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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6059536" data-attributes="member: 8835">Just to follow up on this:wikipedia seems to confirm your definition of high wind and low temperatures: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard</a>But the reality I lived in was snowstorm and blizzard were used interchangeably.Additionally, as that very page lists the Halloween of '91 blizzard, i was personally walking around in it trick-or-treating in a rather thin robin-hood costume.  While it was freezing ( around 32F enabling snow to form and not melt on landing), and there probably was some wind, it's key attribute was snowfall because prior to that storm, there wasn't any snow on the ground to blow around.Me and my friends had a good haul of candy, which we ate while we were snowed in that weekend (because the storm brought in quite a bit of snow that ultimately closed the roads).This feat demonstrates:a) if it's around freezing and you're wearing a thin fake medieval shirt and sweat pants while running around to various houses, you won't get frostbitb) you won't get lost while running around the village during the storm.  We hit darn near every house and bar, including the one across the highwayc) the snow wasn't at it's deepest yet as the storm had basically started sometime after school got done.For traveling through deep snow, consider the basic rate of 4 miles/hour.  Subtract 1 mile/hour per foot of non-packed snow.  (non-packed meaning, doesn't have a crust that will hold your weight, which enables a different game we'd play as arctic explorers as a kid).Snow drifts tend to form most dramatically agains the sides of things (usually a 1 foot gap between the structure and the drift).  So, walking across a field, will tend to find mostly even snow, possibly deep spots filled in (thus, a leveled field).  I don't recall too many sand-dune-like drifts out in the fields.  Not saying small ones wouldn't form, but the large stuff was always against buildings.  The problem being if it formed on the side with the door.Drifts tend to form one one side.  A whole building doesn't tend to get covered on all sides.  This is due to the wind action.  I can't recall what side it forms relative to the wind direction, but it's going to be on the side the wind's from, or the side it's going.  I ain't had to deal with snow in a few years, this is all from my recollection of living in one of the coldest states in america and the stuff I personally saw and did.</blockquote>

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