The plows came and cleared the streets, forming a hill of snow on the street corner. |
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During winter the hens rarely go down to the ground and most tracks in the snow are from cocks. |
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Wet prominence assumes that the surface of the earth includes all permanent water, snow, and ice features. |
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This creates a swale and space for snow accumulation in the winter, which in turn creates a ridge. |
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The cliffs containing the colonies appear to be covered in snow when seen from a distance, due to the number of nests present on them. |
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In the last few years, however, the quantity and longevity of Cairngorm snow patches has declined significantly. |
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For example, in northern Scandinavia where snow may blanket the ground for many months, the hares may graze on twigs and bark. |
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A protective covering had not been fitted to the engine intakes while the aircraft was parked at Edinburgh for several hours in heavy snow. |
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The stoat thrived during the Ice Age, as its small size and long body allowed it to easily operate beneath snow, as well as hunt in burrows. |
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When the mass of snow and ice is sufficiently thick, it begins to move due to a combination of surface slope, gravity and pressure. |
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In temperate glaciers, snow repeatedly freezes and thaws, changing into granular ice called firn. |
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Wolves are particularly threatening during the winter, when deep snow impedes the boars' movements. |
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They are winterizing their cars by adding antifreeze and putting on snow tires. |
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Under the pressure of the layers of ice and snow above it, this granular ice fuses into denser and denser firn. |
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Crevasses make travel over glaciers hazardous, especially when they are hidden by fragile snow bridges. |
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The area experiences relatively cool, wet summers and cold, wet winters, although snow in the area is not uncommon. |
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Because of the snow at the pass, the actual trail was transformed into a confusion of random crisscrossings with relentless slippery scree. |
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Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow. |
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Fejes was thrown facefirst to the snow and remained down for several minutes but walked off the course on his own. |
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In fine, all these treasures, like snow on the wold, Three days lain, then to nothing forspilled, suppose. |
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Due to the thin layer of snow on the ground the frost line has penetrated unusually deep this year. |
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Gelifluction is prominent in periglacial regions where snow falls during six to eight months of the year. |
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On the other hand, a single snow crystal contains perhaps 100 million molecules, which can be arranged in a gigajillion different ways. |
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Quite apart from the gruesome road hazards, snow is awful even when you don't have to travel. |
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From 1979 to 2000 on average, lowland areas did not record any lying snow in one out of every three years. |
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Braemar has an average of 59 snow days per year, while many coastal areas average fewer than 10 days of lying snow per year. |
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Some years have almost no snow in winter, and only a few days of hard frost. |
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During the year, valleys typically experience 20 days with snow falling, a further 200 wet days, and 145 dry days. |
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When snow gets high enough, it causes a vehicle to ride up on it and high center, with the weight on the undercarriage, not on the wheels. |
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Parts of the North West experienced a White Christmas in 2009, and again in 2010, where sleet and snow fell on 25 December. |
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These occasionally bring destructive winds and higher total rainfall to these areas, as well as sometimes snow and hail. |
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Munster, in the south, records the least snow whereas Ulster, in the north, records the most. |
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In areas where snow buildup causes difficulties, this lets farmers plant the soil earlier, as the snow runoff drains away more quickly. |
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Areas to the east of the coastal mountains are in a rain shadow, and have lower rain and snow totals than the west. |
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The lowlands around Oslo have the warmest and sunniest summers, but also cold weather and snow in wintertime. |
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There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last. |
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The Winter Olympics was created to feature snow and ice sports that were logistically impossible to hold during the Summer Games. |
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The weather forecast says we are in for three feet of snow over the next week. |
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The moisture will eventually fall to earth in the form of rain or snow. |
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The roof, unable to sustain the weight of all the snow, collapsed. |
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The snow was so deep we had to shovel a path to our front door. |
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The winter had set in airly, and the snow had lain deep for months, and the game of the woods had got pretty well starved out. |
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The brave German car's all-wheel drive tackled and spun through almost eight inches of loosely plowed snow. |
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If Eskimos have a hundred words for snow, fibromyalgics should have a hundred words for pain. |
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If Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, Germans have as many for bureaucracy. |
