Weekly Centina Prompt: Cold
Write a 100-word story about cold temperature
For this week’s centina prompt, write a 100-word story about cold temperature.
If you’re in the northern hemisphere, now in winter’s frosty grip, conjuring cold won’t be hard at all. If you live in the southern hemisphere, where spending the weekend at the beach may be on your agenda, don’t worry, cold weather will be back.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) in Antarctica.
The coldest day in the lower forty-eight states in the United States was a brisk -44 °C (-47 °F), in December 1934. It was at the summit of New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington.
Space is even chillier, a frosty -271 °C (-455 °F).
Some people hate cold weather, while for others there’s nothing better than standing outside in a short sleeve shirt while the mercury hovers above freezing. The Japanese language even has words to describe cold-weather people: atsugari (somebody who’s sensitive to hot weather.) The opposite in Japanese is samugari, somebody who hates the cold.
Of course, in real life, people who like cold and hot temperatures always end up marrying each other.
I do think that regardless of where you come down on the cold versus hot battle, everyone can agree that watching dry ice sublimate from a solid to a gas (which it does at −78.5 °C, −109.2 °F) is fun to watch.
Remember to write a descriptive subtitle (instead of just writing something like a “100-word story.”) Make good use of the subtitle space.
