(n.) A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
(2) The weather conditions could possibly have been described as merely heavy snow in the first half but by the second half it was a full-on blizzard.
(3) Much of the UK faces several days of battering winds and localised blizzards as a pair of particularly severe weather systems pass over the country.
(4) There is a wide range of intellectual abilities of persons with Johanson-Blizzard syndrome.
(5) The total number of deaths was significantly higher (8%) in a "blizzard week" than in the preceding and subsequent (control) weeks (114.1 vs. 105.3 deaths per day).
(6) Death certificates in eastern Massachusetts after six blizzards in 1974--78, including the record blizzard of Feb. 6, 1978, were examined to identify the effect on mortality of these storms.
(7) Hirsi Ali, for instance, was treated to a series of encomiums and softball questions in her blizzard of US media interviews, from the New York Times to Fox News.
(8) During blizzards, I-80 sometimes closes altogether.
(9) Heavy snowfall in areas above 200 metres could lead to blizzard conditions across higher ground.
(10) In the literature, a wide range of intellectual abilities of children with the Johanson-Blizzard syndrome is reported.
(11) Thierry Marchand flew to New York for the Blizzard on a wing and a prayer hoping to secure an interview with Thierry Henry before his retirement.
(12) The National Weather Service said blizzard conditions were possible in eastern Massachusetts while much of the east coast will experience temperatures 10 to 25F below average (6-14C), along with “bitter wind chills”.
(13) This is an edited and updated version of a piece from the latest issue of The Blizzard .
(14) Jürgen Klinsmann's USA clinched three vital World Cup qualifying points against a spirited Costa Rica and a blizzard.
(15) So far more than 34,400 members have joined and we've collected a blizzard of pink underpants.
(16) The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for Cape Cod, coastal areas north and south of Boston and part of Maine as well as New York's Long Island, where up to 10 inches (0.25m) of snow could fall and winds could gust to 45mph.
(17) A blizzard of media interviews will then begin, before a 3pm meeting with senior management of the party.
(18) The Hateful Eight , shot in 70mm and about a motley crew of 19th century bounty hunters and criminals who take refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass to shelter from a blizzard, no doubt hopes to make it a hat-trick.
(19) ), which rose significantly by 22% in the blizzard week from 36.7 to 44.6 deaths per day, accounted for 90% of the excess total deaths.
(20) Late Thursday, Dante de Blasio, 16 , wrote in a message that escaped his private Facebook page that he was getting a blizzard of school cancellation requests.
Hurricane
Definition:
(n.) A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the system had been successfully deployed at depths of 365 metres after hurricane Katrina, but not by a BP crew.
(2) Why, for example, would a meteorologist fail to correctly predict where a hurricane was going to make landfall, or why might a doctor fail to figure out what was going on inside my son and fix it?
(3) New employment data today suggested that hurricane Sandy is hurting already tenuous US job growth.
(4) This is why we have seen these horrible events [like typhoon Haiyan and hurricane Sandy] in the past few years, with many people affected.
(5) Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm."
(6) What Katrina left behind: New Orleans' uneven recovery and unending divisions Read more Ten years on, resentment still lingers about the failure of the federal levee system during hurricane Katrina, the botched response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), and the long and difficult process of accessing billions of dollars in grant money for rebuilding, which for some people is not finished.
(7) Later on Monday, Obama made a eve-of-convention visit to the flooded Louisiana coast to console victims of hurricane Isaac.
(8) They talk football, and “all the things Joe has been through, the hurricanes in Jamaica, how the winds made the fruit crash from the trees,” says Dean.
(9) Abnormal events such as Hurricane Sandy , which cost $65bn (£40bn) and the 2011-12 US drought, which cost $35bn (£21bn) may be just foretasters of the price to be paid.
(10) Although the scientists said they were still unsure whether a warming climate would result in an increase in the frequency of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, there was a stark warning for the northern hemisphere, and areas of Europe and North America where currently hurricanes hardly ever happen.
(11) The biggest number headed to Houston , a 350-mile drive along the Gulf coast and itself no stranger to hurricanes.
(12) Climate change is making these sorts of storms more common, much as it is making Sandy-like superstorms and unusually intense hurricanes more common.” Those storms were not created by climate change, Mann said.
(13) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(14) "It's a very, very large system," Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, told Reuters.
(15) Rain may be coming soon, thanks to hurricane Isaac, but it's too late for America's corn crop.
(16) Photograph: YouTube Bookended by the flooding of the city of New Orleans after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina – and by which the city’s black residents were disproportionately affected – and a black child in a hoodie dancing opposite a police line and a quick cut to graffiti words “stop shooting us”, Beyoncé morphs into several archetypical southern black women.
(17) We've come through one of the worst disasters in our history, Hurricane Katrina, and are now almost fully recovered and much better than ever in almost all areas.
(18) "The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the north-east – in lost lives, lost homes and lost business – brought the stakes of next Tuesday's presidential election into sharp relief," Bloomberg wrote.
(19) Storms lash and floods swamp, but the hurricane of cuts outlined by this week's grim report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies will cause infinitely greater devastation to millions for many years to come, like nothing before.
(20) 10.46am GMT A handout photograph provided by the US air force on 31 October shows aerial views of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy to the New Jersey coast, taken during a search and rescue mission.