Swiss Glaciers Benefit from Heavy Spring Snow
25th June 2024
“At the summer solstice, the state of Swiss glaciers is better than in recent years,” Matthias Huss, who heads the Swiss Glaciological Survey Network, Glamos, wrote on the social network…
Read more >
“At the summer solstice, the state of Swiss glaciers is better than in recent years,” Matthias Huss, who heads the Swiss Glaciological Survey Network, Glamos, wrote on the social network X last weekend.
At summer solstice the state of Swiss #glaciers is better than in recent years.
But will it be enough for a year with ice gain??
Most likely not! But losses will be limited, a cool summer might even result in slight gain, fading however against extreme ice melting in 2022+2023 pic.twitter.com/n6K5WzL4uU— Matthias Huss (@matthias_huss) June 21, 2024
“But will this be enough for a year with ice gain? Most likely not! But losses will be limited,” he wrote, pointing out that a cool summer could also benefit glaciers.
At the beginning of June, Huss said that the weather this year had been a “blessing” for Swiss glaciers.
We reported on it at the time on PlanetSKI:
In a report published at the end of May, Glamos reported well above-average snow cover on glaciers in all regions of Switzerland, with average snow depths of 3 to 6 meters.
According to Glamos surveys of 14 Swiss glaciers, extrapolated to all 1,400 glaciers in the Alpine country, there was around 31% more snow at the end of April than the average for the years 2010 to 2020.
Swiss glaciers melted as much in 2022 and 2023 as between 1960 and 1990.
After a record loss of 6% in 2022, they melted by a further 4% in 2023.
