Temperatures dropped overnight, freezing partially melted snow and leading to warnings of ice on untreated surfaces.
Seasonal rains produce muddy rivers, with higher sedimentation than northern countries' dams filled with melted snow.
Town clerk Kate Thacker said the ground had become saturated because of recent floods followed by melted snow.
As we draw closer, the neat line turns into a snorting tangle of reindeer, steam from the melted snow beneath their hooves rising above their heads.
In order to fulfil their promise, they diverted two rivers that drained the melted snow from the western Himalayas: the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya.
The gravel pit had filled to its brim with melted snow and rain, so that Caro had to edge around it on her way to catch the school bus.
Dr Reaney said that in urban areas, where melted snow runs directly off roads and pavements into drains, snowmen would make more of a difference than in fields where it would take longer for the water to filter into watercourses.
Most of the snow melted and then froze again, and the ground was covered in ice.
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So what I remember now about the day Stan McKechnie almost killed his brother is how the light changed after the snow melted.
"Snow has melted, and we will now watch what happens in May and June, " said a senior Indian diplomat based in Islamabad.
Morels first appear when the snow has just melted and the sap has run.
Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.
"It means there is more light penetrating through the ice - that depends to a high degree on the snow cover but once it has melted the light can get through, " Dr Gerland said.
It took all the region's wind turbines offline for about five hours and it expects to continue to pull the plug on them for a few hours almost every night until well into July, when enough snow in the Cascades and northern Rockies will have melted for the excess run-off (and therefore the excess power) to subside.
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