MANALI: Record snowfall in Himachal this year has revived more than 2,000 glaciers.
Almora's G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development's senior scientist J C Kuniyal said apart from reviving the glaciers , this year's record snowfall would also boost the crop cycle. "It is difficult to understand the environment. As we start talking about the dry winters, record snowfall leaves stunned everyone," he said.
He cautioned that unequal snowfall remains a matter of concern. But Lahaul-Spiti has received more than 175-cm snow in first 16 days of February, breaking the earlier record of 148-cm for the month in 1998.
Wonder why a senior climatologist should admit being stunned by record snowfall this year? This blog has been regularly warning of such a prospect linked with a strong La Niña from July last year!
Read more: http://devconsultancygroup.blogspot.com/2011/02/record-snowfall-revives-2000-himalayan.html
Almora's G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development's senior scientist J C Kuniyal said apart from reviving the glaciers , this year's record snowfall would also boost the crop cycle. "It is difficult to understand the environment. As we start talking about the dry winters, record snowfall leaves stunned everyone," he said.
He cautioned that unequal snowfall remains a matter of concern. But Lahaul-Spiti has received more than 175-cm snow in first 16 days of February, breaking the earlier record of 148-cm for the month in 1998.
Wonder why a senior climatologist should admit being stunned by record snowfall this year? This blog has been regularly warning of such a prospect linked with a strong La Niña from July last year!
Read more: http://devconsultancygroup.blogspot.com/2011/02/record-snowfall-revives-2000-himalayan.html
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