This is funny.....the climate here is fairly mild if terribly rainy. It rarely snows in Vancouver.....and that's fine....they would never put an Olympic venue in Vancouver. That's not where the snow is needed.....its in the mts where it snows. Now 37º in Cympress Mts is a worry....
Update: Apparently, some of the venues are that high in the mts. Not smart.
It's raining on Vancouver's, and Canada's, Olympic parade
"You feel for the Vancouver folks. They dot every i, cross every t, build every venue, pay every bill, plan for every terrorist, and the one thing they can't do anything about keeps kicking them in the knee.
"Weather has not been our friend," Cathy Priestner Allinger, a vice president of the organizing committee, was saying. She mentioned rain, fog, winds. Everything but locusts.
It was 37 degrees Friday at Cypress Mountain, site of freestyle skiing and snowboarding — just about the same as it was in such winter wonderlands as Atlanta, Birmingham, Ala., and New Orleans.
It is supposed to be rainy and nearly 47 degrees Saturday morning in Vancouver. Or only 4 degrees colder than it is supposed to be in Jacksonville, Fla.
Further up the mountains in Whistler, where the Alpine skiers are hunkered down, things should be fine. But walking around Vancouver, there have been so many puddles to splash through, the Olympian who really comes to mind is Michael Phelps."
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