DCHP-3

snow devil

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a whirling column of snow sucked up in a vortex by the wind.

Quotations

1954
There was the same damned wind and the same mad-looking snow devils whirled up the surface of the river.
1959
During the long night of Feb. 7, the great wind born of the polar ice came seeking to the south across five hundred miles of tundra plain . . . to send snow devils dancing like dervishes across the ice.