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Climate Change Making Weather ‘Volatile’

A closed ski lift in Le Revard, near Aix-les-Bains, in the French Alps.
A closed ski lift in Le Revard, near Aix-les-Bains, in the French Alps. Photo: Laurent Cipriani (AP)

Fraser Wilkin, an Alpine weather expert, told CNN Travel that the area that has been negatively impacted by the lack of snow is still “relatively small,” and that skiing is still open across Europe. Still, Wilkin said, the conditions in the mountains are increasingly “volatile” with climate change.