Sentence examples for light snowpack from inspiring English sources
Light snowpack -- just 30% of normal in this drought year -- allowed plows to clear Tioga Road well before the busy Memorial Day weekend.
Six months passed, and we learned that he had abandoned water-skiing for snow skiing; he was working at a ski resort in the Rockies, and sent photos, panoramic shots of the light mirroring brilliantly off the white snowpack.
Albedo is lowest in a forest, which absorbs up to 80% of sunlight, thus warming surface temperatures, and is highest in a desert or snowpack, which reflects upwards of 80% of light, which cools due to the lack of retained solar radiation.
Utility: "Abundant Snowpack Assures Healthy Electricity Supplies," trumpeted Seattle City Light, which generates most of its power through hydroelectric dams.
In a second set of experiments we alternately shaded or exposed snow (again in the natural snowpack and in the chamber) to ambient sunlight for short periods to reduce any temperature changes during variations in light intensity.
The snowpack was unstable.
The snowpack is steadily deflating.
Historically, 1 April marked peak snowpack for the year.
A lack of snowpack can lead to drought.
Annual snowpack will decline on average by half.
