snow cover

American  

noun

1. a layer of snow on the ground.

2. the amount of an area that is covered by snow, usually given as a percentage of the total area.

3. the depth of snow on the ground.

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Example Sentences

On Wednesday, March 25, snow cover stood at 38% of its usual level, based on the median figure for that date in data going back to 1986.

From The Wall Street Journal

That signature of warming winters, he said, was less snow cover “because it either fell as rain rather than snow, because you’re on the wrong side of the freezing line, or because it fell as wet snow to begin with and melted quickly.”

From Los Angeles Times

A 2021 research paper in the journal Frontiers in Physiology suggests wetter and warmer snow may also adversely affect a person's chances of surviving an avalanche, while thinner snow cover may increase the risk of blunt trauma injuries.

From BBC

Snow cover measures how much of Earth's land surface is blanketed in snow.

From Science Daily

For years, some climate researchers have questioned how reliable NOAA's snow cover data might be.

From Science Daily