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As it happened, I had progressed only some few feet out onto the snow when a clean-cut section stripped off the surface and avalanched. |
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The snow was extremely hard and there was a well defined path all the way up to the bergshrund. |
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Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones. |
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The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. |
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It was a pity, Mel Bakersfeld reflected, that runway snow teams were not on more public view.... Airport men called the group a Conga Line. |
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When they approached the couloir shortly before 0300, the snow was firm enough for them to use crampons. |
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Ascend a long, easy snow couloir back left to the crest of Cassin Ridge at 17700 feet, where there is a campsite. |
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The trains stopped inside the tunnels due to electronic failures caused by snow and ice. |
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Despite northerly locations, southern and central Sweden may have almost no snow in some winters. |
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Most of them are coming from the Atlantic Ocean and doesn't involve snow or temperatures below freezing point. |
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However, a truly exceptional cold snap swept the island in February 2004, during which period the whole island was blanketed with snow. |
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Surface runoff can be generated either by rainfall, snowfall or by the melting of snow, or glaciers. |
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The determining factor of the rate of melting of snow or glaciers is both air temperature and the duration of sunlight. |
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Their size is determined by a mass balance between snow input and melt output. |
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Algae are prominent in bodies of water, common in terrestrial environments, and are found in unusual environments, such as on snow and ice. |
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Convoy driving is initiated when the strong wind quickly fills the road with snow behind snowplows, particularly on mountain passes. |
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A very small amount of snow fell on Cairo on 13 December 2013, the first time in many decades. |
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Such weather phenomena as fog, clouds, rain, falling snow, and sleet that block visible light are usually transparent to radio waves. |
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During testing in Norway, the team blasted grit through a house window, set fire to a man and ran into a car hidden by snow. |
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To form the ice sheets of the last Ice Age, water from the oceans evaporated, condensed as snow and was deposited as ice in high latitudes. |
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In winter, however, when snow accumulation forces their prey into valleys, interactions between the two species become more likely. |
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On mild winter days, they may emerge to bask where the snow has melted and will often travel across snow. |
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It also occurs in nature as snow, glaciers, ice packs and icebergs, clouds, fog, dew, aquifers, and atmospheric humidity. |
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At high altitude, during winter, and in the far north and south, snow collects in ice caps, snow pack and glaciers. |
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Much of the Arctic ice pack is also covered in snow for about 10 months of the year. |
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Sunburn is often a health issue as the snow surface reflects almost all of the ultraviolet light falling on it. |
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The snow petrel is one of only three birds that breed exclusively in Antarctica. |
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Multicoloured snow algae and diatoms are especially abundant in the coastal regions during the summer. |
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Glaciologists in Antarctica are concerned with the study of the history and dynamics of floating ice, seasonal snow, glaciers, and ice sheets. |
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Evidence of increased precipitation is the development of snow and ice that covers Greenland, which led to an accumulation of the icecap. |
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Vegetation is limited because of the ice cover, although snow algae are recorded. |
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The probability of cold winters with much snow in Central Europe rises when the Arctic is covered by less sea ice in summer. |
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These climates do not routinely see hard frosts or snow, which allows plants such as palms and citrus to flourish. |
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The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, graupel and hail. |
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Frozen forms of precipitation include snow, ice needles, ice pellets, hail, and graupel. |
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When it gets cold, Mars has precipitation that most likely takes the form of ice needles, rather than rain or snow. |
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When moist air tries to dislodge an arctic air mass, overrunning snow can result within the poleward side of the elongated precipitation band. |
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Weighing gauges with antifreeze should do fine with snow, but again, the funnel needs to be removed before the event begins. |
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Particles blown from the Earth's surface by wind, such as blowing snow and blowing sea spray, are also hydrometeors. |
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It can move slightly offshore, bringing a wet snow south of Boston to Richmond, Virginia, or even parts of the Carolinas. |
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This snow is then compacted to form glacier ice which moves under gravity towards the coast. |
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During warmer intervals, clouds, rain and snow altered soils and drainage patterns. |
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In Ethiopia and North Africa, permanent snow was reported on mountain peaks at levels where it does not occur today. |
