Field guide No. 565

Over a flat white plain in driving snow, the shape of a whale is drawn by the flakes swirling round it, the whale itself not there at all. It only shows up when it's blowing a gale.

Invisible whale in the blizzard

Only visible in bad weather.

Over a flat white plain in driving snow, the shape of a whale is drawn by the flakes swirling round it, the whale itself not there at all. It only shows up when it's blowing a gale.

Field noteWhales swim in water and show themselves. This one swims in snow and only the flakes show it.

Specimen
No. 565
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A white plain in a gale.
Nearest existing relative
A humpback whale.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics