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How to Say "Snowing" in Spanish

3 ways to talk about snowing weather in Spanish — from tourist-friendly to local fluency.

Tourist Simple survival phrases anyone can say
¡Nieva!
NYEH-vah
It snows!
Single verb, excited
Expat Natural conversational sentences
Está nevando bastante, el suelo ya está blanco.
Es-TAH neh-VAHN-doh bas-TAN-teh, el SWEH-lo ya Es-TAH BLAN-ko
It's snowing quite a bit, the ground is already white.
Natural observation
Local Idioms and expressions that sound native
¡Está nevando a tope, todo cubierto de blanco, parece un cuento de hadas!
Es-TAH neh-VAHN-doh ah TOH-peh, TOH-doh koo-BYER-toh de BLAN-ko, pah-REH-seh oon KWEN-toh de AH-das
It's snowing to the max, everything covered in white, it looks like a fairy tale!
a tope = maxed out/full blast (Spain slang); cuento de hadas = fairy tale
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