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"cold snap" Definitions
  1. a sudden short period of very cold weather

334 Sentences With "cold snap"

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However, regional prices soared under pressure from the cold snap.
Fortunately, "this will be a quick cold snap," Thompson said.
Upstate New York will be the epicenter of this cold snap.
It's a cold snap life for penguins up in Alberta, Canada.
Saskatchewan residents should also hope for a cold snap in January.
The Chicago Cubs' cold snap at the plate didn't last long.
"Cold Snap" turns post-breakup despair into an almost perverse triumph.
But in the current, brutal cold snap, they pay a high price.
Many parts of the country survived a brutal cold snap last week.
The Midwest and Northeast are locked in a record-breaking cold snap.
Metropolitan Detention Center during a February 2019 cold snap, prisoners were left
That space might be hard to heat if there's a cold snap, though.
Elsewhere, the cold snap is being closely watched for any impact on wheat.
Like "yowetrummle," maybe—a cold snap just after sheep have been sheared. ♦
Chicago had an especially brutal cold snap at the end of this January.
The BBC reported that a concurrent cold snap in Italy is exacerbating the problem.
The 2017-into-2018 cold snap is the longest Boston has seen since 1918.
One cold snap could send the price skyrocketing again, like it did in 2014.
A cold snap boosted demand for heating, lifting spending on services by 0.4 percent.
This doesn't mean a cold snap or two won't happen, it's just less likely.
Another cold snap will move in during the weekend, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.
"You feel bad for people — this cold snap caught everyone off guard," he said.
Then, last winter, a cold snap killed walnut trees up and down the valley.
If there were thunderstorms forecast, or a cold snap, I went looking for him.
And, she said, during a 2400 cold snap there was higher mortality outside such facilities.
However, this cold snap will be by far the coldest such outbreak of the season.
While the odds of another cold snap of similar severity are long, they're not zero.
It's possible that the new monthly record will fall again before this cold snap ends.
A sudden cold snap, maybe a few snowflakes, and downcast eyes looking at the ground.
A cold snap last year led to sub-zero temperatures and record-high gas prices.
Despite the weekend's ugly cold snap, people across the country lined up to purchase copies.
It's Monday evening here in Washington and we're hoping this cold snap is officially over.
Now, some are worried about a cold snap expected in the U.S. Midwest this weekend.
By the time they reached Montana, a cold snap had frozen their usual stopping places.
The recent cold snap also appears to have created some operational problems for oil drillers.
An icy orchard The cold snap has given us terms we didn't know we needed.
But he said he expects some areas to suffer damages from the sudden cold snap.
The cold snap has lasted a week and forecasters say it will continue until the weekend.
From December 1 to 11, AIRS tracked the cold snap as it swept across North America.
During a cold snap in early 2017, the temperature dropped so low that Nubbin finally relented.
There's a major cold snap across much of the central and eastern regions of the country.
Unfortunately, as Live Science points out, the term is increasingly applied to almost any cold snap.
But Gerald had opted to stay put and wait out the cold snap in his dorm.
I used this MSI GT13s G Tobii in lieu of a blanket during New York's cold snap.
January cold snap in #Florida led to the rescue of more than 1,000 cold-stunned sea #turtles.
A well-timed cold snap has let Harvard scientists capture rapid evolution in close to real time.
After the massive cold snap killed off many Anole lizards, the researchers went back to document changes.
The central and eastern regions of the country were also expected to contend with a cold snap.
This cold snap, like the one earlier in the month, has its roots high above the Earth's surface.
The inclement weather was followed immediately by a lingering cold snap that's slowed down cleanup and recovery efforts.
But a cold snap in May caused many growers to lose 40 to 50 percent of their crop.
As electricity imports and prices soar, officials are having to deny that a cold snap could bring blackouts.
Last year, buses and portable cabins doubled up as homeless shelters in northern India amidst a cold snap.
The move comes after a local utility requested that users conserve natural gas during the extreme cold snap.
An autopsy will determine when he died and if his death was related to the current cold snap.
The US is the grip of an unusually early cold snap, which has killed at least six people.
The cold snap that hit the eastern United States early this winter taxed power utilities to the max.
The United States seems to have the risk covered for the upcoming cold snap expected after this weekend.
Mail service is still suspended The massive cold snap has also frozen some mail and blood donation services.
A record-breaking cold snap in the United States, meanwhile, pushed up demand for heating oil, bolstering demand.
Kloza predicts heating oil will rise sharply mostly due to the cold snap gripping much of the nation.
