snowbelt
English
Etymology
snow + belt
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “On the model of sunbelt?”)
Noun
snowbelt (plural snowbelts)
- An area that is characterized by heavy annual snowfall.
- 1966, Climatological Data, page 229:
- Monthly totals of less than 6 inches fell in western, central, and east-central sections, with the exception of the Great Lakes snowbelt, where totals ranged from as much as 9 inches along Lake Erie up to 16 inches along the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, amounts well below normal for the snowbelt in December.
- 1984, Daniel Roland Fusfeld, Timothy Bates, Timothy Mason Bates, The Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto, page 99:
- Government employment has produced long-term job growth in both snowbelt and sunbelt central cities.
- 1996, Leonard Peacefull, A Geography of Ohio:
- Higher elevations and snow squalls from Lake Erie give Chardon, located in the core of the snowbelt in northern Geauga County, an average snowfall of 105 inches.