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  2. Cold injury - Wikipedia

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    Cold injury (or cold weather injury) is damage to the body from cold exposure, including hypothermia and several skin injuries. [6] Cold-related skin injuries are categorized into freezing and nonfreezing cold injuries. [5] Freezing cold injuries involve tissue damage when exposed to temperatures below freezing (less than 0 degrees Celsius).

  3. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Extreme cold warning NPW – Dangerously cold air temperatures and/or wind chills, capable of causing life-threatening medical conditions (such as severe frostbite and hypothermia) or death associated with accelerated heat loss from exposed skin, are forecast to meet or exceed locally defined warning criteria for more than three hours over at ...

  4. List of severe weather phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Cold drop (Spanish: gota fría; archaic as a meteorological term), colloquially, any high impact rainfall event along the Mediterranean coast of Spain Drought , a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall

  5. Glossary of meteorology - Wikipedia

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    Also actiniform. Describing a collection of low-lying, radially structured clouds with distinct shapes (resembling leaves or wheels in satellite imagery), and typically organized in extensive mesoscale fields over marine environments. They are closely related to and sometimes considered a variant of stratocumulus clouds. actinometer A scientific instrument used to measure the heating power of ...

  6. Frost heaving - Wikipedia

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    Photograph taken 21 March 2010 in Norwich, Vermont. Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil (the freezing front or freezing boundary).

  7. Shrink–swell capacity - Wikipedia

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    The shrinkswell capacity of soils refers to the extent certain clay minerals will expand when wet and retract when dry. Soil with a high shrinkswell capacity is problematic and is known as shrinkswell soil, or expansive soil . [ 1 ]

  8. Talk:Shrink–swell capacity - Wikipedia

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  9. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    That john sure is a swell fella ; see also bo buster mac pal [163] few drinks, a Common euphemism for drinking an unspecified amount of alcohol usually in the context of attending a Speakeasy [164] fig leaf One piece bathing suit [150] filches Steal or pilfer someone's possession, especially if it's something small [165]