wet snow
Soggy winter precipitation
Wet snow is snow with high moisture content, heavy and packable rather than light and powdery.
It falls when temperatures hover near freezing, making snowflakes partially melt and clump together.
Wet snow is ideal for snowballs and snowmen but treacherous for driving and hard on tree limbs and power lines: The wet snow brought down branches all over town.
- slushPartly melted snow
- flurriesBrief, light precipitation
- sleetPartly frozen precipitation
- meltingSolid-to-liquid transition
- spring thawWarming that melts winter's ice
heavy · packing · soggy · damp · freezing rain · winter storm · lake effect · gray skies · boots · trudging · splatter · mittens · crunchy · icy · slippery roads · puddles · thaw · clumping
- snow conditionspowder, packed powder, groomed, hardpack, icy
- snowpacksnowpack, stratigraphy, facets, firn, densification
- Snowsnowpack, snowfield, snowbank, snowdrift, blizzard
- winter weatherblizzards, blizzard, snowstorms, winter storms, freezing rain
- snow typesblizzard, flurries, powder, dusting
- wintry mixsleet, freezing rain, ice pellets, mixed precipitation, freezing drizzle
wet snowpowder
Fine dry particles
dry snow · powder snow · champagne powder · fresh powder · dry powder
wet snowdry heat
High temperature, low humidity
sunshine · drought · clear skies · fair weather · desert heat
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