Sentence examples for snowpack was from inspiring English sources

The snowpack was unstable.

Statewide in Washington, the snowpack was 29% of a 30-year median as of March 1.

However, much of that precipitation fell as rain, not snow, and diminished snowpack was soon evident on peaks throughout the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges.

After several years of drought, runoff on the upper Colorado River Basin is expected to be above average, as the snowpack was 22percentt above normal, when measured at its peak in April, according to the Bureau of Reclamation, which manages dams and water supplies.

But across Colorado, the snowpack was just 72 percent of average as of Feb. 1, which means less water to dampen hillsides and mountains vulnerable to fire, less water for farms to use on early season crops, and less to fill lakes and reservoirs that ultimately trickle down into millions of toilets, taps and swimming pools across the state.

"The 2014 California snowpack was the worst on recorded.

The snowpack is steadily deflating.

"People would like to think that the snowpack is consistent over a slope," he said.

Then you realise the extreme level of the snowpack is not something to get excited about".

Snowpack is the source of much of the water that feeds the region.

Davis et al. (2005) found that Antarctica's snowpack is thickening.