: a seasonal accumulation of slow-melting packed snow
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Bad hydrology is 'crushing' conservation measures As with other recent years, factors including warming air, parched soil and lengthening growing seasons have kept some of the melting snowpack from reaching the river or its reservoirs.—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025 But in warmer years, when the snowpack melts earlier, the fire potential rises earlier too.—Alex Hall, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2025 Recent forecasts lowered runoff into Lake Powell to just 55 percent of average, down from an earlier estimate of 67 percent, due to an underwhelming winter snowpack.—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025 Thanks to above-average snowpack and generous spring rains in the northern mountains, hillsides are lush at 8,000 to 9,500 feet in elevation.—John Meyer, Denver Post, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for snowpack
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