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Tignes (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France, known for the highest skiable area [3] and the longest ski season [4] in Europe.
On arrival at 3,032 m (9,948 ft) one can transfer to the Grande Motte cable-car that brings the skier to 3,456 m (11,339 ft), the highest point in Tignes. The system opened on 15 June 1989. The name Perce-Neige is a play on words, in that perce-neige is the French word for a snowdrop but can also be interpreted more literally as the funicular ...
Tignes – Val d'Isère is the combined ski resort area of Val d'Isère and Tignes in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie in the French Alps. It is sometimes known as Espace Killy, in honour of the spectacularly successful skier Jean-Claude Killy who was raised there. [5] [6] There are claimed to be 300 km of pistes:
Tignes Val Claret is the highest of the five villages that make up the Tignes Ski resort, [1] sitting at 2,100 metres. It is the resort's newest village, built mainly in the 1960s as demand grew for skiing in the resort of Tignes. [2] Like many resorts built at this time, Tignes Val Claret was constructed primarily as a ski resort.
Tignes-les-Brevières (French pronunciation: [tiɲ le bʁevjɛʁ]; 1550m) is a small skiing village in the French Alps that is the lowest point of the ski resort of Tignes. [ 1 ] Owing to its geographical location the village receives as much snowfall as its neighbours and during the 2005/6 season, Les Brevieres had over 4 metres of snow.
ECMWF aims to provide accurate medium-range global weather forecasts out to 15 days and seasonal forecasts out to 12 months. [11] Its products are provided to the national weather services of its member states and co-operating states as a complement to their national short-range and climatological activities, and those national states use ECMWF's products for their own national duties, in ...
Climate zoning for mainland France in 2020, drawn up by Météo-France. The climate of France is the statistical distribution of conditions in the Earth's atmosphere over the national territory, based on the averages and variability of relevant quantities over a given period, the standard reference period defined by the World Meteorological Organization being 30 years.
Espace Killy with Tignes and Val-d'Isère is further up the valley. These communities hosted most of the events for the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics. [citation needed] A weekly lift ticket in any of the described systems gives skiers a choice to ski one day in each of the other two systems mentioned. There were once plans to interlink all ...