Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today--mostly sunny and mild, high around 50. Wind southwest increasing to 10 to 20 mph. Tonight--cloudy periods with a few sprinkles possible, low 35 to 40. Tomorrow--chance of rain or snow, high around 40. Chance of precipitation 30 percent...
That's why I regret not ever writing a column about Harvard football Captain Greg Gicewicz during the Crimson's memorable 1989 Ivy season. The Stadium is covered with slush and snow today, and Harvard football won't hit full swing until next year. But as justice to Gicewicz, I have to write about...
...massive manhunt in all the wrong places tied up police for weeks. No one had time to look for cracks in the smooth facadeof the husband who tended his rhododendrons, jogged with his wife and shoveled snow off an elderly neighbor's steps. Few of the leads were followed that might have revealed a psychopath who had taken out large amounts of life insurance on his wife, possibly to finance the opening of a restaurant, a pathetic aspiration that shattered two families and a city's racial peace...
...west lies a saltwater bay whose surface is frozen solid. Beyond the bay loom glittering glaciers and towering, rocky peaks. On the south and east rises a blinding white shelf of permanent ice, so thick that it grinds against the seabed far below. And to the north is a snow- covered volcano that continuously belches noxious fumes. This is the bottom of the world, where winds can reach 320 kph (200 m.p.h.) and temperatures can plunge below -85 degrees C (-121 degrees F). This is Antarctica, the white continent, the harshest, most forbidding land on earth...
Thus was created the world's largest stretch of inhospitable land. Precipitation is so sparse over Antarctica's 14 million sq. km (5.4 million sq. mi.) that it is classified as one of the world's dryest deserts. Because most of the small amount of snow never melts and has accumulated for centuries, 98% of Antarctica is permanently covered by a sheet of ice that has an average thickness of 2,155 meters (7,090 ft.). That accounts for 90% of the world's ice and 68% of its fresh water. Although the sun shines continuously in the summer months...