Sentence examples for effect of the snow from inspiring English sources

Studded grippers over my trainers gave some extra purchase but couldn't combat the energy-sapping effect of the snow.

So far during her first winter in the house, the main effect of the snow cover has been to reflect light back into the house, which Ms. Cox said makes the place even more beautiful.

They have been characterised by late snowfall, periods with no snow and sometimes rain followed by freezing temperatures (21) destroying the protective effect of the snow cover.

Temperature fluctuations experienced at the soil surface are less severe under the snow pack than after snow melt due to the temperature buffering effect of the snow pack [ 33].

On the severe weather it said: Heavy snow invariably has a strongly adverse effect on sales, but the effects on the like for like numbers were minimal in the period under review, since the effects of the snow before Christmas were off-set by snow in January a year ago.

Other knock-on effects of the snow shortage include the threat to animal and plant species that are dependent on snow, the thawing of Siberian permafrost, which will release vast quantities of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, and the melting, over a period of centuries, of the Greenland ice sheet, which contains enough water to raise global sea levels by seven metres.

The effect of the extra snow locked up in Antarctica is to slightly slow a general trend in global sea-level rise.

Farmers are concerned about the effect of heavy snow on the island's Jersey Royal potato crop.

was making up its mind, the writer conducted her own survey of the effects of the heavy snow.

Hundreds of farmers and rural residents are still suffering the effects of the heavy snow in Northern Ireland.

Surprisingly the effect of snow is almost negligible in the snow-free valley bottom.