Jan. 29, 2025
The Stubai Glacier, Innsbruck officially received the biggest accumulation at 65cm of snow in the last 24hrs. Sölden came in with half a metre, likewise the other Innsbruck ski areas. This was a mighty and rapid storm that came as a surprise – weather charts only recently picked up on the size of the storm.
The Innsbruck Valley boomed to the sound of avalanche detonations today as the avalanche services prepared the mountains for the mass of skiers and snowboarders. Not all areas opened, and there is currently a high risk of avalanches across the region, including St Anton and Lech Zürs, which have an avalanche level 4 rating following a sunny afternoon – you just don’t go off-piste with such a likelihood of avalanches.
There was a definite localisation of the storm that passed through. Bregenzerwald, in the far west of Austria, is the snowiest part of the Alps, yet resorts there were reporting a comparative dusting, with 10cm of new snow. Even less fell in the eastern Austrian Alps, south of Salzburg.