snowfall
- noun
- /ˈsnoʊfɔl/
- UK
- After the recent snowfall, the roads were too slippery for safe driving.
- a heavy snowfall
- increased snowfall
- decreased snowfall
Do you think our total snowfall was above or below normal?
- Do you think our total snowfall was above or below normal?
- So we did get here just in time, but there's not much snowfall.
- Snowballs in the still new snowfall.
- I mean, there was a ton of snowfall, but again, I was like, felt like I was like in routine at camp, too.
- Yeah, for sure of the ice, which comes fall, snowfall and stuff, Right.
Examples
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This is the earliest snowfall on record.
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There had been more snowfall during the night, and the fresh snow around the pool was undisturbed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Do you think our total snowfall was above or below normal?
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Has anybody made you a snowfall angel before?
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...significant snowfall likely across all of New England, when all is said and done.
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Due to the heavy snowfall, all flights have been cancelled...
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There was a heavy snowfall, I remember, kind of a storybook holiday.
Fiction book (1993) -
The winter of 2000-2001 brought above-normal snowfall to the northern regions of the Upper Mississippi River Valley.
Academic text (2007) -
Climate warming on the Antarctic Peninsula increases snowfall, a change that at first glance may appear counterintuitive.
Academic text (2008) -
But India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma depend on snowfall in the Himalayas for their irrigation.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
Frozen water that falls as white flakes and covers the ground
How Much Snow
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word snowfall is made from the simple words snow and fall, literally 'snow' that 'falls' from the sky, so it means the amount of snow that comes down in a place during a period of time.