An Arctic blast (n.) is the week every car in the lot finds out whose battery was lying.
An Arctic blast (n.) is cold weather that got a name so the news could sell it.
An Arctic blast (n.) does its real damage to the people who were already sleeping outside in it.
An Arctic blast (n.) is ordinary January with a graphics package and a reporter standing out in it.
Bad weather (n.) is whatever is happening outside on your day off.
Bad weather (n.) is the one excuse everyone accepts without asking for proof.
Bad weather (n.) is a complaint two strangers can share without either of them risking anything.
Bad weather (n.) is a myth — there is no such thing; only different kinds of good weather.
A Blizzard (n.) empties the supermarket of bread and milk as if the whole town plans French toast.
A Blizzard (n.) gives the city a day off except for the plow drivers and the nurses.
A Blizzard (n.) is not the snow, it is the wind deciding where the snow goes.
A Blizzard (n.) is when it snows sideways.