How to Use snowfall in a Sentence

snowfall

noun
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  • The area is expecting heavy snowfall this weekend.
  • The yearly snowfall here is over 30 feet!
  • In some cities, the storm piled up more than a year's worth of snowfall.
    — Sara Cline and Ben Finley The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The deluge of snowfall in the Sierra smashed a 51-year record in one part of the mountains.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2021
  • That’s why April 2 is the date of the normal last snowfall in Chicago.
    — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But the northern parts of the state were far from the only to receive hefty snowfall.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Get ready: many of us will see the first snowfall of the season this weekend.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
  • That dress looks like a snowfall in the Alps, an avalanche not seen by human eyes.
    — Concita De Gregorio, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
  • The Cascades could see a good round of new snowfall above about 4,000 feet over the weekend.
    — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The red line shows the normal amount of snowfall expected.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The avalanche came amid the season’s first major snowfall.
    — Sally Ho, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Fake snowfall and a tropical Santa are also in the park through the end of the year.
    — Valerie Nome, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The West Coast will have dry and mild conditions and the Rockies will see snowfall.
    — Steve Strouss, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The second storm could bring the first measurable snowfall of the season to many cities on the East Coast.
    — Robert Shackelford, CNN, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The Cascades will see some new snowfall, but most of that will be above 6,000 feet and well above the pass levels.
    — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Type The best snow shovels are the ones that are appropriate for the type of snowfall.
    — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The area is expected to see its first snowfall this week.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The crash occurred as a storm rolled through the state, bringing snowfall and freezing rain to the region.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This weekend, the cold air mass and the wind brought wind chills in the single digits along with more than an inch of snowfall.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
  • With cold rain falling and the remnants of a previous snowfall still on the streets, the mood was grim but steely.
    — John Leicester and Hanna Arhirova, Chicago Tribune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The Cascades could see a little new snowfall late Wednesday night but by then, the bulk of the rain will have moved east.
    — oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The weather forecast for South Lake Tahoe shows snowfall in the coming days.
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Wednesday will bring the first snowfall for many this season!
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • California is inches away from a 30-year snowfall record as more of the state eclipses the 50-feet mark.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • In the same period, snowfall was measurable 23% of the time on Dec. 25.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The opening and closing dates depend on snowfall each year.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
  • This will bring continued chances of snowfall along the foothills of the Cascades and in the higher elevations of the Coast Range.
    — oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But, for some communities, the snowfall will be a test.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The last time the Orlando area saw snow was in 1977 when snowfall accumulated to less than one inch.
    — Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • For days now, experts warned that the most significant snowfall would be from the Atlanta area southward.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025

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