Sparkling snowfall on a brilliant, sunny day

Captured on Broadway outside the Campus Center at Milwaukee School of Engineering after class late last week on the way back to my office (in the Grohmann Museum, the building seen at the left of this video). Sadly my phone didn’t capture the depth of this little snowburst, and this video is super short, sorry! But I’ve never seen anything quite like this before. At first I thought it was just snow being blown off of the trees or down from the building’s roof or maybe from the rooftops of passing cars, but it was far more sustained than that. Although you can see flashes of snow sparkling right in front of the camera, the actual impact in real life was really amazing, with glittering ice speckles flying on breezy sunlight all the way down the street.

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About Katherine Wikoff

I am a college professor (PhD in English, concentration rhetoric) at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where I teach film and media studies, political science, digital society, digital storytelling, writing for digital media, and communication. While fragments of my teaching and scholarship interests may quite naturally meander over to my blog, this space is intended to function as a creative outlet, not as part of my professional practice. Opinions are my own, etc.
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1 Response to Sparkling snowfall on a brilliant, sunny day

  1. Wyrd Smythe's avatar Wyrd Smythe says:

    I know the sort of snow dusting you mean. And you’re right, the camera just doesn’t capture it.

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