What is Blowing Snow?

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.