All-Time Highest Temperature Ever Tied in Salt Lake City, UT Yesterday 107ยฐF. That was the temperature recorded at the Salt Lake City International Airport yesterday, June 15, 2021. Only twice in the past 147 years of record-keeping in Salt Lake City has the Utah capital witnessed a temperature so high. Once in July of 1960 and again in July of 2002. For now, the record remains tied at 107ยบF. But will […] SnowBrains | June 16, 2021 6 Comments
NOAA: Which Mountain Snowpacks are Most Vulnerable to Global Warming? This article was originally published by Alison Stevens on Climate.gov on March 22, 2021 As Earth heats up thanks to human-caused climate change, scientists expect that winter snowpacks will melt increasingly earlier in the spring. According to a newย NOAA-funded study, these impacts are already underway, but global warming isnโt impacting every region equally. While snowpack in some regions has been […] SnowBrains | June 15, 2021 0 Comments
4 Largest Ski Industry Leaders Unite to Fight Climate Change Today, Alterra Mountain Company, Boyne Resorts, POWDR, and Vail Resorts announce the Climate Collaborative Charter, the ski industryโs first unified effort to combat climate change with shared commitments around sustainability and advocacy. Related: How Will Climate Change Affect Skiing? All four ski industry leaders have agreed to operate their respective resorts with sustainability at the forefront and use their collective […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 10, 2021 1 Comment
How Will Climate Change Affect Skiing? Climate change is a pressing international threat that will require incredible levels of cooperation to solve. In fact, we may haveย just 12 years to stop it. Climate change will affect all aspects of our lives, but it will hit the snowsports world particularly hard. There are hundreds of ways we could look at climate change and skiing, but to keep […] Brains Clay Malott | April 28, 2021 2 Comments
Arctic Sea Ice Decline Impacts California Based on satellite imagery, the Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for the year in March. According to the National Snow & Ice Data Center, this year’s maximum of 5.65 million square miles was the 9th lowest since reporting began 43 years ago. This number is 305,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average. While the Arctic sea ice has […] Weather Miles Wong | April 22, 2021 1 Comment
NOAA: 5 Ways Scientists Are Answering Big Questions About Climate Change This post first appeared on the NOAA Research website From warmer ocean temperatures to longer and more intense droughts and heatwaves, climate change is affecting our entire planet. Scientists at NOAA have long worked to track, understand and predict how climate change is progressing and impacting ecosystems, communities, and economies. This Earth Day, take a look at five ways scientists […] SnowBrains | April 21, 2021 0 Comments
NOAA: Climate Change and the 1991-2020 US Climate Normals This post first appeared on climate.gov and was written by Rebecca Lindsey As soon as the 2021 New Yearโs celebrations were over, the calls and questions started coming in from weather watchers: When will NOAA release the new U.S. Climate Normals? The Normals are 30-year averages of key climate observations made at weather stations and corrected for bad or missing […] Weather WeatherBrains | April 20, 2021 0 Comments
Without Climate Change Mitigation, Scientists Now Predict Summer to Last 6-Months in the Northern Hemisphere by 2100 For some, it may come as no surprise. A new study from the American Geophysical Union shows that without any further climate change mitigation, summertime in the northern hemisphere could last up to six months by 2100. By analyzing climate data from 1952 to 2011, the research team observed that on average, summer grew from 78 to 95 days, winter […] Brains Liam Abbott | March 22, 2021 4 Comments