How to Use snowpack in a Sentence

snowpack

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  • The storms were also expected to add to the snowpack in the greater Tahoe area.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Parts of the Sierra are closing in on erasing the snowpack deficit.
    — Sara Tonks, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
  • What may be a pain for travelers is a boon for the snowpack.
    — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Per the Wall Street Journal, the state is nearing a four-decade record for snowpack.
    — Maria Pasquini, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
  • At the highest peaks, Donner and Echo summits could add up to 7 feet of snow to the snowpack.
    — Michelle Apon, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Statewide, the snowpack reached 232% of average for April 1.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • And in some parts of the world, water is also stored in its frozen form, as is the case with glaciers or snowpack.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • But the size of the Sierra Nevada snowpack shrank 20 percent between the Eighties and the Aughts.
    — Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In the peaks of the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack reached its highest level in years.
    — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
  • As the lakebed dries, dust can land on the state’s snowpack in the mountains, causing the snow to absorb more sunlight and melt faster.
    — Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Drought has threatened the future of Utah’s water supply, and parts of the state are too dry even with the record snowpack.
    — Megan Banta, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • As of Thursday, the snowpack in the Great Salt Lake basin was more than double the average for this time of year.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 16 Apr. 2023
  • River basins in the northern half of the state are showing above-normal snowpack across the board.
    — John Meyer, The Denver Post, 10 May 2024
  • And the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada now stands at just 31% of average.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Despite the heat waves, a summer snowpack this deep hasn’t been seen in the eastern Sierra in decades.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Runoff from snowpack in the Rocky Mountains supplies most of the water to reservoirs that feed the Southwest.
    — Maddie Stone, Washington Post, 27 June 2022
  • By April 1, the snowpack had dwindled to just 38% of average.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
  • There has been major shrinkage of glaciers and snowpack in the region and rivers are shrinking.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
  • That means the snowpack in places like Alaska is melting earlier in the year.
    — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Even if El Nino had brought an increase in rain, which is some help, the loss of snowpack has more of an impact.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The fish have adapted to the harsh monsoon-to-drought cycles of the desert rivers that flood with melted mountain snowpack in the spring and are parched in the late summer.
    — Stephanie Mencimer, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The state of Utah relies on snowpack for drinking water.
    — Ashley Soriano, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2021
  • But the warm storm was raising concern about a rapid snowmelt of portions of the state's substantial snowpack.
    — CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The state’s snowpack was at just 29% of normal on Dec. 28, according to DWR data.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Parts of the region, in fact, were blanketed in double the normal snowpack.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • This could mean disaster for regions in the West that depend on snowpack to feed the reservoirs.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 18 July 2022
  • Other reserves upstream would not be able to help much this year because of weak snowpack and a lack of rain.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
  • That addition to the snowpack had massive amounts of water — more than twice the usual amount.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • Thinner snowpack and increased drought - both symptoms of increasing climate change - are likely culprits of the Canadian blazes.
    — Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 May 2024
  • But all of those efforts don't lower summer temperatures, or combat drought, or increase winter snowpack to saturate the ground in spring that keeps coming earlier than ever.
    — Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024

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