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Another hike was canceled due to unusually large snowfall rendering the Narrows — part of Zion Canyon in Zion National Park in Utah — impassable due to a high volume of meltwater.
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Mae Anderson, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
An outburst flood from a meltwater lake on the Mendenhall Glacier, located about 12 miles north of Juneau, Alaska, sent record amounts of water into Mendenhall Lake and down the Mendenhall River between Aug. 4 and Aug. 6, according to NOAA.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2023
That means there’s both more meltwater and more space to store that water.
—Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
The basin where the rain and meltwater collect was formerly covered by Suicide Glacier, which used to contribute ice to the Mendenhall Glacier.
—Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2023
Scientists have also found that watersheds fed by glacial meltwater can soak up CO2.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 13 July 2023
In fact, groundwater removal appears to have played a bigger role in that period than the release of meltwater from ice in either Greenland or Antarctica, the scientists reported Thursday in Geophysical Research Letters.
—Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 16 June 2023
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada This lake in Banff National Park owes its brilliant blue hue to the icy meltwater and silt from the Peyto Glacier and the Wapta Icefields.
—Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2023
In its report, the organization writes that the peak in meltwater may already have been passed on many smaller glaciers, where the water is now starting to dwindle.
—Rick Noack, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2022
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Mae Anderson, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
An outburst flood from a meltwater lake on the Mendenhall Glacier, located about 12 miles north of Juneau, Alaska, sent record amounts of water into Mendenhall Lake and down the Mendenhall River between Aug. 4 and Aug. 6, according to NOAA.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2023
That means there’s both more meltwater and more space to store that water.
—Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
The basin where the rain and meltwater collect was formerly covered by Suicide Glacier, which used to contribute ice to the Mendenhall Glacier.
—Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2023
Scientists have also found that watersheds fed by glacial meltwater can soak up CO2.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 13 July 2023
In fact, groundwater removal appears to have played a bigger role in that period than the release of meltwater from ice in either Greenland or Antarctica, the scientists reported Thursday in Geophysical Research Letters.
—Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 16 June 2023
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada This lake in Banff National Park owes its brilliant blue hue to the icy meltwater and silt from the Peyto Glacier and the Wapta Icefields.
—Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2023
In its report, the organization writes that the peak in meltwater may already have been passed on many smaller glaciers, where the water is now starting to dwindle.
—Rick Noack, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2022
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1923, in the meaning defined above
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meltwater
noun
melt·wa·ter
ˈmelt-ˌwȯt-ər 
-ˌwät-
: water that comes from the melting of ice and snow
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