Guest essay by Eric Worrall
As much of the USA experienced an abundance of the white stuff, CNN picked this as a good time to make an “end of snow” prediction.
Climate change is threatening winter sports’ very existence
By Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologist
Updated 1904 GMT (0304 HKT) February 29, 2020
(CNN)A warming planet has major ramifications on winter snowpack across the globe, including a long-term drying trend for many. That’s a concern for winter sports enthusiasts and communities that depend on snow throughout the year.
Not many understand this better than the climate advocacy group known as Protect Our Winters (POW). The group is an organization of professional athletes and like-minded individuals fighting for policy to protect winter sports and mountain communities.
“Increased temperatures are melting away both my sport and my livelihood,” professional ski mountaineer and POW representative Caroline Gliech told the US Senate late last year.
This year has been a prime example of what is becoming more common. Snowfall has been abysmal in California this winter. The state-wide snowpack is running far below average to date and there is little relief in sight before the season ends. This is a stark comparison to last year when California was walloped with above-average snowfall and ended the season 175% of average by April 1.
It’s this variability that leaves many wondering what the long-term trends are indicating. If climate science holds true, this winter whiplash could put many out of business as the low-snow years mount.
What a difference a year makes! Left: 2019, Right: 2020. Sierra snow pack is below normal for this time of year, at about 58% statewide. Dry weather is expected to continue. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/yjxR5JceCp
— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) February 18, 2020…
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/29/weather/climate-change-threatening-winter-sports-pow/index.html
Climate catastrophists just can’t help themselves. Their models predict a hothouse world in their lifetimes, so they see every glitch or variation in conditions as evidence the great temperature acceleration has begun, and endlessly embarrass themselves with their wild “end of snow” predictions.
Relatively warm of late here in Minnesota. Significant snow cover is still on the ground, we have just over a foot on our lawn right now though it is melting. Snow conditions at one of the popular ski areas look normal. Most runs are open and good depth of packed powder.
March is a snowy month typically, the High School State Tournaments are notorious for taking place in snowy conditions. We will see. I suspect that winter is not quite done with us yet.
https://www.lutsen.com/winter/conditions-map/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI18eOhbb55wIVEtvACh1zoAFVEAAYASABEgJGAPD_BwE
Wow. It looks like the climate changes from year to year. As in it oscillates between cold and snowy to not so cold and not so snowy. Just 3 years ago it was sooooo cold that pipes were bursting in houses and buildings all over New England. That’s when the term “polar vortex” was popularized. Well it’s the first I ever heard of it, anyway.
Variety is the spice of life. Who wants the same weather year after year? There are places you can move to in order to satisfy that need.
“CNN End of Snow: “Climate change is threatening winter sports’ very existence”
Yea! That’s why Squall Valley set a new record for late closing of the slopes last year and Winter Park opened earlier this year than ever before. Several resorts out west had July skiing last year.
You really have to watch the timing of the regular ongoing rollout of the dooming and glooming-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/british-ski-resort-visited-by-2million-a-year-buckling-due-to-climate-change/ar-BB10AN9A
and keep an eagle eye on the weather-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/travel/tripideas/peak-conditions-reached-at-one-of-scotlands-top-ski-resorts-heavy-snowfall-results-in-a-layer-of-white-stuff-over-15-inches-deep-on-cairngorm-mountain/ar-BB10uH1w
If this keeps up children aren’t going to know what mud looks like.
“If this keeps up children aren’t going to know what mud looks like.”
Already true here in Southern California where we have this “permanent drought”.
Gotta go check for my umbrella since it’s raining again today.
If the snow goes away then there is no need for the whole sports/industrial complex that sees northern ski teams fly to the southern tip of south america for training in our summer and also obliterates the whole edifice of world sport federations flying clouds of people around the world to compete, so getting rid of snow will eliminate masses of CO2 emissions.
success
Too right! Try to come up with a sport which is more CO2 intensive than downhill skiing and its spin-offs: SUV to get to the hill every weekend, second home on the hill, synthetic materials in every article of clothing and piece of equipment (replaced every few years), lifts, snow-making, etc. Hypocrisy unleashed.
https://apple.news/ACWggrhjkSV6aKq1fwREe0Q
This just in! Arctic ice free by 2034!
