It's late May but some big snowfalls have been recorded in the Alps over the past 36 hours.
Austria has the most glacier ski areas open and the Stubai has reported 45cm of fresh snow (pictured above) with the year round Hintertux glacier also reporting significant new snow.
There was 40cm of new snow on the kitzsteinhorn glacier near Kaprun as well.
Ski areas are continuing to close for the 2014-215 season, whilst some others are opening.
Sunshine ski area at Banff closed on Monday leaving only Whistler open in Canada and Mammoth in California says this weekend will be its last. It's also closing day on Sunday at the Engelberg and Diavolezza glaciers in Switzerland, leaving only Zermatt open there, but in Norway the Stryn glacier has opened today, joining the country's Folgefonn and Galdhoppigen summer glacier ski areas, which are all reporting deep bases.
On the weekend of 30/31t May Italy's Passo Stelvio summer glacier ski area is due to open and the first areas in the southern hemisphere – Tiffindell in South Africa and Afriski in Lesotho should be opening too with areas in Australia and New Zealand – which have been reporting good pre-season snowfalls, starting to open in subsequent weeks.
The cold temperatures also mean that ski touring conditions are reported to be excellent in Scotland, where there was fresh snow earlier this week, although all five centres are now closed.