There are reports of significant snowfall over the past 24 hours in Austria from the latest storm system crossing the Alps.
Schladming, Flachau and Obertauern (pictured above) have all reported 30cm (a foot) of fresh snow in the past 24 hours.
Some resorts have reported still more with 45cm for the Kitzsteinhorn glacier above Kaprun and Solden has reported 20cm+ falls for each of the past two days.
The fresh snow news from Flachau came in just as the FIS confirmed that the Ski World Cup slalom scheduled to be staged there a week on Tuesday on 13th January 2015 has got the official go ahead today.
Unfortunately earlier in the weekend the precipitation falling in the Western Alps on French and Swiss resorts fell partly as rain and sleet up to quite high altitudes for a time, with Arc 2000 and Verbier amongst resorts reporting rain, although resorts with very high slopes such as the Chamonix Valley, Val Thorens and Zermatt did post 20-25cm accumulations on upper runs.