The cause was rain and snow melt.

A powdery rain was melting some of yesterday's snow.

The Sudbergs hold the clouds and the rain melts the snow on the high peaks.

The rain thrashed her and melted her long dark hair down across her face and shoulders.

Beyond the rocks and scree, now appearing as the rain melted the snow, stretched deep forests.

And soon, the wind-driven rain had melted all the ice away.

The rain will melt all my trail of salt!

And rain and snow melt would have washed some of those mites into the lake.

A little rain does not melt the strength of the Mud People.

"Warm rain - and that's what's coming - could melt it quick."