Field guide No. 1448

Snow blows horizontally across a grassy hillside under dark cloud, streaming along the ground. It may never come down.

Horizontal snowfall on a windswept hillside

Snow that never lands

Snow blows horizontally across a grassy hillside under dark cloud, streaming along the ground. It may never come down.

Field noteWind sends snow sideways on any exposed slope; this is weather doing its job, nearly too well.

Specimen
No. 1448
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Nothing
Where it doesn’t exist
A bare grass hillside in a gale.
Nearest existing relative
Sea spray.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking nothing