“A snowstorm wiped out live racing at five tracks in the Eastern United States on Sunday.”
“Unfortunately, although the road is clear of other traffic, the bus can't reroute when it runs into a Utah snowstorm and slows to a crawl.”
“Roger Brooks took a deep breath and, like a buffalo in a snowstorm, he put his head down and kept moving forward.”
snow
(nautical) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysailmast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.