Snow has begun falling in the Alps after weeks of mostly warm temperatures as well as periods of damaging rain to quite high altitudes in the western Alps.
The snowfall that has begun as forecast on Sunday (Bardonecchia in Italy pictured) is expected to continue for at least the coming week, on and off, with the heaviest falls expected on Monday for many areas.
The snowfall is expected to continue down to valley floors below 1,000m as temperatures dip below freezing to low elevations.
Up to a metre of snowfall is expected in total on high slopes in parts of the French Alps by the latter half of this week, with up to 70cm of that expected by Tuesday.
However conditions were already good on prepared slopes above 2,000m in the Alps so the main focus will be on how much and how fast conditions improve at lower altitude ski areas which are the ones that have been hardest hit by the warm temperatures and rain over Christmas and New Year.
Snow is forecast and cold temperatures for them too but not so much as for higher slopes.
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