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TAOS SKI VALLEY, New Mexico — The lowest snow levels in decades in the US West and a brutal heat wave haveIn Park City, Utah , which has received about half its normal snowfall this year, streets and restaurants that would normally be packed with vacationers are quiet.
And in Colorado, brown dirt patches covered ski runs in resorts like Vail, where less than 20% ofMore than half of the 120 ski resorts in the US West have already closed, will close early, or never opened this year due to the mild winter that saw record-low snowfall, according to a Reuters count. In a normal year, only a dozen or so would close early due to poor conditions.Fitness influencer shot and killed leaving gym as cops launch manhunt “This was a remarkably bad snow year, not just one basin, but across most of them,” said Swain, an associate researcher with University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. He attributed the trend to long-term climate change. “It’s really just been a tale of astonishing warmth throughout the West.”, a season that often brings cherished powder dumps and provides a last hurrah for the bars, restaurants, equipment stores and hotels that depend on spring break vacationers.In the week to Thursday March 26, temperatures in the Western US have been 20-30 degrees Fahrenheit higher than normal, breaking daily records in over 150 locations, according to the National Weather Service.of the roughly $20 billion US ski and snowboard industry, should high winter temperatures persist. The sector supports more than 190,000 jobs. The conditions have raised wildfire risks at higher elevations that are normally covered with snowpacks, but this year have little or none, causing soil and vegetation to dry out earlier, potentially fueling blazes. They also threaten water supply to major cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas, which rely on snowmelt that feeds the Colorado River.’A SCI-FI LANDSCAPE’ In Park City, streets normally packed with cars had little traffic, said Abby Freireich, who has visited the ski area for about a decade. The resort received 158 inches of snow this year, less than half its annual average. It aims to stay open until April 20.“It’s otherworldly, almost like a sci-fi landscape, the terrain, so much of it is closed off or not skiable,” said Freireich, 46, from New York. Her son Zachary, 11, said he had to dodge rocks and 15-foot-wide puddles as he skied. Vail Resorts, which counts Park City, Vail, Beaver Creek and Keystone among the areas it operates, described the year as the “worst-case weather scenario” for many of its 37 North American ski resorts. On March 9, the company cut its guidance on fiscal 2026 net income to $144 million to $190 million, down 30 percent at its midpoint from its previous Dec. 10 guidance of $201 million to $276 million. “This has been the most challenging winter across the Rockies that we have ever experienced with the lowest snowfall levels in more than 30 years for our Colorado and Utah resorts,” Chief Executive Rob Katz said in a statement. In Silverthorne, Colorado, a town surrounded by ski resorts, Allison Buffum said business was down 10%-15% at her restaurant Saved by the Wine. “There is no snow on the mountains. It was a pretty horrific winter, the worst since 1976,” said Buffum, adding that instead of skiing, some visitors were sunning on her patio as if it were summer.Maylyn Bubala wore an athletic bikini top to ski in the 80-degree heat, just days before the resort closed.Anton Artemenko and his wife volunteered at the Breckenridge Nordic Center to move snow from the forest onto slushy trails. The center closed on Thursday, three weeks early.At Taos Ski Valley, where 76 inches of snowfall this year was less than a third of its annual average, shirtless skiers “water skied” over a large puddle forming at the base of the resort. Maylyn Bubala wore an athletic bikini top to ski in the 80-degree heat, just days before the resort closed. “The rising temperatures, it’s pretty insane,” said Bubala, 19, a student at Oregon State University, who recently wrote a paper on the environmental impact of early melting of snowpacks. “This is not natural.”Girl, 3, has intestines ripped out in freak pool drain accident -- and miraculously survivesPentagon preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran — as Trump warned regime to ‘get serious’ about peace deal: reportTaylor Frankie Paul returns to Instagram following ‘Bachelorette’ cancelation, domestic violence investigationHe killed her, then disappeared: The $250K reward for a decade-old murder | Forgotten FugitivesMaylyn Bubala wore an athletic bikini top to ski in the 80-degree heat, just days before the resort closed. Stream It Or Skip It: 'Jo Nesbø's Detective Hole' On Netflix, Where A Troubled Detective Tracks Down A Serial Killer Who Is Terrorizing Oslo
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