I was looking at Saalbach (only picked it because I have been there) and the approach Road is closed due to avalanche danger

https://www.saalbach.com/en/service/info/arrival

The school I teach at will be on the annual ski trip there in a few weeks! 😮❄️

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https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2019/01/12/ba3519ac7849734a.mp4 

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Another amazing one from Austria.

 

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Wow.

That's not drift.That's plain Heavy Snowfall.

Is it real?

Another amazing one from Austria.

 

I want that here 

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Google image search says that image is not recent.

This is the source I think
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/snowy-winter-to-lendine-alp-at-chiavenna-valley.html

 

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Fake news?

Impressive eitherway.

Then there's this one - not embedding the tweet as there is NSFW language!

https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/1085241548177059840 

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Wow.

That's not drift.That's plain Heavy Snowfall.

Is it real?

Yep - that is real. In fact that is not the deepest snow in Austria atm either. It's beyond imagination what they have got in the Tyrol region.

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Yep - that is real. In fact that is not the deepest snow in Austria atm either. It's beyond imagination what they have got in the Tyrol region.

 

It is real but from 2014... and not Austria but from Italy

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You don't want that much snow on your roof :-(

Back in Edinburgh 2010, I had about 15 inches of snow on mine. Snow is a great insulator as igloos show. 1950s British house roofs aren't brilliantly insulated. Thus the bottom layer of snow on the roof started to heat up, began to melt and blocked by the rest of the snow above it, found it's way through the tiles and gaps and into our ceiling 😞 Still, we claimed it as an insurance job, extreme weather

Another good one from Austria - this one comparing snow depths at 1,800metres  asl.

 

 

 

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You don't want that much snow on your roof :-(

Back in Edinburgh 2010, I had about 15 inches of snow on mine. Snow is a great insulator as igloos show. 1950s British house roofs aren't brilliantly insulated. Thus the bottom layer of snow on the roof started to heat up, began to melt and blocked by the rest of the snow above it, found it's way through the tiles and gaps and into our ceiling 😞 Still, we claimed it as an insurance job, extreme weather

I live on a housing estate built in the 1950s. From about the 1970s onwards, when most of them had insulation installed in their attics, it's been noticeable how much longer snow lasts on their roofs compared to formerly.

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