A moist and heavy snow.

January 3.

Snows all day, falling level, without wind, a moist and heavy snow. Snowed part of the night also.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 3, 1857

. . .a moist and heavy snow. Compare January 7, 1857 ("This snow which fell last Saturday so moist and heavy is now surprisingly dry and light and powdery."). See  January 1, 1854 ("[A] moist and heavy snow. It is about six inches in all this day.”) January 3, 1856 ("Snows again. About two inches have fallen in the night, . . . It was a damp snow."); January 3, 2010 ("Over two fluffy feet perched on the railing obscures half the window.”). Also December 14, 1859 and A Book of the Seasons, Snow-storms might be classified

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, January 3

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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