Warm Winter Results in Layoffs For Ontario Ski Resort
The Toronto Star is reporting that this year's warm winter has resulted in 1,300 layoffs at Ontario's largest ski resort -- the Blue Mountain Resort.
Ontario's largest ski resort has laid off 1,300 workers after closing down its ski operations in the middle of the winter season for the first time in the resort's 65-year history.
"We're trying to make the best of things so that guests who still come to Blue will have a good time, but it's pretty tense," said Kelly O'Neil, a spokeswoman at Blue Mountain Resort, yesterday. Officials said they had no choice after a run of unseasonably warm weather that has some wondering if winter will appear this year at all.
In Toronto, yesterday's high hit a record 11C, smashing the previous Jan. 5 high of 10.1C set in 1997.
Mind you, that's still got some way to go before breaking the record for January's hottest day – 17.6C – set Jan. 13, 2005.
Yesterday's record, which was set around 7 a.m., came on the heels of the warmest January evening in 167 years.
The unusually warm weather has some blaming the warm weather entirely on global warming but weather experts argue that that el nino is also responsible.
