In some ways I’m very concerned about the future of our winter Lapland tour. One of the biggest being that in the future due to global warming there might not be enough snow up in Lapland for all the winter activities that people love so.
The Metrological Institute had said that the past January has been the warmest in a hundred years. There were several days last month when it was raining (not snowing, raining!) in Lapland. If the winters keep on getting warmer, like it seems at the moment, permanent snow will keep on coming to Lapland later and later making the tourist season shorter and consequently more crowded.
And the situation is pretty bad in Southern Finland as well. This past December we only had out three days with snow in Helsinki and Turku (not to mention that ever dreaded Black Xmas), which was most unusual. We had a couple from Belgium on one of our Christmas tour, who had come to Helsinki for a weekend just so that they could show their two year-old son snow. And then there was none! I dearly hope that the future winters aren’t as bad as this one has been!
