Swiss glacier melt exceeds average in 2024 after hot summer

The Manila Times

Swiss glacier melt exceeds average in 2024 after hot summer  Swiss glaciers melted at an above-average rate in 2024 as a blistering hot summer thawed through abundant snowfall, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Tuesday (October 1).  Earlier this year, glaciologists had celebrated above-average winter and spring snow dumps in the Alps, hoping this would signal a halt to years of hefty declines or even a reversal of losses.   But with average August temperatures a few degrees above freezing even at the 3,571 meter high Jungfraujoch station perched above the Aletsch Glacier, scientists measured record ice losses across the country that month.  Overall, they said Swiss glaciers lost 2.5% of their volume this year which was above the average of the past decade.  REUTERS VIDEO   Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe    Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #tmtnews #switzerland  #glacier  #climatechange

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00:00You

00:30You

00:42Don't do the font

00:48Hockney there is the normal

01:00Indeed it is worrying to me that despite of the perfect year we actually had for glaciers with the

01:08Snow-rich winter and the rather cool and rainy spring

01:12It was still not enough for glaciers due to the much too high summer

01:16They have again lost so much ice that they are far out of balance

01:21If the trend continues that we have seen in this year

01:30This will be a disaster for Swiss glaciers. They will completely or almost completely disappear by the end of the century

01:38So it is needed that the temperatures don't warm so quickly as they have in the last years or decades

01:45And that they stabilize and then some of the bigger glaciers could still survive in a smaller extent

02:15You

02:39Since three weeks we lost this

02:43Amount of ice so three weeks ago the surface of the ice was up here now it is down here if we

02:51Look at this at the annual timescale

02:54Last October

02:57The surface was a bit higher than the end of the stake

03:01So this is the melting we have experienced in the year in the summer of

03:082024 so far

03:10Which is quite a lot

03:26Every time you come back and you look at these changes it is very impressive and

03:33There's really a relation you build up with this site with the ice and it

03:39Hurts a bit to see how the rocks are simply taking over

04:02You

04:21August was an extremely warm month especially in the high mountains for example at Jungfraujoch

04:27We have even seen record high temperatures and this is as led to glacier melt

04:32that was never so high as in 24 not even in the extreme years of

04:382003 and 22

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