Sentence examples for wet avalanche from inspiring English sources

He was nine and in the classroom next to Edwards when the black, wet, avalanche struck.

In particular, recent wet avalanche pressure measurements, performed with small cells at the "Vallée de la Sionne" test site, indicate significantly higher pressures than those considered by engineering guidelines and common practice rules based only on the contribution of inertial forces.

Low-speed wet avalanches exert hydrostatic forces on structures that are flow-depth dependent.

Wet avalanches can be loose or slab, fast or slow, and set like concrete once they stop making rescue time for victims extremely short.

Wet avalanches – These are common during spring months or following thaws, as water weakens any layers of snow, including down to the ground level.

In several locations the barriers successfully stopped small wet snow avalanches.

Basal shear and normal force measurements of dry and wet snow avalanches and slush flows from the Weissfluhjoch snow chute are presented.

This offers the possibility to track the position of liquid water, which is thought to be crucial in determining the onset of wet-snow avalanche activity (Mitterer et al., 2011b).

His previous two attempts were in the spring — warmer but wetter, and more avalanche-prone.

With such a wet base skiers must heed local avalanche warnings about off-piste skiing until the new snow stabilises.

Because of maritime influence, snow tends to be wet and heavy, resulting in high avalanche danger.