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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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of snowfall
Example Sentences
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Switzerland’s glaciers lost more than 5% of their ice in the past year, typically losing between 8 and 13 feet, after a winter of meager snowfall and summer heatwaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
A small increase in temperature, a higher freezing point or shift from snowfall to rainfall can determine whether a glacier survives at all, she adds.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
They are almost always accompanied by heavy rain or snowfall, as well as strong wind gusts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Scientists are finding that snowfall is more connected to water underground than we knew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Now that George mentioned it, the snow did seem more slippery, like the first snowfall of the season.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
Many braved heavy snowfalls in parts of the country, which had been feared a deterrent to voters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
Meteorologists, however, also add that there have been heavy snowfalls during some winters in recent years, but these have been isolated, extreme events rather than the evenly distributed precipitation of past winters.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026
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
After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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