Meltoff

Although no one is predicting a total meltoff all at once, keeping an eye on ice formation, runoff amounts and how the water is moving is critical to accurately predicting sea level changes.

Thus mosses are in a position to photosynthesize at significant rates immediately after meltoff since their relative photosynthetic competence is high and since a substantial amount of evergreen tissue is present.

In years of late meltoff, ground squirrels emerge and burrow up through the snow with little difficulty.

The snowpack deepens as long as accumulation exceeds meltoff , usually until mid-March.

It was low and slow at this time of year, all the fish up the creek, all the meltoff out in the Gulf, but it was still beautiful.