When people hear the word blizzard, they think high amount of snow, but that's not usually the case.

A blizzard warning is issued when winds are expected to produce blowing snow, with widespread visibilities of 400 metres or less for at least 6 hours, according to ECCC.

Over coming days, large parts of south-eastern Australia can expect the heaviest snow falls of the year over.

Isn’t a blizzard more of a winter event with lots of snow? Here’s why KC is under a blizzard warning.

TOO MUCH SNOW: Kirkwood Resort in Tahoe just announced it is closed because of blizzard conditions.

Western New York got an insane snow storm this past weekend. Where I live we got a little over 5 feet of snow in the matter ...

We won't be wintry all week, with a nice warm-up for early in the week. We will deal with rain changing to snow by late in the week.

The last day of winter is going out with a blizzard. Forecasters say a storm system will drop up to a foot of snow across a long stretch of Iowa today, from the southwest to north-central Iowa ...

The snow has moved out of central Iowa, but strong winds and dangerous road conditions remain. Check the latest conditions.

Strong winds and snow continued well into Wednesday morning. This not only left up to 6″ of snow in some places, it also brought 75+ mph wind gusts. Winds this strong would rank as an EF-0 tornado!