Too bad for my Solitude friend who spent 2.5 weeks based at Cervinia with very little new snow and a lot of wind. Now it's getting four feet mid-mountain.
Fraser confirms:
Today in the Alps
Updated: 10.30am Tuesday 15 April 2025 – Biggest storm of the season for some parts of the the Alps?
After a relatively dry and warm first half of April the weather in the Alps is now turning much more unsettled, with some serious precipitation on the cards for some areas over the next few days, with both rain and snow.
Forecasts show that expected snowfall totals in the Alps between now and Thursday (17 April) could reach over 1m in some areas (shown with the darker pinks and purples)
This storm will be a highly complex amalgam of disturbances of both Atlantic and Mediterranean origin. It will broadly hit the western Italian Alps hardest but with intense precipitation spilling over certain border areas, especially into the Zermatt/Saas-Fee regions in Switzerland but also affecting French ski resorts near the border, from Isola 2000 all the way up to Val Cenis and Val d’Isère/Tignes.
Indeed, a few areas in the firing line could see well over 1m of new snow at altitude (with 1.5m+ in places), including resorts that are still open like Val d’Isere, the Monte Rosa region, Cervinia, Zermatt and Saas-Fee.
The rain/snow limit will be highly variable, generally starting above 2000m but falling to 1500m or lower under the more intense precipitation, especially on Wednesday. At altitude the risk of avalanche will become critical in some of the areas mentioned above, with the risk of flooding and landslides increasing lower down.
On the whole, over the next few days, the further north and east you are in the Alps, the less precipitation there will be.
