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weather's quietest violence, dressing chaos in white and calling it pretty.
means A storm in which large amounts of snow fall, usually driven by strong winds that reduce visibility and pile up drifts.
from A plain compound of two old Germanic words. 'Snow' descends from Old English 'snāw', a cousin of German 'Schnee' and Dutch 'sneeuw', all tracing back to a Proto-Indo-European root for snow that also surfaces in Latin 'nix' and Greek 'niphas'. 'Storm' comes from Old English 'storm', kin to German 'Sturm', likely born from a root meaning to stir up or rush. Bolted together, the word does exactly what it says: snow that storms.
- no two flakes
- each snowflake's crystal structure is statistically unique
- sound eater
- fresh snow absorbs sound, muffling whole cities
- thundersnow
- snowstorms can produce lightning and thunder
- buried alive
- the 1888 blizzard dropped snowdrifts over 50 feet
- sky's payload
- a single storm can drop billions of tons
blizzard of 1888 — northeastern us snowstorm that dropped 55 inches on new york city in march 1888
winter storm jonas 2016 — us east coast blizzard that buried washington dc with 28 inches in january 2016
great blizzard of 1975 — ohio valley and great lakes snowstorm that dumped 30+ inches across multiple states
nor'easter of 2018 — boston area storm that produced 24 inches and major coastal flooding in march 2018