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Words for ice, snow and storms

Word List with 12 words
By Dictionary.com

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firn

granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.

frazil

ice crystals formed in turbulent water, as in swift streams or rough seas.

graupel

precipitation, usually of brief duration, consisting of crisp, white, opaque ice particles, round or conical in shape and about two to five millimeters in diameter.

hummock

a ridge in an ice field.

neve

granular snow accumulated on high mountains and subsequently compacted into glacial ice.

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noreaster

a cyclonic storm that moves northeastward within several hundred miles of the eastern coast of the U.S. and Canada, particularly in fall and winter, its often strong northeast winds causing high seas and coastal damage and bearing rain or snow.

pogonip

an ice fog that forms in the mountain valleys of the western U.S.

rime

an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.

sastruga

n.,

ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.

tramontane

a violent, polar wind from the northwest that blows in southern France.

verglas

a thin coating of ice on terrestrial objects, caused by rain that freezes on impact.

blizzard