you shouldn't divide the alps into countries, cause france, switzerland and austria do have a southside and northside which can be completly different. for example this year the north didn't get much snow yet...thinking about st.anton where it normally snows a lot when it' coming from he north. it all came from south (which means really warm wind for the north - föhn) so currently regions like southtirol, easttirol, upperengadin, ticino and several italian resorts get a lot of snow! i often experienced that it's either a north or a south winter, so currently it looks like this year the souther alpregions are the lucky ones.