Queenstown Detailed Snow Forecasts & Weather Maps

The Grasshopper has offered up his predictions for winter 2011. Here is an excerpt from his Snow Season Outlook:
It's hard to say what's in store for New Zealand Ski resorts this winter, but with one of the strongest ever La Nina's dying out, sea surface temperatures are above normal near New Zealand... Whatever happens, the good news is that snowfall across the Alps tends to be fairly reliable, as the map below (courtesy of NZSki) indicates. So this winter, as with most years, expect the snow pack to increase rapidly in the last two weeks of June and peak around late August.
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