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The time of year to adjust the Temperature Scale…

Temperatures dropped below freezing level down to resort level in La Tania at the weekend and the first snow fell down to resort.

That said we’ve another warm spell this week until November starts and temperatures come back down to generally below the average for the time of year (note that forecast goes outside of the reliable timeframe).


The temperature scales on the La Tania Weather Station change to show negative recordings for Winter…
 

Situated at resort level this year’s extremes so far…
The coldest recorded temperature this year was -9.6ºC on 11 Feb 2017
The hottest recorded temperature this year was 31.6ºC on 01 Aug 2017
 

The short warm spell can be seen on the GFS Chart…
GFS (Global Forecast System) ensembles are models from different weather prediction systems produced at the same time. This graph is for La Tania (or at least 45 degrees Latitude, 6 degrees Longitude which is pretty close). Updated every 6 hours or so.

Bottom lines are precipitation and top lines are temperature forecast at around 1450m (850hPa, the altitude depends on pressure). La Tania base is approximately 1400m.
Red is a 30 year average. Blue is the control line. Grey is a consolidation.
When the lines are all close together the forecast should be more accurate – for snow look for peaks downwards heading below zero from the top lines and peaks upwards from the bottom lines, showing the forecasted amount of snow.
 

Live Webcams, Weather, Temperatures, Forecasts, Lift & Piste Opening Information and the Off Piste Avalanche Risk level can be viewed at: www.latania.co.uk/resort/LIVE

 

And the first snow to lie in resort this Winter on 23 Oct 2017