spindrift

1. (nautical) Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.Examples: "There was no snow as yet up here at Dare; but wild tempests shaking the house to its foundations; and brief gleams of stormy sunlight lighting up the grey spindrift as it was whirled shorewards from the breaking seas; […]"; "The ocean waves are broken up by wind, ultimately producing the storm-wrack and spin-drift of the tempest-tossed sea."; "[T]ogether they watched the bobbing black specks as they crawled out of the estuary into the grey spindrift which marked the harbour mouth."countableuncountable

2. (by extension) Clouds of sand, snow, etc., whipped along the ground by the wind.broadlycountableuncountable