Snow News
Will El Niño affect skiing this winter
January 7, 2016 | Teresa Fisher
With everyone talking about El Niño this winter, there is much anticipation that the forthcoming ski season will be an epic one.
So what is “El Nino” – this weather term that everyone’s bandying around?
El Niño is … Read More
What a difference a day makes in the mountains
January 3, 2016 | Teresa Fisher
Alpe d’Huez: We’ve just arrived in resort to find remarkably little snow for the time of year (27 December), and astonishingly warm temperatures for the season. It’s hard to believe it’s nearly New Year, one of the busiest weeks of the year, … Read More
School ski trip planning
December 8, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Dear parents – For all those of you about to send your beloved child off on their first school ski trip this Christmas, FamilySkiNews.com has produced the definitive guide specifically to help you and them prepare for a school skiing trip. You … Read More
Winter is coming
October 28, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
… and ski resorts in the Alps are opening already!
Following on from some early Autumn snow and reasonably cold temperatures, a handful of resorts are starting up their lifts surprisingly early in the Alps. Most are glacier resorts but … Read More
It’s snowing again
September 24, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
Forget Autumn! Winter is upon us! That long wait for the snow is finally over…
Yesterday in the Alps, there was a spectacular dump of up to 30 cm across France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
We’re currently … Read More
Scottish snow, snuee and snaw
September 23, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
How many words are there to describe snow in Scotland? According to researchers at Glasgow University there are over 400 words to describe snow and snowy weather. The words have been compiled for an Historical Thesaurus of the Scottish language.
According … Read More
A ski holiday without snow
August 16, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
What do you do if you book an early ski holiday and there’s no snow? Is it really so awful?… Here’s what happened to one family in mid-December last season, when snow in the Alps was particularly thin on the … Read More
Record year for snow in Scotland
August 13, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
It seems hard to imagine skiing in the UK in August, but in the Scottish resort of Glencoe this week there is still enough snow for a few late-season turns! The patches of whitestuff that survive the year on Scotland’s … Read More
End of another ski season
April 28, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
It’s officially the end of the 2014/15 ski season. Most of the last remaining ski areas in the Alps closed their lifts this weekend. Frustratingly there’s more snow on the way…
Most ski resorts closed after Easter but a … Read More
Everest’s deadliest day
April 28, 2015 | Teresa Fisher
The BBC has described last Saturday, 25 April 2015, as Mount Everest’s “deadliest day”, when Nepal was hit by a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake and numerous avalanches in the Everest region near Kathmandu.
In recent years Mount Everest has become safer … Read More
