Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
1–10 of 38 posts
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#2For the first time ever I had to cancel my holidays due to climate change. I was planning on skiing in the first week of January, not gonna happen.
It was 14 degrees during the day on 31 Dec. 20 years ago it was unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year.
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#3For the first time ever I had to cancel my holidays due to climate change. I was planning on skiing in the first week of January, not gonna happen. It was 14 degrees during the day on 31 Dec. 20 years ago it was unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year.
Weather is not climate.
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#4A number of ski resorts have already closed down (temporarily one hopes) in Switzerland (https://www.20min.ch/story/so-dramatisch-ist-die-lage-in-den...)
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#5Nice timing. I was in Avoriaz, France yesterday. At 1800 meters, it is more likely to have snow. Still it hit 13 degrees yesterday. That’s too warm for the snow cannons. It was the only resort around to have snow, so it was super crowded.
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#6For the first time ever I had to cancel my holidays due to climate change. I was planning on skiing in the first week of January, not gonna happen. It was 14 degrees during the day on 31 Dec. 20 years ago it was unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year.
Weather is not climate.
But climate is composed of weather.
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#7Silver lining, hopefully some rich people of influence are disappointed enough to start taking CC seriously.
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#8For the first time ever I had to cancel my holidays due to climate change. I was planning on skiing in the first week of January, not gonna happen. It was 14 degrees during the day on 31 Dec. 20 years ago it was unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year.
Weather is not climate.
Weather and weather events are a consequence of a number of factors, a big one of which is climate and change in the latter therefore also drives change in the former.
Example: in my home city the winters have been getting warmer on average pretty drastically. I'm in my mid-twenties, around the time of my birth the average winter weather YoY was still cold enough to freeze the sound (not the audio one) near my home deep and hard enough anyone could walk nearly the whole width from one bank to the other. During my early childhood we had ~0.5m of snow nearly all winter but I can't remember having even a "white christmas" since I was ~14. Even this winter we had like 10-15cm of snow total, most of which melted as soon as hit the ground, a layer of ~5cm stayed for around a week a bit before christmas. The holidays themself were cold (not freezing) and it rained almost the entire time.
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#9For the first time ever I had to cancel my holidays due to climate change. I was planning on skiing in the first week of January, not gonna happen. It was 14 degrees during the day on 31 Dec. 20 years ago it was unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year.
I spent a while looking at this trying to figure out why 14 degrees would be a problem before I realized it was Celsius rather than Freedomheit.
Re: Snow shortage threatens Alps with wet winter season
#10For the first time ever I had to cancel my holidays due to climate change. I was planning on skiing in the first week of January, not gonna happen. It was 14 degrees during the day on 31 Dec. 20 years ago it was unusual not to have snow for Christmas and New Year.
You can come to USA. Utah and california had great starts to their ski season. One of the best, infact.