{"id":4194,"date":"2026-02-13T06:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/4194\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:46:31","slug":"huge-pre-season-snowfalls-in-the-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/4194\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Pre-Season Snowfalls in the Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy snowfall across the Alps has delivered a spectacular start to the 2025\/26 ski season, with resorts reporting impressive accumulations and rapidly expanding terrain.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days, up to 70cm of fresh snow has fallen, blanketing slopes from France and Switzerland to Austria and Italy, with as much again in the forecast for the coming week for the potential of up to nearly 1.5m (five feet) on high slopes in the final week of November for some.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-72430 size-xxlarge\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Huge Pre-Season Snowfalls in the Alps\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/France-La-plagne-24-Nov-768x1024.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-72430 size-xxlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/France-La-plagne-24-Nov-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Huge Pre-Season Snowfalls in the Alps\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The snowfall has arrived with perfect timing for the start of the french ski season with Tignes and Val Thorens, opening this week. However resorts opening soon have published some of the biggest 72 hour total setting them up well for their imminent 25-26 starts. They include Courchevel and neighbouring La Tania (70cm), Crans Montana (60cm) and Alpe d\u2019Huez (50cm) are among the resorts set to open soon with excellent cover.\u00a0 La Plagne, opening mid-December, is pictured in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of early season terrain Austria\u2019s S\u00f6lden leads the way with more than two-thirds of its runs open already meaning 98km of pistes already open, overtaking Zermatt\/Cervinia\u2019s 86km, while Ischgl \u2013 set to open later this week and likely to have more than 100km of runs open from day one \u2013 logged 20cm of new snow so far.<\/p>\n<p>With freezing temperatures preserving the cover and further storms forecast, industry insiders are optimistic this could be one of the strongest Alpine starts in years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-72431 size-xxlarge\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Huge Pre-Season Snowfalls in the Alps\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/France-La-plagne-24-Nov-4-768x1024.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-72431 size-xxlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/France-La-plagne-24-Nov-4-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Huge Pre-Season Snowfalls in the Alps\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For fresh snow forecasts, top resorts, ski news, gear reviews and insider tips, listen to our podcast. Find us here: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-white-out-your-ultimate-guide-to-skiing\/id1649025668\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6sniHb6AYGOfTWjGgyw2A7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthesnow.com\/podcasts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Podcasts<\/a>, or search for \u201cThe Whiteout\u201d on your preferred podcast platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy snowfall across the Alps has delivered a spectacular start to the 2025\/26 ski season, with resorts reporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3639,3640,3641,50,3642,3643,3644,3645,3646,3647,3648,3649,3650,3651,3652,1872,3653,3654,3655,3656],"class_list":{"0":"post-4194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-2025-26-ski-season","9":"tag-alpe-dhuez","10":"tag-alpine-ski-resorts","11":"tag-alps","12":"tag-alps-snow-report","13":"tag-austria-ski-news","14":"tag-courchevel","15":"tag-crans-montana","16":"tag-early-season-snow","17":"tag-france-ski-news","18":"tag-ischgl","19":"tag-italy-ski-news","20":"tag-la-plagne","21":"tag-la-tania","22":"tag-ski-opening-dates","23":"tag-snow-conditions","24":"tag-solden","25":"tag-switzerland-ski-news","26":"tag-tignes","27":"tag-val-thorens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}