Zipperfish Zipperfish:
It will be interesting to see the rate of melt over the summer.
Unless the tundra is showing it wont melt much.
It's pretty facinating where it does melt zip,as soon as some color shows and the sun hits it the melting starts,because the ground wont take any water(permafrost)it runs straight to the lakes/oceans and the meltwater takes down the snow in a matter of days. The outside of the 10 foot thick ice on the lakes then melts in 2 days and the wind blows the rest around smashing it to bits and the lake will be clear. This is 50 miles from the circle and the landscape go's from all snow and ice to no snow or ice in a week and wont happen untill the end of july.
but even in the short summer that ends in september the ground will remain frozen unless you pull back the moss and expose the dark dirt to the sun.Natures insulation.
They sent me a boss once who asked me to pull an explosive mag 2 miles out on the tundra because the rules say explosives have to be kept that far from camp and it involved dragging a big metal shed on skids across virgin tundra with a cat and skidder.I asked him a dozen times if he really wanted to do that and he got pissed and said yes. The next day there were two rivers running down the tracks made by the skids as they ripped the moss off the ground.
Pictures were taken,reports filled out,it was a mini enviro disaster.
5000 years from now there will be two huge rivers flowing where those ruts were.
when you think of melting in the arctic you cant compare it to melting in the south here but that's what most do including me untill I saw it.
Strange shit but a pretty simple process.snow reflects the heat from the sun,any color will start the melting process,running meltwater increases it.
Very delicate balance mother nature has there and it doesnt take much to fuc* it up.
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