Sentences with phrase «average snow pack»

As of April 1st, most locations from the Great Basin to the West Coast had much below - average snow pack.

In Alaska, snow pack totals less than 25 percent of average were observed across southern regions of the state, while interior locations had near - average snow pack.

Not exact matches

I read on our provincial snow pack data that Vancouver Island is very low, although other parts of the province are above average.

Antarctica is technically a desert — with an average 166 mm of precipitation a year — but snow that falls tends to stay, and becomes packed ever tighter with the decades.

In March 2017, temperatures in the Sierra Nevada mountain range were 3 to 4 °F above the 1949 - 2005 average (see image below on the left)[4] and contributed to reduced snow pack levels.

[8] Weather systems passing through California originate globally, and the average global increase in temperature has been 1 °C, indicating significant risk that storms arriving in California may be warming and converting additional snow pack to mountain run - off.

In 2015, for the first time in 120 years of record keeping, the winter average minimum temperature in the Sierra Nevada was above freezing, a key threshold for maintaining snow pack.

[8] Rain - on - snow - producing atmospheric river storms are, on average, only 2 °C warmer than others storm types that preserve snow pack.

The remaining snow pack in the area continues to average a depth of 50 centimetres with an average water content of 150 millimetres.