Sentence examples for snowpack on the from inspiring English sources
If the snowpack on the Rockies is as bad as Davis fears, then there is likely to be a deeper cut in the coming months under a series of agreements which allocate water rights.
The study further shows that the foehn-induced late-season melting has begun to restructure the snowpack on the Larsen C. If this pattern continues, it could significantly alter the density and stability of the ice shelf, potentially putting it at risk of suffering the same fate as the others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Electronic readings of the statewide snowpack on Tuesday morning showed water content was 20 inches, or 114% of the historical average for that date, according to the California Department of Water Resources.
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Warmer temperatures are only part of the problem, explained geographer Thomas Painter of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, who presented his own research on snowpack in the West at the meeting.