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In deep water, marine snow is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column. |
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During the 21st century, glaciers and snow cover are projected to continue their widespread retreat. |
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Winnipeg contracts out several services to private companies, including garbage and recycling collection and street plowing and snow removal. |
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Skiing in Australia began in the 1860s and snow sports take place in the Australian Alps and parts of Tasmania. |
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The general snow season is early June until early October, though cold snaps can occur outside this season. |
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These large concave hooves offer stable support on wet, soggy ground and on crusty snow. |
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In the winter, the pads shrink and tighten, exposing the rim of the hoof, which cuts into the ice and crusted snow to keep it from slipping. |
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The snow melt from the mountains feeds the rivers, and natural changes in altitude form sudden drops in elevation and give rise to waterfalls. |
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This lichen is the reindeer's only source of sustenance during the winter months, when snow is deep. |
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Southern merchants brought various goods and placed them in an open area on the snow in the night, then returned to their tents. |
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Low temperatures in the mountainous areas result in snow cover once every few years. |
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Frost is rare or almost absent and snow has never been recorded on the coastal platform. |
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John's, where a heavy snowfall can be followed by rain, so that no snow remains on the ground. |
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The summer rainy season and the melted snow in winter provide a great environment for irrigation agriculture. |
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The mountains of extreme northwestern South Carolina tend to have the most substantial snow accumulation. |
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Freezing rain and ice tend to be more common than snow in many areas of the state. |
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Mount Hood, and Mount Bachelor also draw visitors year round for skiing and snow activities. |
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Freshwater is limited in these environments because it is either locked up in snow or saline. |
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Most maternity dens are in snowdrifts, but may also be made underground in permafrost if it is not sufficiently cold yet for snow. |
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The only land birds are snow buntings and rock ptarmigans, but the island is very rich in seabirds that nest on the southern cliffs. |
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The Arctic fox has such keen hearing, it can determine exactly where a small animal is moving under the snow. |
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When it has located its prey, it pounces and punches through the snow to catch its victim. |
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This is because of low precipitation and the relatively warm climate resulting in less snow and more evaporation. |
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For nine months of the year the ground is covered with snow, and the frozen rivers become navigable roads. |
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Generally, the county receives less snow than more northerly parts of Ireland. |
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The one exception is Mount Leinster, visible from a large portion of the county, which is frequently covered with snow during the winter months. |
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They are then differentiated according to the insolation, temperature and precipitation of snow and rain. |
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When the black purga blows it can pile the snow higher than a ship's mast overnight. |
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With this weekend's whack of snow, Torontonians will be put in mind of last year's chaos. |
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Knowing the proper art of building a quin-zhee could have saved me and my friends from many snow fort cave-ins when young. |
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Many of the inhabitants were left without shelter, freezing to death in the snow. |
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The Alpine zone, extending from tree line to snow line, is followed by the glacial zone, which covers the glaciated areas of the mountain. |
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Chalets often face south or downhill, and are built of solid wood, with a steeply gabled roof to allow accumulated snow to slide off easily. |
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When enough snow accumulates it can flow out the opening of the bowl and form valley glaciers which may be several kilometers long. |
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In winter it involves climbing down another snow cornice onto steep icy ground. |
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Working alternate weeks, one of these walks up Helvellyn each day during that period to check the weather, snow and walking conditions. |
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The snow was covered with dust so he had to dig for clean snow to eat with his dinner. |
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Frozen forms of precipitation include snow, ice needles, sleet, hail, and graupel. |
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They have been known to survive under a blanket of snow for three days while eating their own wool. |
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Most of the world's rivers are fed from mountain sources, with snow acting as a storage mechanism for downstream users. |
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The weather was atrocious and due to the poor visibility, heavy snow and remote location, only seven of the 42 people on board survived. |
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Bernards were bred large enough to traverse deep snow and to scent out lost persons. |
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We sank into the snow, several times so deep that we had all we could do to get up again. |
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On the other side the snow became so packed that the men slid down sitting. |
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Another meteorological risk, although one that occurs less often, is that related to the rapid melting of snow lying in the catchment. |
