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More unfortunately long term data concentrates Central Chile precipitation in June/July with decreasing amounts in later months. So a dry June is a bad indicator. Offsetting might be the strengthening El Nino, but it's only at 0.5 now.

Pucon lift served looked very marginal when Liz and I were there for New Year's 2018. It's mostly attractive to backcountry skiers who climb the Villarrica volcano above the lifts. Corralco has Amercian management, bought a high speed quad from Holiday Valley and shipped it to Chile. Stuart...

My observation is that climate change affects: 1) Inland areas more than coastal areas 2) Summer more than winter, especially in the inland areas. So in terms of skiing what is most visible is the shrinking summer glacier season in the Alps. North America's summer ski scene is way more...

What is the difference between Rugby Union and Rugby League? Is one of them the 7-man version that is popular in Fiji?

The observation I made in post #2 above prompted me to refresh and update my El Nino page.

Yes, Liz and I went to a game in Buenos Aires. The visiting team fans were segregated into a section behind one of the goals with a 20+ foot high chain link fence. When the game was over those fans were let out of the stadium immediately and no one else was allowed to leave for 15 minutes.

Sbooker can correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that soccer's place in the pecking order of popular spectator sports is similar in Australia as in the U.S. How many variants of "Aussie Rules" football are there in addition to rugby, which is THE sport in New Zealand? In July 1997 we...

Unhappy neighbor today! 0 for 2.

World Cup game today, accurately predicted by @jamesdeluxe The game started at 5AM in sbooker's time zone.

Jimmy probably counts all of those SkiWelt villages, for sure any of them that started as stand alone ski areas. In fairness he has been living in Austria since the 1970’s and may have skied some with defined boundaries. The most clear cut reason and means to divide big complexes is when there...

It is counterintuitive but even when you get on the south side of the San Juan Mts. at Purgatory and Wolf Creek, there is still no evidence of favor to El Niño.

I know that. That's the argument for counting as three areas. I should have specified Val Thorens was the fourth developed ski area. Liz is occasionally stricter on ski area definition that I am. Last night I found one example where she is not. She counted Oz Vaujany as separate from Alpe...

"The Blob" was a phenomenon of persistent high pressure along with the warm water that was the primary factor in California's worst ever 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons in succession, barely nosing out 1975-76 plus 1976-77. 2013-14 was neutral and 2014-15 was weak El Nino. El Nino has a reputation...

I see no logic in counting 3 Vallées as one given: 1) Massive scale 2) Defined domain single area lift tickets at a discount from the 3 Vallées pass. We all bought single area tickets the day we skied together at Courchevel. I can see a strict interpretation of geography and nomenclature...

Reminded me some of Vail's Back Bowls, but the spring no overnight freeze conditions weren't great. Yes, #2 in the 2025 Vanat Report: I'd guess Plagne Centre is the largest lodging base at that elevation (1,970) in the Alps. We drove to it and had a hard time figuring out where to buy lift...

I was unable to copy in any way other than a screenshot of what displayed on the computer. Picture to .xlsx conversion requires a Microsoft 365 subscription. One of the solutions I tried earlier was very close. I reached out to Xenforo Marc, who suggested: Replacing /pubhtml (at the end of...

Yes, and I should have realized you're only taking it one way if skiing Vallee Blanche from that side.

I have wasted over two hours trying to download this file: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQWNiBrrz1TOMRDnh4v4szob_nKany9HhE-YyXU-Mg1h9vCstNG4MlRDAAhVGxtuaoXEdbjbUltkzok/pubhtml This is Mammoth's daily snowfall record, which I have routinely downloaded or copy/pasted for...

The road to the Remarkables approaches from the north so much of the current area has bad exposure. Doolans will improve that. A Google Earth measurement shows that the expansion is about 1,200 vertical feet at an overall intermediate 4-1 length to vert ratio. This compares to 3-1 at...

We only had one day at La Plagne. The absolute definition of industrial skiing. At least it's big enough that you don't need to spend a lot of time in those sectors. I had 3 days in 2013 plus a shortened day with Liz in 2017. Of the satellite areas I had half days at Madrisa and Jakobshorn...