And he was off into the heart of the ground blizzard.

"We had a good wind through here last night, a nice little ground blizzard," Zahn said.

She couldn't have got home much before half-past eleven, and last night, with that ground blizzard, it was probably later.

But ground blizzards, with old snow picked up by heavy winds, frequently occurred.

It needed only a few minutes, and when it was over, a ground blizzard buried everything.

When high winds stir up snow that has already fallen, it is known as a ground blizzard.

But the threatening storm had rolled in early, squalling up snow in a ground blizzard.

It looked clear for the moment, but visibility was mere feet in the ground blizzard.

While the term "ground blizzard" is often associated with intense blowing and drifting snow conditions, there are specific criteria which must be met.

There are 3 different forms of ground blizzards: