There's been increasingly heavy snowfall in the Alps over the weekend.
Falls of up to 20cm were reported over Saturday/Sunday and now up to 30cm for Sunday/Monday 24 hour periods at the glacier ski areas that are already open.
However with snowfall all the way down to the valleys in many parts of the Alps, this is clearly good pre-season news for all of Europe. Temperatures are typically in the -1 to -5C range.
The Pitztal Glacier, which operates Austria's highest lifts, which was one of the first to open in the alps back in mid-September says that it has already received 2.9m of snow this autumn, with 66cm in the past seven days, 29cm of that in the last 24 hours.
The Kitzsteinhorn glacier near Kaprun has had 30cm of snow in the past 24 hours while others have reported moderate accumulations such as 10cm at Stubai, 15cm at Molltal and the snowfall is still heavy at most resorts.