Cold Wave - A rapid and marked fall of temperature. The National Weather Service applies this term to a fall of tern- perature in 24 hours equaling or exceeding a specified number of degrees and reaching a specified minimum tern- perature or ...
COLD WAVE A rapid fall in temperature within twenty-four hours to temperatures requiring substantially increased protection to agriculture, industry, commerce, and social activities.
Cold wave A rapid fall in temperature within 24 hours that often requires increased protection for agriculture, industry, commerce, and human activities.
Excessive heat or cold waves can kill or sicken those without adequate utilities.
Mercury on the chute This is an expression rarely used anymore, but in the first 50 years of the National Weather Service it was used to describe the onset of a cold wave, ...
They are issued for snowstorms, blizzards, heavy blowing snow, heavy rains, frost, cold waves, freezing rain, severe thunderstorms and strong winds - according to thresholds established for local and regional public needs.
Almanac: The Great Blizzard of '88 March Weather Almanac: The Great Blizzard of '88 Part 2
The Great Blizzard Buries Father Knickerbocker March Weather Diary The Children's Blizzard of 1888 A Terrible Degree of Cold: The Cold Wave of ...
ocean, a disturbance generated by wind action with dynamics governed by the influence of gravity and/or surface tension. See ocean waves. 3. Popularly used as a synonym for "surge" or "influx," as in tidal wave (storm surge), heat wave, cold wave.
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