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You can feel it already, can’t you?
The air is crisp. The scent of woodsmoke lingers a little longer.
Your phone fills with glacier cams and old ski photos, each one tugging you back to the slopes.
You’re waiting for a sign; something to turn that daydream into a plan.
It’s arrived.
Her name is La Niña.
You’ve heard of El Niño - the “warm boy.”
La Niña is his quieter, colder counterpart. When the Pacific Ocean cools, jet streams shift and weather patterns reshape across the globe.
And this year, meteorologists are calling a 70 to 75 percent chance of a strong La Niña carrying through winter 2025/26; a pattern that tends to favour colder air and heavier snowfall across the Alps.
It’s the kind of forecast that makes every skier’s pulse quicken.
A winter that feels honest: crisp mornings, snow that holds its edge, light that cuts clear through the cold.
This isn’t just meteorology - it’s the mood of the season ahead.
1. Snow That Stays
When La Niña takes hold, storms deliver the kind of powder that whispers beneath your skis; light, dry, and built to last. It’s the chill that keeps the mountain true.
2. Pistes Built to Last
Cold, still nights give the piste teams their perfect canvas. La Niña nights help carve that early-season corduroy base that holds strong all winter - the kind you can still feel underfoot in April.
3. Days You Don’t Forget
La Niña winters rarely play it safe. They swing between long, cinematic bluebird stretches and sudden storms that bury chalets overnight. They’re the kind of seasons you talk about for years - the “we were there when” winters.
Here in the Alps, autumn is the inhale before the drop.
Peaks are already dusted white. Ski techs are tuning edges. Chalet fires are being tested for the first time since spring.
A La Niña forecast isn’t just a weather pattern - it’s a promise.
That the season ahead will be sharper, colder, more generous with snow.
Because in the end, that’s what we’re all chasing:
the first tracks after a storm,
the silence before sunrise,
the feeling that time - for once - is on our side.
This winter, it will be.
