Published on
28/06/2026 - 18:42 GMT+2
The snow and ice accumulated by Swiss glaciers over the winter is expected to have completely melted away by Monday, Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) reported. The drastic loss is due to the heatwave that has swept over Europe.
From that day onwards, every additional day of melting between now and October will shrink the size of the glacier.
The tipping point—known as "glacier loss day"—has come significantly earlier than usual. Since data collection started over two decades ago, only once has the tipping point arrived even earlier, when it came on June 26 in 2022.
