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Snow drought
Snow drought is a period of abnormally little snowpack for the time of year, of two types: dry, from low precipitation, and warm, from warm temperatures.
Snow Eagle Lord
Snow Eagle Lord (雪鹰领主) is a xuanhuan franchise by web novelist I Eat Tomatoes about Dongbo Xueying saving his parents from the Moyang Tribe, adapted into a 2018 donghua, a 2023 drama, a 2022 web film, and games.
Snow Falls on China's Land
"Snow Falls on China's Land" (雪落在中国的土地上) is a free-verse poem by the Chinese poet Ai Qing, written in Wuchang in December 1937 and published in January 1938.
Snow fence
A snow fence is a barrier, structural or made of trees and shrubs, placed upwind of a road to trap blowing snow in a drift, improving visibility.
Snow globe
Snow globe (Schneekugel; also snow dome, water globe): sealed glass or plastic sphere with liquid, snow particles, and a miniature scene that swirls when shaken. Invented by Erwin Perzy I in Vienna, patented 1900; first shown at the 1878 Paris Exposition.
Snow goose
Snow goose (Anser caerulescens), Arctic-breeding North American goose with white and blue color morphs; about 16 million birds, overabundant and managed by special conservation hunts due to tundra habitat damage.
Snow grain metamorphism
Snow grain metamorphism is the set of processes that change the size, shape, and bonding of snow grains after deposition, producing rounded grains, facets, and depth hoar.
Snow grains
Snow grains are a form of solid precipitation of very small, white, opaque ice particles under 1 mm across, the frozen counterpart of drizzle, falling from stratus or fog.
Snow Halation
"Snow halation" is a 2010 single by μ's, the school-idol group of the Love Live! franchise, known for the orange light tradition at its final chorus.
Snow Hill Island
Snow Hill Island (Isla Cerro Nevado) is an ice-covered island in the James Ross Archipelago, Weddell Sea, at 64°28'S 57°11'W, site of Nordenskjöld's 1902-03 winter station hut and the northernmost emperor penguin colony.
Snow Hill tunnel (London)
Snow Hill tunnel is a short railway tunnel beneath Smithfield Market in central London, opened in 1866 and reopened in 1988 to carry the Thameslink route between Blackfriars and Farringdon.
Snow in Australia
Snow in Australia falls mainly on the Australian Alps between Melbourne and Canberra and the highlands of Tasmania, with declining snow depths since the late 1950s.
Snow in Florida
Snow in Florida is a rare but recurring winter phenomenon, first documented in 1774, falling almost entirely in the Panhandle during Arctic air outbreaks.
Snow Island
Snow Island (Isla Nevada) is an island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at 62°46'S 61°23'W, with President Head at its east end, ice-free President Head Peninsula, and a vanished chinstrap penguin colony.
Snow leopard
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large cat living in the high mountains of Central Asia, where it hunts wild sheep and goats on steep, rocky terrain.
Snow line
A snow line is the minimum elevation at which snow lies on the ground or a glacier; on glaciers, it separates bright snow from darker firn or ice.
Snow load
Snow load is the vertical load that accumulated snow and ice impose on a roof or other structure, treated in structural design as a live environmental load.
Snow Miku
Snow Miku is an annual winter festival in Hokkaido, Japan, built around the Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku and held every year since 2010 alongside the Sapporo Snow Festival.
Snow on tha Bluff
Snow on tha Bluff: 2011 American found-footage docudrama by Damon Russell starring Atlanta drug dealer Curtis Snow as himself in the Bluff neighborhood; premiered at Slamdance 2011, released 2012, later referenced by J. Cole's 2020 song of the same name.
Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol: Northern Irish-Scottish rock band formed 1994 in Dundee by Gary Lightbody and Mark McClelland; breakthrough Final Straw (2003), Eyes Open (2006) with Chasing Cars, eight studio albums through The Forest Is the Path (2024).
Snow pea
Snow pea (Pisum sativum var. saccharatum), also called sugar pea or mange-tout, is an edible-podded pea with flat pods picked before seeds fill, eaten whole in Chinese stir-fries; a cool-season crop storing at 0 degrees C for up to 2 weeks.
Snow Phipps
Snow Phipps is a New York private equity firm making controlling investments in middle-market North American companies, co-founded by Ian Snow and Ogden Phipps in 2005.
Snow pole
A snow pole is a tall, marked post installed along the roadside in snowy regions so the road edge stays visible during snowfall, guiding drivers and snow removal.
Snow polo
Snow polo is a winter variant of polo played on compacted snow or frozen lakes, using a larger inflatable ball; its flagship event is the Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz, first held in 1985.
Snow Ruyi (雪如意) (Zhangjiakou ski jumping hills)
Snow Ruyi (雪如意), the National Ski Jumping Centre in Chongli, Zhangjiakou, China, hosted ski jumping and Nordic combined at Beijing 2022 and is named for its resemblance to a Ruyi sceptre.
Snow squall
A snow squall is an intense but brief period of heavy snow and gusty winds that can turn clear skies to whiteout in minutes and cause highway pileups.
Snow Strippers
Snow Strippers: American electronic duo of vocalist Tatiana Schwaninger and producer Graham Perez, formed in Detroit in 2021. Fuses electropop, EDM, witch house, and electroclash; known for April Mixtape 3, Night Killaz EPs, Lil Uzi Vert collaborations, and indie sleaze aesthetics.
Snow sublimation
Snow sublimation is the direct transfer of water from snow to the atmosphere as vapor, without melting; it can remove 10 to 90% of snowfall.
Snow Tha Product
Snow Tha Product (Claudia Alexandra Madriz Meza, born 1987) is a Mexican-American bilingual rapper from San Jose known for rapid-fire English-Spanish flow, the platinum Bizarrap Session Vol. 39, and albums Unorthodox, To Anywhere, and Before I Crashout.
Snow Tower
Snow Tower is a 6,572-foot summit in the Coast Range east of Juneau, Alaska (GNIS 1409827), first climbed June 8, 2015 by William Wacker and Mike Miller via the east face to east ridge.