English-French translation for "snowfall"

Furthermore, it was mid-winter and snowfalls had blocked off the roads.

It is as unusual as the heavy snowfall early this morning in my city, Barcelona.

After facing six years of drought the snowfall was initially seen as welcome relief.

In addition, we had one of the lowest snowfall levels in history this past winter.

Winter is usually less busy but access can become a problem in high mountainous areas due to snowfall.

There is a three-week window of opportunity to deliver aid to the mountains before the first snowfall.

Through field surveys, a method will be developed to assess the impacts that snowfall and soil freezing have on erosion.

Heavy rains in the Khatlon region further damaged the infrastructure that had already been adversely affected by high levels of snowfall.

The drought and heavy snowfall of the last three consecutive years have caused serious damage to the agricultural sector.

Eastern and southern Tajikistan also experienced heavy snowfall, with nearly 2 million people affected in the Rasht valley.

In the northern areas of the country heavy snowfalls led to avalanches that left several mountain villages and a total of 140,000 persons isolated.

Mongolia is vulnerable to a variety of natural disasters such as severe snowfalls, droughts, flash floods and earthquakes.

For example, reindeer-breeders have to wait for the first snowfall, in order to drive their herds, which has often been delayed due to climate change.

The warming trend appeared to be confirmed on the ground by such phenomena as the melting of mountain snow cover and decreases in spring snowfalls.

Heavy snowfall closed several key link roads, hampering the delivery of badly needed foodstuffs to populations in the south.

The soil indicators will reflect soil moisture content, snowfall, organic carbon content in the surface soil, and the degree of wind/water erosion.

In August 2004, the drought in Afghanistan entered its sixth year as rain and snowfall remained significantly below average.

A series of natural disasters, droughts and serious snowfalls over the past three years had impoverished thousands of herdsmen and their families.

Despite good rains and snowfall in some parts of the country, the production of wheat — the country's staple food — has been seriously jeopardized by the shortage of agricultural inputs.

The record snowfall on the Prairies and springtime flooding in the past two years is consistent with the predictions of climate change impact.