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These tips will set you on the right track for having an unforgettable first time on the snow. Learning something new or starting a new sport can be very exciting but also challenging. In order to get down the slopes safely and in style, book yourself into some lessons. Warmer, hitting 10 degrees above freezing down in the valleys in the afternoon. The snow fell to low elevations, even down to resort bases below 1,m altitude on Wednesday afternoon last week.
Since then it has been drier but staying mostly cloudy and cool. The main French season begins to kick off at the end of next week though with Montgenevre announcing at the weekend it's opening early and joining Chamonix and Val Thorens , opening from the 20th. Temperatures at or below freezing in the mountains, climbing degrees above down in the valleys during the daytime. Livigno , due to open in a few weeks, one of the biggest storm totals claimed of 72cm 29".
However, like France , the resorts open here so far are few, and there's an onus from those that are open on pandemic preparedness advising online ticket purchase, good mask-wearing and distancing. The latest ski areas to open in Italy are the Presena Glacier in Trentino which began turning its lifts at the weekend, and Cortina in the Dolomites , which opened its first chair on Sunday.
They replace spring-autumn ski area Passo Stelvio which ended its season five days earlier, just before the latest big snowfall began. It was another area that reported a lot of snow this past week. It should remain cold in the mountains, rarely getting above freezing, a little warmer but still not getting much above freezing down in resort. This time last year its opening was prevented by what was initially billed as a short lockdown up to early December but which ended up closing it and almost all other German centres all winter.
Things appear to have taken a step back with the news that lifts must close there this week due to the current level of the virus in the country. There has been more fresh snowfall over the past week and hope remains that the ski season will get underway there shortly.
Rather warm too, but that shouldn't impact the snow up high on the Zugspitze too much. Most Scandinavian resorts are due to start opening for their season on one of the final two weekends of November.
Snow showers at times and a definite wintery feel. Even though we are now well into November, sadly there's been little snowfall on Scottish slopes, just a little up very high. Temperatures still looking unseasonably warm, as they have all autumn, and generally too warm for snow when precipitation does arrive, except perhaps up very high. Several areas, including Sierra Nevada , reported they had turned on snow-making systems. The season is due to start here around the end of the month. Up in the mountains temperatures will hover around freezing, down at the base of the slopes it will be in the range of freezing to around 10 degrees above.
The weather has been autumnal; cool and wet in recent days rather than looking wintery. But there's still plenty of time for a change. That said, it appears a temperature dip at the weekend could turn the rain to snow on higher slopes. Higher slopes have seen snow again in the last few days after a sunny weekend. The season start is weeks away at the end of November or early December for most. Apart from the snow cover map, the cloud radar , tornado radar , rain radar , lightning strike map and storm radar also function in the same way.
The white color of snow depends on the particular shape of the snowflake. Under the microscope, snowflakes appear to be transparent. However, when sunlight falls on the snowflakes, this light is refracted several times by the special shape of the flake and reflected through the trapped air in the snowflake. Therefore, the snowflake appears white to the human eye. The glitter in snow can also be traced back to the reflection of light by the ice crystals.
The uppermost layer of the snow cover, with its countless snowflakes, reflects the light to our eyes directly and without further refraction.
For this reason, we see different spots flashing in the snow as we move through the multitude of ice crystals. The shape of snow is related to the special structure of a water molecule: Due to the electrical charge of the single atoms, these molecules can only arrange themselves in a hexagon or at an angle of 60 degrees or degrees. This hexagonal shape allows the water molecules to form as a crystal very efficiently. Where does this crunching and cracking come from when walking in the snow?
Basically, you hear nothing other than the breaking of individual ice crystals in the snow. The colder the snow, the stronger this sound can be perceived. Salt causes the freezing point of water to no longer be 0 degrees, but significantly lower. After adding salt, water requires significantly lower temperatures to turn into snow and ice.
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