noun
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a fall of snow
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meteorol the amount of snow received in a specified place and time
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Etymology
Origin of snowfall
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The pair plans to come back to California for the winter: El Niño is expected to produce intense snowfall they’d like to ski, and ocean swells they’d like to surf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
While it is unlikely the UK will see any snowfall this autumn, it is still too early to say if the winter will be especially cold or snowy.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Check out: Tioga Road, which connects the park’s high country to Interstate 395 and the eastern Sierra, closes with the first heavy snowfall, usually in November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Atmospheric circulation model experiments provided further evidence that warming of the tropical warm pool directly drove both the circulation changes and the increase in snowfall.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
We set off at dawn, on snowshoes, in a thin, windless snowfall.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
And probably all the snow: Recent research by Cohen found that polar vortex stretches align with the heaviest and deepest snowfalls.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
It has all come during a particularly cold winter, with heavy snowfalls and temperatures around 6 degrees Fahrenheit or lower since early January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
In December 2010, the UK experienced very low temperatures and significant snowfalls.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
Specks of debris floated all around, like a gentle snowfall, and suddenly she was recalling the snowfalls she’d experienced on land.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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