Winter Weather

Winter engulfed Lincoln this weekend. While trees sagged under the weight, the brumal clothing coruscated in the sun. Here’s a list of words as sparkling as the snow!

Picture by Daniel Schwen, taken from Wikipedia.org

Brumal- Wintry.

Gelid- extremely cold.

Hoarfrost- Only nebulous boundaries separate the various types of frost. While they all might be used interchangeably, I’m acquainted with the usage of hoarfrost mostly to describe the encrustation of beards and eyelashes in the cold. Since the root for hoarfrost, hoary, means ‘ancient,’ use hoarfrost to describe any frost which makes an object look like it has white hair.

Rime- another type of frost made by a deposit of frozen fog. Trees are frequent recipients of rime.