What is "snowfall"

Usage examples of "snowfall".

He carried a bow, and tinder, and sharp steel, small precautions that counted in a Skyshiel gale, when cloud and relentless snowfall mantled the high peaks, and strength and experience lent no guarantee in the brute fight to maintain survival.

It was literally heat, because some clever fremden gristwright had figured out that the big methane snowfall of the past two weeks was not methane at all, but military grist.

Blacks visiting socially in white homesand vice versais still as rare as snowfall in Natchez, but this is not the reason for the general discomfort.

Leaving the last snowfall of spring to melt in the Crazies, leaving the famous landscape painter, Russell Chatham, to go through life without ever meeting his colleague, Ellen Cherry Charles, they goosed the turkey northeastward and late in the afternoon crossed the Missouri River.

A city that had summers and winters needed different types of civic services to cope with the individual seasons, and Rialto had an impressive snowfall in winter, averaging out at two meters each four-hundred-day year.

Because of the high adaptation in the soil of the two provinces first named, and the plentifulness of the snowfall, clover in these is one of the surest of the crops grown.

The weather report, which predicted further heavy and continuous snowfalls over almost the entire country, contained an item of extreme interest: all south-west Hungary, in an area stretching east from Lake Balaton to Szeged on the Yugoslavian border, was completely immobilised by the severest snowstorm since the war, every road, railway line and airport being completely blocked.

There was plenty of work to do, particularly after snowfalls when the grounds had to be cleared and defensible berms built, but Morik managed to avoid most of it by feigning an injury from the battle that had brought them here.

There were no natural icebergs, since there were no islands or continents to build successive snowfalls up into glaciers.

But then they realized they were all home again, and Milagro was white and very beautiful, its jumper and pinon branches laden with a fresh snowfall, and the smell of pinon smoke on the air was almost like a drug making them high.

Ayradyss watched the nicker of the snowfall behind the heavy glass, seeing more the shadow as it opaqued the light than the actual snowfall itself.

A few winters of very deep snowfalls and an avalanche seem to have obscured it.

In this way, the finite has conquered the infinite, millions of autumns have yielded to no autumns, millions of snowfalls have yielded to no snowfalls, millions of admonitions have yielded to none.

Yestereve's snowfall and the warmth of today's sun had left the streets well-mired with melting muck At the present moment a pair of tall chopines would have greatly eased her dilemma.

Everywhere about it were bright green reed beds, and everywhere above it flew steel-blue swallows and black-headed gulls, and leaning over it from every bank were the ever-present poplar trees, even this late in the summer still shedding their snowfall of white fluffs, and now and then there would be a visible splash in the water as a fish lunged for one of them.