It's been collecting hourly data on measurements like the mountain's air temperature, total precipitation, humidity, and wind speed since the early '90s.
On warm days, as sunlight heats the glaciers, the air just above the glacier's surface warms and rises.
This creates a vacuum causing the cold air around the snowy peaks to rush down due to gravity.
Then at night, the ice releases some of that stored heat energy, preventing the air temperature from dropping too low.
The terrain has also gotten more technical as melting glaciers open up huge crevasses.
Persons:
Everest, It's, Yifei Fang, Franco Salerno, Gordon Janow, Mount Rainier, We're, it's
Organizations:
Service, Nature, Business, Researchers, National Research Council, Institute of Polar Sciences
Locations:
Mt, Milan, Janow, Mount