Southern Hemisphere’s 2024 Season Is Over
Southern Hemisphere’s 2024 Season Is Over
Published : 26-Oct-2024 06:42
The southern hemisphere's 2024 season has ended a little earlier than expected with the final two centres that had planned to open for a final weekend, this weekend, deciding not to do so.
The only two centres still operating had been Whakapapa and Turoa ski areas on Mt Ruapehu on New Zealand's North Island. Whakapapa had been operating daily, Turoa Fridays to Sundays in the final weeks of the season. The two centres had operated as one resort until this season but are now run as separate businesses.
However, Whakapapa announced on Thursday that its season was over due to warm, wet weather conditions and Turoa announced soon after that it wouldn't be re-opening this Friday to Sunday as planned for the same reason - due to the impact on its remaining snowpack.
The last ski area that had been operating in south America, Chile's Valle Nevado, had closed last Sunday and Australia's ski season had ended in late September; Afriski in Lesotho, Southern Africa's in late August.
The southern hemisphere's 2025 season will begin in late may or early June, next year.
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