snowmelt

plural snowmelts · alternative snow melt

1. uncountableusuallyRunoff from melting snow.

   The snowmelt causes the river to flood.

   2 more examples

   Outside, a wind from the south had picked up, a thawing wind that quickened the patter of snowmelt on the back patio.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

   Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.

   2023 August 6, Daniel Duane, “It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.”, in The New York Times