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A snow flurry is a light snowfall that results in little or no snow accumulation. The US
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A snow flurry is a light snowfall that results in little or no snow accumulation. The US National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the ...
defines snow flurries as intermittent light snow that produces no measurable precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hai ...
(trace amounts). In contrast, bursts of snowfall that do result in measurable snow accumulation are called ''snow shower
A shower is a mode of precipitation characterized by an abrupt start and end and by rapid variations in intensity. Often strong and short-lived, it comes from convective clouds, like cumulus congestus. A shower will produce rain if the temperat ...
s''. Environment Canada uses a different definition for flurries, approximately equivalent to 'snow shower'.
See also
*Drizzle
Drizzle is a light precipitation consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than in diameter. Drizzle is normally produced by low stratiform clouds and stratocumulus clouds. Precipitation rates from ...
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