June Snow In N. India; Italian Glacier Records Impressive Snowpack; Cold And Snow For South Africa; Australia Snow Season Begins With A Bang; + 800 Years of Inconvenient Climate Data
June Snow In N. India
India's Rohtang Pass was blanketed in June snowfall late last week. The high-altitude gateway, usually thawed by now, looks more like winter than June.
Temperatures plunged, woollens returned, and tandoors fired up — while plains cities like Delhi catch some summer heat, Manali and its surroundings have slipped into an unseasonal freeze. Locals say it feels like December.
“We left an oven behind and walked into a snow globe,” said one Delhi tourist.
And Rohtang wasn’t alone. Snow also hit the likes of Lahaul, Baralacha Pass, and Kaza Road, with icy winds sweeping through tourist hubs like Kasol, Malana, and Tirthan Valley. Even Manikaran and Jibhi saw snow-dusted mornings.
While snow in June isn’t unprecedented of at these altitudes, it is highly unusual.
Italian Glacier Records Impressive Snowpack
Italy’s Ciardoney Glacier finds itself buried under one of its thickest late-spring snowpacks in more than 30 years.