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Summers are usually mild, with moderate rainfall, while winters are chilly, cloudy with occasional snow and frost. |
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Spring and autumn are cool but snow and frost are not unheard of in either season. |
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The height and the exposure of the road create problems during poor weather in winter and the road is sometimes closed due to snow or high winds. |
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In the winter Holme Moss frequently gets a covering of snow, while the surrounding valleys do not. |
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This is not helped by two local councils needing to keep the road clear of snow across the moor. |
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A cold northerly wind on the Saturday of the 1996 event turned to rain and snow overnight. |
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In the same evening the brothers were called to the nearby moor, which was covered in snow and ice at the time. |
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Just then a girl scuddled lightly around the corner, slipped on a patch of icy snow and fell plump upon the sidewalk. |
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Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing. |
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Due to frequent arctic travel, the plane was equipped with long skids for snow and ice landings. |
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A skift of snow had fallen overnight on the ski trails, and Paul had yet to groom them and erase the tracks in the new snow. |
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Sitting inside the Starbucks on Broadway near Roscoe, two art students had tired of sketching people slushing through the two-day-old snow. |
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It wasn't a big lawn... but to us it was stadium-sized, with plenty of room for snow angels, snowball fights and the all-important snow forts. |
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Reagan quickly put the snow to good use, making a snowman in 45 minutes and even a snowdog complete with leash and sunglasses. |
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Hull and Scarborough have less snow as their weather is moderated by the ocean. |
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During this period, snow settled, on average, fewer than three days per year across the Isles of Scilly and on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall. |
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More than 20 days of snow lying can be expected on the high grounds of Dartmoor and Exmoor. |
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Northern parts of Norway lie close to the Arctic zone, most of which is covered with ice and snow in winter. |
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However, almost all of Norway's coast remains free of ice and snow throughout the year. |
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The snowplows had made what Myles would call a lick-and-a-promise attempt to partially clear the accumulated snow from West End Avenue. |
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Cat's eyes are particularly valuable in fog and are largely resistant to damage from snow ploughs. |
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They are glued to the road surface with an epoxy and as such are not suitable in areas where snow plowing is conducted. |
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Once we had the photos, it was just a matter of counting all the maggotlike images of caribou on the white snow background. |
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I leave some of my mankindness behind me for a while and become part tree, a creature of the snow. |
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Christmas Eve, his first full landscape snow scene, painted in 1887, was a view looking towards Murthly Castle. |
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After stuffing the fowl with snow, Bacon contracted a fatal case of pneumonia. |
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Some upland areas received, on average, over 25 days per year of snow falling. |
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While the mountains in the southwest receive generally large amounts of snow. |
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As an urban and coastal area, Belfast typically gets snow on fewer than 10 days per year. |
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But perhaps something has gone terribly wrong, and now a mittenless Beth is forging through the snow on her own. |
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Snowfall is usually confined to the period November to February, and snow seldom lies on the ground for more than a day. |
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It is of major importance for British winter climbing, with many of its routes holding snow often until late April. |
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Although Tower scoop makes it a no fall zone, Tower Gully is becoming popular, especially in May and June when there is spring snow. |
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In the lowlands, the number of days with lying snow may vary from zero to thirty or more, with an average of about twenty in Snowdonia. |
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At higher elevations, the islands are permanently covered with ice and snow. |
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The parts of the islands that are not permanently covered in snow or ice are part of the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion. |
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The Russians escaped under the cover of snow in early 1855 after Allied reinforcements arrived in the region. |
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The source of almost all fresh water is precipitation from the atmosphere, in the form of mist, rain and snow. |
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The plateaus in Santa Cruz province and parts of Chubut usually have snow cover through the winter, and often experience very cold temperatures. |
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We made sure to hang our wet clothes on the hook in the mudroom when we came in from the snow. |
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We made sure to hang our wet clothes on the hook in the mud room when we came in from the snow. |
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The snow is densely packed into a form after having been produced by artificial means or collected from the ground after a snowfall. |
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Each season normally consists of 13 rallies driven on surfaces ranging from gravel and tarmac to snow and ice. |
