Snow cover of Swiss glaciers below average this year: study

Each spring, when snow cover reaches its peak, Matthias Huss, head of the Glacier Monitoring Switzerland (Glamos), and his team take measurements on several Swiss glaciers. This year, the Glamos team measured snow depth at 21 glaciers and found densities ranging between 1 and 4 metres (3 and 13 feet), or between 0 and 52 percent below the reference value. The extrapolation of these measurements to all 1,400 registered Swiss glaciers shows a "winter snow deficit" that is 13 percent below the 2010-2020 period, their report said.