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This is good thinking. My children will be the fourth generation living in the same basic area. My dad went to school with ice on the ground and rare but occasi

by Cerium 4y ago

This is good thinking. My children will be the fourth generation living in the same basic area. My dad went to school with ice on the ground and rare but occasional snow. I saw occasional ice, and only once a hint of snow. My daughter will hope to see some rain, and likely never see any ice in her hometown.

lordnacho 4y ago
Where is that? One summer in around 2010, I drove up the pass to see the glacier in Switzerland that melts to become the Rhone river. The viewing spot is a stunning location on a bend in the road, and you can see both down the valley and up the glacier. When I got there, it looked like a frozen waterfall, ice "falling" over the side. You could also see that the trees in the valley were young. Inside the tourist centre, there were drawings of how the place looked 100 years earlier. Back then the glacier filled the whole valley. There was also a carved-out ice cave, in the solid part of the glacier visible from the tourist centre. Each year I'd drive back to the glacier, and each year it would be smaller. The overhang at the cliff disappeared, and the ice cave was carved further and further up.
- eCa 4y ago
  I biked there (Furkapass) about 20 years ago, and the change is crazy. Just compare old photos[1] with a more recent one[2]. It’s quite easy to see how much bigger the glacier used to be. [1] https://www.google.se/search?q=old+photos+furkapass https://www.google.se/search?q=old+photos+furkapass [2] https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5763411,8.3867043,3a,78.689247y,338.008301h,82.704247t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAF1QipNXbFGir-Gi9ID91xGLbDQPt5z0YpBLL1KKtrZr!2e10?g_ep=CAIYAA%3D%3D&shorturl=1 https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5763411,8.3867043,3a,78.6892...
- Cerium 4y ago
  In the Bay Area in California. I have not seen ice on the ground here for maybe 15 years, but it used to be in January you would see some ice on the edges of puddles in the morning.

by Cerium 4y ago

lordnacho 4y ago

Where is that? One summer in around 2010, I drove up the pass to see the glacier in Switzerland that melts to become the Rhone river. The viewing spot is a stunning location on a bend in the road, and you can see both down the valley and up the glacier. When I got there, it looked like a frozen waterfall, ice "falling" over the side. You could also see that the trees in the valley were young. Inside the tourist centre, there were drawings of how the place looked 100 years earlier. Back then the glacier filled the whole valley. There was also a carved-out ice cave, in the solid part of the glacier visible from the tourist centre. Each year I'd drive back to the glacier, and each year it would be smaller. The overhang at the cliff disappeared, and the ice cave was carved further and further up.

eCa 4y ago
I biked there (Furkapass) about 20 years ago, and the change is crazy. Just compare old photos[1] with a more recent one[2]. It’s quite easy to see how much bigger the glacier used to be. [1] https://www.google.se/search?q=old+photos+furkapass https://www.google.se/search?q=old+photos+furkapass [2] https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5763411,8.3867043,3a,78.689247y,338.008301h,82.704247t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sAF1QipNXbFGir-Gi9ID91xGLbDQPt5z0YpBLL1KKtrZr!2e10?g_ep=CAIYAA%3D%3D&shorturl=1 https://www.google.com/maps/@46.5763411,8.3867043,3a,78.6892...
Cerium 4y ago
In the Bay Area in California. I have not seen ice on the ground here for maybe 15 years, but it used to be in January you would see some ice on the edges of puddles in the morning.