Snow sphinx melts away
BRITAIN is snow-free for the first time in 11 years after a patch in the Scottish Cairngorms dubbed the Sphinx finally melted.
The holdout had survived in a shaded corrie at 3,700ft on Braeriach mountain since 2006.
Amateur snow monitor Iain Cameron, 44, said: “On Saturday, the Sphinx was so tiny I could hold it. It’s normally massive.”
This is only the seventh time in 300 years we have been snow-free.