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To: Signalman
Wonder how many water skiers found themselves on snow/in really chilly water instead.
8 posted on 05/09/2011 7:26:59 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

There’s a ski resort down in Australia I read about that said in a news story about a month ago that it started snowing two months earlier than normal.

Let me see if I can dig it up....

Yep, here it is!

http://www.iceagenow.com/Snow_hits_Australia_two_months_early.htm
Snow hits Australia two months early
Ski season still 2 months away

12 Apr 11 - With the official start to the ski season still two months away, snow continues falling across Mt Buller today after temperatures fell below zero last night, says this article in “The Age.”

About 10cm (3.9 inches) had fallen at Mt Buller by 9am.

Although snow is not unusual for April, 10 centimetres is a “significant amount for this time of year,” said Laurie Blampied, general manager of Buller Ski Lifts.

“It’s still two months until the official opening of the snow season but we love to see the temperatures dropping and snow coming to the mountain.”

Falls Creek and Mt Hotham also reported snow.


15 posted on 05/09/2011 7:32:34 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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