The trickle of commentaries, if not yet a flood, is becoming a freshet.
Predictably, this has produced a freshet of populist outrage.
Radio telemetry transmitters were not planted in rainbow trout redds to evaluate this year's freshet.
Being creatures that enjoy some salt in the water, they have moved out with the freshet.
These data loggers will be deployed from the spring freshet to early winter, taking measurements every two hours.
Flow augmentation is designed to simulate a natural freshet that helps speed fish on their journey between dams and to the sea.
British Dictionary definitions for freshet
freshet
/ˈfrɛʃɪt/
noun
1.
the sudden overflowing of a river caused by heavy rain or melting snow
2.
a stream of fresh water emptying into the sea
Word Origin and History for freshet
n.
1590s, "stream flowing into the sea," from fresh (adj.1) in a now obsolete sense of "flood, stream of fresh water" (1530s). Old English had fersceta in the same sense. Meaning "flood caused by rain or melting snow" is from 1650s.