Re: Snowboarding in France or Switzerland

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neil Swingler 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> What low pressure system :-(

It saw people watching it, the b*stard!

> http://www.meteoschweiz.ch/de/Prognosen/Vorhersagen/Schweiz/mittelfrist.shtml

Is that adjusted to sea level?
> Today was a Föhn day with 18degrees forecast in some Alpine valleys.
It's always good to meet someone even more pessimistic than I am!
Snow-forecast doesn't reckon Zermatt'll get meltingly warm. Anyway 
there's always glacier skiing in zero visibility ("Are we on piste and 
if so which?")

You forgot to mention the gales which will close all the lifts that can 
reach actual snow, or the likelihood of the cloudbase being below the 
freeze line.
A friend says he was once stuck on a stopped chairlift in a freezing 
gale at Zermatt for long enough that the chair's other occupants were 
discussing whether it would be better to leap to their death on the 
rocks below than to freeze to death where they were!
Oddly enough, he's not coming with us.
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Sue  ];(:)