Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It

Re:Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It by todd8 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:19AM (#22064704)

I'm not sure which years you grew up in Toronto, but historically there can be pretty large swings in the number of days of snow and inches of snowfall.

A minute of googling revealed this for Toronto snowfall [1]:

    year   days   total snowfall

    2010    6     18.0 in (45.7 cm)
    2018   13     36.5 in (92.8 cm)

I calculate from the limited data on that web page (years 2010-2018) that the mean snowfall in Toronto is 36.6 inches and the standard deviation is 13.8 inches.

It looks like snowfall is increasing not decreasing. However, such limited data doesn't really reveal what's happening or going to happen in the future. There were only 9 data points given on the page I found. Someone can undoubtably find official historical data for Canada that will be more useful.

[1] https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/Canada/ON/Toro...

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Re:Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It by nl on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:27AM (#22064791)

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/2019/03/neige-accumulation-... is a good data vis on how snow has changed in major Canadian cities.

Ironically Toronto is the city least affected because of the great lakes, with little or no trend.

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Re:Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It by aphextim on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:45AM (#22066208)

I live in Upper Michigan and have noticed that our area seems to be less effected than others. If you like data here is some information regarding snowfall in the U.P.

http://funintheup.com/snowfall/upper-peninsula-snowfall-tota...

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Re:Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It by Roujo on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:35AM (#22065460)

Wow, the visualizations on that article are really well-made. I live in Montreal so it's a very interesting read, thank you for sharing it! =)

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Re:Climate Change Is Killing Alpine Skiing as We Know It by vzidex on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:32PM (#22067391)

Interesting, thank you! I guess I got caught up in my stress about this winter - while last winter did have a lot of snow, this winter has had nearly 0. Looking out the window of my office I see greenery, not snow, so I figure the huge swings from year to year are something to be concerned about.

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