: Himalayan glaciers may be melting even in the winters, says a new study #IndiaNEWS In late winter 2020, glaciologist Sudip Thakuri visited Kalinchowk, a peak in the Himalayas around 144 km west of

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Himalayan glaciers may be melting even in the winters, says a new study #IndiaNEWS
In late winter 2020, glaciologist Sudip Thakuri visited Kalinchowk, a peak in the Himalayas around 144 km west of Kathmandu. He was surprised by what he saw. The destination, popular among Kathmandu residents seeking a sight of snow-covered mountains, was not as thickly blanketed in white as in previous years. Later that winter he visited Nepal’s Makalu-Barun region, located southwest of the Everest area. Thakuri, who is dean of the faculty of science and technology at Mid-West University in Nepal, noticed a similar lack of snow.According to recent observations published in the journal Remote Sensing, the first, second and third-warmest winter days in 72 years in Nepal’s Everest region were recorded in the winter of 2020-’21.“We find that the January 10 to January 15 period fell in the top 1% of all winter days since 1950 and this appears exceptional when viewed in a multi-decadal context,�? said Prajjwal Panday, one of the members of the research team. The researchers used historical observations and data modelling (known as ‘reanalysip�&JH��[X]H�[��[�]��[�H�Y�[ۈ�]�Y[�NML[��N[��X[][YH]H�܈HYX��Y���NK�[��X]��][ۜ�ٙH[��[Y��]��X[�[���[��X[H؛H�[��ۈ�[�X�HL�HX^[][HZ[H[�]�H�X�ܙY]]�����H�[��
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