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Blowing snow [1] is snow lifted from the surface by the wind, at eye level (1.8 m or 6 ft) or more, [2] that will reduce visibility. Blowing snow can come from falling snow or snow that already accumulated on the ground but is picked up and blown about by strong winds. It is one of the classic requirements for a blizzard. Its METAR code is BLSN.
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Blowing snow could snarl travel Thursday as unrelenting waves of winter weather continue an assault on parts of the Midwest and East.
The Watertown region received 8 to 12 in (20 to 30 cm) of snow with the cold front, but unfrozen Lake Ontario (in contrast to frozen Lake Erie), along with atmospheric conditions favorable for lake effect snow, allowed snow bands to form that resulted in storm totals of 66 in (168 cm) in Watertown, 72.5 in (184.2 cm) in Mansville, 93 in (236 cm ...
Around 52 million people remain under wind alerts Monday afternoon across the Northeast, from Maryland to Maine. Powerful winds gusting up to 100 mph cause travel delays and power outages in Northeast
The warning for wind is in place from 7am until midnight on Wednesday and the rain warning covers Wales and north-west England between 6pm on New Year’s Eve and 6pm on Wednesday, with 30-50mm of ...
Snowdrift – Snowdrifts are wind-driven accumulations of snow deposited downwind of obstructions. [31] Wind crust – A layer of relatively stiff, hard snow formed by deposition of wind blown snow on the windward side of a ridge or other sheltered area. Wind crusts generally bond better to snowpack layers below and above them than wind slabs.
How much did it snow on Cape Cod? While Cape Cod received a good-sized serving of snow, the largest reported snowfall (15.5 inches) occurred in the Farmington, Connecticut area.