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Pillow drift – A pillow drift is a snow drift crossing a roadway and usually 3 to 4.5 metres (10–15 feet) in width and 30 cm to 90 cm (1–3 feet) in depth. [ 28 ] Sastrugi – Sastrugi are snow surface features sculpted by wind into ridges and grooves up to 3 meters high, [ 29 ] with the ridges facing into the prevailing wind.
The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick, and over 3 km (1.9 mi) thick at its maximum. [2] It is almost 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) at a latitude of 77°N, near ...
There were reports of about five feet of snow already on the ground when the first of the storms hit. By the end, there were about ten feet of snow and some drifts reaching 25 feet (7.6 m), burying houses entirely. In the colonial era, this storm made travel impossible until the snow simply melted. [14] Blizzard of 1765. March 24, 1765.
Snow line is an umbrella term for different interpretations of the boundary between snow -covered surface and snow-free surface. The definitions of the snow line may have different temporal and spatial focus. In many regions the changing snow line reflect seasonal dynamics. The final height of the snow line in a mountain environment at the end ...
That’s more than 2 feet of fresh snow. We nearly doubled our seasonal snowfall by receiving 11" (28 cm) of #snow over the last 24 hours. It was 14" (35.5 cm) prior to yesterday's storm and our ...
Groenert said Bogus Basin could receive between 2 and 3 feet of snow by the end of the weekend. This weekend’s storm is Bogus Basin’s first snowfall in over a week, adding much-needed fresh ...
A very early Winter Weather Advisory in effect from 11 p.m. Sunday to 5 p.m. Monday above 8,000 feet. Latest probabilities have a 35 to 65 percent probability of 2 inches of snow or more.
The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles) and an average thickness of over 2 kilometres (1.2 mi). It is the largest of Earth's two current ice sheets, containing 26.5 million cubic kilometres (6,400,000 cubic miles) of ice ...