What's the difference between blizzard and snowstorm?

Blizzard


Definition:

  • (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.

Snowstorm


Definition:

  • (n.) A storm with falling snow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When a snowstorm not only paralyzes a community but also isolates its hospital or hospitals, contingency plans and procedures ensure the effective administration and operation of a health care facility during the emergency.
  • (2) So far so good,” said Baker, who was managing his first snowstorm since being sworn in earlier this month.
  • (3) deaths were increased for 8 days after a snowstorm, suggesting that the effect was related to activities such as snow shovelling rather than the storm itself.
  • (4) Record snowstorms can occur during warm years, too, one study found : while the researchers documented an increase in extreme regional snowstorms over five decades, they noted that about a third of those storms happened during years that were warmer than average.
  • (5) The Costa Ricans lost 1-0 in a match that was played in a snowstorm in Colorado .
  • (6) They inhibit adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-induced platelet aggregation, and the release of platelet factor 3 by kaolin, and VK 774 also reduces platelet adhesiveness and inhibits platelet aggregation (;snowstorm' effect) in the Chandler tube system.
  • (7) "It would have been nice to have talked about how to handle a snowstorm in an abstract exercise, but we didn't get to do that, we got the real thing."
  • (8) They held their televised press conference outside the White House in a snowstorm, a nature-made bathetic fallacy.)
  • (9) Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.
  • (10) Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem, described the snowstorm as a "tsunami", for which the city council was unprepared.
  • (11) A snowstorm that hit along the Utah-Arizona border left hundreds of travelers stranded on Interstate 15 overnight into Sunday.
  • (12) The USA moved into second place after beating Costa Rica 1-0 in a snowstorm last week .
  • (13) The main reason was said to be that climbers who started their ascent late in the day were caught in a snowstorm in the afternoon and lost their way.
  • (14) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
  • (15) This winter has been harsh, with several major snowstorms, and each morning I emerge from my own little piece of hell to continue distributions.
  • (16) The roof leaks, and the recent snowstorm has flooded his crowded space, destroying electrical equipment.
  • (17) Inspired by what she said were Hamid’s “very laudable ideals”, Abdul drove through snowstorms to get to Reno from Silicon Valley.
  • (18) Is that dangerous – to be inebriated in a snowstorm on a very cold night on the top of a very cold mountain without a soul around?
  • (19) In his beautiful book The Moth Snowstorm , Michael McCarthy suggests that a capacity to love the natural world, rather than merely to exist within it, might be a uniquely human trait.
  • (20) A major snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow in cities across the north-east US early Friday morning, causing thousands of flight cancellations, school closures and paralysing road travel.

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