Britain's Scott Meenagh competed in a T-shirt during his Para-biathlon and cross-country skiing events Athletes in T-shirts, fans applying suncream - have these been the Summer or Winter Paralympics? If you were to listen to American Patrick Halgren, who called the conditions at the Milan-Cortina Games "tropical" and "like surfing", you would think the former. Until you were told he is a skier. Since the 1992 Games, the Winter Paralympics have always been held in March, usually starting just shy of a fortnight after the conclusion of the Winter Olympics. That means conditions during the Games have often been more spring-like than winter, with temperatures peaking at 26C four years ago in Beijing. While such temperatures have not been felt in Cortina, it has been warm, and until a huge dump of snow fell overnight before Sunday's final day of competition, snow had only been seen on the groomed competition pistes.…