meltoff

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The melting of snowpack at the end of winter.

   • Thus mosses are in a position to photosynthesize at significant rates immediately after meltoff since their relative photosynthetic competence is high and since a substantial amount of evergreen tissue is present.
   • In years of late meltoff, ground squirrels emerge and burrow up through the snow with little difficulty.
2. 2

   The water produced by the melting of the snowpack.

   • The snowpack deepens as long as accumulation exceeds meltoff , usually until mid-March.
   • It was low and slow at this time of year, all the fish up the creek, all the meltoff out in the Gulf, but it was still beautiful.

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