snow-squall

But when he reached the crest of the divide in the thick of a driving snow-squall, it was in the company of his Indians, and his secret pride was that he had come through with them and never squealed and never lagged.

THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

She laughed deliciously, and a snow-squall drove upon us and cut our cheeks, and the Elsinore flung over and down as if she would never rise again, while we held on and swept through the air in a dizzying arc.

CHAPTER XXXIV 2010

That night, at the head of Tagish Lake, in the thick of a driving snow-squall, they overhauled the Flora.

Trust 2010

It was in the late afternoon, during a lull in such a gale, that Kit and John Bellew helped the cousins load the boat and watched it disappear down the lake in a snow-squall.

THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up, both watches were shortening sail, and all was buried in the obscurity of a driving snow-squall.

MAKE WESTING 2010

Headed out through a blinding snow-squall this morning to meet up with kinzel for a cup of coffee and some chat.

Further on the Death of Bambi in a non-Disney universe jhetley 2008

But aside from the occasional snow-squall or having to stop to retrieve something valuable that someone had dropped, we made good time.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

On May 6 we passed Cape Horn in very fair weather; it is true we, had a snow-squall of hurricane violence, but it did not last much more than half an hour.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

We found that there was good going for a sledge as far as the north-east corner of the bay, but did not get much information regarding the conditions farther on owing to the view becoming obscured by a snow-squall.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

Nepal, said four of five other climbers who went missing during the snow-squall were believed dead.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996