 It looks like this in the middle of winter.
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No snow at Olympics site. — Bad timing, I’d say. I blame the whole thing on the bad karma from NBC.
Winter Games officials have given up on Mother Nature and are planning to truck in snow for the freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at Cypress Mountain on Vancouver’s North Shore.
The Vancouver Olympic organizing committee (known as VANOC) says the forecast suggests there won’t be any new snow falling before the Games kick off Feb. 12, and they won’t be able to make enough in time for the skiing and snowboarding competitions.
Cypress Mountain is just one of the venues. But they are screwed. It’s currently 7c (45f) in Vancouver.
Whistler has loads of snow, but that could be a problem. 2 feet of fresh powder is fun to ski through, but you can’t have a downhill GS race in it. It’s currently -2c on the mountain, but +2c at the bottom.
If you want to buy the resort, you can put a bid in at the auction on Feb 19th (right in the middle of the Olympics). If your bid is successful you could seize the assets and blackmail the IOC.
Why is this news? Most ski resorts make their own snow to supplement mother nature.
>Most ski resorts make their own snow
Tricky when its +7C
>What will be the carbon footprint of trucking in all the snow?
They are only snowcatting it from the other side of the mountain – although they may have to use helicopters !
It’s ok though – Vanoc have some hydrogen powered cars for officials. Unfortunately they are trucking in the hydrogen from Quebec (3000km away)
What Olympics? Geez. Now we have the stupid crap every two years??? Make it go away.
Echoing chuck, the snow base at Whistler, the main Olympic site, the snow base is currently 9 1/2 feet after opening the ski season 2 weeks early due to record snow falls.
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Besides that, new natural snow is the worse thing that could happen for the Olympics there. The down hill must artificially groom the snow to hard, compact icy snow for the skiers. They would have to remove any unexpected natural stuff.
At the lesser Cypress Mountain location overlooking the city, all the required snow has already been warehoused at higher elevations. Sports like moguls and aerials don’t require much snow.
Until recent years, the City of Vancouver was lucky to see one day of snow.
I’m not sure how much snow is needed for the hockey, speed skating, curling figure skating and other indoor events.
RBG
In other news, my hometown of San Diego has been hit with gusty winds and rainfall for about a week now.
By DU’s standard, hell is above to surface on the entire world!
#25 said: “Until recent years, the City of Vancouver was lucky to see one day of snow.”
Why did you have to say that. Now, the lefty loons & warmers in here won’t be able to sleep at night. Reality doesn’t work for them.
So how long before the media and various environmental groups claim this is proof of global warming?
There are another 15 world class ski hills within a 5 hour drive from Vancouver. One of them will have what they need to do this if hauling snow from up higher doesn’t work.
#16 Another dumb American. Go back to your couch and watch TV
HEY! It’s a CANADIAN ARTICLE! It’s all they’re talking about on the CBC in British Columbia. And, yes, usually there is more snow..but we’ve had an unseasonably warm period…
Cypress Mountain is the issue — that’s the venue for most part of the Olympics — snowboarding and freestyle-skiing courses.
Whistler, meanwhile, is on the verge of a bankruptcy auction….during the Olympics
Vancouver, the city, doesn’t get much snow, no. But the whole damn place is surrounded by MOUNTAINS. Check the map.
RGB…
I don’t know where you are, but I’m IN THE Pacific Northwest…and we’ve had several days of unseasonably warm weather, following several weeks of unseasonably warm rains. The rivers are overflowing with snow pack run-off.
Don’t speak unless you are HERE.
As for Whistler opening early…duh, everything around here opened early because we had snow in early November…and really, really cold temps for a few weeks. But, weather changes, man.
When a season gets warmer than usual in any given location
… it’s global warming.
When a season gets colder than usual in any given location
… it’s climate change
When seasonal storm activity is more than usual in any given location
… it’s global warming.
When seasonal storm activity is less than usual in any given location
… it’s climate change.
When a season is warmer and drier than usual in any given location
… it’s global warming.
When a season is colder and wetter than usual in any given location
… it’s global warming.
Many of you are not old enough to remember this, but before 300 years ago the seasonal weather in any given location never changed. Every year was so exactly the same, that you could depend 100% that your crops wouldn’t suddenly be in a warm dry growing season when the year before it was wet and cold. If you got an average high of 81 degrees and 47 inches of rain… it would be the same every year for eternity. …Or so we thought.
Frozen oranges in Florida. Climate change or global warming?
Hint, cold winds from Canada have never blown south since the beginning of time… until now.
#33, Denier,
When a season gets warmer than usual in any given location
… it’s global warming.
When a season gets colder than usual in any given location
… it’s climate change
When seasonal storm activity is more than usual in any given location
… it’s global warming.
When seasonal storm activity is less than usual in any given location
… it’s climate change.
When a season is warmer and drier than usual in any given location
… it’s global warming.
When a season is colder and wetter than usual in any given location
… it’s global warming.
I know you’re trying to funny, but come on, really now. All you are doing is feeding the idiots that don’t understand the difference between weather and climate. Posting such funny stuff to people that think you’re serious is just wrong.
I think I will leave this one alone.
#34 Good to see you hard at work avoiding reality. I hope that’s what your therapist told you to do.
Why not have it in Alberta? Its always snowing there.