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The Times - Global warming? Scotland sees its best snow in a decade

Only a year after experiencing its worst season, the CairnGorm Mountain resort near Aviemore is defying the doomsayers of global warming and predictions of its demise.

The car park is full and the slopes busy. When the sun comes out, it is almost warm. After several weeks of decent snowfalls, the spring skiing conditions are, according to everyone who knows, the best in living memory. The resort has even run out of up-to-date piste maps, and has had to advertise for extra staff because many of its seasonal workers have already left.

The snow in Scotland is so good that at least two of its five resorts are expecting to extend the season into May.

I was going to get all snarky about Global Warming, but The Times is actually bringing it up. Not that I’m that surprised, but most newspapers of course take every warm day to be proof, proof! of global warming, then report news like this with only that annoying fake sympathy tone and wry chuckle, as if anyone in New York actually gives a hoot if half the midwest is under six feet of sheet ice. But anyway.

Global warming? It never snows in Seattle but maybe once a year for about twenty minutes. Yesterday, in late April, it snowed. The forecast through Monday is high in the mid-40s and rain/snow showers. If this extends into May, I’m putting my foot down and moving to Scotland.