Occasional Outlines: A Snow Day

She see snow for the first time. Since Yolanda comes from the Dominican Republic she has never actually seen snow because it is too hot there for snow to fall. Around the time she sees the snow she is learning about the Cuban missile crisis. “I saw the dots in the air like the ones Sister Zoe had drawn-random at first, then lots and lots. I shrieked ‘Bomb! Bomb!’ Sister Zoe jerked around, her full black skirt ballooning as she hurried to my side. A few girls began to cry. But the Sister Zoe’s shocked look faded. ‘Why Yolanda dear, that’s snow!’ She laughed ‘Snow.’” (Alvarez 163). Yolanda has never seen snow before so she is scared because she thinks it is a nuclear fallout, but after Sister Zoe reassures her that the snow is only snow not a fallout she feels better. The idea of the snow falling is an uneasy feeling for Yolanda. Then snow represents the unknown and the scary events Yolanda and her family will have to experience in America. “Each flake was different, Sister Zoe had said, like a person, irreplaceable and beautiful.” (Alvarez 163). Sister Zoe says all snowflakes are different just like people. Throughout the book a recurring theme has been that Yolanda is having a hard time finding her identity. The snow in this case represents Yolanda and how she has the ability to be whatever she wants and how she can follow so many different paths now that she is in America. “A symbol differs

And sometime the snow would be lift clean from the ground and up into the air, and by and by it would be all clapped to the ground as though there had been no wind at all, straightaway it would rise and fly again.

It’s a blizzard! Snow falls in an excerpt from Roger Ascham’s book Toxophilus. Toxophilus was written in 1545, and was the first book ever written about archery in the English language. The author, Roger Ascham, was an English scholar and a private tutor for Queen Elizabeth I. In this excerpt from his book, he talks about how the winds unpredictably blow the snow, and how it further affects the sport of archery. He states “I learned perfectly that it is no marvel at all though men in a wind lose their strength in shooting, seeing so many ways the wind is so variable in blowing (Ascham 35-37). Ascham goes into comprehensive detail when describing the sights of the snow— a noticeable pattern in this excerpt. Because of that, his purpose

Dear Mr. Byrnes, Our names are Robin Johnson and Maddy Gaddis. We are writing this letter to explain to you why Buffalo, New York gets so much snow. We did some research to find out why Buffalo gets so much snow, and one of the reasons is lake effect snow. Lake effect snow is snow falling on the lee side of a lake, and it is produced by cold, dry air passing over warmer water. Lake effect snow is very similar to the rainshadow effect.

Below freezing air is used to make snow and snowflakes. Moisture from lakes and oceans to form clouds.warm, rising air to form precipitation.

POW! At what seems like 100 miles per hour it hits you! The cold snow running down your back, chills form on your arm. Then, another one! Quickly you dodge it, then grab your own and send it flying back. Wow, you think, snowball fights are extreme. This snowball fight was the best I ever had. We were throwing snowballs across the street, hitting houses and laughing as we do so.

Snowflakes were slowly falling down in dancing moves, and beeping of cars and noise of the city were in the air. All dull-grey roads were covered with thin snow layer; the city appeared in white shades and shiny when the sun rays got out of dense clouds. After gazing

The title is very simple and can cause any reader to think the same thing. Snow according the Merriam Webster Dictionary, the word snow has one main definition. Snow is “the precipitation in the form of small white crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature less than 32 degrees.” In other words, it is the frozen crystals that fall from the sky during the winter season. Just by the title we should be able to tell what the poem will be about, but MacNeice puts a turn on the wording of the poem to catch the reader off guard. This raises the question if MacNeice wanted the poem to be about a snowfall, or does he have a deeper meaning underneath the title? As the poem continues there will be more references at what the poem is about.

Glaciers are formed when snow that has fallen has landed and stayed in the same area for about a year and throughout the year more snow accumulates and each year when more snow accumulates the snow from the previous year is compressed naturally and made dense. The compression allows the snow to re crystallize and through their air pockets they have

I chose to read the novel “Snow” by Orhan Pamuk for my book report. The novel “Snow” is about a poet named Ka who is a political exile living in Germany. Ka travels to Istanbul to attend his mother’s funeral and is asked by a friend at a local newspaper to travel to the town of Kars to write about the municipal elections and a string of suicides being committed by Islamist women who are being forced to take off their headscarves at school. Ka has been experiencing writers block while living in Germany. Upon his return to Kars, poems begin to start coming to him. Throughout the novel, Ka has poems come to him after a significant event occurs or when something inspires him. Ka ends up writing 19 poems during his stay in Kars. When the

Winter brings snow and cold weather. Many don’t give a lot of thought to the creation of snow, but there are many key factors and aspects that are part of the process to create snow and keep it. Snow is formed at 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit. There has to be a very miniscule amount of moisture in the air for snow to form. Snow comes in many different forms known as ice crystals.

Beep! Beep! Beep! I wake up to an alarm screaming in my ear. I smack the alarm to shut the yelling off. It was a January day, in the middle of the cold, brutal winter. I finally got up after sitting in bed for what felt like hours, and looked outside like I do every morning. I noticed that there was no sign of grass to be seen. All that could be seen was white, frozen blanket of thick snow. I started to get ready for the school day and I just prayed that school was going to be canceled. As soon as I was fully ready I stepped outside and my food sunk down a foot and a half below the snow! I could not believe it that school was still open. As soon as I got to my car that was completely covered in snow, my mother comes out and yells that school was closed. I felt a huge wave as release and I ran back inside and went right back to sleep.

Whilst discussing large snowflakes the reviewer did not seem to like the measurements of the PSDs we used to demonstrate the current limitations of PSD parametrizations currently applied in weather and climate models. These were the PSDs from [58] Lawson, R., Stewart, R., and Angus, L., Observations and Numerical Simulations of the Origin and Development of Very Large Snowflakes. J. Atmos. Sci., 55(1998), 3209–3229, doi: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)0552.0.CO;2. The results seemed to be at variance with the expectations of the reviewer and as such they attempted to dismiss them as unlikely. It is true to say that the observations presented in that paper were from one event. However, we do not know what the actual frequency of such events is and

It was a normal winter morning. I woke up freezing my butt off. The night before we

If this happens, the individual flakes develop strong bonds and form a solid and cohesive mass. But when it is cold, water vapors can slip to the bottom of the snowpack, forming angular crystals. These crystals tend to weaken the snow and undermine it from below (Fink).