Nearly 2ft of snow fell on Washington today with President Barack Obama dubbing the whiteout 'Snowmageddon'. We're talking about a complete whiteout, which is what we've been seeing from our live reports. Stetko is suddenly involved in two races against time-first, she needs to solve the mystery before the transfer of personnel and she must solve it before a massive storm moves across the camp, resulting in a storm called a whiteout, where vision the hundred-mile-per-hour winds reduce vision to no more than six inches. You know, Jacqui, when we hear of cases like this we always hear of that term whiteout conditions.īowman remembered a description he had once heard of the dreaded Antarctic " whiteout" - "like being inside a ping-pong ball." If you haven't already seen the movie, it will spoil nothing to tell you that the accident, discreetly shown as a "Six Feet Under" - style whiteout, is not fatal. verb lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain.verb cover up with a liquid correction fluid.noun an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds.noun a white correcting fluid used to cover mistakes in typescriptįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun an Arctic condition, caused by diffuse lighting, in which the horizon can not be distinguished and physical features are lost in the background.
noun A fluid, usually white, that dries quickly and is applied to printed matter to cover mistakes.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun A polar weather condition caused by a heavy cloud cover over the snow, in which the light coming from above is approximately equal to the light reflected from below, and which is characterized by absence of shadow, invisibility of the horizon, and discernibility of only very dark objects.
From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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