snowfall

Converse of object

• bring: These fronts were forecast to bring snowfall over high ground.
• receive: Parts of the Pennines received a snowfall up to 15cm, while drifts up to 1.5m high were recorded.
• follow: Avoid slopes for at least 24 hours following heavy snowfall.
• see: Sunday could also see more light snowfall to end the weekend in style.
• experience: Take a ride down the " Powder Keg " chute to experience the great natural snowfalls.
• give: Whilst this season has given reasonable snowfalls, preceding winters resulted in loss of revenue for the skiing companies.

Adjective modifier

• heavy: March 2006 With heavy snowfall during the first week of the month we were unable to do any work in the garden.
• overnight: Sea Level Pictures from the house Today Fri 31st Jan No new overnight snowfall, ice forming at all levels.
• fresh: Although we had fresh snowfall on every day driving was never a problem.
• average: It is a cold desert with an average snowfall of only 150mm.
• significant: January 1987 Without doubt the most significant snowfall I can remember occurred back then.
• considerable: Certainly the winter brings considerable snowfall to the higher elevations.

Modifies a noun

• amount: Temperatures as well as rainfall and snowfall amounts vary widely due to the State's dramatic change in altitude from mountains to high desert.
• record: This charming village has one of the most enviable snowfall records.

Noun used with modifier

• winter: Powder Potential Average winter snowfall on the glacier is 11 meters!
• record: The previous record snowfall in Calgary for 26 April was 32 cm, set in 1966.

Preposition: in

• year: We would normally have light snow on a half dozen days. The most severe snowfall in recent years was about 7 years ago.

Preposition: of

• winter: Same for the Oscars, same for the Nobel Prize, same for the first snowfall of winter.
• inch: Throw in a couple of light snowfalls of 12 inch and the scene was set, Antarctica.

Preposition: for

• year: However, Scotland received it's greatest snowfall for five years.