DNTMan occasion when snow falls from the sky, or the amount that falls in a particular period of time 降雪;〔某一时期的〕降雪量
Heavy snowfalls are forecast.
天气预报说将有大雪。
an average snowfall of eight inches a year
每年平均八英寸的降雪量
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snowfall• the first snowfall of the season• In the exceptionally heavysnowfalls of 1940 and 1981, several trams were stranded and the service suspended for several days.• This occurs in coldclimates that have heavy snowfalls during the winter.• There were heavy snowfalls in areas which never expect to see such wintryconditions.• A light snowfall was just beginning, and Jasper looked like wonder itself with snowflakes in his hair.• There was very little snowfall last year.• The moistsnowfall had changed into rain.• He says the variablepattern of snowfall does more to affect the figures than anything else.• The Washington-area appeared to have the most troublerecovering from the snowfall, its heaviest since 1979.