“Strongest growth in 20 years”
ZAMG confirmed that last winter,
the glaciers in the Hohe Tauern
have grown more strongly
than they have for 20 years.
Strong growth over the winter
came as a surprise.
The Hohe Tauern glaciers
have grown “up to 25%”
compared with an
average winter.
To determine
the mass increase
last winter, the snow depth
was measured using
560 probes scattered
on the glacier.
Snow density and
snow temperature
were also measured at
nine other points.
The average snow depth
at Goldbergkees was
440 centimetres and
at Kleinfleißkees
400 centimetres.
Record June snow height
was set at the Rudolfshütte
After the measurements
in April 2019, a cool and
humid May 2019 caused
the snow cover in the
high mountains to grow
by another 100 to 150
centimeters.
At the ZAMG weather station
Rudolfshütte (Hohe Tauern,
2317 meters above sea level)
a snow depth of 342 centimeters
was measured on June 1, 2019.
This is the highest snow height
in June at this measuring station.
The previous June record there
was 310 centimeters, measured
on June 4, 1980.
Iceland’s largest glaciers,
which had been losing
autumn-to-autumn ice mass
over the past two decades
— Hofsjökull, Langjökull,
Mýrdalsjökull, and Vatnajökull
— are now growing, due to
cooling ocean currents
in the waters of Disko Bay.
Sounds like glacier growth
is “accelerating,” unlike
sea levels, which are not,
despite hysterical claims
to the contrary by the
climate alarmists.
This is real climate change,
unlike imaginary computer
climate model predictions,
that you will never read about
in the mainstream media.
Growing glaciers are just weather.
Nothing to see here.
Move on along.