Savoie: grey, mild Sunday, then fine weather returns this week

This Sunday 11 October, the Albertville valley starts under a mild, overcast sky, with dry, sunny weather returning from Monday. In the mountains, no snowfall is forecast over three days in the resorts tracked by Savoie Snow.

Albertville: morning readings

According to the Savoie Snow station in Albertville (reading at 7:30), it is 11.5 °C with 94% humidity, no wind and no rain since midnight. The minimum recorded is 11.3 °C and the maximum so far 12.4 °C. October rainfall totals 63.4 mm.

Forecast for Albertville

From the Open-Meteo model forecast published by Savoie Snow (see the page):

• Sunday 11: overcast, 0.3 mm expected, 10.8 to 16.6 °C;
• Monday 12: clear sky, 7 to 18.2 °C;
• Tuesday 13: dry, 8.9 to 20.8 °C;
• Wednesday 14: dry, 10.1 to 21.4 °C;
• Thursday 15: dry, 10.6 to 23 °C.

Wind stays light, 8 km/h at most on Sunday. The afternoon 16.6 °C is a model forecast: the station has only measured 12.4 °C so far, which is normal in the early morning.

In the mountains

According to Savoie Snow's reading (mountain weather), the 0 °C isotherm sits around 3,039 m and the rain-snow limit between 2,650 and 2,850 m. This morning it is 0.5 °C at Val Thorens (2,333 m), 1 °C at Tignes le Lac (2,090 m) and 2.3 °C at Val d'Isère (1,849 m). The model forecasts no snow over 72 hours at any of the 18 resorts tracked, from the Beaufortain valley to the Trois Vallées. Details by massif: forecast snow by massif.

Key points

• A grey but mostly dry Sunday, then a sunny, mild week in the valley.
• No snow expected in the resorts over the next three days.
• Météo-France's weather warning bulletin could not be read for this article: check vigilance.meteofrance.fr (in French) before heading out.
• See also skiing and resorts and Savoie roads.