[VIDEO] How (and Why) One Ski Resort Melts the Snow Once the Season Has Finished [arve url="https://youtu.be/Xw0hv5BdZsQ"] SnowBrains | April 20, 2022 Likes Tweets 1 Comment
Snow Fleas? Keep an Eye Out for them this Spring [arve url="https://youtu.be/8BOIpiua_z4"] Dominic Gawel | February 12, 2021 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Stunning Image Shows How Much Antarctica Ice Melted After Hottest Days on Record NASA shared this stunning satellite comparison image over the weekend, showing an Antarctica ice-cap before and after its hottest recorded temperature. The images are separated by just 11-days! Related: Antarctica Almost Hits 70ºF and Sets Yet Another HOTTEST Temperature EVER Recorded On February 6, 2020, weather stations recorded the hottest temperature on record for Antarctica. Thermometers at the Esperanza Base […] WeatherBrains | February 27, 2020 0 Comments
Dust is having a Massive Impact on the Colorado Rockies | Rapidly Speeding Up Snowpack Melt For most of the winter, it stays hidden, buried under blankets of snow. Then, the days grow longer. The sun’s rays begin to melt the top layers, causing water to percolate through the snow and ice or evaporate, revealing; dust. How can something so simple undermine our water infrastructure, stress wildlife and lengthen the wildfire season all at once? Snowpack […] Industry News Steven Agar | April 24, 2018 0 Comments
“Watermelon Snow” Is Accelerating The Speed At Which Glaciers Melt According to a study published in Nature Communications, there are certain species of green algae that thrive in snow, that actually take on a red hue, as does the snow they’re residing in. As they take over the snow, they reduce the reflectivity or “albedo” of the snow or ice, which accelerates the rate at which they melt. This is horrible […] Industry News Chris Wallner | June 27, 2016 0 Comments
NASA: Glacier National Park Could Lose All Its Glaciers By 2030 Glacier National Park, MT’s glaciers are melting away. There were once 150 glaciers in the park. Now, there are only 25. “This area is warming at 2 to 3 times the rate of the global average rise in air temperatures.” – Dan Fagre, a USGS research ecologist, who has been studying climate change in the park for more than 20 years According to a […] Industry News Chris Wallner | June 17, 2016 1 Comment
VIDEO: 2016 Arctic Sea Ice Hits Another Wintertime Record Low According to NASA, On March 24, Arctic sea ice extent peaked at 5.607 million square miles (14.52 million square kilometers), a new record low winter maximum extent in the satellite record that started in 1979. It is just smaller than the previous record low maximum extent of 5.612 million square miles (14.54 million square kilometers) that occurred last year. The 13 […] Weather Chris Wallner | March 30, 2016 0 Comments
Brain Post: North Pole Is a Melted Lake Right Now | Watch Time-Lapse Video The North Pole is in bad shape. Right this second, the North Pole is a lake. July is generally the warmest month of the year at the North Pole, but this year temperatures were 1 to 3 degrees Celsius above average. The lake you see in the video and photos is a shallow lake made up of water that has […] Brains SnowBrains | July 25, 2013 2 Comments
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