I noticed that the World Cup Ski Races in Val d'Isère scheduled for December 10-11, have been cancelled due to a lack of snow, and rescheduled for Tuesday-Thursday December 6-8 at Colorado's Beaver Creek.
@Liftopia linked a story about Swiss Ski Season's Start Stalled By Snow Shortage.
Here atop the High Sierra, we're woefully short on natural snow so far this season as well. Weather so far has not favored snowmaking, either. It's been the better part of two weeks now since the fans and guns ran around the clock. Wednesday I saw a couple of fans making snow at Boreal, but a look at Boreal's Webcam at 4PM showed they'd already shut down. My 2PM-ish view showed some wind...the snow looked like it was heading into the trees between trails. The nearby PWS showed peak wind gusts were into the 40mph-50mph range, on top of 18mph-20mph steady winds at the time. High Wind Warnings are up all night.
It's funny...after reading the AFDs from Reno for snowmaking, and Monterey/SFO for Tomales Bay Crab Fishing forecasts, I remembered my "new tool" for North American Precipitation Prediction, Europe-Asia Snow Cover. I wrote about it earlier in June. I took a look and a picture is worth a thousand words...
Today's picture shows Europe almost devoid of Snow Cover.
Here they are side by side...
Big winds with cold temps finally visited the Tahoe Sierra Thursday, and snowmaking crews went to work. NOAA's Remote Data was impressive...big winds and diving temps. Ski season will begin in earnest sometime...sooner than later is my wish.
What has been the NEWS for the past decade is that the decline in snow mass is from"Global Warming" (I know that horrible fact) brought on by too many people with too many industrial tendancies during an epoch of interglacial climate phenomena. La Nina is a small player.
ReplyDeleteIt's been studied, recorded and verified by thousands of reputable scientists. We don't know the tipping point. But that's a lot of fresh water going into the ocean. It changes a lot of up dwelling and down dwelling currents. And that my friend changes the way of life for a big portion of plants and animals that dwell in the liquid depths of the earth. And so on and so on.
It's really amazing to be able to witness this stuff in action. Incredible.
It's been cold, sunny brite. I just don't get the man made snow stuff. Can't be cost efficient. Don't know the effects it has on the landscape? Guess not much or the FS would probably not allow a permittee to use the artificail snow making techniques if it did?
Folly or sport?
Re: "What has been the NEWS for the past decade is that the decline in snow mass is from"Global Warming" (I know that horrible fact) brought on by too many people with too many industrial tendancies during an epoch of interglacial climate phenomena. La Nina is a small player"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
I guess some people selectively follow the NEWS and completely missed Climategate. Heck, we are already on Climategate 2.0.
ReplyDeletehttp://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/22/climategate-2-0/
As for fresh water entering the global oceans -- and at a rate to drive global climate change -- name one valid peer reviewed study with real evidence supporting that conclusion.
Just name one. I would like to read it.
What we have here is a perfect example of a non-scientist in a completely unrelated field taking a research hypothetical and treating it as if it not only passed for theory but fact!
It is enough to make a grown man groan.