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as in thunderstorm
a severe storm with a large amount of falling snow
Their trip was delayed by a week because of a blizzard.
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as in tide
an overwhelming influx or flow of something
The star's off-the-cuff comments touched off a blizzard of criticism on social media.
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Recent Examples of blizzard
January’s snowstorm pushed away from South Texas in a nearly due east direction, bringing near-blizzard conditions from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.
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Justin Ballard, Houston Chronicle, 2 Jan. 2026
Michigan is still digging out from a bomb cyclone earlier this week that brought blizzard conditions, several feet of snow and waves surpassing those of the Edmund Fitzgerald storm in 1975 — possibly setting a new Great Lakes record.
—Brandi D. Addison, Freep.com, 31 Dec. 2025
Tens of millions of people were under blizzard and winter storm warnings on Monday, from Minnesota and Iowa to Michigan, New York and Maine.
—Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
As if a blizzard weren’t enough, the storm’s cold front also sparked a line of severe thunderstorms Sunday afternoon and evening, with damaging winds and a few tornadoes reported in parts of Illinois, including one that destroyed structures just outside of Decatur.
—Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 29 Dec. 2025
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Multiple tornado warnings hit Oklahoma early Thursday as a line of severe thunderstorm systems moved in.—
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Earlier in the afternoon, the weather service issued a severe thunderstorm warnings for areas north of the metro, but those warnings have since expired.—
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Greenland was incorporated into Denmark in 1953, as a tide of decolonization swept the globe following World War II.—
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More than a year after it was completed, the Smith Canal Gate was closed Monday because water levels rose to 8 feet, along with some other factors, including rising king tides and precipitation, according to Darren Suen, San Joaquin Area Flood Control Agency executive director.—
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As the Palisades Fire burned out of control under hurricane-force winds, some residents chose to stay and fight, like Cort Wagner.—
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Here, sea level rise is accelerating at some of the most extreme rates on Earth, while hurricanes increasingly are swirling ashore with an unprecedented ferociousness.—
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Subsequent reporting by the Tribune in 2005 showed that less and less recyclable material was being pulled from the household garbage stream over time, as nearly 30% of the garbage that once would have gone to MRRFs to be sorted was just being taken to landfills.—
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But surviving a life-threatening health scare is really what makes owners Mario and Maya Palazon value the steady stream of customers coming through the door at their new FreshCo Fish Grill & Market in Downtown Doral.—
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Curse the earthquake or typhoon, or the space agency that sent them to Mars?—
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Alaska’s Arctic has seen four ex-typhoons since 1970, and three of them arrived in the past four years.—
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Earthquakes' sudden, rapid shaking can cause fires, tsunamis, landslides or avalanches.—
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More than 200 people were killed in July 2000 when an avalanche of garbage consumed a Manila shanty town populated by several thousand scavengers.—
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Jackson famously defended Karen Read, who was accused of hitting her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, with her car and leaving him to die during a snowstorm.—
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Thirty years ago, the northeastern United States experienced one of the biggest snowstorms of the 20th century.—
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Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.—
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During a flood-the-zone presidency, this seems like a sound strategy.—
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“Blizzard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blizzard. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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