Snow sculpture exhibit shut down

Noting that “Mother Nature has spoken,” organizers of Mosaïvernales say they’ve had to shut down early because the snow sculptures can’t be kept up in the continued warm, wet weather. Only 20,000 people took in the exhibit at Jacques Cartier Park over 20 days. Organizers had hoped to attract 200,000 over 38 days running through March 4. The display of more than two dozen illuminated snow sculptures suffered from unseasonably high temperatures when it opened on the last weekend in January, melting parts of the sculptures and forcing the attraction to close for four days.