Snow flurry

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Hi,“We should wait until the snow flurry blows over.”Can ‘blow over’ be used or does it only work with a storm? Should I use ‘ease up’ or ‘subside’ instead?Thank you.

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Joseph A · Answer

You can use "ease off" as well.

Best wishes,

Joseph

Blue Jay · Answer

Ann225Can ‘blow over’ be used or does it only work with a storm?

It would work, though I'd be more likely to use blow over if I were referring to the snow ending completely. Flurry generally refers to a temporary condition; a brief period of snowfall, or the falling snow being blown about by a wind gust.

Ann225Should I use ‘ease up’ or ‘subside’ instead?

Those would be good choices. You could also say moves on or passes by.

CalifJim · Answer

Ann225We should wait until the snow flurry blows over.

I know that 'snow flurry' exists in the singular, but I've never actually heard anyone use it. For me it's always 'snow flurries' — lightly falling snow together with snow already accumulated on the ground which is blown around by gusts of wind. It's just a matter of air currents agitating snow flakes. I know it only as a very local phenomenon similar to flurries of falling leaves in autumn. I don't understand it to be anything resembling a weather event like a snow storm which might require "waiting" until it "blows over".

If you replace 'flurry' with 'storm', the whole sentence makes sense to me just as you have written it.

CJ

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