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The Brass Monkey of Stanthorpe, Queensland, a place known for its "brass monkey weather", complete with a set of balls "Cold enough to freeze the balls off (or on) a brass monkey" (also "brass monkey weather" [1]) is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers to describe extremely cold weather.
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 ...
Rice accused Bulwer-Lytton of writing "27 novels whose perfervid turgidity I intend to expose, denude, and generally make visible." Lytton Cobbold defended his ancestor, noting that he had coined many other phrases widely used today such as "the pen is mightier than the sword", "the great unwashed", and "the almighty dollar". He said that it ...
You've probably heard most of these weather-related expressions at some point: "It's raining cats and dogs," "on cloud nine" or "right as rain." While most people know what these expressions are ...
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 .
"When Hell freezes over" [2] and "A cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays ...
Early 2014 North American cold wave; November 13 – 21, 2014 North American winter storm; A series of storms in winter 2015 that broke snowfall records in Boston, Massachusetts (Snowmageddon, [11] snowpocalypse [12]) January 2016 United States blizzard (Snowzilla [13]) Winter of 2009–2010 in the United Kingdom; Winter of 2010–2011 in the ...
The term superstorm was employed in 1993 by the US National Weather Service to describe a Nor'easter in March of that year. [3] The term is most frequently used to describe a weather pattern that is as destructive as a hurricane, but which exhibits the cold-weather patterns of a winter storm. [4]