There's been heavy snowfall in the Alps over the past few days with total accumulations of up to 70cm reported so far. The intensity of the snowfall led to some road closures, including in the Chamonix Valley.
Around 30 ski areas are already open for the 25-26 season and its's mostly these that are posting their snowfall data, but the biggest totals for snowfall over the weekend and start of this week have come from resorts opening in the next few weeks, including Courchevel (70cm), Crans Montana (60cm) and Alpe d'Huez (50cm).
The snowfall has been heaviest in higher terrain in the Western Alps but has also been reported down to valley floors for the first time this Autumn and extends across the Alps with ski areas in Austria posting 20-40ocm snow totals. It's also expected to keep falling over the coming week.
Already open resorts are battling to open more terrain with the lead changing daily. Sölden currently reports the most open with 98km of runs open already, overtaking Zermatt/Cervinia on 86km.
La Plagne is pictured below this week.
