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Selwyn Snow Resort in New South Wales, Australia, announced today that the resort will be closed after today, August 25. If the resort can reopen for the remainder of the season is currently unclear and will be weather and snowmaking dependent.
The snowmaking crew gave it its best effort to get enough snow together to enable skiing and boarding for this weekend, but after Sunday 5 p.m., the lifts will stop spinning at this small ski resort due to a record heatwave that saw snowdepth dwindle rapidly over the last few days. The snowmaking crew shared a defiant video two days ago, with crew members rapping and singing
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Selwyn Snow Resort has been having a tough few years. After a bushfire razed the entire ski resort in 2019-20, the resort was forced to rebuild from the ground up. Due to an early snowfall, it was unable to open for the 2022 Australian ski season, one of the best ski seasons in recent memory. It reopened finally in 2023, which was a below-average ski season, and 2024 is shaping up to be similarly bad as last year, when the resort briefly stopped operations temporarily in late July but was able to reopen in mid-August before closing for the season in September.
Selwny Snow Resort is Australia’s most northern ski resort and is located at an altitude of 1,492 m (4,895 ft) and reaches a top elevation of 1,614 ft (5,295 ft). The northern location combined with relatively low altitude means that the resort can have trouble maintaining a good natural snow cover. The resort invested heavily into snowmaking infrastructure after the 2019/20 bushfires, purchasing state-of-the-art TechnoAlpin snow cannons. This season, it has been able to spin all lifts at the resort for the first time in five years, and was even able to set up a small terrain park.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is forecasting several cold fronts to move across the Snowy Mountains in the next seven days. The first cold front is forecast to arrive on Sunday, August 25, but will be followed by a brief ridge of high pressure on Monday, August 26. However, a more significant cold front is set move across the Snowy Mountains late Tuesday and Wednesday, August 27 and 28, and will be closely followed by another cold front at the end of the week. Hopefully this will give an opportunity for snowmaking at Selwyn before the end of the Australian winter. Customers with pass products purchased for the remainder of the season at Selwyn will be contacted by the resort in the next few days.
I hope that we will be allowed to make 3 km to 10 km inflatable artificial mountains so we can spray water on the top of the mountains and it will freeze and turn into snow and it will send cold air down to the ground ,the only way to control temperature is by making inflatable artificial mountains