Snow on mountains in summer? Why?!?

Your kidding right? Don't know about the Tundra condition, but forget about being closer to the SUN. High altitude = Colder air. I suppose you could also argue why the center of the earth is hot with magma, when its further away from the sun.

The higher the elevation the COLDER the AIR temp. When the air temp is below 36 degrees you stop having rain and start having SNOW>.

It's called Tundra Condition, and is evident all over Colorado. Even with the sun burning down on the mountains, the altitude and temperature don't allow the snow to melt.

Since the top of a mountain is closer to the sun than the base is, you would think the peak is warmer, right? Actually, the top is the mountain's coldest spot. Here's why: The dense air at the base easily traps the sun's rays. But the thinner atmosphere near the peak traps less heat and gets colder the higher you go up. Above a certain point, called the snow line, the snow never melts. So, when it comes to mountains, snow doesn't always mean wintertime.

The higher you go up in the atmosphere the colder it gets. Eventually if you get high enough you get to a layer of the atmosphere that is hot, but this layer is much higher then the mountain tops are.

It has nothing to do with the sun. A mountain top may seem closer to the sun but if you take into account the actual distance between earth and sun it makes no difference. The higher you get, the colder it is and the air becomes thinner too and doesn't heat up much.

the higher altitude the montain is the colder it is so if it is below freezing there would be snow and not all heat comes from the sun most of it comes from the earths core but when the sun is far enogh away not all the heat of the sun hits the earth because of the tilt of the earth so winter comes

He's the hope of our future...we are all doomed.

More height = thinner atmosphere = colder temperatures = the possibility of snow! I live in Cumbria and the weather forecaster ALWAYS gives the freezing height - at the moment it's "well above the fell tops".....thank God; it is July after all!!!