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Many airports have lighting that help guide planes using the runways and taxiways at night or in rain, snow, or fog. |
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Hazards to aircraft include debris, nesting birds, and reduced friction levels due to environmental conditions such as ice, snow, or rain. |
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In adverse weather conditions, ice and snow clearing equipment can be used to improve traction on the landing strip. |
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Frost and snow are rare phenomena in the city as temperatures are usually well above freezing. |
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Yet, in December 1967, snow fell in the city and in January 2007 feather light snow fell in the east of the city. |
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However, excessive amounts of snow fall have never been recorded in the city. |
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The high mountains, including the Sierra Nevada, have an alpine climate with snow in winter and mild to moderate heat in summer. |
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During these months, there is usually snow in the mountains and sometimes in the major cities and lowlands. |
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Spring is also characterized by high water levels in the rivers, due to melting snow with occasional flooding. |
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On average, snow can occur from November to April, but sometimes occurs in May or October too. |
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However, they may be built taller so as to protrude through a layer of snow. |
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Mountain glaciers in otherwise unglaciated areas extend to lower elevations due to a lower snow line. |
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The pectoral, pelvic, anal, and the lower aspect of caudal fins are trimmed in snow white or cream leading edges. |
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Eel larvae drift in the surface waters of the sea, feeding on marine snow, small particles that float in the water. |
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As the altitude increases, the main form of precipitation becomes snow and the winds increase. |
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It is one of the very first spring flowers, continuing to flower during the whole summer in localities where the snow melts later. |
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This section of road is notorious for poor weather conditions including fog, ice and snow in winter months. |
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The low altitude of the city, and moderating influences of the harbour, mean that lying snow very rarely occurs in the city itself. |
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However, in winter, easterly winds render the city colder and more prone to snow showers. |
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When hard times hit the gym, he was put on half time subsidising his earnings as a snow shoveller in Harlem. |
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High winds often stir up snow, creating the illusion of continuous snowfall. |
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For a snow avalanche, this energy comes as a disturbance from outside the system, although such disturbances can be arbitrarily small. |
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That is so opensightly. This is snow from yesterday. How many clock have we? Don't take it on the easy shoulder. The alcohol flows in streams. |
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It is also affected by the presence of snow, hail and ice and can relate to dew, mist and fog. |
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A third hunting method is to raid the birth lairs that female seals create in the snow. |
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In some winters snow can occasionally be seen from Funchal, while the temperatures in the city stay mild. |
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In winter, the combination of full moon and reflective snow can give additional light. |
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There was also the same number of days with rain falling as snow falling, when there are normally more than twice as many snow days. |
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However, the Pennine and Rossendale Forest hills that surround the city to its east and north receive more snow and roads leading out of the city can be closed due to snow. |
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The door was slammed in his face, and the Judas clicked shut, leaving him alone in the draughty street, now smelling of night and approaching snow. |
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You should see him out there in the snow, shoveling for all he's worth. |
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Lake effect storms dumped 108 inches of snow on Oswego in 48 hours. |
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The snow usually only settles between the months of December and March. |
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This AAWT track varies from a four wheel drive track along the Barry Mountains to a foot pad across the snow grass plains of the high country from Hotham to Mt Bogong. |
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He cratered into that snow bank about five seconds after his first lesson. |
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I slid off to follow her and I heard the scrape of a board on snow. |
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The existence of an underground combustion site can sometimes be identified in the winter where fallen snow is seen to be melted by the warmth conducted from below. |
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If the snow cover is reliable, the actual temperature to which the roots are exposed will not be as low as the hardiness zone number would indicate. |
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But, in Montreal, located to the southwest in zone 5, it is sometimes difficult to cultivate plants adapted to the zone because of the unreliable snow cover. |
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Massachusetts' geographic location, jutting out into the North Atlantic, makes the city very prone to Nor'easter weather systems that can dump heavy snow on the region. |
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I was there early in the season, when the snow still lay in thick drifts and steam wreathed through the lodgepole pines from the least thermal outlet. |
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Peter and Mania found a pensione whose view was of chestnut woods and a horizon looped by peaks lustred with last winter's snow, distant in time as well as space. |
