snowfall
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Historically, the effects of El Niño on Southern California’s rainfall and snowfall become more obvious from December onward, with January to March “as the prime season for impacts,” L’Heureux said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Long winters, heavy snowfall and decades of conflict have further slowed cricket's development.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Last winter the Colorado ski destination had its lowest level of snowfall in decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
At the same time, Greenland would experience fewer storms, leading to less snowfall and slower ice accumulation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Everything that had happened throughout the day faded like that first false snowfall of the winter.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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
Meteorologists, however, also add that there have been heavy snowfalls during some winters in recent years, but these have been isolated, extreme events rather than the evenly distributed precipitation of past winters.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 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
Even here on the coast there had been two light snowfalls in the last month of summer.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
