How big can snowflakes get?
There are larger fronts to abolish, a fright that you forget. I wrote his eulogy, and spoke it clearly, to an audience of bent over mourners, moaning deep into their boots.
I showered after, singing Billie while soaping my cock and balls. I let the water hang over me, a blanket of grief so hot and wide, I could nestle in it forever yet never get clean.
Why is snow white?
Because it has yet to get grey.
What causes the blue color that sometimes appears in snow and ice?
Depression looks smart on you. Our own emotions lack that kind of temperate cooling. The proper systems of pace, in place, reside in liquid formations that crack and splinter and violent the air afresh. Silently, how we form our looks and dandyisms like a grip under the tablecloth.
You say you can’t figure out what is wrong. You say that but you knew all along.
Is it ever too cold to snow?
The days and moons inflected our minds, a charming evening without talking. Your pulse shakes less and less. A quiet cripple of freedom. A sharp look, a hand to shut it up.
Trying to imitate your style, I go to bed and in that situation imagine a perspective unlike my own, but haven’t the imagination to do it adequately. I try to jerk off but can’t come and fold further into the bed, a sinking that doesn’t stop until the next day, when you leave for work without saying goodbye.
Why can snow fall when temperatures are above freezing?
That one summer, when we weren’t working so much, and there was always a reason for a bar-b-que. That was the same summer we stopped grilling meat and started snorting coke like it was air. We would laugh at anything.
But by Labor Day, we weren’t laughing much at all. I wanted to cry when you blew what we had left right off the table and into my face. I wanted to hit you. For making me become the person who would want to cry like that over something so stupid.
Instead, I went out into the humid streets and sat by the lake, imagining all that water to be a reservoir of all the tears this stupid city ever shed, and then I felt stupid for thinking something so stupid.
I think, for awhile, I though how each minor wave slashed the swimmers like the differences between us.
There were so many. And they never seemed to stop.
Does snow always get fluffier as temperatures get colder?
I don’t remember when it began. The misaligned moored compost. A descriptive shape for later. What happened was so terminal, it doesn’t really matter the when. It would only horizon the comedy so ours. Dusk evades us, crypting. When the fresh air fits the breeze, we flaunt our privacies enough to feel like we’re making a statement but not enough to be embarrassing.
A puffed up arbitrary creation of a perfect mimicry of mistakes. But it was our mimicry.
And we spent so long memorizing our lines, we were saying them in our sleep, even when the other one wasn’t listening.
Is it true that there is one inch of water in every ten inches of snow that falls?
No. Unless (depending; check your facts).
Does snow change how sound waves travel?
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow. The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
Why does snow crunch when you step on it? At what temperature does it crunch?
I would have broken your back myself. Eventually.
Snow Facts
* Based on National Climatic Data Center records, New York state is home to the snowiest cities in the United States: Syracuse averages 115 inches of snow per year, and Rochester averages 93 inches per year. However, several less populated areas around the country receive much more snow. For instance, Mount Washington, New Hampshire, has an average annual snowfall of 260 inches, and Valdez, Alaska, averages 326 inches annually.
* Buffalo, New York, is a close runner-up in terms of U.S. large cities with the most snow. A 39-inch snowfall in 24 hours in early December 1995 cost the city nearly $5 million for snow removal.
* Almost 187 inches of snow fell in seven days on Thompson Pass, Alaska, in February, 1953, according to the National Snowfall and Snow Depth Extremes Table provided by the National Climatic Data Center.
* Each year an average of 105 snow-producing storms affect the continental United States. A typical storm will have a snow-producing lifetime of two to five days and will bring snow to portions of several states.
* In the early 1900s, skiers created their own terminology to describe types of snow, including the terms "fluffy snow," "powder snow," and "sticky snow." Later, the terminology expanded to include descriptive terms such as "champagne powder," "corduroy," and "mashed potatoes."
* Practically every location in the United States has seen snowfall. Even most portions of southern Florida have seen a few snow flurries.
* Snow kills hundreds of people in the United States each year. The primary snow-related deaths are from traffic accidents, overexertion, and exposure, but deaths from avalanches have been steadily increasing.
* The greatest snowfall officially reported at the Phoenix, Arizona, National Weather Service Office was one inch. That occurred twice. The first time was January 20, 1933. It happened again four years later on the same date.
* The commonly used ten-to-one ratio of snowfall to water content is a myth for much of the United States. This ratio varies from as low as 100-to-one to as high as about three-to-one depending on the meteorological conditions associated with the snowfall.
* Nationwide, the average snowfall amount per day when snow falls is about two inches, but in some mountain areas of the West, an average of seven inches per snow day is observed.
Gallery
Fig. 1 Please do not remove this
Fig. 2 You thought energy would be enough
Fig. 3 Outside Chicago (with decorations, music)
Fig. 4 Special species of unscripted incident
Fig. 5 Like buying you things of great beauty
Fig. 6 This one is not to scale
and wanted to go places sometimes
(and sometimes we'd just sit there and breathe)
