snow line
noun
: the lower margin of a perennial snowfield
Example Sentences
climbing above the snow line
Recent Examples on the Web By July 15, the snow line on the glacier was located at 9,700 feet - about 500 feet higher than is typical for this time of the year. 
Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022 The snow line is creeping higher in the region, and the desiccated grasses, brush and tree limbs have become ready fuel for large wildfires. New York Times, 2 July 2022 The snow line is creeping higher in the region, and the desiccated grasses, brush and tree limbs have become ready fuel for large wildfires. Jim Robbins, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022 The snow line is the line of demarcation where a planetary system is cold enough for volatile compounds such as water, ammonia, and methane to condense into solid ice grains. Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 27 May 2022 There was no concern that snow would mix with sleet or rain anywhere but on Nantucket and outer Cape Cod, as cold air entrenched in place was keeping the rain/snow line about 70 miles offshore. Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022 Snow would overspread the region Sunday afternoon but the rain-snow line would quickly shift north and west to the city by early Sunday night. Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022 The rain-snow line would push well west of the city leaving the I-81 corridor with the heavy snow, possibly amounts approaching a foot. Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020 The homestead where Cary’s dad had grown up and where Cary himself had spent his earliest years was in a narrow canyon perpendicular to the prevailing winds, barely far enough below the snow line to be habitable. Thomas Mcguane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021 See More
Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022 The snow line is creeping higher in the region, and the desiccated grasses, brush and tree limbs have become ready fuel for large wildfires. New York Times, 2 July 2022 The snow line is creeping higher in the region, and the desiccated grasses, brush and tree limbs have become ready fuel for large wildfires. Jim Robbins, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2022 The snow line is the line of demarcation where a planetary system is cold enough for volatile compounds such as water, ammonia, and methane to condense into solid ice grains. Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 27 May 2022 There was no concern that snow would mix with sleet or rain anywhere but on Nantucket and outer Cape Cod, as cold air entrenched in place was keeping the rain/snow line about 70 miles offshore. Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022 Snow would overspread the region Sunday afternoon but the rain-snow line would quickly shift north and west to the city by early Sunday night. Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022 The rain-snow line would push well west of the city leaving the I-81 corridor with the heavy snow, possibly amounts approaching a foot. Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020 The homestead where Cary’s dad had grown up and where Cary himself had spent his earliest years was in a narrow canyon perpendicular to the prevailing winds, barely far enough below the snow line to be habitable. Thomas Mcguane, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
circa 1835, in the meaning defined above