Golden snowfall

Winter has started good and cold with the highest November snowfall in parts of the Alps for 10 years seeing ski resorts open early. In the US, the Golden Snowball competition between the five snowbelt cities south of Lake Ontario is up and running, with Syracuse, last year’s winner, leading the pack of five lake effect snow cities with almost 16 inches, six inches more than an average year. Though European ski resorts are optimistic, long range forecast for the whole winter is that it is going to be slightly milder than average.

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