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Northern Vietnam and the Myanmar Himalayas are the only regions in Southeast Asia that feature a subtropical climate, which has a cold winter with snow. |
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Flooding can be a problem after heavy rain, especially at Appersett, near Hawes, and heavy snow can close the road temporarily at the Black Horse hill and in Garsdale. |
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In areas where there is no snow, runoff will come from rainfall. |
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Snow and Fog can be expected depending on location, with the North York Moors and Pennines having snow lying for an average of between 45 and 75 days per year. |
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After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her. |
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During winter, reindeer travel to forested areas to forage under the snow. |
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Other less formal variants include beach rugby and snow rugby. |
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Snowboarder Jenny Jones made history at those Games as the first British competitor to win a medal in an event on snow when she took a bronze in the slopestyle competition. |
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If the slopes are covered with ice and snow, the katabatic wind will blow during the day, carrying the cold dense air into the warmer, barren valleys. |
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Brown trout can be found in the streams up to the snow line. |
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The slopes of hills not covered by snow will be warmed during the day. |
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The height and the exposure of the road over the Woodhead Pass creates problems during poor weather in winter when the road can be closed due to snow or high winds. |
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He briefly set up court at Scone, Perthshire, visited his troops in Perth and ordered the burning of villages to hinder the advance of the Duke of Argyll through deep snow. |
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The 42 Squadron Beaforts from Scotland had to divert to Coltishall because of snow but the torpedoes to be loaded were at North Coates and came by road too late. |
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Parts of the Highlands have an average of 36 to 60 snow days per year, while some western coastal areas have between 0 and 6 days with snow a year. |
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Such chalets are typically found in the higher parts of the valleys, as in the Maurienne valley in Savoy, where the amount of snow during the cold months is important. |
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The precipitation is high and snow cover during winters is rare. |
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Winter precipitation in most parts of the country usually falls as snow. |
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West Cumbria gets relatively little snow in comparison to The Lake District and Eastern Cumbria due to its proximity to the Irish Sea, and its low height above sea level. |
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The lynxes chase red foxes into deep snow, where their longer legs and larger paws give them an advantage over foxes, especially when the depth of the snow exceeds one metre. |
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Scent can be unreliable when the ground is too dry or covered in snow. |
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By the 1950s, hedgehogs could be found over the whole country with the exception of the coldest wettest corner of the South Island and alpine areas of permanent snow. |
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Southern Pacific selected this design to provide air free of smoke for the engine driver to breathe as they went through the SP's numerous mountain tunnels and snow sheds. |
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They typically stop leaving their setts once snow has fallen. |
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They are also the safest routes in poor weather, such as mist, rain and snow or ice. |
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Wolves hunt steppe cats, and may scavenge from snow leopard kills. |
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The wind had dropped, and the snow, tired of rushing around in circles trying to catch itself up, now fluttered gently down until it found a place on which to rest. |
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It usually digs holes in the ground or under snow to keep warm and sleep. |
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It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow. |
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Cyclones are more frequent in summer and may bring rain or snow. |
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Frost, which is more common than snow, sometimes occurs in the panhandle. |
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He started to walk up the mountain at between four and five in the morning and after five hours hot and hard work he reached the snow and the summit. |
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Epishelf lakes are highly stratified lakes in which a layer of freshwater, derived from ice and snow melt, is dammed behind an ice shelf that is attached to the coastline. |
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The climate is cooler in the savannah grasslands around the capital city, Nairobi, and especially closer to Mount Kenya, which has snow permanently on its peaks. |
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Hundreds of thousands of the snow apple seeds have been planted, giving hundreds of thousands of first-rate exemplar apples with an occasional superman, like the McIntosh red. |
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Owing to its proximity to the sea, Teignmouth has warmer winters with less frost and snow, as well as slightly cooler summers compared with inland areas of southern England. |
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Snow, which is present for about five months a year, often begins to fall mid October, while snow cover lies in November and melts in the beginning of April. |
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This effect is offset by snow falling back onto the continent. |
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We had two feet of snow fall, two days ago, but when I drove off the road about five hundred yards into the forest I lost my car in a twelve-foot-deep snow drift. |
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After feeding, polar bears wash themselves with water or snow. |
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Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. |
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The treeless moorland gives no shelter and modern Pennine transport can find it a formidable barrier when roads are blocked by snow for several days. |
