snowed
Britishadjective
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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.
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
A few years later, in a famous game between Derbyshire and Lancashire at Buxton, it snowed and left the pitch as something of a lottery.
From BBC
It’s a similar weather pattern to the one seen in January 2022, when it hardly snowed in the Sierra Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times
Being snowed in automatically meant we were going to have a cozy, jolly but mostly drunk-off-of-hot-chocolate time.
From Salon
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