CLIMATEWIRE | Balmy, tropical Hawaii sounds like the last place on Earth one might expect to find snow and ice.Yet the tiptops of some of the island chain's tallest mountains often fall below freezing in the winter, welcoming in a blanket of magical snow.That's not all.Near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii's tallest peak at nearly 14,000 feet, there's another surprise: two patches of rare tropical permafrost, a type of continuously frozen soil most often associated with the frosty Arctic.
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