The five Scottish Highland ski centres are all operating again after a fortnight of stormy weather and yoyo-ing temperatures led to all five being closed for a period due to stormy conditions and/or snow melt.
Storm Henry hit the area quite hard and unusually seemed to cause more problems at the normally more snowsure higher centres like Cairngorm and Nevis range, whilst Glencoe and The Lecht came through with quite good snow cover still. Glenshee however lost most of theirs as temperatures rose around 15 degrees Celcius following a period of stable, sub-zero days, with little wind or precipitation.
Fresh snow followed Storm Henry as the weather stabilised allowing Nevis Range to re-open with top to bottom cover on their front side. Glencoe, pictured above, is also in great shape and currently enjoying perfect conditions. Cairngorm and Glenshee have also partially re-opened, joining The Lecht and report some fresh snow overnight although cover remains thin and narrow on lower slopes.
Low temperatures, low wind speeds and clear skies are dominating the forecast for most of this week although fresh snow is expected at the weekend.
So far storm Imogen appears to be passing to the south of Scotland.
It's a month since the centres were first able to open for the winter after stormy weather in late 2015 caused the same problems of thawing as the snowpack built and/or the weather was too wild to open.