ice storms

noun

plural of ice storm
as in snowstorms

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  1. snowstorms
  2. blizzards
  3. thunderstorms
Noun
  • That role is currently empty, and Morales points to the severe snowstorms that took place in January and February as times when the city could have used better coordination.
    — Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 16 July 2026
  • Last winter arrived early across parts of the United States, with November snowstorms, early blizzard warnings and even flakes reaching places like Florida before Thanksgiving.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 14 July 2026
Definition of snowstorms
Noun
  • Grandma, irrelevantly but convincingly, spoke of wars, blizzards and trekking barefoot to school.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • Benji’s father is a volatile patriarch who grills during blizzards and hits him for failing to manfully respond to a classmate’s racist slight.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Definition of blizzards
Noun
  • About 100,000 thunderstorms rumble across the United States each year, but just 10% intensify into a severe thunderstorm, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    — Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026
Definition of thunderstorms
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