Swiss resorts have ended up reporting the biggest snowfall totals through the weekend storm, Saas-Fee reports it got a metre of snow on its higher terrain, the Aletsch Arena 97cm. Verbier also scored highly with an 80cm accumulation. The avalanche danger level has risen to 4 on the scale to max 5, which means "high danger level", particularly off piste.
Ski areas in France and Italy also reported healthy falls ending nearly three weeks of mostly dry weather that followed the huge falls in mid-February.
In France Bonneval-sur-Arc behind Val d'Isere posted the most, 80cm, but many resorts posted at least 60cm up top. Three days of World Cup ski racing at Courchevel was hit by a 53cm fall there, with just a rescheduled Downhill successfully staged on Friday, then two Super G races planned for Saturday and Sunday were both cancelled. Les Carroz is pictured top on Saturday.
Italy saw the final days of Paralympics disrupted by the weather too. The biggest falls here were in the west with Cervinia posting 60cm, Pila 50cm and Sauze d'Oulx 45cm.
Austria got a some weekend snowfall too, if not so much as further west, Sölden reporting the biggest falls with 42cm.
Clear skies and warmer temperatures have now returned to most areas and are expected to continue for the coming week.