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Historically snowy places are likely to lose their deep snow in the next century.

So it's not just a matter of, you know, missing out on a classic New Hampshire snowy winter.

It's also, you know, it's going to affect all the people who live there year round.

It's Friday, January 3rd, also known as Science Friday.

I'm sci-fi producer Shoshana Bucksbaum.

The long-term snow forecast is not looking good.

Researchers are projecting that by the end of the century, days where deep snow covers

the ground will virtually disappear across the United States.

Only places high up in the Rocky Mountains will maintain their snow cover.

Here's Ira with that and other science news from this week.

Joining me now to talk about that is Sophie Bushwick, senior news editor at New

Scientists based in New York. Sophie, welcome back. Happy New Year. Thank you. Happy 2025.

Okay. This first story you brought us is some bad news having to do with snow. Tell me about that.

Right. So there's a lot of parts of the U.S., such as New England and the Midwest, where winter

means snow. And they often have a snow cover on the ground of roughly 30 inches or more.

That's what the researchers are referring to is deep snow. And that has implications for,

you know, how water is stored, the risk of flooding, and a lot of ecosystems that live in the

snowpack itself or above it or even below it. And researchers were trying to figure out what was

going to happen with all this snow with global warming, because you would think, oh, warming means snow melts.

Sometimes climate change actually leads to more precipitation.

And so the researchers wanted to get a more detailed model to see what was actually going to happen.

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