Vancouver rain drops wet blanket on 2010 Games planning
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With the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics a mere month away, weather, the great uncertainty, roared into the host city on all cylinders yesterday, and it was anything but wintry.
Olympic planners found themselves scurrying to adapt to torrents of rain and near-record mild temperatures that hit not only Vancouver, but far up Cypress Mountain, the North Shore peak overlooking the city where snowboarding and freestyle skiing events will be staged.
The slopes of Cypress were so wet and balmy that all ski activity on the heavily used mountain was cancelled for the next two days at least, and VANOC called a halt to its extensive snowmaking operation there.
Organizers are sufficiently alarmed by the spate of warm, moist air that they may decide to close off Cypress to the public as early as tomorrow, 2 1/2 weeks earlier than planned.
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