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Stormy Weather

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Stormy Weather

To see wild things, go forth in wild weather.
Edwin Way Teale, Wandering Through Winter

The storm prepares mischief. ... The alliance of element with element is necessary; they divide their task. One has to give impetus to the wave, the cloud, the stream: night is an auxiliary, and must be employed. There are compasses to be falsified, beacons to be extinguished, lanterns of lighthouses to be masked, stars to be hidden. The sea must lend her aid. Every storm is preceded by a murmur. Behind the horizon line there is a premonitory whispering among the hurricanes.
Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea

Storms begin far back.
Carl Sandburg, Collected Poems

Snow Storms and Blizzards

Whirling snow clouds swept across the bay and all through the night the wind screamed over the water, where the flakes were dropping to instant destruction in the blackness of the bay.
Rachel Carson

Snow falling in the woods when there is no wind is the most peaceful thing I've ever seen.
John Jerome

There is something in a snowstorm that drives life back against the wall.
David Cavagnaro

Urban Blizzard
Original Oil by Keith C. Heidorn, copyright 2007.

Snow is an inadequate word to describe the infinite variety of the ice crystals that blanket so much of Canada in its dark days.
Pierre Berton, Winter

The summer chair rocking by itself
In the blizzard...
Jack Kerouac

The wind down the night's long alley bowls me down like a pin;
I stagger and fall and stagger, crawl arm-deep in the snow.
Beaten back to my corner, how can I hope to win?
And there is the blizzard waiting to give me the knockout blow.

Robert W. Service

There is a single snow which a child stores in his memory, the first snow when he falls into a drift, the first snow that reveals secrets like the flake on his sleeve....
Loren Eisley

Winter Storms

It occurs to me now that I have never seen the ice-storm put upon canvas, and have not heard that any painter has tried to do it. I wonder why that is. Is it that paint cannot counterfeit the intense blaze of a sun-flooded jewel?
Mark Twain, Following the Equator


Single Cell by Keith C. Heidorn,
Watercolour Painting on Paper
©2005, All Rights Reserved, Artist's Collection.

Thunderstorms

The thundercloud is a gigantic, if comparatively slow, explosion of moist air, the latent heat of the moist air acting as the fuel.
Sir Napier Shaw

I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Thunder, still far away, rolls and mutters along the western horizon.
Edwin Way Teale

From horizon to horizon the clouds formed rounded, down-hanging pouches like the folds of an overstuffed quilt.
Jack Bickham

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
Publilius Syrus

Hurricanes

Hurricane. The very word seems to carry some of its meaning in its sound. You can almost hear the howl of the winds in the beginning of the word, while the hard cracking sound of the last syllable gives the sense of things breaking before its force.
Betty Kennedy

Tornado

From…confused clouds, furious winds, and momentary fires, sounds issued, of which no earthquake or thunder ever heard could afford the least idea; striking such awe into all, that it was thought the end of the world had arrived, that the earth waters, heavens, and entire universe, mingling together, were being resolved into their ancient chaos.
Machiavelli, Italy August 24, 1456


Prairie Wind by Keith C. Heidorn,
Watercolour Painting on Paper
©2005, All Rights Reserved.

Wind

No wonder trees did not grow on the side of that hill! Great Boreas! A tree would need to be all roots to hold against such a furious wind.
Joshua Slocum

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
Heinrich Heine

..a tremendous wind from the north; day like a raving maniac bent on demolishing the world. It almost blows the hair off a dog.
John Burroughs


Storm Coming by Keith C. Heidorn,
Watercolour on Paper
©2005, All Rights Reserved, Artist's Collection.

General

Would any but these boiled-brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt this weather?
William Shakespeare, in The Winter’s Tale

A storm itself had most of the qualities of a living thing. A storm could be a character, even the protagonist.
George Stewart , Storm

Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
Sylvia Voirol


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