Mixed snow and rain expected for stage 3 start in Grande Cache
When one of the Tour of Alberta's partners, GoAuto, handed out vehicle ice scrapers during stage 2, it was purely coincidental that the pending weather conditions for stage 3's start in Grande Cache were calling for overnight snow and morning temperatures close to the freezing mark.
The 181km stage will depart from Grande Cache at roughly 10 a.m. and head toward Jasper National Park before taking the riders into the mountains for the first of two summit finishes to Miette Hot Springs. The location of the mountaintop finish is expected to get snow overnight also, but temperatures will rise to six degrees Celsius and the rain is expected to end one hour before the peloton's fastest expected time of arrival.
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Christian Meier (Orica-GreenEdge), who is currently ranked third overall and is wearing the best Canadian rider jersey, said that while the European riders in the field have grown accustomed to the recent summer heat wave overseas, they have raced many times in cold and rainy weather conditions during the spring months.
"The cold weather has played a role for a lot of us coming from Europe," Meier said. "There has been a heat wave over in Spain and coming here is a bit of a shock to the system, and a lot of guys were bundled up today [during stage 2], but they are used to racing in cold weather like this during the spring races."
Two weeks ago, southern parts of Alberta were blanketed with snow, but this year the race is held further north between Grande Prairie and Edmonton, which was not affected by the random summer snowfall.
— daniel (@cyclingreporter) September 3, 2015
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