Well that was fun wasn't it? The Big Game was dramatic and full of incident. Also, Spurs are better, Nicolas Jackson is scoring goals, West Ham are strange, and Man Utd do the opposite of their usual thing.Av Lars Sivertsen

9 out of 10 fatal avalanche accidents are triggered by the victim or someone in their party. This means, like Roger Atkins pointed out more than 20 years ago, that avalanche is a human problem, not a snow problem. One of the ways to remedy this is by education. But does it work? Kelly McNeal is a professor in community health and also an avalanche …

Arsenal's big derby win, Everton falling down again, long shots are good actaully, and Rashford's weird PR.Av Lars Sivertsen

Our climate is changing, that we know. What we do not fully know is how that will impact avalanche hazards around the world - and how the hazard may increase the avalanche risk. Guest: Nicolas Eckert Host: Audun Hetland www.issw2024.com/registrationAv CARE & VARSOM

We are delighted to welcome everyone to Tromsø. In this podcast we go through the program of the conference, what you can expect and what we recommend while you are here. You find weather forecast at www.yr.no Guest: Chair of the conference Rune Engeset Host: Audun Hetland www.issw2024.com/registration…

How has technology changed the way we mitigate avalanche risk? A talk with Wyssen avalanche control and Cautus geo, the two main sponsors for the ISSW2024. 27% of Norwegian roads go through avalanche terrain. Previously the norwegian solution was to build tunnels. But you can only build so many. The past decade a leap in technology and also prevent…

Our climate is changing and this means that the avalanches will change. Many of our models are built around cold snow avalanches, but in a warming climate we need to update our understanding of how warmer and wetter avalanches will change the avalanche risk. Michael Kohler is a PhD Student at SLF Davos/EPFL studying avalanche-obstacle interaction. …

Being able to detect if an avalanche has released and its path is obviously important for avalanche warning and mitigation efforts. But how do you detect an avalanche? They often happen at night, in poor visibility hopefully far enough away from people. One way to do that is by using infrasound, the low frequency sound that our human ear can not he…

Peter returns to help dissect and digest the weekend's PL action.Av Lars Sivertsen

Avalanches is a danger to people and infrastructure. But unlike people, houses can't move when the avalanche danger is high. So how to you protect a settlement against avalanches? In this podcast we talk with Priska Hiller and the case Mosjøen - a small town in Nortern-Norway. Guest: Priska Hiller (NVE) Host: Audun Hetland www.issw2024.com/registra…

Arsenal solid, Spurs relieved, Wolves routed and Brighton good. Also, the combine harvester of doom scores a very un-Pep-like hat-trick.Av Lars Sivertsen

Creating an accurate avalanche forecast is by no means an easy task. Snow conditions change from hour to hour and meter to meter. Forecasters often har few observations and weather stations, and large regions to forecast. One approach to improve to help the forecasters is to create a weather and snow pack models - and not only one, but a chain of m…

Chelsea continue to mystify, Spurs fall down in a very familiar way, other games just sorta happen.Av Lars Sivertsen

Stability tests are widely used and an important source of information when trying to evaluate snow stability. In this podcast we take a deep dive into the snow mechanics within the compression tests to understand what happens in an compression test and an extended column test. You can find the scientific paper here. Guest: Samuel Verplanck Host: A…

It's that time of the year: The very very big season preview pod! Peter returns to help me out. We look at every team, and make a quick detour to the wacky zone at the end...Av Lars Sivertsen

In this podcast serie we will talk with contributers to the ISSW conference. There are still conference passes available: www.issw2024.com/registration. We have a very nice online service where you can interactively follow the conference online. In this episode we talk about how guides make their decisions. Most of us can choose the day and the peo…

Arne Slot is in at Liverpool and Erik ten Hag is still in charge of Manchester United, so I've brought in the big Dutch brain of Michiel Jongsma to discuss his follicly challenged compatriots. And some other stuff.Av Lars Sivertsen

The ISSW is the worlds largest conference on snow and avalanche and will be held in Tromsø the 23rd to the 27th of September 2024. The conference aims to merge science and practice and is a meeting point for the scietists and practitioners from all over the world. This is a great event! You find more information at www.issw2024.com. In this podcast…

At least that's what football seemed to be thinking, anyway. Spain are the European Champions, and deservedly so.Av Lars Sivertsen

England are, somehow, in the final of Euro 2024. Underwhelming performances and late goals, are they Italy in disguise?Av Lars Sivertsen

Hark and behold! Spain dismantle Didier Deschamps' dismal doomsday device! Kate Mason joins and adds some chaotic energy to the pod.Av Lars Sivertsen

England are in the semis! Still not exactly good, but they were definitely less bad. And in the distance we hear the clip-clop of clogs as the Dutch march on.Av Lars Sivertsen

Spain knock out hosts Germany after the latter fair to find an extra gear. France and Portugal serve up a pile of hot garbage, but France's tactic of not scoring goals continues to pay off.Av Lars Sivertsen

The Euros are fun again! The xF was way up, with the Netherlands playing well and Austria - Turkey living up to expectations. Turkish football enjoyer Andy Brassell joins to help make sense of it all - and look ahead to the Quater-finals.Av Lars Sivertsen

France and Portugal fail to impress yet manage to progress. And Cristiano Ronaldo, it's definitely getting weird.Av Lars Sivertsen

England scrape by Slovakia. If the plan is to make the rest of Europe think they're very bad, the plan is going well. Meanwhile, Spain are brilliant and Georgia are out.Av Lars Sivertsen

Germany stay in the race, Italy sink without a trace.Av Lars Sivertsen

Pod favorite Peter Welpton returns to discuss the group stage and where it all goes from here. We wrestle a terrible line and some curious audio problems, but in the end it's mostly fine.Av Lars Sivertsen

Georgia get their moment but Ukraine don't - even though Belgium are kinda bad.Av Lars Sivertsen

France put themselves in trouble, England put us all to sleep. How about those Austrians though?Av Lars Sivertsen

Italy go full Italy, and Spain - Albania just kinda happened. What did we learn?Av Lars Sivertsen