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  2. Glossary of meteorology - Wikipedia

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    In surface weather analysis, cold fronts are symbolized by a blue line with triangles pointing in the direction of travel. cold wave. Also cold spell and cold snap. A period of weather characterized by excessively low temperatures, which may or may not also be accompanied by changes in humidity. Very cold weather is often only referred to as a ...

  3. List of severe weather phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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).

  6. 'Dangerously cold wind chills': Millions facing frigid ...

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    "The cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes," the National Weather Service office in Bismarck, North Dakota, said. Detroit officials warn of treacherous ...

  7. Cold wave - Wikipedia

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    A cold wave (known in some regions as a cold snap, cold spell or Arctic Snap) is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air. Specifically, as used by the U.S. National Weather Service , a cold wave is a rapid fall in temperature within a 24-hour period requiring substantially increased protection to agriculture, industry ...

  8. Storms and cold temperatures are descending on the US. How ...

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    The national weather forecast map for Wednesday, December 11, 2024, shows a cold front racing toward the East Coast as a potent storm lashes the region. Arctic blast incoming

  9. List of local winds - Wikipedia

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    Cape Doctor, often persistent and dry south-easterly wind that blows on the South African coast from spring to late summer (September to March in the southern hemisphere). Haboob, a sandstorm's fast moving wind which causes cold temperature over the area from where it passes. It mainly passes through Sudan.