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The result is increased precipitation that contributes to snow pack. |
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Outside, saltimbanques of snow were leaping up and flipping backward. |
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Despite it being on the same latitude as Labrador on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean, snow and frost are rare, and if they occur, short lived. |
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Low elevations on the West Coast have warm to very hot summers and get little to no snow. |
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When snow is violent and falls heavily we call it a blizzard. |
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He was afraid to get in with the cat because there was nowhere to push the snow, and as there was no side to push it to, he was afraid of getting high centred. |
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Normally, significant snow fall only occurs between November and April. |
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That said, the areas round Stirling Town Centre encounter significantly less snow in Winter than many of its very close neighbours such as Denny and Dunblane. |
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Glaciers form where the accumulation of snow and ice exceeds ablation. |
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The permanent snow cover necessary for glacier formation is affected by factors such as the degree of slope on the land, amount of snowfall and the winds. |
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Dry prominence, on the other hand, ignores water, snow, and ice features and assumes that the surface of the earth is defined by the solid bottom of those features. |
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The dry prominence of a summit is equal to its wet prominence unless the summit is the highest point of a landmass or island, or its key col is covered by snow or ice. |
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If its highest surface col is on water, snow, or ice, the dry prominence of that summit is equal to its wet prominence plus the depth of its highest submerged col. |
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The snow in the pass in winter may be as much as 10 metres deep. |
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During April and May, the Arctic fox also preys on ringed seal pups when the young animals are confined to a snow den and are relatively helpless. |
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Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University, said the study added to evidence that rising temperatures had exacerbated the lack of snow in California. |
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These gauges are used in the winter by removing the funnel and inner cylinder and allowing snow and freezing rain to collect inside the outer cylinder. |
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The wedge and tipping bucket gauges will have problems with snow. |
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The water supply of the river is from melting snow and summer rains. |
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At an early stage of snowflake generation in the upper convective cell, the growth of snow aggregates seemed to occur considerably rapidly. |
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I pulled on my winter coat before stepping out into the snow. |
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Fresh water falling as mist, rain or snow contains materials dissolved from the atmosphere and material from the sea and land over which the rain bearing clouds have traveled. |
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Superimposed ice forms on top of the ice surface from rain or water which seeps up through cracks in the ice which often settles when loaded with snow. |
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Whenever there is freezing rain or snow which occurs at a temperature near the melting point, it is common for ice to build up on the windows of vehicles. |
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Dinoflagellate theca can sink rapidly to the seafloor in marine snow. |
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I thought about the strips of ice, beautiful skateable ice, that emerged from underneath his shovel as he cleared the deep, powdery snow off our pond. |
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If the transfer of the ice from the land to the sea is balanced by snow falling back on the land then there will be no net contribution to global sea levels. |
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A 2008 study compared the ice leaving the ice sheet, by measuring the ice velocity and thickness along the coast, to the amount of snow accumulation over the continent. |
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The snow on the Southern side of the Alps melts and thaws to a greater or lesser extent during the course of the day, and then refreezes at night. |
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Plows, snowblowers and dump trucks have formed their winter conga lines, and most Montreal Island cities say they'll have streets and sidewalks cleared of snow by Thursday. |
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In December 1816 rapidly thawing snow caused the river to flood, sweeping away a considerable amount of property including building materials and livestock. |
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The snow was very cloggy, making the sledge and our ski run heavily. |
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The plum blossom is symbol for resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity, because plum blossoms often bloom most vibrantly even amidst the harsh winter snow. |
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The relatively low height of most of the fells means that, while snow is expected during the winter, they can be free of snow at any time of the year. |
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Moderate snow describes snowfall with visibility restrictions between. |
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The summit of Mount Etna is usually snow capped from October to May. |
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The muzzle was filled for some inches with hardpack snow, after he had dug that out with his knife, he found the lock frozen up and snow all over the nipple. |
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They let the hog loose, and the squeal subsided into a grunty moaning as it wandered erratically, the red draining pink into the snow around the yard. |
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Taking one of those nuisance trips to the store I spy a gomerette walking a snow white miniature poodle decked out in the stereotypical pom pom cut. |
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