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Alps Sees Record-Breaking Late-Season Snowfall

A powerful spring snowstorm has engulfed the Alps, delivering record-breaking snowfall, shutting down resorts, severing transport links, and claiming lives.

At the heart of the storm, Switzerland’s Bortelsee station in the Simplon region has shattered national snowfall records late last week, receiving 89 inches (226 cm) in just 48 hours and 97 inches (247 cm) over three days. This surpasses previous records set in 1999 and 1990.

Across the border in France, the storm turned deadly.