Australian murder suspect shopped while girl’s body lay in suitcase, climate change and El Nino trigger ‘frustrating’ start to ski season
The lack of snow has left Australia’s slopes muddy and bare, and the ski industry is pinning its hopes of a salvageable season on a late rain that will blanket the Alps.
Ski businesses rely on winter school holidays to bring large numbers of families to the Australian Alps to kick off the ski season.
But as students begin their holidays in Victoria and mark the final days before winter break begins in NSW this weekend, a grumpy skier has posted a video of himself standing under the chair lifts on a slope with dull muddy grass marked by a strip of manufactured snow.
Australia is experiencing a long-term decline in snow cover due to rising temperatures caused by climate change, according to data from the Bureau of Meteorology. This year’s season is also expected to be negatively affected The beginning of the El Nino weather patternThis, announced by the Bureau of Meteorology on June 16, is causing hotter and drier conditions.
But resort operators in NSW and Victoria insist a poor start to the season is not unusual.
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