flurricane

When a winter storm hits with all the sound and fury of a hurricane, excepting its seasonal misplacement. What would be rain is snow, what would be winds are blizzard / white out conditions, waves become plowed snow, electric lost, electric storms in the clouds.
see HURRICANE and just add ice/snow/winter

the resulting mess of a weather event that occurs when a hurricane hits the mountains in late october. Symptoms include white-outs, horizontal snowfall, bitter winds, frostbite, and bad driving.

Like a Hurricane, 'cept instead of rain you get snow. The snow then cripples the city it hits, paralyzing travel and delaying almost everything that day.