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Best Snow Machines for the Perfect Outdoor Winter Wonderland

The best snow machines are affordable and easy to use. Offering high output in a user-friendly package, the Chauvet DJ Snow ...
KTVU

Winter Olympics: Games in Beijing first to ever use 100 percent fake snow

LOS ANGELES - The forecast for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing: Cold with a 100 percent chance of fake snow. This year’s highly anticipated Winter games are actually going to be the first time ...
Uticaod

Low-snow winters lead local ski resorts to adapt when Mother Nature fails to deliver

Artificial snow-making – using machines to spray a mixture of water and compressed air to freeze into snowflakes – has been used by the ski industry since the 1950s. With climate change posing a ...
Detroit Free Press

Michigan ski resorts relied on snow machines to stay open during warm winter

As the ski season comes to an end, it's worth examining the tool that helped many ski resorts to survive this warmer, drier-than-usual winter: snow machines. While some ski resorts rely on traditional ...
The Daily Californian

Fake snow on ski resorts impacts environment

For many students at UC Berkeley, spring semester is the perfect time to head up to the mountains and take a break from academic life. Whether it be skiing or snowboarding, Lake Tahoe provides the ...