The wind swirls the snow around like that. Northern Maine receives on the average 127 inches of snow a year. It's mind boggling.
And in January, February and March, we have high winds, and sub-zero temperatures. Wind chills of -60. Have to really cover up when we have to go outside.
It sounds a lot like our weather. I have seen -60F (static air temp) with a 40 mile per hour wind, wind chill of -146 That was cold. Normally, though November through March are fair game for temps of -20 or -30. Snow here is almost always dry powder, not the wet kind (shame we don't have many hills, or it'd be good skiing). We definitely don't get as much. Not many trees out here on the prairie to slow the wind down, so the snow we do get mostly goes sideways and elsewhere.