Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Willie Soon – bitter cold weather in Pyeongchang is damaging the skis of Olympic athletes practicing for the games.
Cold weather turning skis to garbage in Pyeongchang
Rory Carroll
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) – Brutally cold conditions in Pyeongchang are warping skis and forcing some athletes to toss them out after training runs, an Alpine skiing course worker told Reuters on Wednesday.
“One of the coaches said they are throwing the skis out after today,” Craig Randell, a start crew technician working on his third Olympics, said on a chilly morning at the Yongpyong Alpine Centre, where the slalom, giant slalom and team events will be held later this month.
“You can’t do anything about it but with the cold temperatures, the snow adheres to the ski base and twists it.”
“They are turning their skis to garbage real fast,” he said.
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Lets see, bitter cold in Asia, freezing conditions in the USA, icy conditions in Britain, People skiing in the streets of Paris, heavy snowfall in the Sahara, the Russian army is helping snowbound residents in Moscow, but remember any cold you are experiencing is a local or regional event, climate scientists assure us that we are currently experiencing an unusually warm year.
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South Korea is exceptionally dry in the winter. Co-workers that moved there from the U.S. and took their wood furniture soon found the wood cracking because of the dryness.
Is warming at the living room scale weather or climate? I get confused.
In Chicago, I was looking at temperature records. Most record lows were set in the 1980s. If climate cycles in a 60 year cycles, we have just had the 30 year warm phase, and now, as many observes have noted, we are heading back into the 30 year cold phase.
I hope not, those records were -20, -25, -27F, often for several days below zero.
I am not looking forward to a decade of repeating those temps.
Well it sure looks like your about to get caught up on your snow quotient in Chicago.
Yep! The places mentioned are having weather events. However Alaska, where it’s been warmer than usual for most of this winter is feeling the effects of “climate change” they say.
Taiwan earthquakes were caused by the same Australian coalminers who killed all the polar bears on the Great Barrier Reef.
The polar vortex in the lower stratosphere is in the phase of division into two vortices. This is indicated by the areas with the least amount of ozone.
http://pics.tinypic.pl/i/00958/k5qrcjylxvf6.png
Current temperature in North America.
http://files.tinypic.pl/i/00958/76ht3fft69v2.png
Extreme temperature on the Hudson Bay.
Feels like temperature -51.5 degrees C.
http://images.tinypic.pl/i/00958/ztcbitch4jel.png
This is the forecast of circulation in the lower stratosphere.
http://files.tinypic.pl/i/00958/balro9o2xv05.png
This story doesn’t pass the sniff tests
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/kr/forecasts/attractions/-/pyeongchang-olympic-village
Overnight lows of -12°C are NOT “Bitter Cold”. In-fact, that is almost ideal ski weather. These pre-Olympics doom stories have become routine, every Olympics we hear some sort of doom story, however, each Olympics has turned out just fine. More fake news.
This is absolutely NOT going to advance their “Global Warming is about to destroy mankind narrative” no matter how convoluted they try to make the argument that cold is hot.
“Too cold for actual snow? Bring in the fake stuff”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/42885124
Also BBC radio reporter mentioned mobile phone battery lasting 10-15 minutes.
People. World class athletes that use exquisitely designed equipment with the difference of being on the podium vs not being less than a second. They consider, discuss and complain about everything. The writer picked up on one thing to send his story. Stop overthinking.
Living in Tokyo, which is an labyrinth of concrete, steel, and glass, both above and below ground, covered and crawling with electric and fossil-fueled machines, we expect the city to be getting warmer. But we recently broke a multi-decade cold record. The pond in the park across from my home became completely ice-covered, for the first time in all the years I have lived here.
I have been living in Korea for more than 10 years and been snowboarding here for as many years. Winters in the Korean mountains can be cold. Temperatures of -20C are not uncommon. This year is like any other year: cold. Nothing special.
Ski jumping and some downhill events take place in the resort Alpensia. Here is a link to the current temperature there: http://www.alpensiaresort.co.kr/AlViewInfoWeatherAlpensiaWeather.gdc
Sorry, it is in Korean, but the orange line with the dots shows the temperature in Celsius.
Today (Feb 9) it is going to be between -10C and +4C.
More snow means it’s warmer.
Energy is released to the air that would be in the water vapor before snowfall.
Well done – someone on here who realises that more snowfall doesn’t mean colder.
And, as he says, it is in fact the opposite.
Yes yes, but think about the feedbacks! Snow reflects sunshine, causing a negative feedback loop! What was the thing you alarmists were scared of before this round? Glaciation? Or just ice age? /bored
Damn near 60 F today in Salt Lake City. Send us some of that snow!
Not that I am complaining.
Remember, in ski racing, 1/100th of a second can be the difference in being first place or not. Yes, the fibers in a ski break down with use and likely quicker if it is cold but are the skis really “warped” in a way that ordinary people would notice? Maybe the difference in a “good” ski and a “garbage” ski is tiny. I’d like to hear a clear description from a ski tech working with the racers, instead of a second hand reference to a comment a coach made.