How to Use snowpack in a Sentence

snowpack

noun

• 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
• Snow collects inside the tube when shoved into the snowpack and is then weighed.
  — Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2024
• 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
• But this winter, the snowpack peaked at 88% of the long-term median and has since dropped to 71% of the median.
  — Kathy Tulumello, The Arizona Republic, 14 Aug. 2021
• 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
• But a skimpy snowpack could make for even more dire conditions in 2022.
  — oregonlive, 20 Aug. 2021
• 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
• By June, the Department of Water Resources found that the statewide snowpack was at a grim 0.1 of an inch, or 0% of normal.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2021
• Finally, weather and snowpack depths vary a lot from year to year.
  — Steven R. Fassnacht, The Conversation, 27 July 2021
• Late April through May is aptly named mud season, as the winter snowpack melts and the frozen trails thaw into a sloppy mess.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024