Definition of snowstorm in English:
snowstorm
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noun
1A heavy fall of snow, especially with a high wind.
‘If the temperature rises during or after a snowstorm, it means heavier, wetter snow will be deposited on a less-stable powder base, increasing the risk of a slide.’- ‘Heavy rain, snowstorms and tornadoes make holiday travel extremely difficult for some travelers tonight.’
- ‘In early May an unusually heavy snowstorm deposited record snowfall.’
- ‘Instead of cold dry snowstorms, wet snow and warmer than normal temperatures should occur as storm systems traverse the southern third of the United States in late winter.’
- ‘The first day of classes was delayed by a heavy snowstorm; it was such as only occurs once every ten years, and people were in mixed moods when they finally came inside a warm classroom.’
- ‘It's the end of the working day, but a heavy snowstorm has brought chaos to public transport and gridlock to the roads, thus trapping everyone in the smoking room after hours.’
- ‘When you have to drive your car through a heavy snowstorm, you can't help but pay attention to every bump and slide.’
- ‘One morning, because of a heavy snowstorm, the messenger took the bus instead of driving.’
- ‘A heavy snowstorm came upon them and he contracted a cold from which he never recovered.’
- ‘It claims more victims each year than do snowstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes.’
- ‘Among the many things that drivers would hate about the winter are snowfalls and snowstorms.’
- ‘Furious winds and snowstorms halted the salvage operation on Friday, but gave way to clearing skies yesterday morning.’
- ‘The previous weekend there had been snowstorms; snow still lay on the ground around the house.’
- ‘The plumbing froze in the heaviest snowstorm of the year.’
- ‘And it was, I think, fate, because there was a horrible snowstorm and Gary got snowed in for three days.’
- ‘The seasonal weather continues through the month with gusts of up to seventy and eighty miles an hour and the occasional snowstorm, cloudburst and a touch of frost thrown in.’
- ‘Patrick had told her it was strong enough to withstand many weather conditions, including hurricanes and snowstorms.’
- ‘Will local meteorologists apply their teaching skills to this story as effectively as they explain hurricanes and snowstorms?’
- ‘We are hoping that this will be a very busy year and the talk of tornados and snowstorms won't put people off.’
- ‘Winchester firefighters were also caught up in the bad weather when they had to walk part of the way to a house in the city struck by lightning during the snowstorm after their fire engine got stuck in heavy traffic.’
- 1.1A shower or large quantity of something.‘it swam away in a flurry of wings and flippers, raising a snowstorm of foam’
- ‘It is every air traffic controller's nightmare when a snowstorm of blips shows up on the radar screen.’
- ‘When the wind kicks up, I feel as if I'm standing in a snowstorm of pods and pollen.’
- ‘But the two fires converged and saturated the compound in what one resident described as ‘a snowstorm of smoke.’’
- ‘Joey was leaning against the wall, his short, black hair more conspicuous than ever, and he had it covered with his hands, as if there was a snowstorm of dandruff on it.’
- ‘It has denied that it's fiddling prices on its online promotion, in response to a snowstorm of customer complaints.’
- ‘The desktop Trash Can, window buttons, dialog boxes and a task scheduler have all been claimed as intellectual property in a snowstorm of greedy patent filings.’
- ‘Cameron turned left, her head swirling with a snowstorm of thoughts.’
- ‘Automatic weapon fire dissolved the first car in a snowstorm of broken glass.’
- ‘She discharged a shot into the ceiling, bringing a snowstorm of alien plaster falling on their heads.’
- 1.2A toy or ornament consisting of a model of a scene in a liquid containing white particles which, when shaken, mimic a snowstorm.
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