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Examples of snow line in a Sentence
climbing above the snow line
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First, as temperatures get warmer the rain/snow line will move to higher altitudes, meaning that a greater proportion of precipitation will fall as rain.
—Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
In addition, the snow line has been creeping upward directly in response to the warming that’s taken place over the past few decades, said Alexander Gershunov, research meteorologist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
The track of the storm will determine where the rain and snow line sets up and what locations see all snow, all rain or a mix of both (including the potential for some ice).
—Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2024
The snow line in Lake Arrowhead will stay low, at around 3,500 to 4,000 feet, on Tuesday but could dip even lower to around 2,500 feet toward the tail end of the storm on Wednesday.
—Nathan Solisstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
For areas east of I-95, snow totals are less certain and will depend on where the rain/snow line sets up, according to the weather service.
—Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
There is still a degree of uncertainty with this storm in terms of its ultimate track, which will affect the location of the rain/snow line in relation to the I-95 corridor and how much accumulating snow the major metros will get.
—Edward Shaw, NBC News, 4 Jan. 2024
Webb found that in two of these disks, massive amounts of cold water vapor appeared past the snow line, confirming that ice sublimating from frozen pebbles can indeed deliver water to planets like ours.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
The data Webb beamed back showed that, while there were spectra suggesting the presence of warmer water vapor emissions far inside the disk, there was also an excess of cold water vapor emissions just on the outside of the snow line.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1835, in the meaning defined above
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“Snow line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snow%20line. Accessed 13 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
snow line
noun
: the lower edge of an area of permanent snow (as a mountain peak)
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