Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fall of snow.
- noun The amount of snow that falls during a given period or in a specified area.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The falling of snow: used sometimes of a quiet fall in distinction from a snow-storm.
- noun The amount of snow falling in a given time, as during one storm, day, or year. This amount is measured popularly by the depth of the snow at the close of each time of falling, and scientifically by melting the snow and measuring the depth of the water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An instance of falling of snow.
- noun The amount of snow that falls on one occasion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
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Examples
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However, the increase in snowfall is 347% when the NAO is strongly negative versus strongly positive (see table below for other locations).
Why was last year so snowy? Part II Jason Samenow 2010
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One example of this is the use of the term snowfall in the document.
Watts Up With That? 2010
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Weather: A sunny day after a snowfall is usually a cold day, and today was not an exception.
Archive 2005-12-11 Michael Evans 2005
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Weather: A sunny day after a snowfall is usually a cold day, and today was not an exception.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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Further heavy snowfall is expected this week, with up to 10 inches forecast.
News in Brief - 3 February 2009 Dungeekin 2009
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Further heavy snowfall is expected this week, with up to 10 inches forecast.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009
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The amount of snowfall is caused by the amount of precipitation in the air, which freezes and then falls as snow.
Think Progress » Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’ 2010
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Another study done at Rutgers University indicates that there is a 55% increase in snowfall at Reagan National Airport (DCA) when the NAO is negative versus when it is positive.
Why was last year so snowy? Part II Jason Samenow 2010
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Record snowfall is now falling in the Washington D.C. - Baltimore region, with accumulation expected to shatter the 1922 Washington record of 28 inches and the 1993 Baltimore record of 26.8 inches of snow.
Think Progress » Virginia GOP Mocks Epic Snow Storm As ‘12 Inches Of Global Warming’ 2010
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Conclusion: deer bed or move in snowfall according to individual preferences.
Field & Stream 2009
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