snowfall
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As temperatures rise, the freezing point moves higher up mountains, so more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow, even in places that once saw regular snowfall.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
They are almost always accompanied by heavy rain or snowfall, as well as strong wind gusts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
Scientists are finding that snowfall is more connected to water underground than we knew.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The pair plans to come back to California for the winter: El Niño is expected to produce intense snowfall they’d like to ski, and ocean swells they’d like to surf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The season’s first snowfall was light, the flakes no sooner fallen than melted.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
And probably all the snow: Recent research by Cohen found that polar vortex stretches align with the heaviest and deepest snowfalls.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
It has all come during a particularly cold winter, with heavy snowfalls and temperatures around 6 degrees Fahrenheit or lower since early January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
Temperatures are dropping and the country has already experienced its first snowfalls, but the full force of Ukraine’s famously harsh winter has not yet been felt.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
Specks of debris floated all around, like a gentle snowfall, and suddenly she was recalling the snowfalls she’d experienced on land.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
