Grosser Aletsch Glacier Rapid Snow Loss June 2026

🫧 Open on Bubbles In June of 2025 heat waves combined with limited winter snowpack set the stage for significant glacier loss, 3% of the volume of Swiss Glacier . This followed on the exceptional losses in 2022 and 2023. This same story in playing out through June of 2026, which will lead to this being the fourth year in the last five with exceptional glacier mass balance loss . On Grosser Aletsch Glacier on June 11th the snow line on the glacier was at 2450 m. By June 24th it had risen to 2800 m and by Jun