snow
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With global warming, not only will precipitation increasingly fall as rain and not snow, but atmospheric rivers are also predicted to grow more potent, bringing more intense downpours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
"There is a profound unfairness in this," says Marie Šabacká, a Czech glacier ecologist who travelled to Puncak Jaya last March in a bid to be among the last scientists to study Papua's "eternal snow".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
But now, nearly all the snow is gone.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
West, received unusually little snow during winter 2025-2026.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Every day now I would see them in their hundreds, outside the soup kitchens, lining up in the snow, or huddled together against the cold in doorways, the children crying.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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Paris — There’s a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: “Where are the snows of yesteryear?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
“Because I go into the fields of Nebraska, the mountains of Colorado and the snows of Alaska, I have to be practical, usable, reachable,” she told the Los Angeles Times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
More than 160 million Americans are expected to face an unusually brutal winter storm from Friday, with heavy snows and freezing rains forecast.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
An unusually brutal winter storm is set to pummel more than 160 million Americans from Friday, as a stretched "polar vortex" sends a devastating blast of Arctic air, bringing heavy snows and freezing rains.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
It snows an inch in South Carolina, everything shuts down and they get on the six o’clock news.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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It had snowed seven inches the night before I decided to get gravy bread again — the most snow O’Hare had seen in a single day in decades.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025
Although it snowed in Cleveland and Chicago this week and New Yorkers bundled up, gas traders don’t expect enough sustained cold weather to eat into supplies until next month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Experts say that global warming means that rains are increasingly being reported in higher reaches where it mostly snowed in the past, destabilising mountains further with water percolating and loosening the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
It’s a similar weather pattern to the one seen in January 2022, when it hardly snowed in the Sierra Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025
One time it had snowed all night, but it stopped early enough for school to still open.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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You have to schlep around while it’s raining, snowing or just hot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lime also faces a seasonal risk: Put simply, scooters and bikes are a lot less popular when its snowing or raining, and more in demand when it’s warm and dry outside.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
"At 10 to five in the morning, when it was snowing and my Christmas tree was up, the police came to my door," she says.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
"One of the things we say in Glossop is that if it's snowing hard in Glossop the Snake will already have closed," said Mr Hargreaves.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
It was snowing, chunky, wet flakes, and normally I’m with Bing and dig a white Christmas, but this year it meant I’d be busting my ass clearing out driveways.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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