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snow

[snoh] / snoʊ /
NOUN
snowstorm
Synonyms


NOUN
precipitation
Synonyms


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This year, the Rocky Mountains had the least snow on record.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

After a mild winter, glaciers had less snow cover than usual at the end of April - and an unusually early heatwave the following month accelerated the melting of snow.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Scattered across the living room floor, under a sparkling crystal chandelier, were dozens of photos of the same slender man in different settings - sitting at his desk, even playing in the snow.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

You “absolutely need a mudroom,” in the Northeast, since people walk in with snow and rain on their boots and need a place to drop off “sporty, sweaty, muddy, rainy, snowy” stuff.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

The next morning, a gray-pink dawn it was, the growing light soft on the snow, we came down from the hills into the valley, a valley we knew and loved so well.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

They predicted the reservoirs will keep setting records every day until snows come and bring the next seasonal pulse of runoff.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 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

This is a comic epic of bursting balloons and black eyes, tipsy aunts and tottering uncles, an errant mouse and driving snows.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 19, 2025

Catelyn remembered die day when her boys had found the pups in the late summer snows.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

“We were snowed in and iced in for three days at our house,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2026

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 snowed a little on the second-to-last day before Christmas vacation.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead

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

In other words, Rakoff isn’t a judge you should try snowing with technological flapdoodle.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 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

“If it’s snowing really bad maybe the cow-boys won’t want to come out raiding.”

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier




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