superblizzard

English

Alternative forms

• super-blizzard

Etymology

super- +‎ blizzard

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːpəɹˈblɪ.zəd/

Noun

superblizzard (plural superblizzards)

1. (rare) A very severe blizzard.
   • 1975, Ski‎^[1], page 89:

     The North Carolina mountain country is superb, sensational, beautiful and beneficent; there are none of your wild 100-mile-an-hour Mt. Washington superblizzards here.

   • 1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Richard Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years‎^[2], Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 669:

     Paralyzed by the superblizzards: 774

   • 2003, Ben Bova, Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet, Volume 13‎^[3], Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 300:

     But standing in the middle of a superblizzard and allowing himself to be pelted by supersonic stainless steel ball bearings, that was something else.

   • 2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in time.com‎^[4], archived from the original on 17 April 2016:

     In The Day After Tomorrow, New York City is first flooded by a giant wave and then freeze-dried by a superblizzard.

   • 2019, Scott Mackay, Omega Sol‎^[5], JABberwocky Literary Agency, Incorporated, →ISBN:

     The anchorwoman said meteorlogists were worried by this unusual convergence of cold and hot air masses, feared this new possibility everyone was talking about, the superblizzard.