Warm weather means cooler profits at Ill. ski park
ANDALUSIA — This winter's unusually warm weather has cost one Illinois ski park $250,000 so far.
The Rock Island Argus reports that Ski Snowstar Winter Sports Park in the Quad Cities area opened Monday. That's 16 days behind schedule.
Normally, Snowstar doesn't open until the temperature falls below 25 degrees three days in a row. But park managers decided to use snow machines to open about 10 of the park's 16 ski runs this week.
Closing the park during ski season costs about $15,600 a day. The park has already lost about 25 percent of this season's expected profits.
That delay also cut into the jobs of about 240 seasonal employees.
Temperatures are expected to stay above freezing this week.
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