Skiing's Future

[TheGreatAbyss]

Stowe becomes the new mountain creek in terms of temps and snowfall

I have no idea but hopefully new resorts will be created in Canada to serve the growing populations of Quebec, upstate New York, and the northern Mid West.

 

[raisingarizona]

I'm hopeful everything that exists today will exist 30 years from now, just 500 miles north.

The climate refugees from Florida, The South West and Cali can buy my house in Jersey and hopefully by then my wife will let us move north too.

That sounds ridiculously expensive and unobtainable for most of us.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Meh, we're simply in a shitty pattern for the past few years. It's a cycle. Winters will return to the North East.

 

[jasonwx]

Meh, we're simply in a shitty pattern for the past few years. It's a cycle. Winters will return to the North East.

I agree
We go through these extended periods.

 

[MC2]

I agree
We go through these extended periods.

What?

 

[MC2]

What?
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Don’t you guys feel like that, if we do get a few cold or snowy years, those will be the anomaly, not the warm years (which we all should start accepting as “normal” now)?

 

[jimmypete]

I did read one authoritative article which said the snow drought and warm temps this year are not linked to global warming, but it is hard not to feel helpless.

 

[MC2]

I did read one authoritative article which said the snow drought and warm temps this year are not linked to global warming, but it is hard not to feel helpless.

Kind of a strange assertion. Would you call a paragraph like this “authoritative”, or would you question whether the author knows what he is talking about?

“Last year’s mediocre winter was due to global warming. This year’s shitty winter was not due to global warming. The year before last was global warming but the year before that year wasn’t global warming”

I wish we could all just agree on a basic story here. Maybe something like:

“Human-caused climate change is real. There will be good years & bad years in the future, due to localized weather phenomena, but the general trend is for warmer temperatures. This greatly affects low elevation skiing in the east, where the difference between a good snowstorm, and a shitty ice/rain event is only a few degrees. Additionally, warmer overall temperatures will increase the likelihood of melting between storms, impacting base depths & hurting off piste skiing. Snowmaking is saving eastern skiing for now, but rising temperatures will also impact snowmaking windows & force resorts to question their snowmaking strategies.”

 

[Sbob]

Kind of a strange assertion. Would you call a paragraph like this “authoritative”, or would you question whether the author knows what he is talking about?

“Last year’s mediocre winter was due to global warming. This year’s shitty winter was not due to global warming. The year before last was global warming but the year before that year wasn’t global warming”

I wish we could all just agree on a basic story here. Maybe something like:

“Human-caused climate change is real. There will be good years & bad years in the future, due to localized weather phenomena, but the general trend is for warmer temperatures. This greatly affects low elevation skiing in the east, where the difference between a good snowstorm, and a shitty ice/rain event is only a few degrees. Additionally, warmer overall temperatures will increase the likelihood of melting between storms, impacting base depths & hurting off piste skiing. Snowmaking is saving eastern skiing for now, but rising temperatures will also impact snowmaking windows & force resorts to question their snowmaking strategies.”

I think the reality of where we are climate wise is not fixable for decades. So what to do ?

At this point if Skiing’s going to survive till the next ice age kicks in it might have to be indoors.

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An over abundance of solar panels and batteries might be required to offset the power requirements . Building domes on hills which there are plenty of on the East coast rather then on flat lands .

 

[jimmypete]

Kind of a strange assertion. Would you call a paragraph like this “authoritative”, or would you question whether the author knows what he is talking about?

“Last year’s mediocre winter was due to global warming. This year’s shitty winter was not due to global warming. The year before last was global warming but the year before that year wasn’t global warming”

I wish we could all just agree on a basic story here. Maybe something like:

“Human-caused climate change is real. There will be good years & bad years in the future, due to localized weather phenomena, but the general trend is for warmer temperatures. This greatly affects low elevation skiing in the east, where the difference between a good snowstorm, and a shitty ice/rain event is only a few degrees. Additionally, warmer overall temperatures will increase the likelihood of melting between storms, impacting base depths & hurting off piste skiing. Snowmaking is saving eastern skiing for now, but rising temperatures will also impact snowmaking windows & force resorts to question their snowmaking strategies.”

if I knew who wrote it and read the sources fine, I am not saying man made global warming isn't real, I am saying the author of the piece I read gave specific details on why this La Niña event was causing the particularly bad year for snow. Some scientific jargon and acronyms that were difficult for me to interpret. I firmly believe in global warming and wish we had the political will to try and reverse it, but this specific year may be an anomaly , I have my fingers crossed. Btw I also read a year or two ago how we were going to get more snow because of the increased water vapor and higher seas, guess that didn't happen