{"id":2252,"date":"2016-12-16T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2016-12-16T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:03:55","slug":"let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/snow-conditions\/let-it-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Let it snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photorator.com\/photo\/32861\/a-snowy-owl-bubo-scandiacus-over-fresh-snow-by-david-white\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photorator.com\/photos\/images\/a-snowy-owl-bubo-scandiacus-over-fresh-snow-by-david-white-32861.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A snowy owl Bubo scandiacus over fresh snow  by David White\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At last fresh snow is coming to the Alps! The temperatures will drop below zero in most resorts from tonight for at least the next ten days. Sunny skies are expected until Wednesday and Thursday when modest snowfall is expected. I say modest, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/zermatt.php\" target=\"_blank\">Zermatt<\/a> is expecting about 78cm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/saas-fee.php\" target=\"_blank\">Saas Fee<\/a> about 35cm and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/stmoritz.php\" target=\"_blank\">St Moritz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/andermatt.php\" target=\"_blank\">Andermatt<\/a> about 23cm. Resorts of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/berneseoberland.php\" target=\"_blank\">Bernese Oberland<\/a> and most of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/valais.php\" target=\"_blank\">Valais<\/a> should get at least 10cm of snow.<\/p>\n<p>The sun will come back next Friday, but temperatures will remain low so I&#8217;m sure the snow cannons will be busy on lower slopes and patchy South-facing slopes to make sure there is good cover for Christmas. And as it stands, things are looking pretty promising for Christmas, especially Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/weatheroutlook20161217-481x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Weather Outlook in Switzerland Dec 2016\" width=\"481\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2254\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/weatheroutlook20161217-481x1024.jpg 481w, http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/weatheroutlook20161217-141x300.jpg 141w, http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/weatheroutlook20161217-768x1634.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/weatheroutlook20161217.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last fresh snow is coming to the Alps! The temperatures will drop below zero in most resorts from tonight for at least the next ten days. Sunny skies are expected until Wednesday and Thursday when modest snowfall is expected. I say modest, but Zermatt is expecting about 78cm, Saas Fee about 35cm and St &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/snow-conditions\/let-it-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let it snow!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[39,30,167,121,21,37,23,113,40,22],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow-conditions","tag-alps","tag-andermatt","tag-berne","tag-christmas","tag-saas-fee","tag-ski","tag-st-moritz","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-zermatt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}