Swiss Town Covers its Glacier with White Blanket Every Summer to Prevent Melting Caused by Climate Change For the last eight years, a group of locals makes their way to the Rhône Glacier, the oldest glacier in the Alps, every summer to cover over the ice in massive white blankets that reflect the sun, in order to prevent melting caused by climate change. In the last 10-years, about 131 feet of the roughly 5-mile-long glacier has disappeared, reports the […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 14, 2018 0 Comments
Climate Change Largely to Blame as Study Shows Mountain Snow is on the Decline Across Western US Mountain snow is on the decline across the western US, and climate change is largely to blame, according to a new study, reports Buzzfeed. Scientists measured snowpack at nearly 700 sites spread across western mountain ranges over six decades, 1955 to 2016, and carried out many computer simulations of snowpack levels over time. Both the observations and modeling showed widespread […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 12, 2018 3 Comments
VIDEO: Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking as Global Temperatures Continue to Rise NASA posted this video to YouTube with the following synopsis: “Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well. In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist Dr. Walt Meier of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center describes how […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 8, 2018 0 Comments
The Arctic is Experiencing Record-Breaking High Temperatures | FIFTY Degrees Warmer than Average The Arctic is supposed to be cold, but right now it’s anything but temperatures at the North Pole are reaching a record high, perhaps as much as 35 degrees Fahrenheit for the month of February, which is warmer than the region usually gets during the summer months, reports popularmechanics.com. That data comes from the U.S. Global Forecast System, a computer […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 1, 2018 0 Comments
Snow Drought in CA caused by Warming Temperatures Explains Recent Research A recent report reveals that the Lake Tahoe Basin and the northern Sierra Nevada are currently experiencing a condition known as snow drought, according to new research and data from scientists at the Desert Research Institute (DRI). Snow droughts, or periods of below-normal snowpack, occur when abnormally warm storms or abnormally dry climate conditions prevent mountain snowpack from accumulating. “As […] Weather Steven Agar | January 23, 2018 0 Comments
Pro Skier Julian Carr Launched A Kickstarter To Fund A Climate Change Commerical For The Super Bowl Professional Skier Julian Carr has launched a Kickstarter to fund a Climate Change commercial for the 2018 Super Bowl in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The goal of the Kickstarter is to raise $5.5 million to buy a spot for the ad during the Super Bowl. If he is successful in raising the money, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has agreed to create the commercial. […] Industry News SnowBrains | December 14, 2017 0 Comments
The Hardships of Making Snow | Cost, Reliance, & Environmental Impacts According to POW (Protect Our Winters) about 88% of ski resorts in the United States rely on snowmaking each season. Resorts will make snow to accumulate a base to open earlier, stay open later, or compensate to build features like halfpipes for competitions. Some resorts, like those in the Mid-Atlantic region, rely on snowmaking to have a season at all. […] Helena Guglielmino | November 3, 2017 4 Comments
The World Is On Fire – An Overview of Current Wildfires 2017 is turning out to be a terrible year for wildfires, with widespread fires burning or having burnt across six continents. Huge blazes are currently burning in North America, South America, Canada, Russia and across Europe. To give you a sense of what’s going on, below is maps of the wildfires, as well as some images from some of the burning […] Weather Steven Agar | August 9, 2017 2 Comments
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