Posted on 03/01/2010 5:47:58 PM PST by JimWayne
..an article I wrote for The Vancouver Sun way back in 2003...But Vancouver has an average snowfall of just 48 centimetres and -- as most Vancouverites know -- it is rare for even that small amount to stay on the ground for more than a couple of days.
Vancouver's lack of snow will have no practical impact on the Games.
(Excerpt) Read more at communities.canada.com ...
I can’t remember who it was but some comedian said that the Olympic committee really needs to start “calling” these cities selected for the winter games and ask them if it snows there. LOL!
The next Olympics will be in Sochi, Russia. It’s a warm-weather port in the Black Sea.
http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/weather/snowreport/index.htm
I bet if they had invited Gore to give a speech on AGW it would have become unseasonably cold and snowy.
Then they should have asked them if it snows there.
I gave you the snow report. Of course it snows there. What is your agenda other to show some ignorance?
...just saying how terrific the Olympics were.
Bush is to blame for this one for sure!
The 2003 article points that out too but the point of my post is to bust the claim of the AGW people that Vancouver was “unusually” warm this winter.
Yes, and Algore could have 'saved' The Games by giving such a speech. But then again, of course, Lindsay Vonn may not have won Gold nor Bronze due to postponing the skiing events while she was nursing a sore shin ... she might not have even participated had they not been postponed!
Algore did good in staying away, and USA won two medals because of it :)
(just my silly take on the matter:)
-- MM
After some amazing winters with all-time record snows in the Pacific Northwest over the last few years, El Nino gives us a dud. I have lived here all my life, over 50 years , and it has never failed yet to have a dud year about every 5 or 6 years. predicted long ago when Vancouver got the Olympics, that that 2010 will be the low snow year, and I was right.
I didn’t pay much attention to the Games, but if they average over 30 feet of snow a year, how did it come to be that they had to fly snow in by helicopter?
My point was that there were no ski events in the CITY of Vancouver. If you want to know annuals or year to date for Whistler go to the lionk.
Flashback NOV 2009
Whistler-Blackcomb sets November snow record
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Whistler+Blackcomb+sets+November+snow+record/2290797/story.html
Not all of the snow events were in Whistler. Snowboarding and freestyle skiing events were held at Cypress Mountain, where they had to fly in snow and were forced to refund thousands of tickets because the quickly melting “snow” couldn’t hold the spectators.
I did go to the link, that’s how I found out they average over 30 feet a year.
I was just curious why they were flying snow in.
It doesn’t really matter.
Perhaps his agenda was to bait you to display your ignorance of sentence construction.
Or, perhaps, to get you to display some false arrogance.
Whichever, he succeeded admirably.
It appears that, in your ignorant arrogance, you did not notice that many events were adversely affected by poor, or no, snow conditions. Some were postponed, others contested in conditions not usually accepted in international competition.
Yeah, if you have not read the article at the link yet, please do so. It is a good one especially since it was written in 2003.
Yeah, I checked an Atlas and couldn’t believe that Sochi was so far south. It’s practically on the border with Georgia. I would’ve figured a northern city like Murmansk would’ve been a better choice.
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