WEATHER: War of the Elements

Strange and viciously unseasonable was U.S. weather last week. Snow came, heat came, drought came, wind came—in all sizes: little capfuls that scuttered leaves along a million autumn sidewalks, breezes that sailed or deadened thousands of punted footballs; squalls, gales, tempests; a hurricane, a tornado.

Snow. Along the Rockies, from Montana through Idaho into Utah, whirled the season's first far-spread snowstorm. Neither a blizzard nor the light, quick-melting flakes of the first autumn snow, it was a heavy, impartial snowfall over many & many a mile of still-green valley land.

Hurricane. Howling out of a dull sky, a hurricane jumped from...

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