Sentences with phrase «snow melt water»

Kum Dollison (22:02:57): I'm assuming that the Co corn that is irrigated is irrigated from groundwater, not snow melt water.

I'm assuming that the Co corn that is irrigated is irrigated from groundwater, not snow melt water.

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To catch the runoff from the melted snow, residents had wisely built a damn, but it was inefficient, providing water for only a few dozen families, and stirring up strife between neighbors desperate for its live - saving waters.

Problem is that both the hot water and the melted snow were lukewarm when it reached Laodicea — thus not fit as the required ingredients for the recipe.

I knew that now the brook would be rushing, filled with clear, icy water from melting snow.

Instead, growers are left hoping for a wet, cold winter that increases the state's snow pack and will provide a steady source of water as it melts over next spring and summer.

And that spring snow, oh, it melts so quickly, acting as water for the growing plants and flowers of spring.

The snow was leaving quickly, the melted water following its regular route down the hill toward the trees.

Spring is all about melting snow and April showers, so add ways to play in and on the water to your activity jar.

When the snow starts melting, water in the puddles can splash up to your ankles.

As soon as the baking sheet my three year old was using got a little fun of coloured water and melted snow, I would dump it into the sink and let her start fresh with a new cookie cutter.

The key to having the snow last inside without melting into a puddle of water in 5 minutes is to pack lots of snow on the baking sheet.

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The months of rain and snow melting into Lake Erie has swelled its water level to the highest level since 1998, and a new U.S. Corps of Engineers» forecast projects the lake will remain 4 to 9 inches above average through November.

The 111 - year - old Massey Memorial Organ at the Chautauqua Institution amphitheater has been damaged by water from melting snow.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «With increased precipitation and rapid snow melt, record water flows through major tributaries upstream and downstream of the lake, water is high throughout the Great Lakes system.

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.

Red snow: When snow repeatedly melts partially and then refreezes, the stage is set for a red - pigmented alga, Chlamydomonas nivalis, to take up residence in the thin films of water around the snow particles.

Each spring in the Arctic, the freshet — flooding triggered by melting snow — washes vast amounts of carbon - rich soil from the land into the water — both fresh water and the ocean.

Glaciers act as a liquid bank account for people in those areas, storing snow in winter and releasing melted water slowly in the summer.

A pulse flow is a surge of water that periodically flows through a river — normally as the result of natural events such as spring storms or melting snow.

As farmers in the American West decide what, when and where to plant, and urban water managers plan for water needs in the next year, they want to know how much water their community will get from melting snow in the mountains.

«We still don't know exactly where the meltwater came from, but given that the average temperature at the nearest weather station has risen by about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last 50 years, it makes sense that snow and ice are melting and the resulting water is seeping down beneath the glacier,» Thompson said.

Scientists collected snow around pawprints on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, melted it and used filters to identify DNA genetic material from animal cells in the water, said Eva Bellemain, of French DNA specialist firm SPYGEN.

Researchers used two methods to track groundwater levels, traditional water balance estimates — which take into account surface water inflow like rainfall and snow melt, soil moisture capacity and evapotranspiration — and data from NASA's twin satellite system called GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment).

Nearly all water needed to supply cities, farms, and industry accumulates as snow in nearby or distant mountain ranges melts and runs down into rivers used to irrigate crops, sustains fish and wildlife, and quenches...

... The determination needed to keep melting snow for water and cooking can ultimately be more valuable than the skill needed to climb steep ice.»

Much of the lake water comes from the seasonal snow pack melt.

Instead of gently percolating underground, rain water and melted snow can rush across these hardened surfaces, gaining enough power to erode loose sediments.

And the third was large volumes of cold fresh water from melting snow entering Mobile Bay — an inlet in the Gulf of Mexico — in 2011.

Snow on the glaciers is melting, causing more water to flow into valley, and this means more water for irrigation.

Although civil unrest is far less likely there, tension is indeed growing between political leaders in northern and southern California over who gets the increasingly scarce water from rivers, underground aquifers and snow melt, all of which are declining.

They form in areas that receive little rainfall or snow melt... or where the water evaporates more quickly than it can be replenished.

Signs of repeated ice - and snow - melt in a mid-latitude gully may point to the most recent water activity on the Red Planet's surface

For decades, Los Angeles has guzzled far more of its water from melted snow in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the Colorado River than from local, rain - fed rivers and aquifers.

And like much of the West, most of that water comes from the snow that blankets Wyoming's mountains in the winter and melts in the spring.

Incessant mountain rain, snow and melting glaciers in a comparatively small region of land that hugs the southern Alaska coast and empties fresh water into the Gulf of Alaska would create the sixth largest coastal river in the world if it emerged as a single stream, a recent study shows.

Heat - reflecting white ice has given way to heat - absorbing dark water; snow has melted ever earlier on surrounding lands; more heat - trapping moisture has entered the atmosphere; and bigger waves and storms have assailed weakening ice.

The study's authors found that starting in the early 20th century an additional 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inches) of water, or melted snow, was added to the ice sheet each decade.

If microbes help melt the snow, that water might help even more algae grow.

New research suggests that water came from melting snow and ice present at the time of the crater - forming impact.

That's a problem because snow is the state's natural water storage, keeping it locked up until it melts in the warmer months, topping up reservoirs.

The total annual water budget for agriculture and human use in the mountainous West is highly dependent on the amount of snow melt that will occur in spring and is proportional to the amount of snow on the ground.

Most importantly, it's when the Mississippi River starts shipping into the Gulf huge amounts of nutrient - filled water from melting snow and ice throughout its basin.

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

Mysterious under - snow lakes pockmarking its edges and deep layers of ice at higher elevations both point to changes that could hasten melt and send water cascading into the ocean, pushing global sea levels ever higher.

«Since we get most of our precipitation from October to May, we really need the melting snow in the dry summer months to keep streamflows at acceptable levels for fish, water supply, recreation.»

They offer better habitats for grizzly bears and play a significant role in managing hydrology of the mountain west by shading snow and regulating the flow of melt water.

Watch how the rivers surge with fresh water as snow and ice melt, pushing all dead leaves and debris that have accumulated out of the way so the river can flow with ease and purpose.

Each fall, we have to close down our summer cottage in Maine and everything has to come out as the power and water are off until we reopen it sometime in May when the snow melts and we can get down our steep road.