Palisades Tahoe, CA Operations Update: Siberia & Wa She Shu Open on Christmas Day by Palisades Tahoe on December 24, 2023 Editoris Note: see our latest Palisades Tahoe report from Xmas Eve: Palisades Tahoe, CA Report: An Inbounds Backcountry Experience on the Palisades It’s a Christmas miracle! Well, really it’s just the dedication of the Lift Operations, Grooming, Snowmaking, and Lift Maintenance teams — Against all odds, we are expanding a bit more. You […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 25, 2023 0 Comments
Meteorologist Uses Siberia’s Snow Cover to Forecast Severity of U.S. Winters With 75% Accuracy As winter sets in in the northern hemisphere, meteorologists are looking to the vast, snow-covered expanses of Siberia to forecast the upcoming winter in the United States. Judah Cohen, a meteorologist with Atmospheric and Environmental Research, has been pioneering a method that correlates October’s snow cover in Siberia with the severity of winter weather in the central and eastern U.S., […] Weather WeatherBrains | November 4, 2023 0 Comments
Scientists Revive and Breed a 46,000 Year Old Worm Frozen in the Siberian Permafrost Scientists have successfully revived a 46,000-year-old nematode found in the Siberian permafrost, breaking the previous record of a few decades for a similar event. The female microscopic roundworm, a new species named Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, began reproducing after reanimation. This case highlights the phenomenon of cryptobiosis, like hitting the pause button on life (think Han Solo in the original Star Wars […] Brains SnowBrains | July 31, 2023 0 Comments
NASA: Wildfire Smoke Over Siberia During the first week of July, NASA satellites began detecting signs that several wildland fires were burning in Russia’s far east. Two weeks later, several fires had grown much larger and more intense, creating rivers of smoke that flowed over parts of Khabarovsk and the neighboring Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite […] Fire Firebrains | July 19, 2022 0 Comments
Microplastics Found in Snow in Siberia, Russia Researchers recently found microplastic pollution in Siberia, one of the world’s most remote areas. These recent findings are another example of human pollution permeating the environment. Related: USGS Report: “It’s Raining Plastic”: Microplastics in the Mountains? At Tomsk State University, researchers found airborne plastic fibers in snow samples taken from twenty different Siberian regions. Snow sampled from the Altai Mountains, […] Brains Alex Mangels | March 25, 2021 0 Comments
May 2020 Was 18ºF Warmer Than Average in Siberia Yes, you read that correctly, May 2020 was 18ºF (10ºC) warmer than average in Siberia. The average temperature in May typically ranges from about 36ºF (2ºC) to 57ºF (14ºC) with a mean temperature of 47ºF (8ºC). While this might seem like a good opportunity to visit Siberia and not freeze, it is in fact not a good sign for the Earth […] Weather Alex Camerino | June 23, 2020 0 Comments
Siberian Town Experiences Hottest Temperature Ever Recorded in the Arctic This past Saturday, June 20th proved to be the hottest day ever recorded in the Arctic. In the town of Verkhoyansk, in Siberia, Russia a high temperature for the day of 100.4ºF (38ºC) was recorded, which is the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. The previous high was 99.1ºF (37.3ºC). The Arctic has seen many temperature records broken in the […] Alex Camerino | June 22, 2020 0 Comments
All of Colorado’s 14ers Climbed by Siberian Husky: Third Dog Ever To Do So Climbing Colorado’s 14ers has become a quite popular summer activity over the last 10 or so years, but how about bringing your dog to the summit of all 58 of them! Along the trail, you will see a good number of dogs and many of them will make it to the summit. To climb all 58 though is an accomplishment […] Climbing Ryan Nadiak | January 29, 2020 1 Comment