From June on to November it lies hot, still, and unbearable, sick with violent unrelieving storms; then on until April, chill, quiescent, drinking its scant rain and scanter snows; from April to the hot season again, blossoming, radiant and seductive".
Unusual conditions in the Mountain West — scant snowfall leading to a shallow snowpack that features a thick layer of sugary snow, known as depth hoar, at the bottom — have created a kind of perfect storm for avalanches, one veteran Colorado ski patroller said, something not seen here in 35 years.
Adélies have scant success nesting on snow or in snowmelt, as their eggs often become addled — and newly hatched chicks sometimes drown — in meltwater ponds.
Week after maddening week of unusually balmy temperatures have made snowfall scant in New England, and, worse, wreaked havoc on snowmaking at ski resorts that like to have a healthy base of, at the least, manmade snow by Christmas.
Marcel Duchamp turned his bicycle wheel, snow shovel, and bottle rack into art with scant alteration.
Dorothy Emanuel LIKE WICKED WITCHES Dark mounds of old snow lean improbably against city street lights, skulk in scant shadow, huddle near newsstands, eavesdrop on world events.
Being below 2,000 metres, Jasna relies on artificial snow to keep all the pistes open, and during my visit, scant January falls meant no real off-piste.
Meteorologists at Pennsylvania State University said January had six days of trace amounts of snow, meaning flurries that melt when they hit the ground and are so scant as to not be measurable.
