New Zealand has experienced a mild winter for three consecutive years, with record temperatures and little snow this winter, and two major ski resorts may go bankrupt.
Two ski resorts in the Ruapehu Mountains of New Zealand's North Island entered bankruptcy proceedings called "voluntary management" on October 11. The affiliated companies appointed external experts to review and restructure their finances to determine whether the companies could survive.
The company laid off 135 employees in mid-August, and currently has 196 remaining employees at the two ski resorts.
New Zealand is located in the southern hemisphere, and the seasons are opposite to the northern hemisphere, with winter from June to August.
New Zealand's winter temperature hit a record high, with the national average winter temperature reaching 9.8 degrees Celsius, breaking records for the third year in a row, according to New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.
The Associated Press reported that due to New Zealand's winter rains that continued to wash away the snow and the high temperature, 50 snow machines at one of the ski resorts could not meet the demand for snow making, and were forced to close on the 9th, 3 ahead of schedule. week.
Another ski resort is expected to be open until the 24th.
These two ski areas are the only large ski areas in New Zealand's North Island.
The North Island is home to more than three quarters of New Zealand's population.
James Renwick, a climate researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, told The Associated Press a few days ago that as winter temperatures rise in New Zealand, skiing will get harder.
On more than one occasion, he told ski operators in the North Island that things were going to get worse very quickly.
(produced by Xu Miaoqiao)
Responsible editor: [Liu Xingchen]