I’ll have an old-fashioned winter, that is!
Yesterday, my brother presented some historical data about winters gone by and the possibility that this winter might be an “old timey” winter.
Click on the picture to read an older blog post I wrote about an enjoyable old-fashioned winter activity.
Bring it, I say.
Julie-Ann Baumer 
Here, a bunch of euphemisms. Toss in Bette Midler’s The Rose and we’re on our way.
wintry
crisp
snowy
frozen
brisk
raw
icy
frosty
cool
bitter
intense
bleak
frigid
arctic
stinging
keen
cutting
sharp
chill
biting
gelid
glacial
inclement
nippy
penetrating
piercing
polar
severe
snappy
benumbed
boreal
shivery
chilled
Siberian
hyperborean
icebox
algid
below freezing
below zero
blasting
brumal
frore
have goose bumps
hawkish
hiemal
iced
nipping
numbed
numbing
one-dog night
rimy
sleety
two-dog night
Speechless.
Someone missed Awe and Wonder or Ah and Wondah!
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
in the bleak midwinter, long ago.