Posted on 01/27/2023 5:48:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Avalanche forecasters say they are seeing likely impacts of climate change high in Scotland's mountains.
The Scottish Avalanche Information Service said conditions were changing more rapidly and avalanches occurring in tighter spaces of time.
It said named storms - such as 2021's Storm Barra - brought short, significant periods of "proper winter", raising the avalanche risk.
The storms have often been followed by rising temperatures and snow loss.
But SAIS warned that even in those "leaner" times when there was less snow potential hazards remained, often higher up towards the top of a coire, gully or mountain summit.
Dr Mike Spencer, who works on financial and climate challenges with the Smart Data Foundry at the University of Edinburgh, said research suggested Scottish winters were changing.
He said climate models suggested Scotland was still likely to see winters with very heavy snowfall, but over time this was expected to become a less frequent occurrence due to warming average temperatures.
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#ClownWorld
I think agencies like the EPA should be relocated to the bottom of a mountain full of snow so that they can monitor the situation
Scotland doesn’t have mountains... They have hills.
The Lewes avalanche
The Lewes avalanche occurred on 27 December 1836 in Lewes, East Sussex, when a huge build-up of snow on a chalk cliff overlooking the town collapsed into the settlement 100 metres below, destroying a row of cottages and killing eight people.
Canada loses that many people to avalanches every year... And it's has nothing to do with global warming... It's called spring up here and it happens every year. Smart people don't hang out on the mountains during the spring thaw... Dumb people do and we call them... Darwin Award winners.
These settled-science people act just like children.
Climate change also causes a lot of “athlete’s foot”. Has been for years.
Couldn’t possibly be the rwenty+ feet of wet heavy Sierra cement over several storms contributing could it?🖕. I really dislike theses assclowns
Last time I checked, gravity causes avalanches.
Like this one?
On average there are two avalanche fatalities in Scotland annually. The risk isn’t a predictable spring thaw, but the sudden freeze/thaw oscillations which are characteristic of Scottish winter weather.
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