The Sandburgs soon moved to Chicago, where Carl became an editorial writer for the Chicago Daily News. Harriet Monroe had just started Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, and began publishing Sandburg's poems, encouraging him to continue writing in the free-verse, Whitman-like style he had cultivated in college.
Williams, Arizona, gets 21 inches of rain per year. The US average is 39. Snowfall is 71 inches. The average US city gets 26 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 49. On average, there are 266 sunny days per year in Williams, Arizona. The July high is around 84 degrees.
In that case, the 30-year average for the city's snowfall is 109 inches, or 9 feet, due partly to heavy snow years in the 1970s and 1980s. Tallying all the winters since 1899, the area averages 7 feet of snow per winter -- about 84 inches. Flagstaff last beat both averages in the winter of 2004-2005.