True winter

Sunday, December 21, 2008

As opposed to False Winter, which has been happening more often than not over the past few years. We have a strong zero here, with wind.

The thing that is interesting today is that the snow we got overnight in the cold is like the snow I remember from childhood—dry, powdery. If packed down, it will form strong bricks. I remember playing outside in recess in the two-room country schoolhouse in the winter using our mittened hands to score lines in hard snowbanks and build the beginnings of igloos. The snow here in Illinois is almost always wet or wetter.

And no, we did not have elven names for snow. We would only get about an inch of it, and the wind would make huge drifts out of that.

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