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A webcam on the Point Hellbronner courtesy of the Valley d'Aosta Tourist board |
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A webcam on the Brevent looking at the Mt Blanc Range courtesy of chamonet.com |
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A webcam on the Brevent looking at the Aiguille du Midi courtesy of chamonet.com |
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Looking at Mt Blanc from Argentiere courtesy of chamonix.net |
| FORECASTS |
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| The meteo.chamonix.com weather report is usually very good. Generally issued at about 08:30. Sometimes at about 8:30 the page doesn't load while they update it. |
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| The meteo.fr chamonix weather report covers 4 days and is generally fairly accurate. |
| The weather.com chamonix weather report is good for a 10 day outlook but is less accurate than the above two. |
| The meteo.fr country report is useful for spotting trends heading across the country |
| TOOLS |
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| The Compagnie du Mont Blanc lift status is useful, generally updated anywhere between 07:30 and 08:30. It also has wind direction and speed at some lift stations. |
| The pressure charts at www.westwind.ch are very good if you know how to do your own forecasting. |
| The NASA Global Composite Weather Satellite Water Vapor Imagery is great for getting the big picture |
| The meteosat satellite view of Europe is good for seeing cloud cover |
| The radar images at landi.ch show real time rainfall occurrence |
| The windguru.cz wind forecast for Chamonix (for snowkiting and paragliding) |
| The BBC weather wind forecast for Europe gives a good general view of the wind |
