One other interesting thing about the noun вьюга -- it derives from the verb вить ("to twist"), which conjugates just like пить ("to drink"):

я вью
ты вьёшь
...
они вьют

So, in other words, вьюга kind of suggests "a twisting, swirling blizzard." (Another word for "snowstorm" is метель, which comes from the verb мести, "to sweep, as with a broom".)