The Andes mountains of South America are getting clobbered with another large storm right now. Some resorts saw big snow last night and some have enormous snowfall forecast this week.
Las Lenas, Argentina has already saw 22-31″ of snowfall last night. Another 41″ of snow is forecast in the next 3 days in Las Lenas!
Valle Nevado, Chile has 55″ of snow forecast in the next 3 days…
Nevados de Chillan, Chile has 40″ of snow forecast this week…
SOUTH AMERICAN SKI RESORT PHOTO TOUR, SNOWFALL TOTALS, SNOW FORECASTS:
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Las Lenas, Argentina
- 55-80cms (22-31″)new snow
- Open daily
- 104cms (41″) of snow forecast next 3 days
Penitentes, Argentina
- 23-32cms (9-12″) new snow
- Open daily
- 42cms (16.5″) of snow forecast next 3 days
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Cerro Catedral, Argentina
- 0-25cms (0-10″) new snow
- Open daily, very limited operations (beginners only)
- 19cms (7″) of snow forecast today
Cerro Castor, Argentina
- 5-15cms (2-6″) new snow
- Open daily, limited operations (beginners only)
- 0cms forecast this week
Valle Nevado, Chile
- 15cm (6″) new snow
- Open daily
- 140cms (55″) of snow forecast next 3 days
Portillo, Chile
- ocms new snow
- Open daily
- 72cms (28″) of snow forecast next 3 days
Nevados de Chillan, Chile
- No report
- Closed
- 102cms (40″) of snow forecast this week
Corralco, Chile
- No report
- Closed
- 74cms (29″) of snow forecast this week
Portillo, Chile yesterday as the storm arrived. image: portillo