Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Weather - Advanced/27/en

h. Blizzards

Locomptive stuck in the snow, March 29, 1881 in western Minnesota, not far from DeSmet.

A blizzard is a severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow. Blizzards are formed when a high pressure system, also known as a ridge, interacts with a low pressure system; this results in the advection of air from the high pressure zone into the low pressure area. The term blizzard is sometimes misused by news media to describe a large winter storm that does not actually satisfy official blizzard criteria.