Sentence examples for persistent snow from inspiring English sources

Adults of both sexes often return to previous breeding sites, which may be an advantage in northern, higher-elevation forests where persistent snow packs foreshorten the breeding season.

Another pathogen, called the chestnut bunt, infects plants as the thermometer drops toward freezing, but the infection may not be lethal without persistent snow cover.

For a month in which persistent snow kept cars on drives, this is an enormous rebound, albeit that stock shortage is playing a major role in average monthly price volatility.

The persistent snow issues forced organizers to reduce athletes' practice time at Cypress Mountain and move some training sessions to Whistler, the site for downhill skiing at the Games, which has ample snow cover.

"From late afternoon these will settle more readily, and there is a risk of two spells of persistent snow.

With persistent snow and icy conditions set to continue into Saturday, the assembly government announced it had invoked its 24-hour Wales-wide "snow desk".

We implemented an automated approach for mapping persistent ice and snow cover (PISC) across the conterminous western U.S. using all available Landsat TM and ETM+ scenes acquired during the late summer/early fall period between 2010 and 2014.

Much of that dynamic impetus was concentrated just south of the District, where a process called frontogenesis (literally, creation of a mid-level front in the atmosphere) set up a band of persistent, moderately intense snow.

The early snow and persistent sub-zero temperatures enabled Scotland's main resorts – Aviemore, Glenshee, Glencoe and Nevis – to open much earlier than usual and enjoy a bumper Christmas season.

A hardcore of around 600 braved snow and persistent rain on a four-day, 50-mile trek to the atomic weapons establishment in Berkshire, sleeping in church halls, schools and allies' homes along the way.

Second, as we recently suggested (7 ), milder winters (14 ) with a less persistent and less protective snow cover, either part of normal weather variation or caused by global warming, may trigger the behavior of bank voles to more frequently leave unfavorable natural habitats and enter human dwellings for shelter.