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Testing the cold start capability of an engine after three days in a cold chamber. (car maker facilities in the UK, 1945) Winter diesel fuel (also known as winter diesel, alpine diesel, or winterised diesel) refers to diesel fuel enhanced to prevent it from gelling in cold weather conditions.
The Rasputitsa in Russian (literally "season of bad roads" [11]), or Bezdorizhzhya in Ukrainian, [12] is a term for the mud season that occurs in various rural areas of Eastern Europe, [12] when the rapid snowmelt or thawing of frozen ground combined with wet weather in Spring, or heavy rains in the Autumn, [11] [13] lead to muddy conditions ...
Spring thaw and huge puddles in Komi Republic, March 2015. Rasputitsa (from Russian: распу́тица [rɐsˈputʲɪtsə]; literally "season of bad roads" [1]) is the mud season that occurs in various rural areas of Eastern Europe, [2] when the rapid snowmelt or thawing of frozen ground combined with wet weather in spring, or heavy rains in autumn [1] [3] lead to muddy conditions that make ...
Petrol and diesel engines also work less efficiently when cold, and their batteries also suffer more in the winter. Yuasa, a producer of 12-volt car batteries, says : “Cold temperatures directly ...
Freezing rain develops when falling snow encounters a layer of warm air aloft, typically around the 800 mbar (800 hPa; 80 kPa) level, causing the snow to melt and become rain. As the rain continues to fall, it passes through a layer of subfreezing air just above the surface and cools to a temperature below freezing (0 °C or 32 °F or 273 K).
A winter storm is an event in which wind coincides with varieties of precipitation that only occur at freezing temperatures, such as snow, mixed snow and rain, or freezing rain. In temperate continental and subarctic climates , these storms are not necessarily restricted to the winter season, but may occur in the late autumn and early spring as ...
A dire shortage of diesel fuel in the U.S. could keep inflation high and make the cost of heating surge throughout the winter. See: 9 Bills You Should Never Put on AutopayFind: 10 Items That Are...
Christian Parker of Buffalo, N.Y., shovels out his car in the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y. Monday, Dec. 26, 2022, after a massive snow storm blanketed the city.