Glasgow Wakes To April Snow; Monthly Snow Record Falls In Bulgaria; Near-Record Snowpack West Of Calgary; Cooling Persists Across North India; + Greenland Ice Loss Slows — New Study
Across Greenland, more ice is being added at the surface while less is being lost at the edges, resulting in a sharp deceleration in net loss.
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The new study on Greenland ice loss is generated from two “models” with apparently NO actual on site measurements reported that could have be utilized, to ensure calibration of the mathematics utilized in the two models. The lack of onsite measurement inputs to calibrate the satellite data is a significant gap in controls for the models utilized in making the assertions that Greenland is loosing ice mass.
“Scotland has no glaciers today, hasn’t for thousands of years, but this large patch, holding strong into April, is doing good job of mimicking one.”
I had a look at Google Earth aerial mapping but without knowing a location, it was a futile look. There are lots of patches of ice at ~3000-4000 foot elevation, with the date of the mapping being 5/15/2024 in the area of the ice patches.
During the 20th Century an average of 5-6 snow patches survived year round, it’s believed that one patch only completely melted twice. Due to natural warming and/or changes in weather patterns Scotland has become completely free of snow during at least 8 years this century. Last year was the earliest on record, the first week of August if my memory is correct, that all the snow in Scotland melted. 2014 and 2015 were very snowy years, 2014 set a new record for the number of snow patches that survived all year which was comprehensively beaten in 2015, the snow patch in Glen Feshie may well of survived, if so this would be the first time it’s been observed to do so. This year has seen a lot more snow than average for the 21st Century but not as much as 2014 and 2015, and probably only slightly above the 20th Century average so about 5 snow patches surviving all year is a good early estimate.