whiteout
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Monday morning, after a weekend of snowsquall and whiteout conditions, the crew unloaded the cargo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
The weather could bring whiteout conditions that will make travel difficult, according to NOAA.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
The massive storm shuttered Highway 395 from Southern California to Mammoth Mountain and Interstate 80 to the northern Lake Tahoe area for much of the weekend because of whiteout conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
Mushers always have contended with Alaska’s deep winter darkness and whiteout conditions.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
The tents, no more than 650 horizontal feet away, were only intermittently visible through the whiteout.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Considering the whiteouts in past years, this represents growth.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
I couldn't control the conditions - the blistering sun, the whiteouts, the temperatures of -30C - but I could control how I dealt with them.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
In famously snowy Buffalo, New York, forecasters predicted a “once-in-a-generation storm” because of heavy lake-effect snow, wind gusts as high as 65 mph, whiteouts and the potential for extensive power outages.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
These so-called snow squalls, when combined with strong wind gusts, can cause whiteouts, leading to “extremely hazardous” travel conditions, the Weather Service said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
We have been warned about that in briefings, along with frostbite, wind, whiteouts, wind, intense cold, and finally, wind.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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