Weekly Snow Report - Thursday 06 January

The week ahead

Happy New Year,

2011 starts with some "interesting" weather across the Northern Hemisphere

The past week has been relatively quiet, with settled weather almost everywhere and significant new snow just about confined to Norway and Colorado.

European Weather and Snow This Coming Weekend

The next few days are going to see significant precipitation across The Alps but it is going to be accompanied by relatively mild, even warm, temperatures. This will mean rain to around 2,000 metres in many areas before temperatures fall again. The exact mix of rain and snow will depend, as usual, on local factors although the snow line is likely to descend quite quickly as the weekend ends and should bring snow below 1,500 metres by mid-week. The East of The Alps (Austria) will likely be a few degrees cooler than elsewhere.

Later in the week temperatures look set to rise again, above seasonal averages in many areas, although with further precipitation falling as snow at higher altitudes.

Although beyond the reliable forecast timeframe, the models are strongly indicating a return to seasonal temperatures next weekend - we'll keep our fingers crossed and bring you the latest next week.

North American Ski Hire - Big Deal Weekend

Our Ski Hire partners, SkiSet, are rapidly expanding their network in North America and - to celebrate their 80th outlet there - are offering all J2Skiers an extra discount for a limited time.

For the next four days only (from Friday 7th through Monday 10th January), if you book Ski Rental in any ski station in Canada or the United States you will benefit from an extra 5% off the already discounted prices - so a minimum of 25% discount off the walk-in price. The additional discount will be applied automatically through any of the normal J2ski links - like www.skiset.co.uk/j2ski/

Until next week,
The j2Ski Team

Silver Mountain - Snow and Weather Forecast

Silver Mountain (1250m to 1921m), United States

Seven Day Weather and Snow Forecast for Silver Mountain

	Thu 06	Fri 07	Sat 08	Sun 09	Mon 10	Tue 11	Wed 12
Hi	3cm	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lo	2cm	-	-	-	-	-	-
Town	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Snow	1558	-	-	-	-	-	-
Max	2°C	1°C	0°C	-4°C	-8°C	-7°C	0°C
Min	1°C	-1°C	-7°C	-13°C	-16°C	-16°C	-5°C
Wind	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
km/h	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Our latest snow report (6 Jan) indicates snow depths of 180cm (Upper Slopes) and 122cm (Lower Slopes). Silver Mountain reported "Powder".

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