Alpine resorts across B.C. say they are struggling with unusually low snow levels this ski season.
While experts say cyclical weather patterns are largely to blame for the warmer, drier winter so far, climate change likely plays a role and will continue to do so, one researcher says.
“This is going to be probably one of the mildest winters we’ve seen since sort of recorded history,” geographer Michael Pidwirny, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus who researches how climate change impacts ski resorts, told CBC’s The Early Edition on Tuesday.
“December was abnormally warm, very dry; January is going to cool off
