1932 shock news: No snow just before the winter Olympics – ‘High temperatures and lack of snow’
Associated Press - January 26, 1932 - 'Two-thirds of Mount Van Hoevenberg Slide Available' - 'High temperatures and lack of snow held them (athletes) up for weeks' - 'The intervals ski jump, closed since the intercollegiate event for the Harding Trophy Jan. 2 because of lack of snow was reopened today...'
Shock news: No snow on the ground just before the 1980 winter Olympics in Lake Placid