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Corn Sweat [1]

Poetry [2]
8.2.16

Heat dome, corn sweat [3], thundersnow [4]. Meteorologists and weather reports often coin new words and phrases for the purposes of both explaining and entertaining [5]. Learn some new weather-related terminology [6], or create your own phrases that explain existing and made-up weather phenomena. Select one of these terms as the title of a poem, and allow it to guide your imagination as you write your lines. Do you end up with a poem that is somehow connected to meteorology, or does the title lead you toward a completely different direction?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/corn_sweat [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/weather/extreme-weather-heat-dome/index.html [4] http://mentalfloss.com/article/54130/11-wonderful-winter-weather-terms [5] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/us/23dome.html [6] http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/ams/glossary.html