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In early January, anyone who visited the ski resort village of Gulmarg in Indian-administered Kashmir with hopes of actually skiing was out of luck.
A severe snow shortage, blamed on dry weather, threatened to derail the entire winter season, leaving both travelers and tourism operators disappointed.
Multiple climate experts based in India have since raised alarms over the lack of snow, saying it was a direct cause of the climate crisis and the El Nino weather pattern.
“Although there is no one-to-one relationship between deficit precipitation and El Nino, the changes in global atmospheric circulation and the persistence of the El Nino has resulted in less snow,” Indian-administered Kashmir’s meteorological director Mukhtar…
