{"id":15384,"date":"2024-10-27T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/my-pilgrimage-to-scotlands-vanishing-snow-patch\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T12:30:26","slug":"my-pilgrimage-to-scotlands-vanishing-snow-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/my-pilgrimage-to-scotlands-vanishing-snow-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"My pilgrimage to Scotland&#8217;s vanishing snow patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Sphinx, a patch of snow believed to be the longest-lasting in the UK, has melted for the fourth consecutive year.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Iain Cameron has spent decades surveying the patch, hidden in one of the most isolated parts of Scotland&#8217;s Cairngorms.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Describing his work as \u201ccitizen science&#8221;, Iain and other experts document areas of snow across the country and share their findings with the Royal Meteorological Society. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The patch was thought to be a permanent fixture in the Scottish landscape &#8211; researchers attribute its recent melting to the effects of climate change.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A snow patch is a permanent or long-lasting area of snow, unlike seasonal snow cover that will melt during warm weather.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"video-by-danielle-fleming-and-morgan-spence\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Video by Danielle Fleming and Morgan Spence<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c2lnrn287rgo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sphinx, a patch of snow believed to be the longest-lasting in the UK, has melted for the fourth consecutive year. Iain Cameron has spent decades surveying the patch, hidden in one of the most isolated parts of Scotland&#8217;s Cairngorms. Describing his work as \u201ccitizen science&#8221;, Iain and other experts document areas of snow across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[6412,1109,512,857,6411],"class_list":["post-15384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-patch","tag-pilgrimage","tag-scotlands","tag-snow","tag-vanishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15386,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384\/revisions\/15386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}