TL;DR
The European Alps have just been hit with one of the more significant late-season snowfall events in recent memory. OpenSnow's Powder Finder is showing 24-hour totals ranging from 69cm to 107cm across more than 20 resorts, with the Italian Alps leading the charge. If you've got a late-season European trip coming up, the timing couldn't be much better.
This Is the Kind of Late-Season Dump That Makes You Regret Booking Flights Home Early
Mid-March in the Alps and someone forgot to tell the weather it's supposed to be winding down. OpenSnow's Powder Finder is currently showing 24-hour snowfall totals between 69cm and 107cm across more than 20 European resorts — figures that would be notable at the peak of winter, let alone this deep into March. The Italian Alps appear to be the epicentre of this event, though the snowfall has spread widely enough that Swiss and French resorts are also posting serious numbers.
The Top of the Leaderboard: 107cm in a Single Day
The lead resort on the OpenSnow Powder Finder Gressoney-la-Trinite is sitting at 107cm of new snow in the last 24 hours — a figure that's genuinely difficult to contextualise if your frame of reference is Australian resorts. For perspective, that's roughly the entire average seasonal snowfall at Falls Creek landing in one day. The second and third resorts on the list recorded 99cm and 94cm respectively, both also in the Italian Alps. That's three resorts in a row with close to or above a metre of fresh snow. In 24 hours.