Well, not really. “Only” one million sq miles left. And the thick ice along the Arctic Islands.
Our model shows…
Correction: Square kilometers
Global ? Like global warming, huh ? How global, how warm ?
Over the pond we’ve just had quite some global weather, who needs summer?
Good news, the wings stood on because icing helped to keep them together.
I’ve spent a large chink of my life in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. For as long as I can remember, we’ve had some winters with lots of snow, and others where so little snow had fallen that radio and TV news programs reported that ski lift operators were turning on their artificial snowmakers more than usual.
It should be obvious that if ski lift operators had artificial snow makers,they had them because some winters had little natural snow.
On and on it goes with the monstering-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/cyclone-alley-monster-storm-whipped-up-by-tropical-system-to-send-seven-day-rain-bomb-through-the-heart-of-australia-but-first-sydney-will-sweat-through-one-of-the-hottest-autumn-days-on-record-with-temperatures-of-36c/ar-BB10BffF
Spot the pea and thimble trick from a lefty propaganda unit? They’re weather worrying over a whole continent that separates the Indian and Pacific Oceans and ranges from the tropics in the north down below the Tropic of Capricorn to Tasmania on the way to Antarctica that cops the Southern Ocean lows in winter along with the mainland southern coastline. This whole southern continent has only had a reasonable Stevenson Screen rollout from around 1910 (we don’t talk about those burning 1880s thermometers) but here tis-
“Australian summers are getting longer and winters shorter, analysis of weather data shows.
The Australia Institute has studied two decades worth of Bureau of Meteorology data for the nation’s cities, comparing it to a benchmark from the mid-twentieth century.”
Doomed I tell ya! We’re all doomed!
A strong La Niña will likely start this summer leading to a cold and snowy 20/21 winter, however, it will also likely bring “unprecedented” drought and wildfires to California, so CNN hacks will have plenty of Global-Warming fodder to feed their minions..
It’s getting time for climateers to dust off and trot out the Washington DC Cherry Blossom science
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51697803
Predictions like this were being made 30 years ago: the industry has not died during the last climate data point, has it?
What may be affected by warming is valley-level cross country ski-ing. I can certainly see traditional loipe in certain lower alpine areas becoming less reliable for snow, but remember that cross country requires far less depth than downhill.
Even if the season did contract a bit, right now ‘high season’ in Europe is really Christmas/New Year (2 weeks), February (4 weeks) and Easter (2 weeks). If the season contracted two weeks at each end, sensibility would suggest shifting holiday dates to January 15th to March 15th, so eight weeks of high season could be compressed into the most snow-sure dates.
Reality is that some lower, more marginal resorts may become uneconomic. The big boys like l’Espace Killy, Verbier, Lech/St Anton, Trois Vallees, Cervinia, Zermatt etc etc will continue to do just fine.
Where I live we had record snowfall this winter.
It’s snowing now in the French Alps (‘heavy snow’). Started about 6 hours ago. And will continue for about 12 hours more. Will be more than enough snow for the rest of the week.
We went back early due to the heavy snowfall. But tomorrow promises to be great because this snowfall is expected to stop by 7 AM tomorrow morning or so, and we’ll have more than half a meter of fresh powder.
As of last week, the Alta ski resort in the Wasatch Mountains (just east of Salt Lake City) had 35 FEET of snow, and the Salt Lake Valley got another 3 inches yesterday, so the total in Alta might be higher now. To any Californians complaining about lack of snow, go east, young man (or woman, as the case may be)!
March comes in like a lion, as usual!
Looks like they cherry-picked a date from 2019 after an usually widespread snowfall to make a deceptively misleading implication.
Also, while it has been a bad snow season in California, places like Utah, Colorado, Washington, Montana, Wyoming and Oregon are getting buried.
Everything is cherry picked, deceptively edited and misleading.
Passing off extensive snowpack throughout metro Reno as normal…
Might as well just use that satellite photo of that one time it snowed in Las Vegas and imply that is normal snowpack.