Lack of snow threatens to disrupt start of ski season in Austrian Alps

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Some of Europe's most popular ski resorts, Austria's Seefeld in Tirol and Flachau in Salzburg, have entered the ski season with completely snow-free slopes.

Snow cannons on a green slope at an Austrian ski resort

Tourism bosses are sounding the alarm, while scientists blame global warming, which, by some unknown coincidence, is occurring in the Austrian Alps faster than anywhere else in the world.

According to a recent report by the International Panel on Climate Change, the number of sunny days per year in the Alps increased by 1880% between 2014 and 20. Moreover, the rate of increase in average annual temperatures in Austria exceed the global average by almost 2 times.

Meanwhile, in order not to lose customers who had already bought tours for a holiday at the ski resorts of Austria, special “guns” for the production of artificial snow were placed on the slopes of some resorts. of snow.

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