• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Meters of new snow in the Alps

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Hey all!

While there is no summer storms or anything and I am not a fan of winter time, I do grab chances to take some photos, especially if there extreme days on the way. Some of our Slovenian mountains received more the 5 meters of snow in only 3 weeks (with almost 2 meters in 48 hrs time period meawhile) since the end of November which is broking all time record for so early in the season.

I made a nice trip yesterday and here are some photos...

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Tons and meters of snow on Mt. Kanin which officialy had 675cm (265 inches!) today's morning!

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Magic colors at sunset...

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Cheers,
Marko
 
Wow Marko, those are some extremely nice photos! Congrats on the photo opportunity.
 
Thanks all.

Where is this? In Slovenia?

What is the typical snowfall in those mountains?

Bill, this was on Mt. Kanin which lies in extreme NW corner of Slovenia (coords: 46.3518N, 13.4882E if you will look at it at google maps). This area usually gets 3000-3500mm of yearly precipitation while there is an average of above 5m of snow towards the end of winter period, as heights are above 2000 meters. But this year, season has just started and they have more than 6.5m of snow already which broke snow records there since 1960.
 
Hey all,

some more intense snowfalls and accumulations have been over this locations Mr. Kanin I was describing last time (for example they got 1.5m last weekend!) right now they have almost 9 meters of snow at height 2230m asl which is the record breaking snow height since they do measurements there. Winter snowfalls accumulations exceeded 11 metres of snow!

Photos are simply breathtaking; I am posting them with their permision (© Copyrighted to Mt. Kanin Ski center). Here are some...

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Right we're unable to go up there due to high danger for avalanches which also made some damage to the main cable car infastructure.

PS: Just for an imagination... areas in the lowlands around Mt. Kanin received more than 2000mm (79") since early October... so in only 4 month... while there is 3500-4000mm a yearly average.
 
STUNNING images, Marko. All I could think was, "What Global Warming?!?"
 
Is this near Cortina? I went skiing there in the 90s. They had plenty of snow, but it wasn't Utah.

That photo with the chairlift is amazing. I can't imagine the work just to get that open.
 
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