Blizzard : noun, English.

[zotz]

For future reference, here are some definitions of the word "blizzard" :

A storm of at least three hours' duration with winds over 16 m s-1 accompanied by falling or blowing snow that causes visibility to drop below 400 m.
[www.co2science.org/dictionary/define_b.htm]

Wind force 16 m/sec (moderate gale, 30 knots) or more and snowfall, difficult traveling weather, considerable danger of road conditions worsening at short notice.
[www3.vegag.is/faerd/skyringar/skyringare.html]

a severe weather condition characterized by low temperatures and strong winds (32 mph or higher) bearing a great amount of snow (including snow picked up from the ground) that reduces visibility to less than 500 ft.
[www.pnl.gov/atmos_sciences/Cdw/Glossary.html]

A severe weather condition characterized by low temperatures, winds 35 mph or greater, and sufficient falling and/or blowing snow in the air to frequently reduce visibility to 1/4 mile or less for a duration of at least 3 hours. A severe blizzard is characterized by temperatures near or below 10°F, winds exceeding 45 mph, and visibility reduced by snow to near zero.
[www.weather.com/glossary/b.html]

Contrast with "snow showers and breeze".

Comments

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

In Dalkeith, we had the second and third of those (well, I'm guessing at the wind speed, but it was pretty damn windy.) Visibility was less than 100 yards at one point.

[zotz]

I don't think it's been a gale. A blizzard's a pretty nasty storm - I've never seen one. I'd like to, as long as I could nip back inside sharpish.

There are forecasts of blizzards later on - this evening and tonight - but I suspect only a bit further north. It could be pretty damaging around here, because we don't get winds like that as often.

Pedant!

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Bah humbug, eh?

[mxhaunted.livejournal.com]

Ohkay… ohkay! I’m from London. That was the closest I’ve been to a blizzard in some time. Stop being so pedantic! :P

[chillies.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't trust co2science.org to tell me about the weather; still less about climate. They're the organisation that informs us increased CO2 is good because, like, plants use CO2 to produce food so let's let industry regulate its own emissions and hope the invisible guiding hand of the market will sort things out.

This, then, is what we truly believe will be the result of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content: a reinvigorated biosphere characteristic of those prior periods of earth's history when the air's CO2 concentration was much higher than it is today, coupled with a climate not much different from that of the present. Are we right? Only time will tell.

Our policy prescription relative to anthropogenic CO2 emissions is thus to leave well enough alone and let nature and humanity take their inextricably intertwined course.

http://www.co2science.org/about/position/globalwarming.htm

I want to whack them upside the head with the principle of parsimony.

[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

good one

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Back home, there's a children's book entitled "A Blizzard is When it Snows Sideways".

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

London Stansted down to London Gatwick. Winds gusting 47 knots actual. Heavy snow with RVRs down below 100m. Duration 1558 until present and ongoin. Bloody blizzard *mutter grumble*

[zotz]

Hmmm. Ugly. Good luck getting home.

If it's gusting 47, what's it likely to be on average? Sounds fairly intense, anyway. Take care.

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

Depends - whatever it feels like really. Tonight it was 32kts gusting 47 so anyone's guess...

BTW still @ LGW : (

[deeteeuk.livejournal.com]

Well said that man.