Monterosa needs to get snow from the Mediterranean.

I don’t know the background history but it does strike me as bizarre that those densely adjoining houses at the water’s edge were on septic tanks in this day and age of Coastal Commission, etc. While I agree that LAFD was derelict with respect to the fire origin after Lachman on New Year’s Eve...

There are few other powderhounds commuting from Los Andes. The road is just slow with the truck traffic. We had a driver in 2007 so not paying much attention but I doubt the drive was as much as 2 hours. The drive from Santiago to Valle Nevado is much worse. It’s so narrow it has to be one way...

No surprise Eagle Point just announced it will not open for 2026-27. Four chairlifts and two lodges were damaged.

Shortly before we left home I researched day hikes in Andorra and came up with this one. Map of the Llacs de Pessons area, just southwest of Grau Roig in the eastern sector of Grandvilara ski area: We hiked a clockwise path (in red) ascending past the string of larger lakes to the SE and...

Per the Portillo and Las Lenas data the last huge season was 2002. The first year I went to Las Lenas in 2005 it got over 100 inches in both May and June plus 80 in August.