The Sphinx snow patch in Scotland used to linger year-round, but it has melted for the fourth consecutive year. Experts see it as a harbinger of climate change.

The Sphinx snow patch in Scotland used to linger year-round, but it has melted for the fourth consecutive year. Experts see it as a harbinger of climate change.

The Sphinx snow patch adorns the side of Braeriach, the third-highest mountain in Britain that forms part of the Cairngorms mountain range. Records indicate that the patch is previously known to ...

Snow patch deemed ‘barometer for climate change’ melts for fourth year in a row The Sphinx is on the UK’s third highest mountain, Braeriach in the Cairngorms.

Snow patches are nature's own freezers, storing pollen and animal bones, among other things. Now the lid of the freezer has been removed, and snow patches are melting.

The patches are areas of snow that have survived since winter or spring through to summer, and can be 200m in length or longer and as small as 20cm. Some can survive from one winter to another.

The number of snow patches across a huge swathe of Scotland still surviving this summer has fallen to 90 - the third lowest on records going back 50 years. It is far lower than the highs of more ...

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The Sphinx snow patch in Scotland used to linger year-round, but it has melted for the fourth consecutive year. Experts see it as a harbinger of climate change.