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Snow flurries obstruct the view
Snow flurry caused by an intercity . Occurring quickly, especially in traffic, can often lead to a road traffic accident .

A snow flurry is the local accumulation of whirling snowflakes in the air caused by strong wind, air suction or strong vibrations , as can occur behind a large vehicle (truck, train) or in an avalanche.

nature

Falling snowflakes as well as snowflakes blown up from the ground occur, which means that the viewer can feel heavy snowfall. A snowstorm obstructs the view, especially in traffic, if it is triggered by the suction behind large vehicles (trucks, trains). The name is not officially used by the weather service.

designation

The term Gestöber derives from stieben and was later transferred to the Stöberhund , a small hunting dog that found animals in their burrow and found them ("whirled up"), which in the course of time resulted in an expansion of the term with scare, stir up or Formed a tumult. This is meanwhile uncommon in German except in the form of snow flurries.

use

Metaphorically use the expression, for example, Johann Wolfgang Goethe ("I am quite tolerable out of the throat and like to do anything. As long as that is possible I will endure in my snow flurry, and write and draw") or Jean Paul ("a double snow flurry of sparks and of drops between a dusty shower of scented flowers ”).

Other names

  • Today, for example, the term is also used to describe echogenicity in sonography .
  • Certain desserts are also referred to as snow flurries .

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Snow flurry  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wetterlexikon SWR.de
  2. ^ German dictionary by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , terms "snow flurries, rummage, rummage"
  3. ↑ M. Kirschstein and M. Hof: “Schneegestöber” in testicular sonography in: Monthly Pediatric Medicine . Springer Berlin / Heidelberg ISSN  0026-9298 Issue Volume 148, Number 1 / January 2000