WordNet
n. a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that); "he had to close the window against the flurries"; "there was a flurry of chicken feathers" [syn: flurry]
Wikipedia
A snow flurry is a brief instance of snow with thin, single flaked showers. When hitting the ground the first burst is still referred to as a flurry. When flurries accumulate, they become a layer of snow.
Usage examples of "snow flurry".
For someone who had spent one memorable winter in upstate New York, the alarm caused by a snow flurry down here was hilarious.
As the last of the snow flurry wisped past, scoured off the stone by the incessant wind, Gird stood and looked at the wilderness around them.
I remember the sensation of standing thereseeming to, anywayin the middle of a snow flurry.
Said he was out astern in a snow flurry about dawn, and saw a creature shaped like a wood louse and as big as a turreted monitor, go racing by and tearing up the foam, in chase of a fat animal the size of an elephant and creased like a caterpillar -- and saw it dive after it and disappear.
From this sparkled glowing motes, showering down like a glittering snow flurry.
Inside the dome of enclosure, behind them, the momentary backlash froze the nearest plants and created a localized snow flurry.