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The 1985 North America cold wave [1] was a meteorological event which occurred in January 1985 as a result of the shifting of the polar vortex farther south than is normally seen. [1] Blocked from its normal movement, polar air from the north pushed into nearly every section of the central and eastern half of the United States and Canada ...
North American cold wave may refer to: 1936 North American cold wave; 1985 North American cold wave; 1994 North American cold wave; Early 2014 North American cold wave; November 2014 North American cold wave; February 2015 North American cold wave; December 2017–January 2018 North American cold wave; January–February 2019 North American ...
1888 Northwest United States cold wave; Great Blue Norther of November 11, 1911; 1911–12 United States cold wave; 1936 North American cold wave; 1985 North American cold wave; December 1989 United States cold wave; January–March 2014 North American cold wave; November 2014 North American cold wave; December 2017–January 2018 North ...
This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre. Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster as a central plot feature. The films typically feature large casts and multiple storylines and focus on the protagonists attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster ...
The cold wave had an impact on New Year's Eve celebrations in the affected regions; some Canadian cities chose to scale back their ancillary outdoor festivities (but still scheduling celebrations at midnight), including Calgary (which forecast a high of −26 °C (−15 °F)), Ottawa (overnight low of −24 °C (−11 °F)), and Toronto (−15 ...
2017–2018. Cold wave of November 9–12, 2017. Record lows were broken from Minneapolis to Washington, D.C., as Arctic air swept through the areas. [citation needed] Cold wave starting late December 2017 (December 24 respectively), North America. A persistent wave of temperature extremes, including a cold wave, took place in Canada and the ...
"Siberian Express" was the nickname coined by a meteorologist to describe the January 17, 1982 cold wave event hitting much of the United States. [1] Also called "Cold Sunday", the event broke many all-time record lows. Paleoclimatologist Jack A. Wolfe published in 1992 about the geographic origin.
The Icebreaker (Russian: Ледокол, romanized: Ledokol) is a 2016 Russian disaster film directed by Nikolay Khomeriki. The plot of the film is based in part on the real events that occurred in 1985 with the icebreaker Mikhail Somov , which was trapped by Antarctic ice and spent 133 days in forced drift. The film premiered in Russia on ...