The peaks of the Sayans higher than 2, 400 2, 600 m and those of the Putorana Plateau higher than 1, 000 1, 300 m are covered with permanent snow.
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Of this fresh water, 68.9 % is in the form of ice and permanent snow cover in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and mountain glaciers . 30.8 % is in the form of fresh groundwater.
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The treeless regions adjacent to the cold zone and extending to approximately are high, bleak areas ( usually referred to as the p�ramos ), above which begins the area of permanent snow ( nevado ).
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The lake is one of the largest lakes in Europe that lies in the transition to the high-alpine zone, where vegetation is minimal or absent and influence of permanent snow patches and glaciers are evident.
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Summer has long warm days with temperatures that can reach 30 �C while winters are cold with temperatures often in single digits with frequent snowfall, although there is no permanent snow cover during the year.
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Unlike other regions, Sinnoh has a " northern " feel to it as it is the only region with permanent snow on the ground, and with routes with snow on the ground and active snowfall.
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Due to the abundance of glaciers 40 % of the runoff is yielded glaciers and permanent snow ( in particular, from the northern slope of the Tavan Bogd massif ), 34 %-seasonal snow 17 %-rain, 9 %-by groundwater.
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Compressed within this short distance are subtropical scrub ecosystems along the arid canyon bottoms, rising through dry oak forests, humid mixed deciduous-coniferous forests, cold temperate coniferous forests, alpine meadows and scree above treeline, to permanent snow on the high peaks.
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The occurrence of favorable meteorological conditions during several successive seasons can increase the extent of the snowfields and lower the limit of seemingly permanent snow, while the opposite may cause the limit to rise higher on the flanks of the mountains.
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"' Mount Constance "'is a peak in the Olympic Mountains of Mount Olympus to the west, Mount Constance has little in the way of glaciers and permanent snow because the eastern, and particularly the northeastern, portion of the Olympics receives far less precipitation.
