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Words You Never Heard!


Jan 28, 2018

 
 
If you think we’re having a fridged winter, In 1912 it was so cold Niagara Falls froze over.   Did you know that at 90 degrees below zero, your breath will freeze in midair and fall to the ground?
 
I’ve always wondered how meteorologists standing outside covering a blizzard stays warm?  One reporter said when they have to work in a snowstorm, they wear heat wraps and a wetsuit under their clothes to stay warm and dry.
 
In Montana, you might hear locals refer to tiny snowflakes as flour-sifter snow.  And in Appalachia, when it’s snowing some folks say the old woman’s a losing her feathers.
 
Back in the day, New Englanders called slushy snow sposh!