Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Overheated planet update, June 7 edition: So blazingly hot that only 100 inches of snow remain mid-mountain at Snowbasin in Utah

Snowbasin resort re-opens for summer skiing - ksl.com
OGDEN -- A fringe benefit of abnormally cold weather and high precipitation seems to be that Skiing in Utah is still possible well into this year's summer.

Snowbasin Ski Resort will re-open a large area of terrain for the weekends, starting on June 11.
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"Basically we have a mid-winter snow pack at mid-mountain," said Jason Dyer PR and marketing manager for Snowbasin.

Dyer said there was still 100 in. at mid mountain on June 7. The mid-winter average is 120-125 in.
It makes me sob uncontrollably to think about the hordes of pikas that must crawling to the mountaintops as we speak, only to go extinct from CO2-induced heatstroke.

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