Sentence examples for snowpack on from inspiring English sources

Warmer temperatures are causing mountain snowpack, on which so much of the life in the region depends, to melt earlier in most years, he said.

The state Department of Water Resources took a new survey of the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Thursday and found the water content at only 24% of average for the date.

To settle a dispute over water rights in nearby Lake Tahoe, he was able to predict the water from the snowpack on Mount Rose by using a hollow tube that he called the Mount Rose snow sampler.

During our visit to Rocky Mountain National Park, a park official commented that, despite the late spring snowstorms, the snowpack on the park's peaks was down by more than 50percentt of what it should be at this time of year.

Snowpacks on its mountain ranges - essential once they melt for replenishing the state's sophisticated system of underground reservoirs - were unusually thin.

With 2013 the driest year on record for much of California, and last winter's snowpacks on the Sierra Nevada and Trinity mountains down by 80%, the region now seems to be in for a prolonged drought.

Implicit in this sentence was the acknowledgment — Hizzoner's first since that howling blizzard descended on the city — that a snowpack acceptable on a Himalayan trail is quite a bit less so on Marlborough Road in Brooklyn two days after a storm.

Thanks to a blizzard-filled winter and an unusually cold and wet spring, more than 90 measuring sites from Montana to New Mexico and California to Colorado have record snowpack totals on the ground for late May, according to a federal report released last week.

Post-depositional elution of solutes from the snowpack deposited on UFG could also contribute to lower masses relative to similar time periods at the NADP/NTN sites.

California water officials had planned to make the trek to the Sierra Nevada to conduct their monthly snowpack measurement on May 1, but called it off because, for the second consecutive month, there wasn't any snow to measure.

Those who depend on the snowpack for water adjust their plans accordingly.