A snow squall, or snowsquall, is a sudden moderately heavy snowfall with blowing snow and strong, gusty surface winds. It is often referred to as a whiteout...

or heavy snow. Squalls refer to the increase of the sustained winds over that time interval, as there may be higher gusts during a squall event. They...

two types of snow events reducing visibility in blowing snow: lake effect snow squalls and frontal snow squalls. Lake effect snow squalls are generated...

Snow Squall was an extreme wooden American clipper ship built in Maine for the China trade. A large part of her bow was preserved and is the sole remaining...

air passing over relatively warm water; this effect commonly produces snow squalls over the Great Lakes. Within the United States, thundersnow is relatively...

air masses from Russia can blow over the Baltic Sea and cause heavy snow squalls on areas of the southern and eastern coasts of Sweden, as well as on...

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Graupel (/ˈɡraʊpəl/; German: [ˈɡʁaʊpl̩] ), also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are...

the squall may develop embedded cumulonimbus clouds resulting in lightning and thunder which is dubbed thundersnow. A warm front can produce snow for...

snowspout, is a rare instance of a waterspout forming under the base of a snow squall. The term "winter waterspout" is used to differentiate between the common...

accompanied by these signs is the best indicator that a potentially violent wind squall is approaching. An extreme example of this phenomenon looks almost like...

to as thunderheads. Cumulonimbus can form alone, in clusters, or along squall lines. These clouds are capable of producing lightning and other dangerous...

A snow flurry is a light snowfall that results in little or no snow accumulation. The US National Weather Service defines snow flurries as intermittent...

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Rain and snow mixed (American English) or sleet (Commonwealth English) is precipitation composed of a mixture of rain and partially melted snow. Unlike...

[citation needed] In September 2008, NASA's Phoenix lander discovered a snow variety of virga falling from Martian clouds. Fallstreak hole Precipitation...

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from the storm system, as a dark vertical shaft of heavy rain, hail, or snow, generally localized over a relatively small area. This is different from...

can produce a snow whirlwind, snow devil, or sometimes referred to as a "snownado", although differential heating is more difficult in snow-covered areas...

of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental and subarctic...

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thunderstorms and when embedded within squall lines (whereas mesovortices most often form in the front flank of squall lines), and may be distinguished by...

may cause instability snow showers or squalls. Extratropical cyclone (also nor'easter when in the North Atlantic) – May cause snow in the winter, especially...

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short duration mesoscale events such as a strong cold front, gravity wave, squall line, etc., lasting less than 2 hours and producing winds or gusts of 34...

blizzard Snow squall Precipitation Drizzle Freezing Graupel Hail Megacryometeor Ice pellets Diamond dust Rain Freezing Cloudburst Snow Rain and snow mixed...

wind damage is caused from squall lines. Although the primary danger from squall lines is straight-line winds, some squall lines also contain weak tornadoes...

warnings, "destructive" severe thunderstorm warnings, and sometimes snow squall warnings. Also, until November 2013, blizzard and ice storm warnings...

four hours. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow is not falling but loose snow on the ground is lifted and blown by strong winds. Blizzards...

northwestern United States, often leading to major snow-melt flooding with warm, tropical rains falling on frozen, snow laden ground. Examples of this are the Christmas...