Finish of the snow? Finland believes the winter snow won’t soften this summer time – what is the level?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
In Finland, the piles of snow that accumulated during road clearance this year are so large that some of the snow is still frozen even after winter has returned.
In the Finnish capital region, the piles of snow built up this winter may not melt in summer
FINLAND MARCH 15, 2021
THE CAPITAL REGION Finland received so much snow this winter that the meter-high stakes that are being transported to designated snow dump areas may not melt over the course of the summer, reports Helsingin Sanomat.
In Uusimaa, for example, the amount of snow was 1.7 times higher than in January of the previous year, according to Foreca.
Helsingin Sanomat wrote on Friday that the piles of snow on the dump in Herttoniemi in the east of Helsinki are almost 20 meters high. In Maununneva, a north-western neighborhood of the city, trucks have thrown around 16,000 loads of snow on the landfill Tero Koppinen, Production Manager at Helsinki City Construction Services (Stara).
The snow plowed by roads forms a large structure, known by locals as the Alps, also on the only blanket of snow in Espoo in Vanttila.
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Read more: https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/18867-snow-piles-built-up-this-winter-may-not-melt-during-summer-in-finnish- capital -region.html
The fins mostly seem to take this as a joke, perhaps a chance to cool off on warm summer days. And most likely, this event will not have any long-term consequences.
But history teaches that when ice ages strike, they can strike abruptly with very little warning.
The world suddenly froze 12,800 years ago. Temperatures sank again on ice ages and stayed cold for over 1000 years.
In 2009, a group of scientists studying high-resolution sediment samples from Lough Monreach, an ancient lake in Ireland, claimed that the return to Ice Age conditions may have occurred over a period of less than a year. In the words of the lead researcher, “It would be like taking Ireland today and taking it to Svalbard, which creates icy conditions in a very short time.”
Ice ages are not uncommon in our current geological epoch. It is the recovery from cold temperatures that is unusual, not the icing. For most of the last 115,000 years, the world was locked in a hard ice age, with huge sheets of ice covering Europe and Canada. The Holocene, our current short break from extreme glaciation, only dates back the last 12,000 years.
As climate alarmists show off their worthless computer models and shout that the world is overheating, paleoclimatologists are aware that the world is by no means unusually warm, but is currently in the grip of quaternary glaciation, a period of unusual cold that has so far lasted 2.6 million years . What we are experiencing right now is the Holocene, a brief break from the vast ice sheets that define much of the Quaternary.
A return to extreme cold is unlikely in our lives. Notable geological events rarely occur in a human timeframe. But at some point in the future a return to icing is inevitable. Let’s hope our descendants retain the technological and engineering skills they need to hold the ice back when the ice finally returns to challenge our beautiful homes.
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