heavy snow
Substantial winter precipitation
Heavy snow is snowfall that accumulates rapidly or in large amounts, typically reducing visibility and creating hazardous conditions.
Meteorologists define it as snow falling at a rate that significantly impacts travel and daily activities: The forecast calls for heavy snow overnight.
Heavy snow often triggers school closings, travel advisories, and the familiar scramble for bread and milk.
- blizzardViolent prolonged snowstorm
- winter storm warningForecast of dangerous snow
- whiteoutSnow blindness weather
- lake effectWeather from nearby water
- flurriesBrief, light precipitation
drifts · powder · avalanche · buried · plowing · shoveling · road closures · frigid · bitter · wind chill · frozen · accumulation · blanket · winter · ice · black ice · flakes · treacherous
- blizzardwhiteout, wind, ice, cold, snowdrift
- severe weatherblizzard, hurricane, cyclone, hailstorm, ice storm
- winter weatherblizzards, blizzard, snowstorms, winter storms, freezing rain
- snow conditionspowder, packed powder, groomed, hardpack, icy
- snow typesblizzard, flurries, powder, dusting
- winter stormsblizzard, whiteout, flurries, squall, nor'easter
heavy snowheavy rain
Intense sustained precipitation
downpour · torrential rain · heatwave · drought · dry spell
heavy snowclear skies
Absence of cloud cover
fair weather · mild weather · sunny skies · Indian summer · dry heat
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