Winter has returned to the high Alps with ski areas reporting up to 20cm (8″) of snowfall above 2,500m in the last 24 hours.
Resorts benefiting from the snow include Hintertux in Austria’s Tirol region which is open for skiing year round, pictured this morning.
Other centres still open since last autumn include Zermatt in Switzerland (ski area also accessible from Cervinia in Italy), Les 2 Alpes in France and a second Austrian ski area, Molltal, which closes this coming weekend after an 8 month season.
Two other centres have opened for summer skiing in the past week, Val d’Isere in France and Passo Stelvio in Italy. Tignes is expected to open for summer skiing later this month.
The latest snowfall; comes a fortnight after a similar accumulation a fortnight ago at the end of may and there have been lighter snow showers in between. The snow is lying up to 5 metres deep in the Alps making this currently looking likely to be one of the best summer ski seasons of recent years.
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