Snow report 5 December 2024
It’s beginning to look and feel a lot like winter out here in Meribel. Snow capped peaks once again dominate our winter landscape and it’s really cold. It’s getting so close to the start of a new ski season now, who’s excited? We are excited to bring you an up to date snow report every week throughout the season.
Meribel is opening this weekend the 7 December for the season.
Thursday night through to Sunday we are expecting a good snowfall of around 29cm, the heaviest to be on Saturday afternoon. The early part of this week was extremely cold and although it has warmed up a little for Thursday and Friday, we will see the temperature plummet by Friday night and it will be down to -9°C by Saturday night.
The freezing level earlier this week was down to around 1000m and is hovering around 1500 - 2000m for the end of the week. This will drop down to around 800m at the weekend, with fresh north westerly winds on Saturday getting lighter into Sunday. The good news is that it looks like it will be staying cold with a low freezing level for the next few days, but hard to predict after that.
Although the snow coverage is looking good, be aware that as this is early season and the off-piste areas will not have been skied much yet, so not well compacted and there is likely to be thin coverage in many places.
The first planned event for the season is this weekend's opening event and the French Ski Mountaineering World Cup is on too. The Christmas festive atmosphere is beginning to build in the resort. It’s exciting to see Meribel all white again and the mountains will be adorned with skiers and the restaurants and bars will be open and buzzing once again from this Saturday.
Above shot is from the webcam at Versant Saulire, Meribel-Mottaret.
What's coming up
Are you planning to visit Meribel during December? Check out our guide of what’s on and weather in December.
Alongside Christmas and New Year parades you’ll find night time sledging, Sound Clash disco party, yoga and VTT winter fat bike tours. These events and more are all in our events calendar.
Have you got your ski pass yet? there maybe still early bird deals out there.
Updates
Scroll down to see live forecasts, lift status, links to webcams and above for real time photos from Meribel. We will be updating this snow report page every Thursday, so check back in with us next week to see how the pistes are doing and what you can expect from the snow forecast for the next seven days.
We need you!
If you're in Meribel this week, we want to see your images, especially videos, of what you've been up to. So when you post to Facebook or Instagram, please tag us @SeeMeribel #seemeribel. Every week, we'll be posting our favourite videos and images here and sharing on our social media, along with our weekly resort snow report.
Look forward to seeing you out on the pistes very soon.
