Webcam from Sunne, about 2 mil from Colins Crest:
https://sunne.se/weathercam.html
Weather:
https://www.yr.no/place/Sweden/Värmland/Sunne/long.html
This is not looking good :-(
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Webcam from Sunne, about 2 mil from Colins Crest:
https://sunne.se/weathercam.html
Weather:
https://www.yr.no/place/Sweden/Värmland/Sunne/long.html
This is not looking good :-(
It feels such a shame especially when you see the amazing Arctic Rally with huge snow and proper winter conditions and start to get excited and wait for wrc snow rally.
Don't know if this is realistic but:
You could use Arctic Rally as the Finnish round in the winter.
And then use fe South Swedish rally as the Swedisch round in the summer?
Maybe Arctic Rally could be organized under the administration of Åland Islands or something? After the ceremonial start the cars would just be shipped from Mariehamn to whatever is the northernmost harbor in Finland and the rally could still take place in Lapland.
Ok, jokes aside, I really hope the Swedish organizers together with the WRC promoter would do something about it and move the rally somewhere else.
Question. Why can't they just change the tires used? I understand that using spikes on this shoyt is bad for the surface, but why not use regular mud tires instead? At least the rally would happen.
The road would deteriorate then also.
Presumably the FIA must have had conversations with the Swedish organisers due to close calls that have come before, and with the weather changes that are happening globally (for whatever reason you believe to be right) it seems clear that for an event such as this we need to move further North.
I think everyone wants to keep a genuine winter rally, but the need for a location with more predictable weather seems to be needed.
Best bet to keep rally in Sweden might be Ostersund - Are - Trondheim area. That would have good synergies with Alpine skiing, big cities, good connections and everything. Possibility to split stages between Sweden and Norway like currently.
If not in Sweden, other potential options with rally culture could be Hokkaido or Canada. For sure Toyota and Subaru would like to see even two rallies in Japan. More extreme market choices could be Vladivostok area in Pacific Russia or even Northern China.
Vännäs yes. However if you look at the snow depth maps very little snow in Umeå. Granö which is 50 km noth-northwest of Vännäs (which is 30 km west of Umeå) only have 38 cm and Vännäs have 24.
So it's not huge amounts of snow there either. It's quite dire along the entire Norrland coastline.
Is it the same situation for them during the whole snowy season? Might it be that Alpine skiing has only some high season weeks and for less crowded weeks WRC would be welcome?
Or it could skip Are for being 1 day in just in Trondheim and 1,5 days in Ostersund and more far away from Are.
I would assume highs during christmas-new year+ during sportloven (weeks 7-10)+ easter breaks. So the rally weekend conflicts with the weekend at the start of the first sportlovet week.
I only think UMeå as host city and possible SP/HQ location. Stages could be wherever in a radius of 150K.
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New start of Hagfors today, frozen gravel and -3
https://twitter.com/TorAndreBorrese/...97092208775168
Sorry to say, but up to 29th of January there´s not even many nights with minusdegrees... (In Torsby area)
I´m not pessimist, but I think RS is in real danger...
It will be sad for Latvala, who had planned a private entry for this rally. Hopefully the rally is cancelled early enough so he won't have to pay for shipments and other arrangements like Paddon for Australia (although shipping from Finland to Sweden will be cheaper anyway)
Up until 29th doesnt look good but from 29th onwards looks promising. I know its very hard to predict so far ahead but still time to be positive. We may lose some stages but should still be enough to run the rally. Even the pictures today of the likenas stage look ok. Attachment 1909Attachment 1910
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Let's wait to worry until Monte has passed... By then we'll have a more detailed view on the weather tendency towards the rally. I guess it can't stay so warm for very long anymore, for this time of the year. It changed in a negative way very quickly a few times, maybe it can change in a positive way this time.
I have paid my trip
so cancelation is not option for me.
I'd say they will have to make a decision around 1st February at the latest.
Impossible. Sponsors have paid, spectators have paid, drivers have put together a project, the local economy is relying on the rally to happen... The rally can only be cancelled if they are 100% certain that the conditions will not allow the rally to take place. If they cancel, and it turns out the rally could have taken place, it could have much more serious consequences than cancelling too late. Such as losing sponsors or losing support from the local government and community.
For the reasons you mentioned, I guess nothing will be called off before the absolute deadline. Just like they did in Australia.
Different weather sites say different things - so please don't start with the doomsday predictions quite so soon...
For instance - Klart.se predicts minus degrees from 29th down to -5 degrees at night and only touching +/- 0 during the days. 5 days of that and we have a solid ice base and with snow every day (a couple of mm each day according to the weather site) things are looking gooood.
Remain positive guys.