Around here (southern Saskatchewan), it doesn’t take much snow to generate a lot of runoff compared to major dumps of rain. Probably because the snow melt is running over frozen ground. I know spring is here when all of a sudden the big puddle in back of our place just disappears overnight.
I’m far from being any kind of expert, but yes, that’s the way it looks to me.
The pavement and hard packed gravel roads run pretty close to the same, whether it’s meltwater or rain, but the dirt roads, ditches, hills and coulees run very differently. My guess is that with meltwater, the ground is still frozen, so can’t absorb the water.
Around here (southern Saskatchewan), it doesn’t take much snow to generate a lot of runoff compared to major dumps of rain. Probably because the snow melt is running over frozen ground. I know spring is here when all of a sudden the big puddle in back of our place just disappears overnight.
So the runoff makes it further along than the rain would is what you’re saying?
I’m far from being any kind of expert, but yes, that’s the way it looks to me.
The pavement and hard packed gravel roads run pretty close to the same, whether it’s meltwater or rain, but the dirt roads, ditches, hills and coulees run very differently. My guess is that with meltwater, the ground is still frozen, so can’t absorb the water.