Climate change and warmer winters threaten to disrupt the annual hair-freezing contest at Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs in Canada’s Yukon region.
brought unseasonable slush and rain. And while one particularly warm winter or heat wave can’t necessarily be explained by climate change, it follows a pattern of rising temperatures that is causing Canada to heat disproportionately, said Blair Feltmate, head of the Intact Center on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo.
“It’s a positive feedback loop where the more snow and ice you lose, the warmer it gets, and the warmer it gets, the more snow and ice that melts,” Feltmate explained.For Yukon and the rest of the Canadian north, that might mean warmer and wetter winters in the future — putting a hamper on some of the region’s fun wintertime activities.
At the hot spring pool, this year’s mild winter — which would usually be a cause for relief — has people hoping for more frigid years to come.
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