Switzerland: weeks earlier the glaciers began to melt

Snow and ice, which accumulated in the Swiss Alps during the winter, have already melted, the service that is responsible for watching them said today, marking the most early arrival of the so -called “Day of loss of glaciers“

The critical limit is the August And his premature arrival is a new blow to the 1,400 Swiss glaciers, which are reduced at a worrying pace.

Every new melting of ice from today until October will bring about a decrease in the size of Swiss glaciers, according to the service that monitors glaciers in Switzerland (Glamos).

“The day of the loss of glaciers arrived in Switzerland,” Glamos Huses’s head wrote “X”, explaining that snowfall was weak and that June was the second warmer ever recorded.

The #Glacier Loss day is reached in switzerland!
From now on all melt that occurs on glaciers until october is unsustainable. This tipping point has only been reached so early in the record-sactoring year 2022.
Expect Big Ice Loss Due To The Prolonged Melt Season and Feedbacks pic.twitter.com/wyprlkz8G6

– Matthias Huss (@matias_huss) July 4, 2025

“From now on, every loss of glaciers by October is unbearable,” Husos said. He clarified that the only time that this “day of glaciers loss” had come earlier was “The Year 2022” when it had arrived on June 26.

“We have to expect significant ice losses due to the extension of the ice melting season,” he added.

The glaciers of the Swiss Alps began to recede about 170 years ago. Their retreat was initially small, but during the last decades their melting has accelerated.