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That graph is for Europe. The worldwide anomaly for June was 1.39C. This fits with a recent article (I can't find today) about the heat wave saying Europe is warming at twice the rate of the world overall. That might imply the rain/snow line in Europe rising by 1,000 feet vs. 500 feet in...

Sorry indeed. Those buildings are the base of El Colorado at 9,000 feet. It's hard for me to believe that it's not routinely below freezing at night in June/July. I suspect the water supply for snowmaking is not very robust. It again strikes me as ironic that Mountain Capital Partners...

I'll refer our new member to the extensive thread on Western North America 2025-26. Some final season numbers and comparisons to prior bad seasons start here.

Without paying for some kind of subscription?

History of Eagle Point/Mt. Holly/Elk Meadows. This is the history of a marginally viable ski area for an economic perspective. I made that observation when we skied there Dec. 29, 2013 despite our view that the Lookout fall lines were better than Brian Head's. So there is a significant...

Political comments regarding the World Cup (including mine) are moved to the appropriate thread.

The trolls are out in force....

Some of you may have heard of Cosm, which shows sports and other events on an immersive planetarium type screen. The first of these opened here in Inglewood and in Dallas in 2024. Atlanta just opened last month, with Detroit expected in September and Cleveland next year. We thought about...

Yes FIFA manged to f*** it up by doing the right thing at the wrong time. That call should have been reviewed and reduced to a yellow card the evening after the game. The last minute reversal prompted complaint from Belgium that probably would have been less or non-existent if done...

Yes, see my recent comments on the subject. Mt. Hutt is not a volcano but it's somewhat isolated peak jutting out into the Canterbury plain and seems to have similar weather issues, thus the nickname Mt. Shut. On the NASJA 2006 trip I got 15 years of mostly June-Sept. data which projected to...

has a retractable roof like Houston, so I suspect it's rarely open air for MLB games. We saw a game in Houston mid-July 2021. When we drove by it the next day we could see the roof was open to let the sun shine on the grass.

I vote for South America as the answer to that question, specifically the central Andes 33-35 latitude range. Farther south I don't think it's getting drier, but as the elevation declines it's more of a crapshoot whether you get rain or snow. From past discussions with Larry Schick, he says...

Car thermometers work well when you're driving continuously (not stop and go) so the thermometer is ventilated. I think jimk's observation yesterday is within the margin of error.

Yes, that overtime was amazing. During the overtime one of the commentators thought Argentina was wearing down more in the Miami weather (91/78). That is the unusually stable summer climatology that I experienced for nearly 3 months in 2020.

We are reading a lot of these comments from World Cup visitors. As far as U.S. ski resorts are concerned, there has been a revolution in restaurant quality during the 45 years I've been traveling to them. The Miles-Jaffe resort book I bought in the late 1970's had a memorable quote, "If you...

https://banskoskiexpert.com/ This arrived in the approval queue today. I'm sure this is promotional by the director of one of the largest ski and snowboard schools in Bansko. Nonetheless many people here like to read about off-the-beaten-track places. For now I have neither approved or...

Here in L.A. that number is 55F. Over 60F generally means rain to the top of the local ski areas. We do not see under 50F nearly as often as when I was growing up here. I suspect some of PNW vs. Tahoe in terms of humidity is greater distance from the Pacific as well as the altitude. I...

Weather forecast temperature for Philadelphia for tomorrow's game is 100/80. :smileyvault-stirthepot: At least it's not today in NYC (101/85). The rule that the incidental contact has to be intentional for the defensive player but is irrelevant for the offensive player seems weird. In this...

The end of Portugal - Croatia must really have made James' day! The Croatian player who fielded this ball was not offside when the original pass was made but was offside as the ball grazed Croatia #20's head as shown above. The ensuing goal would have tied the game in the last minute of play...

The slow motion was what made it look bad. The ref on the field didn't make ANY call in real time. Pundits seemed nearly unanimous that it should have been yellow in review.