Snowy soccer is just a taste of what climate change will do to sports – Quartz
March snow in the northern hemisphere, let alone in a high-altitude city like Denver, Colorado, may not seem unusual, but it is. Denver doesn’t usually get blizzards this time of year, which may be why FIFA felt comfortable scheduling a match there on the second day of spring. And while it’s impossible to attribute any particular storm to climate change, warming trends are clearly leading to more powerful winter weather. Denver will get a foot of snow before this storm is over.
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Another World Cup qualifying match scheduled yesterday, between Northern Ireland and Russia in Belfast, was postponed due to snow and ice. The weather there was also unusual—and expected to continue today—and it was the first time an international soccer match had been cancelled in Belfast.
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This story is absurd. I've lived in Colorado for 30 years now, and it's actually most common for us to see our biggest snow month in March. See this, for example: http://www.thorntonweather.com/noaa/snow.php
Denver gets the most snowfall (on average) in March, with April coming in 2nd. I wish I could blame it on the Gore effect, but it's just not all that unusual to see a March blizzard here.
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