"It can go from 3 feet of snow to completely snow-free within four days". Pack ice in the Hudson Bay and Arctic Ocean is also melting earlier, which contributes to regional warming.
Clearing his throat to finally regale his friends, our guileless hero finds himself speechless: his tale, like the snow, has completely vanished.
"Why was the snow left completely untouched on many blocks for three or four days?" Another focus of inquiry will be the city's emergency services.
When we finally arrived at the rock climbers' base camp at the foot of the Torres, rain and snow clouds completely hid the Towers above.
Instead, New Yorkers, kept at home by the subway closures as they watched the snow cease completely, had plenty of attention to spare for the horse-trading around choosing Silver's replacement (which Cuomo and de Blasio claimed they were not involved in, though reports said that there were "intimations" of "maneuvers" on both their parts).
In the Arctic the surface albedo decreases in summer as the snow melts completely, ponds of meltwater form on the ice surface that absorb a greater share of incoming shortwave radiation, and the overall ice concentration (the ratio of ice area to open water area) decreases.
This snow was completely different from the snow we'd had in November: back then, it had been all brightness and visible marks, tracks and scuffs in the white turning to plum blue and black as darkness fell, but this one was dark from the first, a new variant of dark: white as it lay, yes, but already plum blue and black as it tumbled down out of the low clouds.
In the usual way of things, clouds will darken the world, rain will moisten it, but snow makes it completely strange, not our world at all, so that the waking day becomes a dream.
Antarctic multiyear ice is more saline because the snow rarely melts completely at the ice surface, and brine flushing is uncommon.
In the 19th century, when roads were narrow and curved, sleigh runners gliding over the snow were almost completely silent.
