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Originally Posted by Lucifer
I heard on the bus the other morning about how one of the biggest problems of this year's games is keeping the snow from melting on the slopes, including packing the hills with ice packs, straw and other insulators, and trucking snow in from Washington state. Did anyone consider the logic in having the Winter Olympics in the warmest place in Canada?
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It's an
El Nino year this year, which means warmer than average temperatures and low snowfall. In a normal winter, there would be plenty of snow for the Olympics.