These links to avalanche risk information, training material and weather info may be useful before going out on touring:

Avalanche risk information

European conditions:

Austria http://www.lawine.at/
Austria - Tirol in English http://homes.tiscover.com/RGN16at/lawine/lageberichte/LLBTirol_en.pdf
France http://france.meteofrance.com/france/montagne
Norway http://senorge.no/mapPage.aspx
Scotland http://www.sais.gov.uk/
Switzerland http://www.slf.ch/english_EN
Europe http://www.avalanches.org/

Information and training:

SAIS Scotland http://www.sais.gov.uk/avalanche-awareness.asp
Forest Service National Avalanche Center http://www.avalanche.org/~nac/
Utah Avalanche center- Avalanche Education http://www.avalanche.org/~uac/ava_edu.html
Avalanche First Response Training http://access.jibc.ca/avalancheFirstResponse/course.htm
A dozen more turns - the film http://www.lifeonterra.com/episode.php?id=77
Caution Avalanches http://www.preventionweb.net/files/2620_CautionAvalanches.pdf

In French:

Anena - connaissance de base http://www.anena.org/savoir/avalanches/avalanche_connaissance_de_base.html

In Spanish:

http://www.igc.cat/web/gcontent/es/allaus/igc_allaus_coneixementsbasics.html

In German:

http://www.slf.ch/praevention/index_DE?redir=1&
Whiterisk http://www.whiterisk.org/

References:

http://tinyurl.com/6mvor9
http://tinyurl.com/69sz5l
http://tinyurl.com/5m2sge
http://www.slf.ch/praevention/literatur

Weather:

http://www.meteoexploration.com
http://www.mwis.org.uk/
http://www.arl.noaa.gov/READYcmet.php
European rainfall radar http://www.meteox.com/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur
Link to national weather services: http://www.meteoalarm.eu/

Thanks for this comprehensive resource!

Another weather link to add is:

http://www.euro.wx.propilots.net/

which is an amalgamation of a range of reports from across Europe all available at one location.

thanks for those, a couple of others:

http://www.data-avalanche.org/alea_avalanches/

and the ANENA’s new blog

http://blog-anena.over-blog.com/

Just leaving for the Aravis area and I’m struggling to find some decent local information.

Am I missing something or is the French info’ just dire? I’m used to the SLF reports which are in a single place, I can’t find a simple single source of information for France.

Just did a search for Savoie Avalanche Bulletin and this came up

http://pistehors.com/backcountry/wiki/Avalanches/Savoie-Avalanche-Bulletin

Take care, I’m off to Pras sur Lys in a couple of minutes.

brilliant, just what I wanted.

I still think we’ve got the edge here though, here’s my local stuff

http://snowslider.net/snow-avalanche-conditons/

Yes the Swiss info is definitely better. I spoke to the French forecasters about producing a more graphical version of the bulletin, wait and see. One thing I learned was they do an English language bulletin but it is only distributed to ski resorts.