Is climate change killing Canada's outdoor ice rinks?
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Damn right...It's -24C here right now. If you look at a map of my town Kapuskasing on Google maps, you will see a green square made by two right angle streets, at the north end. I live in that area....
It's a playground for kids, with a small baseball field and an open sided gazebo type building for parents to watch their kids play.
In the winter the town used to build and regularly water an open air rink in that square..
The reason they quit doing it about ten years ago, I suspect it was lack of interest.....because there was only one or two kids using it once in a while.
Indoor ice is out of the cold, collects admission and sell pop and chips - roughin' it materials
Haven't had a Jan. thaw this year, just a Jan. warm............but not warm enough to melt the outdoor rinks.
It's me understandin that the big rink in Ottywaw is open...........No longer the longest though. Somewhere else grabbed that title.
It's me understandin that the big rink in Ottywaw is open...........No longer the longest though. Somewhere else grabbed that title.
a more important question to ask is, are muslims destroying Canada's pastime?
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/127740-isis-6.html#post2048955
a more important question to ask is, are muslims destroying Canada's pastime?
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/127740-isis-6.html#post2048955
Only if they are melting the ice.
here, let me sooth your be hurtin' self! :mrgreen:
from the study, "Observed decreases in the Canadian outdoor skating season (OSS) due to recent winter warming" - doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014028
Figure 3. Time series of the OSS start date (left) and OSS length (right) for the data averaged over each of the three western ((a)–(f)) and eastern ((g)–(l)) regions defined in this study. The data are plotted here as anomalies (in days) with respect to the 1951–2005 average for each region. The best fit lines on each graph show the direction of the linear trend with time, with the colour of the time series indicating the nature of the overall trend (blue representing an earlier start date or longer season with time, red representing a later start date or shorter season). We have also included the p-values indicating the significance of the slope of the trendline, calculated using the regression model shown in equation (1).
extract from the study Conclusion:
In this letter, we have provided evidence that the observed warming of winter temperatures in Canada has had a deleterious effect on the outdoor skating season. Many locations across the country have seen significant decreases in the length of the OSS, as measured by the number of cold winter days conducive to the creation of rink ice. This is particularly true across the Prairies, and in Southwest Canada, which showed the largest (and most statistically significant) decreases in the calculated OSS length between 1951 and 2005. In addition, some locations have also experienced a later start date of the OSS, as measured by the requirement for several consecutive cold days in early winter to lay the initial ice foundation for a rink. While there are fewer individual stations showing a significant change in the OSS start date, there is a spatially coherent pattern suggesting generally later start dates in Southwest Canada, and across most of Central and Eastern Canada. In addition to the temporal trends, we have also identified high statistical significance associated with the internal climate variability (as measured by the PNA and NAO indices) on regional OSS start dates and lengths. In particular, many of the effects on the OSS start date/length in the Southwest, Prairies, Northwest and Northeast are significant at the 99% level, indicating a strong relationship between changes in the OSS from year to year and the state of the PNA/NAO.
