For all those who think "global warming" is a hoax, the Rocky Mountains are on your side this winter. Although global warming is blamed for the disappearing of glaciers all over the world, looking at the continuing ice growth in the rocky mountain region makes you wonder if it is really that simple.
Its early November but there have already been multiple accumulating snow falls in the high country of the Rockies and Teton regions. The second snow storm in a week hit the Rockies today adding, in some places, to the 2-3 feet of snow that stayed unyielding through this past summer. The high amount of accumulation from last winter was expected to melt in the spring causing troublesome flooding, but due to lower constant temperatures most of it stayed in its place among the mountains.
New ice has been recorded in Glacier National Park and atop Colorado's Front Range mountains. The director of Bridger-Teton National Forest Avalanche Center, Bob Comey, has produced photographic evidence of the glacier growth. Photos were taken before the snow began this fall and already appear to show more ice in the Teton Range than was present two years ago.
Although new ice layers are accumulating all over the western mountainous region this season, it isn't nearly enough to negate the large volume of melting that has occurred in the regions in recent years. But this phenomenon could help reverse or at least postpone some potentially severe hazards due to melting glaciers.
http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/news-41/top-stories-169/2nd-storm-in-a-week-blankets-rockies-22405#loc=41/169/22405
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/rockies-snow-glaciers_2011-11-02
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