terms for how it snows

it's really coming down
it's dumping
um, that's all i got

(that last one wasn't an expression about snow. 😉)

snow is 'falling' all around us, children playing .....

sorry not going to be much help really. the irish know millions of word for rain, I think you need to wait for a Canadian to come along here....

blizzard -- packing snow - when the flakes are big - black ice - when the snow melts instantly only to become ice overnight.

From where I'm from, 'black ice' actually has a different meaning. It's when a road looks like cement or concrete, when in reality, it's actually a thin layer of ice. Looks like cement but actually is ice.

Flurry? As in a "snow flurry".

Also, black ice has always been nearly invisible ice on the roads, usually caused by fog condensing and immediately freezing to the ground, to me.

Thanks for the help.

(It's snowing here and someone asked me how to describe the manner in which the snow is falling.)

Down? :P