snow drifts
Winter's sculpted mounds
Snow drifts are mounds or banks of snow piled up by the wind.
They form against obstacles—fences, buildings, cars—or in open areas where wind patterns deposit snow unevenly.
A light snowfall can produce deep drifts in some spots while leaving others nearly bare: The road was impassable where snow drifts had formed overnight.
Sealing off a place
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- roadblockObstruction across a road
- impassableImpossible to traverse
- strandedLeft without means to leave
buried · plowing · digging out · stuck · snowbound · blocked · clearing · shoveling
Violent prolonged snowstorm
- flurriesBrief, light precipitation
- whiteoutSnow blindness weather
- powderFine dry particles
- frostThin ice coating
icicle · snowpack · frozen · subzero · frigid · January · February · nor'easter
Structural support column
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
- heapingOverfull, mounded above
- moundingBuilding into raised piles
- accumulationCollected mass over time
buildup · depositing · sculpting · ridging · windblown · cornice · undulating · layering
blockade
Sealing off a place
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- roadblockObstruction across a road
- impassableImpossible to traverse
stranded · buried · plowing · digging out · stuck · snowbound · blocked · clearing · shoveling · marooned
blizzard
Violent prolonged snowstorm
frost · icicle · snowpack · frozen · subzero · frigid · January · February · nor'easter · polar vortex
piling
Structural support column
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
- heapingOverfull, mounded above
- moundingBuilding into raised piles
accumulation · buildup · depositing · sculpting · ridging · windblown · cornice · undulating · layering · shaping
windswept
Exposed to strong winds
sculpted · untouched · blanket · expanse · terrain · barren · tundra · prairie · field · meadow
- winter scenessnowscapes, frozen lakes, frozen ponds, winter nights, frozen waterfalls
- winter weatherblizzards, blizzard, snowstorms, winter storms, freezing rain
- snowed insnowed in, snowbound, stranded, trapped, stuck
- snowpacksnowpack, stratigraphy, facets, firn, densification
- Arctic Phenomenaaurora borealis, Northern Lights, northern lights, polar night, midnight sun
- seasonsautumn, summer, winter, spring, fall