The last 2 weeks of February and first week of March saw many resorts again receiving large dumps of snow, and a new cold snap is bringing more in the next day or two.
Resorts in Austria and eastern Switzerland were blessed in the latter half of Feb - with some areas getting 50cm or more in 24 hours. Some small Austrian resorts were temporarily cut off as roads were blocked. In Planneralm near Schladming the military had to helicopter in supplies.
Now France and western Switzerland are getting a share of the action with around 20cm having fallen overnight in places as far apart as Flaine and Serre Chevalier, and a massive 70cm in Saas Fee. Argentiere, next to Chamonix, is expecting nearly 70cm to have fallen by the end of the week.
Winter 2008-9 is already going down in history as one of the best for 20 years, and big snowfall now means that conditions will most likely be good well into April.
