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Outages often coincide with periods of high-energy demand, including during hot and cold weather. Lines can become stiffer in extreme cold, and ice on lines can cause an extra 500 pounds of weight .
Stridor (from Latin 'creaking/grating noise') is an extra-thoracic high-pitched breath sound resulting from turbulent air flow in the larynx or lower in the bronchial tree. It is different from a stertor , which is a noise originating in the pharynx .
An impact winter is a hypothesized period of prolonged cold weather due to the impact of a large asteroid or comet on the Earth's surface. If an asteroid were to strike land or a shallow body of water, it would eject an enormous amount of dust, ash, and other material into the atmosphere, blocking the radiation from the Sun. This would cause ...
The cold snap in Montreal began with a blizzard where base temperatures reached −15 °C (5 °F). The combination with a single-day 25 centimetres (10 in) snowfall was the coldest snowiest day in nearly a century. [53] The Fête des neiges winter festival was cancelled due to the extreme cold for the first time in a decade. [54]
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
AccuWeather's Pastelok agreed with this perspective, noting that the Siberian air stayed "fresh" and cold on its journey over the top of the globe and remained cold all the way down to the ...
Last Glacial Maximum, what is often meant in popular usage by "Last Ice Age" 16,000–13,000: Oldest Dryas cold, begins slowly and ends sharply (B-S) 12,700: Antarctic Cold Reversal warmer Antarctic, sea level rise: 12,400: Bølling oscillation warm and wet in the North Atlantic, begins the Bølling-Allerød period (B-S) 12,400–11,500 (much ...
Driven by the jet stream, part of the polar vortex — a large area of cold air that spins over the North Pole in the winter — will drop about 3,000 miles south into the U.S., delivering the ...