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  2. Cold - Wikipedia

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    An iceberg, which is commonly associated with cold Signal "cold" – unofficial (except recommended by CMAS), it is nonetheless used by many schools of diving and propagated through diving websites as one of the more useful additional signals [1] Goose bumps, a common physiological response to cold, aiming to reduce the loss of body heat in a cold environment A photograph of the snow surface ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Common cold - Wikipedia

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    The common cold or the cold is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the respiratory mucosa of the nose, throat, sinuses, and larynx. [6] [8] Signs and symptoms may appear in as little as two days after exposure to the virus. [6] These may include coughing, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, headache ...

  5. Weather - Wikipedia

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    Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. [1] On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the troposphere, [2] [3] just below the stratosphere.

  6. Weather front - Wikipedia

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    In a warm occlusion, the cold air mass overtaking the warm front is warmer than the cold air mass receding from the warm front and rides over the colder air while lifting the warm air. [ 2 ] A wide variety of weather can be found along an occluded front, with thunderstorms possible, but usually their passage is also associated with a drying of ...

  7. Can cold weather make you sick? Experts explain why more ...

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    First, the cold winter air may actually make it easier for viruses to spread. "It's thought that the cooler, drier air helps (viruses like flu and SARS-CoV-2) transmit better from person to person ...

  8. 'Lies my mother told me:' Debunking cold-weather myths

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    According to The Guardian, scientists have traced this top cold-weather myth to a United States Army manual from the 1970s recommending a hat in the cold because "40 to 45 percent of body heat" is ...

  9. List of local winds - Wikipedia

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    Tramontane (cold northwesterly from the Pyrenees or northeasterly from the Alps to the Mediterranean, similar to Mistral) Vendavel (westerly through the Strait of Gibraltar) Murlan (cold and dry northeasterly wind in winter in Albania, Montenegro and Northwestern part of North Macedonia) Winds of Provence