Savoie: heavy snow precipitation in the spring

The snow surprised the inhabitants of La Savoie on Wednesday, April 16. The ski resorts were covered with a thick snow cover.

The Alps and especially the border massifs suffered a particularly important and late snowy episode this 17 April, with sometimes more than 100/150cm recorded in less than 24 hours, especially on the Savoie side. In Tignes, for example, these snowfalls have been the most important in April for at least 35 years. More than 1m of snow fell on 17 April 2025 in Valfréjus en Savoie - Webcam via Skaping If this type of episode is exceptional, especial…

The Easter week brought a huge amount of precipitation in the western part of the Alps, with almost two meters of snow falling above 2,500 meters in some parts of Italy, Switzerland and France by early Thursday evening, Időkép reported. According to the portal, it is so rare for so much snow to fall in mid-April that France is talking about historic snowfall. 150-200 centimeters of snow fell above 2,500 meters, but the snowfall did not spare low…

Very quickly, from the beginning of the winter, it is a ranking whose hierarchy has been quickly frozen. A very stable Top 10 until Thursday 17 April. In the middle of the spring, many ski resorts recorded their most important snowfalls of the 2024/2025 season. Surprising and spectacular images that have toured social networks especially those coming from the ski areas of Savoie. But it is not yet time to rejoice. Snowfalls continue and the risk…

Abundant amounts of snow, up to 120 cm in altitude, fell on the Savoy River during the night of Wednesday to Thursday. This caused significant disturbances, especially on the rails and on the roads. The 1 p.m. JT compiled images in the Maurienne Valley and in Tarentaise, worthy of a month of December. - VIDEO - "It fell 40 cm of snow in a few hours": a mess on the roads in the Maurienne Valley (Weather and Weather).

The resorts of the Alps are again under the snow, this Thursday 17 April, especially in Savoie. As the weather forecast predicted, important snowfalls have been recorded since Wednesday evening in the Alps. The phenomenon is all the more impressive as it intervenes in the middle of April, after several spring days in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. More than 1,20 m [...] Article More than 1 meter: in the Alps, massive snowfalls in the middle of April appe…