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Definition of Snowfall

1. Noun. Precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals.

Definition of Snowfall

1. Noun. An instance of falling of snow. ¹

2. Noun. The amount of snow that falls on one occasion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Snowfall

1. a fall of snow [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowfall

Literary usage of Snowfall

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Weather and Climate of Chicago by Henry Joseph Cox, John Howard Armington (1914)
"DISTRIBUTION OF snowfall IN THE CITY While the measurement of snowfall is made at the ... Ordinarily there is no great variation in the amount of snowfall ..."

2. The Geography of Illinois by Douglas Clay Ridgley (1921)
"In recording snowfall as a part of the precipitation, the observer makes three records; one indicates the depth of newly fallen snow on the level; another, ..."

3. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"I snowfall. The snowfall record extends over a period of about ten years, from 1866 to 1875. ... The season of snowfall extends from November to April. ..."

4. Cecil County by Maryland Geological Survey, George Burbank Shattuck, Florence Bascom, Edward Bennett Mathews, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Jay Allan Bonsteel, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Henry Albert Pressey, Louis Agricola Bauer, Hugh M. Curran, George Bishop Sudworth, Geologic (1902)
"snowfall. The snowfall record extends over a period of about ... The season of snowfall extends from November to April. There was no snowfall during half of ..."

5. Handbook of Climatology by Julius von Hann (1903)
"The amount of precipitation, and especially the amount of precipitation which falls during the winter months as snowfall, is a factor which, in addition to ..."

6. Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of by Thomas Russell (1895)
"snowfall. — When vapour is condensed at a temperature below 32° it freezes and falls as snow. Depth of melted snow is preferable to depth of snowfall as a ..."

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