Perth Snow Report

The Great Southern peak of Bluff Knoll is snow capped, with locals saying it is the heaviest snowfall in years. LOL

If Greenland goes, it is becoming clear that it won’t go quietly.

“The first six mornings of winter in Canberra were the coldest ever but Perth is averaging 23.7C daytime maximums for the first week and you have to go back to the late 1880s to get warmer than that.”

A blanket of artificial snow might save a glacier in the Swiss Alps. (edit: seems legit)

Snow fails to fall on the Swiss and Austrian Alps in driest December since 1864. Ski resorts turn to snow cannons to coat the slopes, irony lost on skiers.

'No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now threatened by climate change', writes Damian Carrington, environment editor at The Guardian.

Big news. Big. Huge (from sometime last year). Apparently it was also a bit cold.

Glaciers around the world are disappearing writes Twila Moon, a glacier expert at the University of Colorado Boulder. Published in the journal Science 12 May 2017.