Sentence examples for thick snowpack from inspiring English sources

In late spring the glacier is covered by a thick snowpack at the melting temperature.

But thanks to climate change, which can prevent the thick snowpack from which spring floods draw their strength, that sort of flood may be less likely to happen today.

The freshet NO3-N yield per water yield was higher during the years with a thick snowpack and the consequent thawed soil compared to a year with soil frost and minor snowpack.

Wolverines appear to be dependent on areas of deep snowpack.

Contrastingly, a thicker and permanent snowpack maintained circum-zero soil temperatures during winter which limited the microbial community's turnover and release of organic and inorganic N.

2010 was an unusual winter with heavy snow falls followed by strong repeated thawing events which resulted in a lesser overall snow accumulation and a thick ice layer underneath the snowpack.

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.

It appears that the meltwater percolated down to a snow height of 2 m or 17.5 ns (~ 0.3 m beneath the surface) and subsequently formed a thick melt-freeze crust within the snowpack.

I've skied here 30 years and I've never seen snowpack this deep.

Flanked by somber state officials and photos of snowpack in the Olympic mountains — thick and white in 2013, completely gone in 2015 — Inslee said the drought had spread quickly and threatened important sectors of the state economy, including agriculture, tourism and recreation.

Toss in the hot days and chilly nights of warmer months, and the snowpack, often a 16-foot-thick slab of "cement," transforms into the next best thing after powder — a soft, silky phenomenon called corn snow.