Sentences with phrase «snow pack melt»

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

Thirty - four years ago, a similar snow pack melted, flooding hundreds of square miles of the valley.

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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.

The warmth indoors will cause the snow to melt slightly and create instant packing snow.

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.

A pack of ice borers will cluster under a penguin and melt the ice and snow it's standing on.

I packed up and headed back to wintry Montreal — I still ask myself why I didn't wait until the snows had melted — with enough experience in the IT field to prepare me to surf the dot - com wave.

The answer to that question comes down to the winner of the competition between accumulating snow (which is eventually packed down to become ice) and melt: In the decades since Camp Century was abandoned, falling snows have buried the site ever deeper.

Other indicators such as ocean acidification, increasing deep ocean heat, melting ice and permafrost, shrinking snow pack, and sea level rise further make the case that the additional carbon dioxide is affecting the global climate system.

The snow has melted, I'm packing my coat just in case and I'm slowly cutting down on thick layers, all of which can only mean one thing; it's the beginning of the sunglasses season.

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The ice bar and guest rooms are decorated with hand - carved ice sculptures and packed snow art crafted by local artists; though the hotel and its art might melt in the spring, the memory of your trip will be one that lasts for a lifetime.

``... 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.»

To answer these questions, the team was primarily interested in observing the ocean heat content, vertical mixing of the ocean heat toward the sea ice, and how sunlight penetrated the ice and snow and contributed to melting of the thinner ice pack.

That's because ice melting in Greenland and other glaciers is offset by increasing snow pack in Antarctica (melting sea ice has no effect on ocean levels, since the ice floats, for the same reason that ice melting in your glass of water will not cause the glass to overflow).

The ratio of snow pack (measured in snow water equivalent) to overall precipitation (SWE / P) is an indicator of a temperature - driven snow - melt signal on western US snow pack.

[1] Warming temperatures convert snowfall to rainfall and enhance snow melt, both of which, in turn, can reduce snow pack.

[1] The mid - to late snow season is precisely when significant loss of snow pack is seen at nearly all locations over the past few decades, both through decreases in snow accumulation and increases in snow melt.

The influence of spring temperature is particularly pronounced in years that experience low snow pack accumulations, indicating the potential importance of the albedo feedback [3] for the melting of shallow snow.

This effect can be compounded when relatively warm rains fall on and melt existing snow pack.

Temperature directly influences mountain snow pack, which provides natural storage of precipitation during cold winter months until it melts and provides water in the form of runoff as temperatures warm.

«Historically, California's water has been stored in the snow pack in the mountains, but warmer winter temperatures have meant the pack has been melting.»

Add in the jokers — less melt ponds, more snow cover, stressed / weaker ice pack, the volume perhaps more concentrated in areas that melt out — and the height of the 2017 melt season could go any - which - way.

There is enough ice and snow packed deep over 1.7 million square kilometres of Greenland that, were it all to melt, would cause a rise in global sea levels of about six metres.

Rainfall amounts up to 45 mm with possible thunderstorms are forecasted for today and tomorrow with daytime highs reaching 13 degrees Celsius over the weekend will advance the melting of the snow pack and cause a significant increase in water levels and flows over the next few days.