We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.
I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
I've never gotten used to winter and never will.
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.
Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.