Study Finds Avalanche Victims With Long Burial Times (≥60 Min) Have Only 19% Chance of Survival Surviving an avalanche burial is completely correlated with burial time. As a rule of thumb, the longer someone’s been buried the lower the chance of survival. A recent study has been published where researchers looked at all completely buried avalanche victims with a burial duration of ≥60 min between 1997 and 2018 in Switzerland, and drew conclusions from the retrospective data. […] Avalanche AvyBrains | June 11, 2021 0 Comments
Greenland’s Ice Sheet May Have Reached a Tipping Point That Sets It On an Irreversible Path Greenland’s ice sheet may have reached a tipping point that sets it on an irreversible path. Nearly 40 years of Greenland satellite data showed that its glaciers have shrunk so much that even if global warming stopped today, the ice sheet would continue to shrink. Related: Study Finds Climate Change Has Stopped 6,500 Years of Global Cooling According to the […] Brains Sebastian Opazo | August 21, 2020 2 Comments
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NOAA: Seeing Red Across The North Pacific Ocean Written by Michelle L’Heureux on Climate.gov The Pacific Ocean is throwing a bit of a temper tantrum these days, but it’s not where you think it might be. Often we focus on the tropical Pacific Ocean because it’s where ENSO takes center stage, but currently, temperature departures across the Tropics are pretty blah. Instead, for the past few months, it’s the North Pacific Ocean […] Weather WeatherBrains | October 25, 2019 0 Comments
Denver’s Traffic Congestion Is Only Getting Worse, Study Predicts The amount of time spent in Denver traffic jams is expected to double over the next 20 years, according to an annual report on roadway congestion from the Denver Regional Council of Governments. This is bad news for Denver-area skiers who frequently travel to ski resorts along the I-70 corridor, one of Colorado’s most driven highways and home to many […] Industry News SnowBrains | October 18, 2019 6 Comments
STUDY: 30% of All Avalanche Fatalities in Western USA Occurred During an Atmospheric River Research published by Benjamin Hatchet, Susan Burak, Jon Rutz, Nina Oakley, Edward Bair, and Michael Kaplan in the Journal of Hydrometerology suggests a strong link between Atmospheric River (AR) events and avalanche deaths. According to their research, 31% of avalanche fatalities between 1998 and 2014 occurred either during or shortly after an AR event. West Coast skiers got very […] Avalanche Roger Romani | February 17, 2019 0 Comments
New Study Concludes That Humans Are Shifting the Seasons Worldwide Climate scientists have dug deeper than weather station records and now have yet another reason to confidently determine that humans are causing the warming of our planet. Human-caused climate change, brought on by the burning of fossil fuels, is affecting seasonal cycle temperatures. In short, humans are shifting the seasons. Satellites began recording global temperatures and compiling a record in […] Jenah MacGrain | August 1, 2018 0 Comments
The Earth’s First Snowfall Image: BDFjade Between 2.2 and 2.4 billion years ago, big masses of land rose quickly from the depths of the sea, causing big changes on our planet. A new study published on May 24th in the journal Nature suggests that it was these changes that caused Earth’s first snowfall 2.4 billion years ago. Image: thegreatsummit.com The study shows the findings […] Featured Article Jenah MacGrain | June 9, 2018 0 Comments
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