Sentences with phrase «snow melting earlier»

Because of this, and the little remaining snow melting earlier in the season than usual, the availability of water during peak dry season is harder to find.

Removing their white winter coat once kept snowshoe hares hidden in spring, but as the snows melt earlier, they are increasingly exposed.

When the crust is damaged, dust storms well up, residents of nearby communities develop hacking coughs, snow melts early and a whole array of untoward consequences ensue.

Warmer local temperatures make the snow melt earlier in the spring, shifting flood season up, too.

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that butterflies benefit when snow melts earlier in the Rockies.

As winters arrive later and snow melts earlier, the worldwide decrease in snow cover already may have dramatic impacts on animals that change coat colors with the seasons.

In northeastern Europe (1), the timing of flooding has shifted from late March to February over the past five decades as winter snow melts earlier in spring, sending huge amounts of water into rivers.

The researchers found that, as the world warms and snow melts earlier each year, the peak flows into the system will move up in the calendar, as well.

Note that in more recent years, snow melted earlier.

Not exact matches

Those three early wins settled him atop the FedExCup standings before the snow melted in the east, and also locked up his Ryder Cup slot.

It was early surmised that Martian caps must be composed of ice and snow, a theory which Prof. Lowell substantiates by pointing out that as the Martian cap melts it is surrounded by a deep blue band, which keeps pace with the shrinking cap and is clearly the product of its disintegration.

On the North Slope of Alaska, snow is melting earlier in the spring and the snow - in date is happening later in the fall, according to a new study by CIRES and NOAA researchers.

2016 experienced the earliest melt, the latest onset of snow in autumn, and the longest snow - free season in 115 years of record - keeping — about 45 percent longer than the average over the previous four decades.

Lengthy series of observation times show that the total amount of snow in the Northern Hemisphere has declined in the spring period and that the melting of the snow has started earlier in the same period.

In areas like the mid-elevations of the northern Rocky Mountains, where spring temperatures are just under freezing in an average year, «it doesn't take a large increase in temperature to start melting snow earlier in spring,» said Anthony Westerling, a professor of environmental engineering and geography at the University of California, Merced.

Next year, the team plans to go out earlier in the season, to be there in May when the snow begins to melt and the algae wake from their winter nap.

The ground froze early, the first snow stayed on the ground without melting, the winter was more severe than usual, and there seemed to be «a constant fog over all Europe, and [a] great part of North America.»

Researchers have evaluated different mechanisms that could account for declining snowpack in a warming world: earlier onset of snowmelt, a change in melt rates and shifts from snow to rain under certain conditions.

But because spring now comes sooner, says Daniel Cayan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, the snow is already melting days to weeks earlier — and could start running off uselessly into the sea instead of being available when the state needs it most.

The insect also likes a party: In late winter or early spring, these bugs sometimes form huge colonies, as wide as a yard, with millions of individuals migrating together like a superorganism, devouring the algae that grow on wet, decomposing leaf litter in the melting snow, Schulz explains.

With warmer temperatures, the melting snows will fill the rivers earlier in the spring and will be unavailable for the long, dry summers.

Warmer temperatures leads to earlier melting of the snow, he said, and that is a well - documented phenomenon throughout the western United States.

They suggest that dust could be arriving from snow - free land areas in Greenland and nearby in the Arctic that are experiencing earlier melting of seasonal snow cover due to climate change.

That thinner layer of snow will be less likely to last into the late spring and early summer, when melting rates are highest.

They found that if greenhouse gases continue to be emitted at the pace they're currently on, melt could outpace the accumulation of snow there as early as 2090.

In 2015, conditions were so warm that, on average, snow began to melt at the study plots 58 days earlier than in 2010 - 2014.

Christensen also sees possible signs of snow deposits on Mars, which might have melted and carved out the sinuous gullies spotted earlier by the Global Surveyor's optical camera.

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.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

High temperatures also meant that any snow that did fall melted very early in the season, leaving only a smattering come spring.

Melt has already picked back up since the last summer snow earlier this month, Box said.

all the snow was melted off the roads pretty early.

After waking up bright and early, we headed back down the mountains back to Krakow, where unfortunately all the snow had melted.

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The wolf boy, the wild child, the strange feral creature appeared early one spring as the iced - over streams started to crack and the blown snow on the steppes was melting.

Of course much of the Australian snow quickly melted away as temperatures moved up towards their early autumnal norms in double digits plus Celcius, but the snow

The previous evening, the clouds were low, wind was blasting and visibility was null... So I melted some snow, took the warm bottle with me and went to bed early, expecting better conditions in the morning... The forecast did not disappoint me this time.

Melting Snow at Fontainebleau (1879 — 80) is an uncharacteristic subject more typical of Monet's own repertoire, but he also acquired a fine example of male Bathers (c. 1890 — 92) and the stupendous early work, The Negro Scipio (c. 1867).

However, that would not have been enough if it weren't for the absence of snow to melt further south, the product of a mild winter and an early spring.

«As the Arctic sea - ice cover continues to disappear and the snow cover melts ever earlier over vast regions of Eurasia and North America, it is expected that large - scale circulation patterns throughout the northern hemisphere will become increasingly influenced by Arctic Amplification.»

It's a good question, though, how far north the soot gets; the main effect will be in lower latitudes, where snow is melting (and expose dark earth) earlier in the spring.

However, in a warming world, that snow will tend to melt earlier in the year, and thus we expect to see spring and summer snow cover extent decline.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Scientists attribute the increases to human - induced warming, which is drying vegetation, raising snow levels and causing snow to melt earlier in the season.

«Global warming causes the snow - caps of the Himalayas to melt early and in bigger quantities, causing early and extra volumes of water to flow through the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers.

By early July snowpack beyond the glacier margins is limited, Snotel sites have lost their snowcover, and yet streamflow is still heavily dependent on snow and ice melt from glaciers (Fountain and Tangborn, 1985; Pelto, 1996).

During the early portion of the melt season May and June, glaciers store meltwater in their thick snow and firnpack, thus reducing the magnitude of high spring flows.

``... snow pack has decreased and been observed to melt earlier in the calendar year... the observed changes in the hydrological components... can be explained well by anthropogenic forcing (green house gases and aerosols) alone.»

Decrease in spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere, which suggests that snow is melting earlier than previous years