Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival had to import its snow this year cnn.com

This lack of snow, combined with unusually warm weather, threw some wrenches in the plan for the snow festival organizers.
This year, they had to source and tow snow from other towns to create 200-plus signature snow sculptures.
To make the sculptures, festival organizers use around 30,000 tons of snow from Sapporo.
Festival organizers went to these extraordinary lengths as they need pristine snow for their creations, according to Isshin Yamagami, a spokesperson from the Sapporo Snow Festival.
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