melting snow
Winter's slow departure
Melting snow is snow in the process of turning to water as temperatures rise above freezing.
The phrase often evokes spring's arrival or warming conditions: Melting snow filled the creek to overflowing.
It also describes the slushy, transitional state between solid snowpack and runoff—messy underfoot but a welcome sign that winter is ending.
- thawReturn to liquid
- slushPartly melted snow
- puddlesSmall collected water pools
- drippingRendered cooking fat
- iciclesFrozen hanging water formations
runoff · muddy · mud season · streams · trickling · spring · wet · wet socks · soggy · snowmelt · rivulets · cold · damp · gray · patches · grass · earth · warming
- Snowsnowpack, snowfield, snowbank, snowdrift, blizzard
- spring themesfloral motifs, new beginnings, floral imagery, cherry blossoms, April showers
- Water damage causesflooding, leaky pipes, burst pipes, roof leaks, storms
- SpringApril, May, spring equinox, spring flowers, cherry blossoms
- Spring Weatherrain, showers, thunderstorms, drizzle, sunshine
- late-season snow
melting snowfreezing rain
Precipitation forming ice on surfaces
falling snow · frost · snow accumulation · sleet · hail
melting snowblizzard
Violent prolonged snowstorm
snowstorm · heavy snowfall · whiteout · driving snow · snow squall
melt, melts, melted, melter, meltdown, snow, snows, snowed, snowy