snow
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On Greenland, narrow dark markings appear in places where liquid water is present on top of ice and snow.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
An hour after that, snow falling heavily, an announcement comes that the meat shipment has been canceled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
One thing he didn’t bring to Cornell was a warm jacket for snow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Looking back at previous winters that followed a strong El Niño since 1900, just one - the winter of 1982/83 - saw widespread disruptive snow.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Taking off his own birch bast, Torak squinted at the snow.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The deep snows encountered 20 years ago are becoming rarer and Greater Prespa Lake is shrinking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Paris — There’s a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: “Where are the snows of yesteryear?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Or as in the Northeast today, when it snows it blizzards.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Recent snows have also led to evacuations of several communities in Switzerland and northern Italy, as well as power outages and a train derailment at Goppenstein in the south-western Swiss canton of Valais.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
They were taken off onto small snows and brigs, if that they could afford; and others, finding no route of escape upon the water, fled the town by land, praying for mercy.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
“We were snowed in and iced in for three days at our house,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
The only hitch for anyone wanting to visit now is that the winter holidays mark one of the busier seasons for the tram, especially since it snowed at Mt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
Although it snowed in Cleveland and Chicago this week and New Yorkers bundled up, gas traders don’t expect enough sustained cold weather to eat into supplies until next month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Experts say that global warming means that rains are increasingly being reported in higher reaches where it mostly snowed in the past, destabilising mountains further with water percolating and loosening the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
It had snowed pretty hard and the streets were white with packed snow.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
You have to schlep around while it’s raining, snowing or just hot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lime also faces a seasonal risk: Put simply, scooters and bikes are a lot less popular when its snowing or raining, and more in demand when it’s warm and dry outside.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
"It was a bit rough around the edges, but it was snowing quite a bit, so it covered up the mistakes."
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
“It was snowing, really bad weather,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
It was the middle of winter and snowing.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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