Snowiest Weather in the Pyrenees for 30 Years

French TV is reporting that the snowfall in the region so far this season is now the greatest reported in 30 years.

Media is focussed particularly on the resort of Les Angles which reported a 1.2m snow in 48 hours at the start of this month and plenty more snowfall since. Whilst that is an extreme, the whole range has been reporting regular falls all winter, whilst much of the rest of Europe’s mountains have seen much less for most of that time.

Despite all the snowfall nearby Piau Engaly is reporting the region's deepest base at 3.5m (nearly 12 feet).

The continuing snowfall has led to ski areas in the Pyrenees posting some of the deepest snow depths in Europe and the wider world this month, with Andorra’s Ordino-Arcalis, which recently hosted the inaugural Freeride World Championships, passing the 3m/10 feet base mark in the past week.

In fact five of the six deepest snowpacks in Europe right now are reported to be in Andorra and the French and Spanish Pyrenees, with only the Swiss Glacier 3000 area near Gstaad reporting more.