Scotland has experienced no snow at all for the fourth time in the last six years. The Sphinx in the Cairngorms, which had previously been the UK’s longest-lasting snow patch, has melted.
The infamous patch had disappeared within the previous 24 hours, according to a report on Friday from snow expert Iain Cameron.
It has only melted nine times in the past 300 years
It has only melted nine times in the past 300 years; this is the fourth time in the past six years. According to Cameron, climate change likely has an impact, as the BBC reported.
Over the past 18 years, The Sphinx, a 1,296m (4,252ft) Munro on isolated Braeriach, has vanished more frequently.
It was completely dissolved in the years 1933, 1959, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2017, 2018, and this year, 2022, according to records.
It is believed that the last time it completely melted before 1933, was in the 1700s.
Researchers also noticed a trend toward warmer weather beginning in the 1960s, and they forecast that by the 2080s, Cairngorm would encounter some years with little to no snowfall.
The Sphinx is situated in a corrie, which is a depression made by ice or a glacier during the last ice age.
Garbh Choire Mor is referred to as Scotland’s snowiest corrie due to the amount of snow it can retain covered even during the summer.
