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drift storm
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a snowstorm in which the snow is whipped into drifts by the wind.
See: drifter
Quotations
1743
[Itt oft'n happens we shall have fine moderate weather, in a winter morning w'n before night approches, a sudden gale will spring up with Drift & snow to that Degree, that if men happen's to be out, and drest for warm weather, they Run a great Resque of their Lives,--Several having perrishd.]
1946
Harold Luca, HB apprentice, perished there [King William Land] in a drift storm.