'Diversionary' weather

An early classification of snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren (1814-92), an American Congregational minister as well as an editor and author. He lived in Connecticut and then Maine.

“A kind of counter-

blossoming, diversionary,

doomed, and like

the needle with its drop

of blood a little

too transparently in

love with doom, takes

issue with the season….’’

— From “Spring Snow,’’ by Linda Gregerson