563 Swiss glaciers hit Glacier Loss Day early after June heatwave YouTube
Snow on Swiss glaciers has disappeared weeks earlier than usual this summer due to the European heatwave. The Rhone Glacier reached the ‘Glacier Loss Day’ – when snow accumulated over winter has melted away – at its second-earliest date on record.
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All Swiss glaciers together have lost during this heat wave in June an amount of water that would
fill up one Olympic swimming pool every six seconds. We have just passed the so-called
glacial loss day. This day means that we have used up all the snow reserves accumulated during
the winter season. It's basically the day or the condition the glacier should be in at the end
of the summer, so at the end of September. Now it already occurred at the end of June,
which is the second earliest ever. It means we have now three months left for melting ice that
has been accumulated decades and centuries ago. I've been here for the first time this summer,
about two weeks ago, and two weeks ago the ice surface was still up here. So within these two
weeks of this heat wave we have lost one and a half meters of ice at this place.