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Definition 2024

snowstorm ‎(plural snowstorms)

Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.
A snow globe.
- 1947, Dornford Yates, The Berry Scene, Ward, Lock & Co., 273:
  As we made our way down, my eye was caught by a snowstorm—one of those little glass balls, with a baby cottage inside.

bad weather involving blowing winds and snow

Albanian: stuhi dëbore
Bashkir: буран ‎(buran)
Catalan: nevada (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 暴風雪 (zh), 暴风雪 (zh) ‎(bàofēngxuě), 大風雪, 大风雪 ‎(dàfēngxuě)
Czech: blizard (cs) m, sněhová bouře f, sněhová vichřice f, vánice f, metelice (cs) f, fujavice f, chumelenice f
Danish: snestorm (da) c
Dutch: sneeuwstorm (nl) m
Faroese: kavaæl n
Finnish: myräkkä (fi), lumimyrsky (fi), pyry (fi)
French: tempête de neige (fr) f
German: Schneesturm (de) m
Greek: χιονοθύελλα (el) f ‎(chionothýella)
Hungarian: hóvihar (hu), hóförgeteg (hu)
Icelandic: snjóstormur (is) m, stórhríð f, kafaldsbylur (is) m
Italian: bufera di neve f
Japanese: 暴風雪 (ja) ‎(ぼうふうせつ, bōfūsetsu), 吹雪 (ja) ‎(ふぶき, fubuki)
Korean: 눈보라 (ko) ‎(nunbora)
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: pûk (ku) f
Latgalian: viejputnis

Latin: ningor m
Latvian: putenis
Lithuanian: pūga f
Luxembourgish: Schnéistuerm m
Navajo: chííl
Norwegian: snøstorm (no)
Old English: hrīþ
Persian: بوران (fa) ‎(burân)
Portuguese: nevasca (pt) f (Brazil), nevão m (Portugal), tempestade de neve f (both)
Romanian: furtună de nea, furtună de zăpadă, viscol (ro) n
Russian: мете́ль (ru) f ‎(metélʹ), пурга́ (ru) f ‎(purgá), вью́га (ru) f ‎(vʹjúga), бура́н (ru) m ‎(burán), сне́жная бу́ря f ‎(snéžnaja búrja), снегова́я бу́ря f ‎(snegovája búrja), сне́жный вихрь m ‎(snéžnyj vixrʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: мѐћава f

Roman: mèćava (sh) f
Slovak: snehová búrka f, fujavica f
Slovene: snežni vihar m
Spanish: nevada (es) f, nevasca f, tormenta de nieve f
Swedish: snöstorm (sv)
Turkish: tipi (tr), kar fırtınası