Thursday, February 29, 2024

How bad is this year's ski season?

It has been a dire year for snow on our local Whistler-Blackcomb mountain. But plenty of people are remembering equally-bad or worse years (here's a photo from the 1980s in February, showing bare slopes). I went looking for stats... I found a few, though it's hard to draw firm conclusions. Posting them here just for fun.

 May be a black-and-white image of 3 people and text that says 'Whistler Museum 3h e Skiers come off Whistler Mountain on the Village Chair on February 28, 1981. As you can see, skiers had to download from mid -mountain as the ski out was bare. Photo: Whistler Question Collection, 1981'

 

It's hard to find anything consistently going back to the 80s and I'm wary of mixing-and-matching datasets. But here's one interesting set showing that February is typically slimmer than March.

https://www.whistler.com/weather/history/ 


 

 

https://blogs.ubc.ca/michaelpidwirny/winters-201415-vs-201516/

 

Source: https://whistler.weatherstats.ca/metrics/snow.html

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