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- noun meteorology, colloquial
Silver frost .
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chained_bear commented on the word silver thaw
"In Nova Scotia, when winter and spring collide, an event called a silver thaw can occur. As rain falls, it freezes and sheathes everything it touches with ice until tree limbs begin to break and telegraph wires to fall."
—Erik Larson, Thunderstruck (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006), 244
July 7, 2009
ccnomad commented on the word silver thaw
This is a Pacific Northwest regionalism meaning freezing rain - precipitation just a Fahrenheit degree or two below snowfall.
November 7, 2013