Many ski areas finish with record-breaking seasons - Outdoors Highlight Story - The Olympian - Olympia, WashingtonWe don't know as much as we think we know on the weather. Personally, I blame the lack of sunspots.Ski areas throughout the Northwest had such great snow in the 2007-08 winter that neither its November absence nor its road-closing, midwinter surplus could prevent a banner year for the winter-sports industry.
Several resorts - including the Summit at Snoqualmie - set new highs in skier/snowboarder visits and others, like White Pass, had seasons that ranked among their all-time best.Snoqualmie's total of 714,000 user visits through April 30 already was more than 100,000 higher than its previous best winter. Washington's 49 Degrees North and Oregon's Mount Hood Meadows both set all-time records for skier visits, and White Pass had one of its top five years, with about 130,600 visits.
In all, Washington ski resorts will finish with about 2.1 million visits, about 50,000 off the record winter of 2001-02.
"These numbers are remarkable, because we had no November," said Scott Kaden, president of Pacific Northwest Ski Areas Association. "Some ski areas had to wait two weeks into December to get open, and some even had to wait three or four weeks.
J.
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Jerry:
Scientists are blaming global warming for increasing numbers of cyclonic storms.
Link: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080523.html
otpu
Posted by otpu | May 23, 2008 9:27 PM
Posted on May 23, 2008 21:27
It's Bush's fault. If we'd only signed Kyoto, we'd be seeing normal weather patterns... on Jupiter.
Good pic, that! Thanks!
J.
Posted by JLawson | May 24, 2008 10:14 AM
Posted on May 24, 2008 10:14