a quantity of fallen snow that has become massed together
snowpack in American English
(ˈsnoʊˌpæk)
noun
the accumulated snow covering an area, that melts in the spring and provides water for irrigation, electric power, etc., usually estimated in millions of acre-feet
Examples of 'snowpack' in a sentence
snowpack
Since the river fed off the mountain snowpack, he was chilled deep by the time they scrambled onto the grassy bank at the far side.
Kerr, Katharine A TIME OF WAR (1988)
In the spring when the snowpack melts a hundred miles away in the Chuska Mountains, Many Ruins carries a steady stream.