Resorts open hiking trails and lifts for mountain bikes amid unseasonably high temperatures and lack of snow
has closed ski slopes and forced resorts to open summer trails or shut altogether, as grass and mud replace seasonal snow from Chamonix in France to Innsbruck in Austria.
MeteoSwiss, Switzerland’s national weather and climate service, said a mild south-westerly wind combined with aThe Swiss resort of Adelboden, which this weekend hosts a skiing World Cup event on its classic Chuenisbärgli course, has said almost all of this year’s race will be run on artificial snow, with temperatures above freezing even at 2,000 metres .
Hacher Bernet, the head of the resort’s lifts operator, demonstrated why to Swiss TV cameras. Picking up a handful of dripping snow, he said: “It’s really too wet, like in spring. For skiing, the snow needs to hold together – there’s just too much water.”, Méteo France said 2022 had ended with some of the warmest weather ever experienced for the time of year.
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