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Greenland games forced to bring in snow as temperatures rise

Published 2016-03-01, 05:45 a/m
Greenland games forced to bring in snow as temperatures rise

COPENHAGEN, March 1 (Reuters) - Organisers of this year's
Arctic Winter Games have had to bring in truck-loads of snow to
make sure competitors have something to ski on, as temperatures
rise in host country Greenland.
Poor snow falls had threatened some of the key events at the
biennial event that draws athletes from Canada, the United
States, Russia, Greenland, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
But volunteers have rallied round to scoop up flurries from
surrounding hills and bring them to the main venues before the
March 6 start date, games' General Manager, Maliina Abelsen,
told Reuters.
"The weather has been acting very strangely, but we are used
to that in Greenland, so we have learned to adapt," she said.
The Danish Meteorological Institute has forecast more snow
for the weekend, but that could bring more problems.
"We are not happy about that. We have 1,200 people flying
into (the capital) Nuuk over the course of the weekend, and snow
usually means delays in the air traffic," Abelsen said.
January and February saw temperatures five to six degrees
above the average on the world's biggest island. A blistering 10
degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded in Nuuk on
Jan. 20.
"These months have been warmer than normal, especially in
Southwest Greenland, where there has been many days with degrees
above zero," said Mogens Ronnebek, Greenland weather forecaster
with the Danish Meteorological Institute.

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