snowpocalypse

plural snowpocalypses

1. informalAn unusually severe blizzard or series of blizzards.

   “It's a snowpocalypse out there, folks,” said the newscaster in the studio.

   2015, Julia London, One Mad Night, Sourcebooks Casablanca, →ISBN

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   I'd also like to thank the Atlanta Snowpocalypse of 2011 for giving me a large block of uninterrupted writing time.

   2012, Marilyn Wolf, “Preface”, in Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page xxiii

   The “snowpocalypse” of 2008 paralyzed hilly Seattle in part due to reluctance to salt the roads for fear of harming Puget Sound and nearby streams, though it turned out that sanding the roads can also be harmful.

   2014, Karen Gaudette Brewer, Seafood Lover's Pacific Northwest: Restaurants, Markets, Recipes & Traditions, Globe Pequot, →ISBN, page 5

   Synonyms: blizzaster, Snowmageddon