More snow adding to the 5.2m in St Anton
When St Anton am Arlberg has a January snow pack of 5.2m forecast snow is hardly needed - yet the incredible winter of 2012 rolls on. With barely a white patch of mountain but for the glacier areas at the start of December, it has been almost weekly heavy snow systems that have been rolling in across Austria. 5.2m is basically a male adult standing on the head of another with a third on top of the second - confusing maybe, but what it means is that at current rates is that in St Anton and most of Austria you won’t need to worry about catching an edge on a rock until mid summer. There have been building collapses in the northern Austrian Alps due to the snow and these units weren’t built to beach hut specs. This really has been a remarkable 8 weeks of winter in Austria. To what extent this heralds future weather patterns is unclear but after a record breaking dry period in November the heavens have opened to dramatic effect and there seems no let up.
