The snow's falling...

...here in Staffordshire! It's driving me nuts; not because everyone else drives at 20 mph on the road; nor because the country grinds to a halt. No, it's because I'm sitting at my desk in the Home Office, rather than carving through powder in Les Contamines!

I can't help myself from looking at the multitude of apps that tell me what the weather's doing in every nook and cranny around the world. It helps to make me even more frustrated to know that more & more snow is falling in Les Contamines (according to SnowReports' app, feeding me information provided by OnTheSnow.com) and I'm not out there enjoying it! The pain of the modern era is unremitting!

Anyway, it's nice to see that Les Contamines has more snow (as usual) than the finest resorts of France, Switzerland and Austria! (I haven't been ski-ing in Italy so I have no reference resorts there to ogle at). Base depths in Les Contamines (Lower/Upper) are now 20cms and 195 cms, and it's only the first week of January! Here are the others, for the data-hungry:

• Megeve: 50/145
• Chamonix: 70/365 (they must be measuring the snow on Mt. Blanc!)
• Morzine: 50/160
• Courchevel: 74/115
• Meribel: 60/115
• Champery: 30/80 (call yourselves a ski resort?!)
  
• Flims/Laax: 100/168
• Grindelwald: 20/102
• Klosters: 32/120
• Murren: 57/152
• Verbier: 30/165
• Zermatt: 15/109 (oh dear!!)
  
• St. Anton: 130/145
• Kitzbuhel: I'm not that cruel!
  

So, there you have it...I'll no doubt have started a snow war amongst other-resort fanciers!