How to Use snowmelt in a Sentence

snowmelt

noun

• At the snow dump site, a camper had covered its paths with gravel left from the snowmelt.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2023
• In spring the trail tends to close due to the rising water levels caused by snowmelt.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• Deep winter snow and delayed snowmelt led to the high creeks, Van Peursem said.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
• Sheets of ice clung to the shore and fresh snowmelt was cutting a path through glacier-like chunks in the middle of the river.
  — Annette McGivney, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2022
• The size of the lake depends on how fast the snowmelt races down and how much can be channeled somewhere else.
  — Shawn Hubler Mark Abramson, New York Times, 25 June 2023
• In April, before the snowmelt, the lake remained about 12 feet below that mark.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• During the spring and summer, the rivers in the area are fed by snowmelt and can run extremely fast.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 June 2022
• In the 2021 runoff season, thirsty soils sopped up much of the snowmelt, meaning less runoff made it to reservoirs.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Apr. 2022
• In their native habitat, the frogs flock to streams gushing with spring snowmelt.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
• What’s more, the surrounding city of Valdez is the snowiest in the U.S., which translates to tons of spring waterfalls from all the snowmelt.
  — Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
• The flow of water from the snowmelt can ultimately cause the slab to slide downhill.
  — Abhinanda Bhattacharyya, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• In Pakistan, snowmelt caused a glacial lake to flood and wipe out an important bridge.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• And the state has plenty of cold water due to ongoing snowmelt.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2023
• Could doing do cause problems with snowmelt on the roof, which is nearly flat?
  — Mark Philben, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
• In the past, the snowmelt and rains sometimes swelled the region’s rivers, prompting Turkey and Iran to share more water with Iraq.
  — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• Two job sites are still dealing with running water from the snowmelt, Tiffany said.
  — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• Overnight Sunday, the snowmelt made its way into streams and rivers, further adding to the floodwaters, the NWS said.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 14 June 2022
• And all the snowmelt has brilliantly greened what’s often a dry, brown tinder box by this time of year.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• That includes in places where flooding happened just days ago due to snowmelt.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2023
• The lack of sun and those cold temperatures meant there was little snowmelt.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• The tree root pathways that curb soil erosion and help capture rain and snowmelt are being ripped out.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• An integrated snowmelt system will keep the bridge free of ice and snow.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
• This small lake, fed by snowmelt from Mount Washington and nearby springs isn’t an old lake.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2022
• Despite early snowmelt, streams may see more runoff this spring and summer.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Apr. 2022
• In fact, some reservoirs are having to release water to make room for new storms coming next week and snowmelt in the spring.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• In the months before the breach, experts raised concerns about damage to the dam and warned that the reservoir behind it was too full from heavy rains and snowmelt.
  — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 7 June 2023
• In late spring and early summer, the snowmelt-swollen river is a wild thing, a nearly nonstop log flume of fun, icy rapids.
  — Christopher Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2022
• During the warmer months, Medano Creek on the east side of the dune field fills with snowmelt, creating a beach-like atmosphere where kids and dogs splash around.
  — Amelia Arvesen, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2023
• Still, the drought deficit is so large, experts say the West would need four or five more years of snowmelt like this year’s to really fill up Powell and Mead.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 24 June 2023
• Be prepared to move up and down the mountain to adjust for temperature and snowmelt.
  — Gary Garth and Matt Every, Outdoor Life, 18 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024