powdery

Kazakhstan has a cold winter which ensures it has powdery snow until late in the season.

"Then the rainiest June since the 1950s helped the spread of downy and powdery mildew" he told The Telegraph.

Also rising here and there in the expanse, clouds that wind skyward, spreading out in a powdery mist.

Then followed a long and at times a somewhat steep climb over soft powdery snow to the top of the pass.

This wind blew the fine powdery snow off all the crests of the ridges and it penetrated everywhere.

Snow began to fall now and a regular blizzard set in, the fine powdery snow being blown along the ground into our faces.

Here, if anywhere, the unmelted powdery substance was likely to avalanche.