Spain's Sierra Nevada ski area, the most southerly in Europe, is posting the deepest snowpack in Europe at present, reaching 3 metres (10 feet) in the past few days.
Sierra Nevada, which is located above the ancient Moorish city of Granada and has Spain's highest slopes reaching 3,300 meters (10,827 feet) at its Veleta peak, has posted Europe's deepest snow in the past, but that's when it has reached 5 or 6 metre depths, most recently about a decade ago.
This winter though snow depths across Europe are below average and it only needed to make the 3m mark to move to the top. The previous deepest, reported by Flaine in French Alps, dropped from 310 to 295cm over the past 24 hours.
The three-metre depth reflects a very snowy March in south-western Europe after a previously often dry and warm winter had left areas struggling to open much terrain. Since the start of March though most areas in the region have reported deeper bases and more terrain open than they've had all season.
One centre in the French Pyrenees posted on Facebook that it had it's best conditions of the winter after 30cm of snowfall in 24 hours on Sunday/Monday, but very few skiers, creating dream conditions for the lucky few there.
Portugal's only ski area, Serra da Estrela, was closed at the weekend due to blizzard conditions but has since dug out and re-opened its slopes.