{"id":15317,"date":"2019-12-24T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T13:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.travelcenter.uk\/?p=15317"},"modified":"2020-02-21T04:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T04:24:12","slug":"perils-of-avalanche-in-the-french-alps-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/perils-of-avalanche-in-the-french-alps-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Perils of Avalanche in the French Alps this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><span style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"tadv-color\">Avalanche forecast with danger ratings&nbsp;<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"tadv-color\">\u2018HAT\u2019 explains current avalanche risk in the French Alps<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Avalanche Talk \u2018HAT\u2019 is a team of professionals who are set together to\nconduct training sessions and make avid skiers aware of the perils of going\noff-piste. The founder of HAT, Henry Schniewind recently revealed their new\navalanche forecast reports with danger ratings which will be useful to fresh\nskiers and to save millions of lives by dangerous accidents in the off-piste in\nthe French Alps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Schneiwind also stated that fierce snowstorms and heavy precipitation\nare anticipated across the French Alps, which can be followed by calmer and\nsunnier weather for Christmas. He also warned winter sports enthusiasts that\nskiing in French Alps can be dangerous as there is a hidden risk under the\nsnowpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">According to the forecast reports by HAT, significant precipitation,\nstormy weather with blizzard will be experienced over the weekend which will\ncontinue for several days. Due to the massive quantity of snow in the region,\nskiers can expect a high risk of an avalanche too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Explaining the current avalanche risk in the Northern French Alps, HAT\nofficials said that avalanche risk is moderate for now which is 2\/5 below\n2,200m, and that can be considerably 3\/5 above that altitude. Yet, during and\nafter the snowstorms that are forecast, will go up to 4\/5 or even higher to\n5\/5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Meteorological experts together with Piste patrol organization have\nissued their regional avalanche forecast with danger rating based on their\nexperience in the mountain to aware people who are looking forward to taking\npart in winter sports activities in the French Alps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">These specific indicators are likely to save millions of peoples out of <a>the<\/a>&nbsp;risk of the avalanche.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The newly updated avalanche forecast will be published on noticeboards\naround the ski area to aware local skiers and in the official website for\nforeign travellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">HAT says fresh skiers must read the forecast before they ski and know avalanche danger ratings to minimize accidents on the off-piste. To follow the avalanche forecast, skiers should know the definition of the danger ratings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avalanche forecast with danger ratings&nbsp; \u2018HAT\u2019 explains current avalanche risk in the French Alps Avalanche Talk \u2018HAT\u2019 is a team of professionals who are set together to conduct training sessions and make avid skiers aware of the perils of going off-piste. The founder of HAT, Henry Schniewind recently revealed their new avalanche forecast reports with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":15318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16389,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15317\/revisions\/16389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}