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How climate change threatens to close ski resorts
By Isabelle Gerretsen January 25, 2023
From the Swiss Alps to the Rocky Mountains, ski resorts are grappling with the effects of climate change. How do they adapt in a warming world?
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The Alps experience record high temperatures over Christmas and New Year, reaching 20.9C (70F) in northwestern Switzerland.
Stephanie Dijkman, Anzère tourism director, said: “The weather is especially warm around Christmas and New Year. “Almost all the snow in the village has disappeared. I was quite worried.” She added that people cannot ski down the village.
Fortunately, it started snowing again in early JanuaryJust in time for the arrival of “true ski fans” who book trips outside of the holiday season and hope for “very good conditions,” she said.
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As the temperature increases, the the atmosphere eventually holds more water vapor This leads to more rainfall, says Marie Cavitte, a climatologist and climatologist at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. “[When] rising temperatures, [water vapour] falling like rain instead of falling like snow,She added. “That’s what’s happening at low-altitude ski stations, below 1,600m (5,250ft). There we are seeing more rain in snow events increase the melting of existing snow.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230124-how-climate-change-threatens-to-close-ski-resorts
Back in 2021, the BBC tells us that global warming is making winters colder;
Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters
Published September 2, 2021
By Matt McGrath
environmental reporterAn increase in extreme winter weather in parts of the United States is linked to rapid Arctic warming, a new study suggests.
Scientists found that warming in the region eventually disturbed the circular wind pattern known as polar vortex.
This allowed colder winter weather to spill over into the US, notably the Texas cold snap in February.
The authors say that warming will make winters colder in some locations.
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Over the past four decades, satellite records have shown how growing global temperatures have profoundly affected the Arctic.
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“We are arguing that melting sea ice across northwestern Eurasia, coupled with greater snowfall across Siberia is leading to an increase in the west-to-east temperature difference across Eurasia. ,” explains lead author, Dr. Judah Cohen, professor at the Institute. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a weather risk management company.
“We know as the temperature difference increases, it leads to more disruption of the polar vortex. And when it weakens, that leading to more severe winter weather like the Texas cold snap this past February.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58425526
Reading the BBC, does it appear that climate change makes some winters warm and rainy, some winters cold and snowy, and some winters with warm and cold spells?
Don’t forget people, science has settled.
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