Skiing in the Alps

October 31st, 2008 at 12:39 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog

<–skycam from Zermatt, Switzerland (will go black at night).  Click here for more live cams from the Alps.  At the Zermatt Ski Area, they report 7 lifts are open with up to 80″ of base.  Zurich reports the heaviest early snowfall since records began in 1931.  Up to 12.6″ was reported.  The heavy snow downed trees and power lines that blocked rail lines and snarled traffic.  Power outages were also reported in England from cold and snow.  Thousands were left without power in central England.  BTW, here we plow and sand the roads.  In England they “grit” the roads and lorry (truck) drivers are called “gritters”.

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    October 31, 2008 at 12:55 pm

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  3. Jevon Murphy says:
    October 31, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Happy Halloween Bill!!! I had to it on yhis one since your (happy halloween) blog doesnt have a title!!!

    Guess what I had an ironic indoor temp. this afternoon I recorded 66.6 degrees on Halloween!!! Ironic, huh!!!

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  4. Tim Walters (Holland) says:
    October 31, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    Happy Halloween!

    Accuweather has a big system forecasted around the 14th of Nov. I’m curious to see if that will hold, seems like that far ahead it’s hard to know. Anyone got forecast models for that timeframe that show that system?

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  5. John says:
    October 31, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    Here we just have to “grit” our teeth and watch out for the SUV drivers that think they are invincible.

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  6. John says:
    October 31, 2008 at 6:13 pm

    (Not Terri, by the way)

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  7. Barbara in Kazoo (S. 6th & N Ave. (west central Kalamazoo Co.) says:
    October 31, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    So what will a big tank in the Arctic Oscillation do to our weather?
    I’ll take my answer off the air.

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  8. Charles Russell - (Fisk Knob, MI) says:
    November 1, 2008 at 12:10 am

    Oh I forgot to update the news..

    Tonight when we were taking my Sis trick or treating we pulled into the driveway and I looked to the sky and saw a BRIGHT blue & white flash and a streak across the sky, I was thinking iridium flare, or some kind of meteor it was AWESOME! It was in the western sky, looked kind of like this, and it stayed in the sky for a few secs…

    http://skylovers.org/images/SSP2004_IridiumFlare1_lg.jpg

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