How to Use snow line in a Sentence
snow line
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The key to where the rain-snow line sets up is the track of the storm, D’Aleo said.
—Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
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The snow line will be high enough in the atmosphere to keep most of the wintry weather out of the city.
—Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
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Such a track allows the easterly and southerly flow to push the rain-snow line well west of the city.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020
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If the precipitation is light, the air might warm enough to push the rain-snow line north and west.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
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That rain/snow line needs to drop into Garrett County for the folks at Wisp.
—Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
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Watching the rain/snow line jog east and west, and up and down in elevation has been painful.
—John Hopewell, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
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This is still an evolving storm so the rain-snow line placement and how long the snow lasts is to be determined.
—Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
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The snow line seems to be at an elevation of roughly 7,000 feet.
—Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2018
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Fresh snow lined the mountaintops and the rising sun sparkled through the low underbrush lining the trail.
—Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2019
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However, the snow line crept down toward the valley overnight.
—Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
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The forecast was this storm was very challenging as the rain-snow line was a moving target.
—Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
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This spreads southerly winds at around 5,000 feet across the area ahead of the storm, providing just enough warming aloft to push the rain-snow line to our north for much of the storm.
—Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2018
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The snow line existed in the disk at a distance from the star where its heat couldn't maintain liquid water.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
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During the afternoon, the rain-snow line is likely to push northwest.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020
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The snow line will fall to around 800 feet just before sunrise, leading to snow showers and graupel along most of the hillsides.
—Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
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But anything inside the snow line is usually too close to the star for ALMA to see clearly.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
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The rain-snow line would push well west of the city leaving the I-81 corridor with the heavy snow, possibly amounts approaching a foot.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020
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Both are now inside the snow line, but probably formed farther out.
—Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019
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For some of us, a heavy snow load will have helped—the snow actually protected plants beneath the snow line.
—Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 1 Mar. 2021
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Small groups that summered in the Clearwater Mountains are moving down as the snow line lowers.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2020
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That’s largely due to the warm air off the Pacific Ocean that commonly keeps the snow line away from mountain ranges in those regions.
—Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2023
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In this scenario, the rain-snow line could even approach the I-81 corridor, but this area and those farther west would still get hammered by heavy snow.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020
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Current radar shows the rain-snow line entering northwest Ohio.
—Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019
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The rain-snow line is evident on the map of temperatures below.
—Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
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The rain-snow line shown on weather forecasters’ maps Wednesday is a slash from northeast to southwest.
—Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
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Some evergreens may be green below the snow line, with the foliage above completely killed.
—Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
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As the storm is still four days away, storm timing, precipitation amounts, and the position of the rain-snow line are all likely to evolve.
—Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
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And while the snow line isn’t forecast to fall quite as far as earlier in the week, today’s weather will still host its share of rain and snow across the region this morning.
—Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
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If the storm were to take a little more of an eastern track or redevelop off the coast, that rain/snow line could begin to move eastward for the second half of the storm.
—Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2022
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The data Webb beamed back showed that, while there were spectra suggesting the presence of warmer water vapor emissions far inside the disk, there was also an excess of cold water vapor emissions just on the outside of the snow line.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
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