In the midst of an exceptionally warm winter, resorts like Campo Felice have a major problem: there’s no snow.
And a long-running drought means there isn’t enough water to make the amount of artificial snow needed to paint its slopes white.
And with a lack of rain and record-breaking heatwaves, the lakes that normally provide water for artificial snow have run dry.
Across all of Italy’s ski resorts, nearly 90% use artificial snow to some degree, according to Carlo Carmagnola, a snow expert with Météo France who studies the impact of climate change on ski resorts.
These changes have been hard not just on the Lallini brothers, but their employees, which usually number 250 in the ski season.
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