“The word ‘blizzard’ was originally used to describe ‘a volley of musket fire.’ An Iowa newspaper applied the term to snow conditions in the 1870s. The Old Farmer’s Almanac suggests that it grew out of the German word ‘blitzartig,’ meaning ‘lightninglike.’”
Amid the different weather alerts, what exactly differentiates a blizzard from the average snowstorm?
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