Definitions
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- noun A machine that makes artificial snow.
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- noun A
device forcreating snow .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sunny skies early slowly fill with clouds by or during the afternoon as our possible snowmaker begins to head this way.
Forecast: Chilly 30s 'til next snow chance Brian Jackson 2011
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Snow Potential Index: 2 ↑ - The Sunday storm is pulling up warmer air too fast to be a major snowmaker.
Forecast: Wintry cold but winds "brake" David Streit 2010
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Now, the top half of that system is going to be possibly a snowmaker for the Upper Peninsula, for parts of, say, maybe Upper Peninsula of Michigan and back into Wisconsin.
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Now, what I want you to know, though, this is not going to be a major snowmaker, you might have a light dusting, but it's not going to be a big, big producer.
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So, this is going to be a major snowmaker for the tri - state area.
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On the other side of the system, it's not a rainmaker but snowmaker in parts of well -- now just east of Minneapolis and to the west of Green Bay.
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So, it looks like a big snowmaker out to the west.
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That will be a major snowmaker as we go late into the day on Sunday going into Monday.
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It gets very windy on Sunday and this storm on Sunday into Monday morning could be a big-time snowmaker and a headache maker for anybody getting in and out of the east coast on Monday morning.
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Now, the storm that transformed itself into Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York state snowmaker, up into Ontario and Quebec, snowmaker, big time snowmaker here.
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