The sudden snowfall of the Sunday morning had not been so heavy on this northern side, but the track was very rough and crooked, as well as steep and slippery.
In many parts of Canada the snowfall is very heavy, and causes the railways constant trouble, for if the wind blows it soon piles up, so that the trains cannot force their way through it.
I have been informed that the lake is usually free of ice before this date, but the winter preceding our visit was of more than usual severity, the snowfall being heavy, and the coming of summer was therefore much delayed.
The winter snows on Mount Rainier are heaviest in the vicinity of its base; indeed, the snowfall at those low levels is several times greater than that on the summit.
So accustomed is one to think that the snowfall on high mountains increases with the altitude that it seems strange to find a case in which the opposite is true.
Below this zone the summer heat largely offsets the heavy precipitation, while above it the snowfall itself is relatively scant.
No accurate measurements have been made of the snowfall at the mountain's foot, but in the Nisqually Valley, at Longmire Springs, the winter snows are known often to exceed 20 feet in depth.
The snowfall varies greatly in all these valleys, but in ordinary winters horses and cattle manage well with four to six weeks' feeding.
I heard of the long and dreadful winters when the snowfall is so light that horses and mules may always paw down to grass, though cattle stand and starve and freeze to death.
The region of maximum snowfall was near Washington, and it will be seen that there is a proportional decrease north and south.
The snowfall at Washington was the heaviest ever known at that city.
The total snowfall in various coast cities was: Raleigh 24 cms.
It happened once or twice last winter that such a clearing after snowfall took place at full moon.
At last the time comes when a greatsnowfall has to be expected.
So long as the summer sun melts the winter's snow, even if the ground be bare but for a day, the rôle of action accomplished by the snowfall is of little geological consequence.
That snowfall tends to warm the air by setting free the heat which was engaged in keeping the water in a state of vapour is familiarly shown by the warming which attends an ordinary snowstorm.
All this region is cold enough for glaciers, but there is not sufficient snowfall to maintain them.
It should be noted that these temporary advances of the ice are not due to the snowfall of the winter or winters immediately preceding the forward movement.
Even if the heat released by this snowfall elevated the average temperature of the winter, as it doubtless would in a considerable measure, it would not melt off the snow.
Where the snowfall accumulates to a great thickness, especially where it lodges in forests, the influence of the icy covering is somewhat to protract the winter and thus to abbreviate the growing season.
Thus the snowfall of northern Europe, which serves to maintain the glaciation of that region, and, curiously enough, in some measure its general warmth, depends upon the movement of the Gulf Stream from the tropics to high latitudes.
The amount of the snowfall as distinguished from the rest of the precipitation is now coming to be recognized as an important climatological element.
The snowfall in winter is so great that it remains all summer at much lower altitudes than in the Rockies, and supplies glaciers, which descend perhaps a thousand feet nearer to sea-level.
As the glacier advances down the valley and descends to lower altitudes, a level is at length reached where the snowfall of winter is exactly balanced by the melting of summer.
There has been comparatively little snowfallfor three successive years, and this has given the young trees a chance.
And such restriction of the monsoon is likely to result when there has been an unusually deep or very late snowfall on the Himalayas, because of the lowering of spring temperature by the melting snow.
Thus here it is possible, by observing the snowfall in the mountains, to predict with some measure of success the average rainfall of the following summer.
The amount of atmospheric moisture deposited during the above-mentioned period was most insignificant; only a very slight snowfall now and then.
Sunday night the storm abated, but on Monday and Tuesday there was again half a gale, with snowfall and drift, and nearly 28 degrees of frost.
The snowfall had been a heavy one, but had it not been for the high wind which accompanied it, it would have thrown but moderate difficulties in the way of our rescue.
It was not yet winter, and the snowfall might prove to be but a light one.
As has been already alluded to, the quantity of snowfall was unusually great.
I hope that doesn't mean a heavy snowfall before we get started," exclaimed Bluff.
For by the same token whin we've had a heavy snowfall I've always been able to knock down a lot av the birrds among the berry bushes.
The predisposing agents to a copious snowfall existed in Scandinavia, viz.
This more equable and humid climate could, within certain limits, favour the development of the ancient glaciers by increasing the snowfall and slackening the summer rate of melting.
There is no doubt that the food-supply in the Arctic Regions was decreasing with an increase of snowfall and with the gradual lowering of the land, which reduced also the habitable area.
The snowfall was therefore greater, so that glaciers filled many of the lower valleys of Switzerland which are now quite free from ice, and even invaded the plain.
With the prevailing dampness in pleistocene times the snowfall throughout Siberia would have been much heavier than at present, though it would have modified the temperature to some extent.
But he does not adopt the view that the Ice Age is due to an increase of snowfall alone.
There is no rain, but in winter the snowfall is heavy.
Kashmír has a heavysnowfall even in the Jhelam valley.
The snowfall is heavy in winter, but the summer climate is excellent.
Luckily for us, the snowfall of the last few days had filled these up, so as to present a level surface.
If, then, the snowfall was so inconsiderable at this time of the year and along the edge of the Barrier, what might it not be in autumn and winter in the interior?
The flags we were following stood just as we had left them; they showed no trace of there having been any snowfall in the interval.
Snowfall never occurred in still weather, and in a wind there was always a drift that entirely filled the gauge.
On June 1 and 7 actual snowfall was observed, but it was so insignificant that it could not be measured; it was, however, composed of genuine flakes of snow.
In the course of three days we have had more snowfall here than we had at Framheim in ten whole months.
The snowfall is enormous, some drifts in the ravines being hundreds of feet deep, and, owing to the increased supply of water, the geysers throw higher streams.
The annual winter migration of oorin to the Boonji Plain is probably attributable to the snowfall in Astor being heavier than that of Ladak.
There are also a few Flickers and at least one Meadowlark in this vicinity, and since the last heavy snowfall they have become unusually tame and familiar, coming close about the house for food.
Some remain buried for years, when the snowfall is exceptionally great, and many open only on one side late in the season.
Able to run about on the surface of snowdrifts, each new snowfall lifts them closer to the tender twigs that earlier in the year were far above their reach.
They keep tunnels open to their supplies, and each snowfall adds to the security of the caches.
