Weather tracker: storm brings well over a metre of snow to peaks in Alps Several days of snow brought avalanche risk at Christmas, as wintry weather also caused four deaths in India.
Snowfall continued for several days, allowing some of the peaks to see well over 1 metre of snow, with significant snowfall also seen across many ski villages.
Ski resorts in Bulgaria also experienced significant snow starting on Christmas Day, which caused disruption in the mountainous west, where ski resorts had to temporarily shut down due to road closures.
New Zealand’s meteorological agency said that 130mm of rain fell within 24 hours from 3pm on Christmas Eve to 3pm on Christmas Day.
This depression allowed relatively warm and moist air to push into the Alps, condensing and falling as snow as it met the much colder alpine air mass.
