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Karen
Weather happens. I went to work in a Swiss ski resort in the season 1989/90 and the weather that year was totally insane too. The November snow was washed away at all altitudes by a rainstorm the week before Christmas when it rained up to 3500m. January was sunny and mild and I played tennis in shorts as we could barely ski. We did a glacier tour in January with all the crevasses visible as there was no new snow to cover them up. One day in early February measured +23C at 1600m. Then in April it snowed down the 800m most nights and we were still ski-ing fantastic powder in the last week of the month. I skied as much powder as you might expect in a normal season, but none of it was before mid-February and most of it was after the start of March…….the exact opposite to a ‘traditional Alpine winter’….
Funnily enough, that’s when I first heard about the role of the moon on weather. That season, the adage ‘if the weather doesn’t change at the new moon, then it won’t change quickly’ was very accurate.
The most interesting lesson I learned was that junior employees in the ski hire shop ranted at me for hiring a tennis racket, but the owner at the end of the season said: ‘Rhys, it wasn’t your fault it was a bad season!’ Remaining philosophical in the face of unfavourable conditions is a good prerequisite to running a successful business…….