
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 showers''.
Environment Canada uses a different definition for flurries, approximately equivalent to 'snow shower'.
See also
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Drizzle
References
External links
Some Common Weather TerminologyGlossary of Meteorology
Precipitation
Snow or ice weather phenomena
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