Although much of the skiing world has been seeing some fairly dry, often cold weather over the past few weeks, ski areas in Japan and in Washington State, USA, on either side of the Pacific have been seeing a succession of huge storms to start 2021. In Japan storms coming in off the sea of Japan have been dumping metres of snow on Japanese ski areas, causing some logistical problems but also widely welcomed after threw poor snowfall stats last season. Summit at Snoqualmie, Washington State In Washington State Mt Baker, which holds a two-decades old record for the most ever snowfall at a ski resort in a season and is often one of the snowiest resorts on the planet,

Issued: 20 January 2021 By Patrick "Snowhunter" Thorne European Roundup North American Roundup Asia Roundup EUROPE INTRODUCTION A huge snowstorm, by far the biggest of the season so far for many areas in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, deposited up to 2.1 metres (7 feet) of snow on ski slopes across the Alps between Wednesday and Saturday last week. The heaviest snowfall was reported in Austria’s Vorarlberg, where several resorts posted more than 1.5 metres (five feet) of snowfall in 72 hours, and eastern Switzerland, where there was up to 1.8 metres (six feet) in the same period. For the majority of ski areas across the wider area storm totals were more like 30-90cm (1-3 feet) but many got considerably more. The stormy weather

Last Updated: 21 January 2021 at 16.20 GMT (Updates so far since 5 May: 449) The web's most comprehensive guide of ski resorts opening around the world during the pandemic. An estimated 3000+ Ski Areas Are Currently Open Worldwide in at least 40 Countries on 4 Continents including: Africa: Morocco Asia: Azerbaijan, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, South Korea, Turkey. Europe: Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine. North America: Canada (except Ontario), USA Ski areas in Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Mongolia, Scotland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia as well as the province of Ontario in Canada want to

It’s midsummer and nearly six months until the start of the 2021 ski season in the southern hemisphere, but there have been some unseasonal snowfalls reported on ski slopes in the Andes and Australia in recent days. The ‘cover’ in Australia is only a centimetre or two but that was enough for what ski resort Mt Buller described as a “local maniac and all-round legend” to take to the slopes in the small hours of the morning. Lydia Syme @lymecity hit the slopes for the first ski of 2021 in jeans. “It is Summer after all,” Mt Buller explained.

Ski areas in the Swiss Bernese Oberland have reported the biggest accumulations so far, but many areas in France, Italy and Austria too have reported 30cm (a foot) or more of fresh snow in the past 24 hours, and for many it is still dumping down. Up to 55cm (22”) of snowfall has been reported falling so far in the Alps, where the first major storm of 2021 is underway. St Anton this morning. The Swiss Jungfrau region has posted 50cm (20 inches) of snowfall so far. This ski region is currently open but unfortunately the Lauberhorn races due to have taken place there this weekend have been moved to Kitzbuhel due to a COVID-19 outbreak which has infected more