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And on that trajectory, it doesn’t take a whole lot of math to figure out that the ski industry is really in a lot of trouble.” Copper Mountain has been open for skiing and since Monday, mostly on manmade snow. “You get some super-cold winters, they blow snow, you get a lot of natural snow, and everyone is like, ‘We’re good.’ But if you look at the long-term trends, it’s very obvious what’s happening. “The way climate change works, it’s not like every year will be progressively warmer, it’s that every 10 years will be warmer than the 10 years before it,” Fox said. Irrespective of weather fluctuations, what worries climate activists are the trends they are seeing. states last month were 2.9 degrees above the 20th-century average, ranking it as the sixth-warmest October in 127 years. But according to climate data compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, average temperatures in the contiguous 48 U.S. Next fall very well could be colder and wetter than normal. It must be said that while weather and climate are related, they are not the same thing. At elevation, at night, the rate of winter warming in the U.S. “It dips down at night and you crank up the snowmakers. west, and at night, and this is when you make snow typically,” said Porter Fox, who has written two books about climate change including “The Last Winter,” which was published this month. “The situation for snowmaking couldn’t be worse in that warming is happening at a faster rate at higher elevations in the U.S. To folks who study climate change, this comes as no surprise. Auden Schendler, senior vice president of sustainability at Aspen Snowmass, said Aspen and Snowmass were able to blow only about 10% of the snow they normally would make going into Thanksgiving week. When Steamboat Resort officials announced they were delaying opening from last Saturday to this Saturday, they said temperatures had only allowed for eight hours of snowmaking this fall as compared to the normal amount of 200 hours by mid-November.
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Snowmaking operations have been hampered by mild temperatures, four resorts postponed their scheduled openings, and of the 13 ski areas that are open, just under 7% of their cumulative skiable terrain was available for skiing on Friday. It’s likely an understatement to observe that Colorado has experienced an inauspicious start to the ski season this year.