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Snow mass estimates now more reliable
May 22, 2020 (ESA)
Warming surface temperatures are known to have driven substantial reductions in the extent and duration of northern hemisphere snow cover. Equally important, bu...
Search team finds bodies of all Koreans missing in Himalayan avalanche
May 01, 2020 (AFP)
A wall of snow hit the trekkers at about 3,200 metres (10,500 feet) near the Annapurna base camp in Nepal on January 17, covering them under metres of snow. Ava...
Two bodies found in Nepal search for missing Koreans
Apr 26, 2020 (AFP)
A wall of snow hit a trekking trail at about 3,230 metres (10,600 feet) near the Annapurna base camp in Nepal on January 17, burying four South Koreans and thre...
Body of guide of missing Koreans found in Himalayas
Apr 25, 2020 (AFP)
A wall of snow hit the trekkers at about 3,230 metres (10,600 feet) near the Annapurna base camp in Nepal on January 17. But avalanches and more snowfall since ...
Avalanches kill six in Austria: police
Mar 08, 2020 (AFP)
At least five people were swept away Sunday morning by a large avalanche on a mountain in Upper Austria, part of a group walking in snow shoes on the Dachstein ...
Georgia avalanche kills three Italian tourists
Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)
They were among six people who were skiing in a closed zone near Mount Tetnuldi when the avalanche hit, the Caucasus nation's tourism agency said in a statement...
Northern Europe poised for record warm winter
Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)
In Sweden's capital Stockholm, cherry trees bloomed in January as much of the country recorded temperatures six to seven degrees Celsius higher than normal sinc...
Moscow winter 'warmest since records began': weather service
Feb 29, 2020 (AFP)
The head of Russia's forecasting centre Roman Vilfand told the TASS news agency that the average temperature in Russia from December to February has been some 2...
Two German tourists killed in Norway avalanche
Feb 20, 2020 (AFP)
A helicopter carrying rescue personnel and a sniffer dog were dispatched to search for the missing pair, who were discovered dead in the Svalbard archipelago, a...
Green Christmases: Alpine ski resorts ponder a future without snow
Feb 11, 2020 (AFP)
Instead, it had to use a helicopter, at great cost, to bring snow from the high peaks of the Alps to lower, warmer altitudes where, unusually, there was no natu...
Wildfires increase winter snowpack - but that isn't necessarily a good thing
Feb 07, 2020 (SPX)
It was December 2014 and the students had just started field work under the tutelage of BYU forest ecologist Sam St. Clair for research on the impact of wildfir...
Avalanches kill nearly 40 in eastern Turkey
Feb 05, 2020 (AFP)
The bodies of 33 rescue workers and civilians were discovered in Van province, where they had been helping dig out a minibus buried by snow late Tuesday, the go...
Mudslide traps 500 tourists in Canadian ski resort
Feb 02, 2020 (AFP)
Heavy rains knocked loose mud and debris, and the ensuing mudslide washed out about 0.6 miles (one kilometer) of the only access road to the Sasquatch Mountain ...
Two men, including Briton, killed in Japan avalanches
Feb 01, 2020 (AFP)
The 34-year-old Briton was caught in an avalanche on northern Hokkaido island while skiing with two other people, a local official said. "He was sent to hospita...
French man killed in avalanche on Japan ski mountain
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
The death of Sylvain Lethier, 38, was confirmed after a rescue team found his body off the slopes of the Tomamu ski resort in the northern Hokkaido region, a br...
NASA launches in-depth snow study
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
That changed in mid-January when a team led by University of Washington researcher Lynn McMurdie began a six-week campaign to better understand how snow bands f...
Digging begins in search for missing S. Korea, Nepal trekkers
Jan 22, 2020 (AFP)
The trekkers were descending near the Annapurna base camp in Nepal around 3,230 metres (10,600 feet) above sea level when the avalanche struck on Friday after h...
Canada troops to help Newfoundland dig out after blizzard
Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)
The soldiers were expected in the Atlantic province from Sunday evening to help with snow clearing and removal operations. More than 28 inches (70 centimeters) ...
No business in snow business! Warm weather shutters Japan ski resorts
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
Northern Japan saw just 38 percent of its average snowfall in December, with only a "little" snow seen in western Japan, the country's meteorological agency sai...
NASA snow-chasers set to fly into East Coast winter storms
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
This month NASA is sending a team of scientists, a host of ground instruments, and two research aircraft to study the inner workings of snowstorms. The Investig...
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