The effect is greatest at lower elevations (where snowfall is more marginal)(Jasper et al., 2004; Knowles and Cayan, 2004), and in many
cases peak flow would occur at least a month earlier.
After a flood had hit, a recurrent
case of flood management was to reinforce and rise flood protections up to a level that would safely confine the
peak flow of the river in
case a similar event occurred again in the future (see e.g., Fenn et al. 2014).