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How to Keep Your Hands and Feet Warm While Skiing and Snowboarding

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One of the most uncomfortable feelings while skiing or snowboarding is having cold extremities. If they get too cold, it can be downright painful, not to mention diminish your on-snow performance. They say there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear. That may be true, but here are also some other ways to ensure your phalanges stay […]

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Brent Thomas | September 6, 2022
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Conditions Report: Sunshine & Enjoyable Snow At Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, CA

**Report from Sunday, January 27, 2019** The last snowfall at Alpine Meadows, CA was almost a week earlier than our day up, (Monday, January 21st with 16″ 24-hour snowfall at 8,000′ elev. and 204″ cumulative), but it was still a great day of skiing. Although there wasn’t much for powder and there were some small sections of icy, chunky snow- the […]

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Sydney Stephens | January 31, 2019
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NOAA Report: The Last 400 Months In a Row on Earth Have Been Warmer Than Average

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If you somehow think climate change is a hoax, here’s some more science to chew on. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its global climate report for the month of April, which was the third warmest April since records started in 1880. A separate report from NASA came to the same conclusion. More importantly, it marks the 400th consecutive […]

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Mike Lavery | May 24, 2018
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Yosemite National Park – “We’re Having Another Very Dry Year”

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Yosemite National Park yesterday declared: We’re having another very dry year. The February 1 snow survey results are in, and the Merced River drainage snowpack is 16% of average and the Tuolumne River drainage is 25% of average (this is similar to February 2014 and 2015). So warm and dry in fact, that the bears are awake and hungry! Nevertheless, the winter […]

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Steven Agar | February 8, 2018
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NOAA: Warm & Dry Conditions To Return to West Coast & Possibly Stay Into Mid-February

NOAA is forecasting high pressure to build onto the West Coast next week and stay there for the foreseeable future. NOAA is forecasting the possibility of drier and warmer than average conditions in CA, UT, NV, AZ, NM through February 16th, 2018 along with wetter and colder conditions in WA, OR, MT, ID, WY during the same time frame. High Pressure […]

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WeatherBrains | January 24, 2018
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NOAA: 2017 Arctic Report Card | Extreme Fall Warmth Drove Near-Record Annual Temperatures

NOAA: Extreme Fall Warmth Drove Near-Record Annual Temperatures By: Rebecca Lindsey Spring and summer temperatures in the Arctic were cooler in 2017 than they have been in many years this decade, but the annual average surface temperature was still the second highest on record according to the annual issue of NOAA’s Arctic Report Card. This map shows temperature from October 2016-September 2017 […]

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Guest Author | December 20, 2017
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“Watermelon Snow” Is Accelerating The Speed At Which Glaciers Melt

According to a study published in Nature Communications, there are certain species of green algae that thrive in snow, that actually take on a red hue, as does the snow they’re residing in. As they take over the snow, they reduce the reflectivity or “albedo” of the snow or ice, which accelerates the rate at which they melt. This is horrible […]

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Chris Wallner | June 27, 2016
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May 2016 Shatters Global Temperature Records For The Eighth Month In A Row

According to NASA, May 2016 is the hottest May on record, making it the eighth month in a row to break the monthly temperature record. Despite one of the strongest El Niños ever recorded finally on the decline, the planet continues to warm at an alarming rate. The latest figures that were released by NASA now make it even more certain that […]

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Chris Wallner | June 24, 2016
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