Isola 2000, France

Shaun Wallace from UNITED KINGDOM writes:

Just got back from spending a few days in Isola. Interesting facts: I arrived on Wednesday 5th March, this website said the resort had not seen snow for a week and that there would be no snow for the following 5 days. It actually snowed 15cm on 4th March. It then snowed for a full 24 hrs laying down 30cm on the 7th. The whole resort was turned into 1 massive powder bowl.
I ski this resort every year for 4 days with friends. The resort is not the prettiest or particularly friendly. However, I have skied a lot of French resorts and find them all the same in terms of there attitude to the English. This resort is good fun for a few days with some great food, however, if you just like eating up the miles (boring) rather than just enjoying your friends company and having some fun, this resort is not for you. I am back again in two weeks with a group of 17 mixed ability skiers and boarders.
[Editors comments. Our snow reports for Isola come from Skiclub of Great Britain. Reports are only as reliable as whatever source is available and we encourage independent reporters wherever possible. Sorry if we were not reliable in this case. However, our forecasts for Isola over this period were very accurate. Members can verify this using our hindcast service in the historical snow section for Isola. You will see that our forecast predicted 12cm of snow on March 4th (Shaun reports 15cm fell) and 23cm total for 6th/7th (versus 30cm reported). Although we don't archive every single forecast, only the accurate short-range ones, in this case it certainly seems as if these were close to predicting what happened]

2008-03-10