The familiar venues of the Olympic Games will heat up too much already by 2050

The first ones the winter olympics were organized in Chamonix, France, 1924. All sports at that time were organized outdoors.

The athletes skied on natural snow on the ski slopes. There was frost and natural ice in the skating rinks.

The atmosphere was different at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics more than a century later. Four sports were organized inside.

Figure skaters and speed skaters competed in air-conditioned buildings, as did curlers and ice hockey players.

Now the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics have prepared for the fact that there is enough water to make snow. It snowed less than average at the beginning of the winter season.

Winter Olympics in the host cities, the average February temperature has risen steadily since Chamonix in 1924, revealed research in 2018.

The researchers investigated the climatic conditions of 19 Winter Olympic competition venues. They wanted to know how the race venues have withstood climate change.

The professor of snow hydrology is now returning to the matter Steven Fassnacht and Associate Professor of Natural Resources Studies Sunshine Swetnam They just updated In Conversation magazine his investigation.

In Cortina, the February temperatures have risen by about 3.6 degrees in 70 years, he says Climate Central in his article about the warming up winter games. After the 1950 games, the temperature in the winter competition cities has risen an average of 2.7 degrees.

If the trend continues, by 2080, the climate of more than every second of them, i.e. 12 of the former competition venues, would be too unreliable. They could not host the sports of the Winter Olympics outdoors.

JO by 2050, the weather in the four former host cities will be too capricious and warm to host the games if current trends continue.

The cities mentioned at the beginning are Chamonix, Sochi in Russia, Grenoble in France and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany.

Squaw Valley in California, USA and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada would soon join the same list.

Torino in Italy, Nagano in Japan and Innsbruck in Austria would follow.

Milan-Cortinan of the Winter Olympics and of the Paralympians there are five weeks in between. The competitions last until the middle of March.

It may be difficult to get enough snow to the race venues. It doesn’t help, even if there is enough equipment to make snow.

Ideal snowmaking requires a dew point temperature of about minus two degrees Celsius, or lower.

The dew point temperature is the temperature to which the air must be cooled in order for its invisible water vapor to condense into water or ice. It is a combination of cold and dampness.

Moisture in the air can melt snow and ice in colder temperatures. It affects the snow on the ski slopes and the ice in sledding.

Room covering smaller and smaller areas around the world. The climate can be more humid. They affect snowmaking.

16 of the Winter Olympic sports are affected by temperature and snow. Sports include skiing, alpine skiing, ski jumping and snowboarding.

The three sports are affected by temperature and humidity, steering, reining and stomach sledding.

Winter Olympics may sometimes settle further north, such as in Calgary and Alberta. They could also be moved high, the researchers reasoned.

However, making snow and keeping it cold always requires energy and water. If the project increases the use of fossil fuels, it contributes to climate change even more.