Wiktionary
n. The amount of snow on a mountain; the depth of snow that has fallen.
Usage examples of "snow cover".
He set down the glass, and said, 'So you took samples of the snow cover on the western slope in the presence of Mr Ballard.
In a few scattered places, the brown of earth, the dark gray of rock, or the bleached tan of dead grass peered through the disappearing snow cover.
The snow cover would be thin there and would make for easy travel.
The snow cover was scant, and the dry air crackled and stole moisture from his lungs in clouds of steam with each breath.
In the regions near the borders of the ice, where the snow cover was light, the grass supplied fodder the year around for uncountable millions of grazing and seed-eating animals who had adapted to the glacial cold -- and to predators who can adapt to any climate that supports their prey.
The few sounds were those of grayjays arguing over pine nuts and the scattered whisper of a winter hare slipping across the thin snow cover.
Despite the snow cover, his eyes detected a ridge of earth that ran too straight and narrow to be natural: the foundation for something lay beneath.
He wanted to make good time while the snow cover lasted, so he stayed on the easiest route until he neared the end of the horn of mountains which formed the Mithil valley's western wall.
He wanted to make good time while the snow cover lasted, so he stayed on the easiest route until he neared the end of the horn of mountains which formed the Mithil valley’.
After allowing for the 18-month Spartan year the climate is comparable to the mid-latitude temperate zone of Earth's northern hemisphere, having warm to hot summers and cold winters with (depending on area) three to six months of continuous snow cover.
He noticed that last night's sickly odor had vanished from the air, cleansed for the moment by the snow cover.