Perhaps, but a lot of "winter storms" in the Northeast US are ice or sleet storms, rather than snow storms. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:41 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Blizzards are characterized by high winds. Traditionally sustained winds of > 50 km/h (30 mph) were required along with heavy snow. > > Now the measure is visibility - a combination of winds and snow that limits > visibility to 400 metres or yards is a blizzard. > > I guess my problem with the whole "snow event " nomenclature is that we had a > perfectly useful and universally understood name for what eastern North > America just experienced: a "winter storm". "Snow event " seems like more of > the CNN-ization of our culture. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
