C Location 1
Updated : 23.09.2019
Height: 3206m Viewing angle: 35° Viewing direction center of photo: SE
Compare the situation from with that from (<<< select date) Period of time: 6204 days (= 17.00 years)
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In the photo from 2.7.2011 you can see the tongue (left of the triangular hole in the glacier) which threatens to crash since October 2014. The hole has enlarged to such an extent that the tongue is less and less supported from below.
Since October 2014 the hole to the right of the triangular slope glacier has been enlarged. The slope glacier is no longer supported from below.
Since the beginning of September 2017, the ice masses described above have been moving downhill at a speed of > 1 m per day. A major demolition is expected in the coming hours / days. As a precautionary measure, more than 200 people were evacuated in Saas Grund on 9. September 2017. In the night from 9 to 10 September 2017, around 2/3 (approx. 200,000 to 300,000 cubic metres) of the endangered ice masses broke off. The ice masses were deposited on the glacier at an altitude of approx. 3300-3200m. On the morning of 11. September 2017, the rest of the unstable glacier tongue has dissolved. Humans, animals and settlements were not harmed by both abortions.
Height: 3206m Viewing direction center of photo: SE
Image comparison period: 17.09.2002 - 12.09.2019 Period of time: 6204 days (= 17.00 years)
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Photo 2019: Snow fell a few days before the shooting. It didn't melt completely in the northern slopes until the recording day.
M Current meteo and climatic data for the Trift glacier.
The meteorological/climate data from the MeteoSwiss measuring stations closest to the Trift glacier have been available since December 2023. You can call up the daily and monthly values for temperature (incl. min/max values), precipitation and sunshine duration, a comparison with the climate standard values and exceptional weather events. Links to the nearest snow depth measuring stations on the Trift glacier round off the offer.
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