What we took for a cold snap in autumn was winter—a winter not of the seasons, but forever.
That year, the Alaskan winter was unusually mild, and there was a cold snap as far south as Texas.
In the longer run, however, the cold snap may not be quite the boon oil bulls were hoping for.
While this cool-down isn't really a cold snap, it will feel more proper for the date at least.
During the recent cold snap, Mr. Massey had no heat in his room for eight days, his brother said.
He rescued a freezing dog left outside during a cold snap, responding to a tweet from a local reporter.
Go deeper: A warming Arctic may have global consequences Arctic blast to spread across U.S. in record cold snap
"It really depends on when it gets cold, which is why this cold snap is spooking the market," Snyder said.
On Sunday, the northern Rocky Mountains and Northern Plains are expected to get the first taste of the cold snap.
"This request was motivated by risks to the electricity grid related to the cold snap expected next week," ASN said.
The 10 alligators living at the North Carolina park used this tactic to make it through the recent cold snap.
During a cold snap this past January, 7,200 MW of coal-fired capacity was forced offline due to the cold.
A couple of weeks I ago I wound up with frostbitten fingers after an ill-advised cold-snap bike ride.
Saturday's cold snap has been called dangerous because it will make it easier for people to experience hypothermia and frostbite.
January 249 will start off unusually cold across the entire lower 230 states, in an unusually expansive and intense cold snap.
And that's not taking into consideration the high winds or cold snap that's sure to come in the next few days.
It was terrifyingly cold in New York this weekend, and this cold snap occurred right as we're entering the postholiday doldrums.
Unfortunately, about a third of the total cherry blossoms were damaged due to that cold snap and will no longer bloom.
After an unseasonably warm beginning of winter (hey, we're not complaining), the recent cold snap has certainly caught us off-guard.
The warmth we're seeing now could merely be a "false spring," only to be followed by a cold snap or frost.
Wheat slid after climbing more than 2% on Tuesday amid concerns over a crop-threatening cold snap in the U.S. Plains.
TODAY'S NUMBER 16 The number of deaths related to the extreme cold snap that's gripped the Midwest and Northeast this week.
For us, a cold snap is something to be borne, enjoyed and maybe even whined about as the kids get restless.
Here's a look at how the cold snap has affected the country so far — and how people and animals are coping.
The bulk of the movie takes place inside a public library in Cincinnati as the city braces for a cold snap.
A cold snap was settling in, however, and a frozen skim had formed beyond the rough cuticle of shore-fast ice.
A cold snap kept temperatures close to zero, potentially hurting turnout for what became modestly sized Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren rallies.
"We don't see prolonged demand in the market if the cold snap doesn't last beyond the two-week forecast," he said.
But tornadoes in February are not normal, even in the American South, and a truly severe cold snap can be devastating.
I do wonder how the plants would survive being delivered in the middle of the summer or during a winter cold snap.
Each winter the country waits anxiously for a cold snap long enough to freeze the waterways that mark its low, flat landscape.
Companies have also been scrambling to shore up supplies of natural gas to avoid another supply squeeze due to the cold snap.
If this cold snap has taught us anything, it's that iguanas are zombies and that we humans are merely their unsuspecting victims.
President Donald Trump's tweet suggesting that the nation's cold snap disproves global warming has raised an outcry in response from climate scientists.
Abundant world supplies are keeping pressure on wheat prices, even though there are concerns about a cold snap in the U.S. plains.
The term "polar vortex" was popularized in 2014 when a particularly brutal January cold snap sent the country into a deep freeze.
Moore said if there's any takeaway from this cold snap, it's that the grid needs more power sources and electricity storage options.
In January 285, the Texas Tribune reported that more than 22017 prisons in the state had inadequate heating during a cold snap.
Idaho is known for its potatoes, and a surprise cold snap this week put crops of the state's most famous veggie in jeopardy.
The cold snap has claimed the lives of at least eight people and a zebra, and shut down mail service in several states.
Wine growers used candles, heaters and even the down-draught from helicopters during the cold snap in April to try to save crops.
This is a story about how one being among us is actually taking advantage of the historic cold snap: Cassie the bipedal robot.
It's possible that the genes to survive something like a heat wave died off with some of the lizards in the cold snap.
The cold snap in Washington, D.C., has pushed the peak cherry blossom estimate back to March 14 to 17, the Washington Post reports.
Over the last week, as a cold snap eased, reports of incoming warblers began to pick up, quickening the pulses of city birders.
It remains to be seen whether that renewed cold snap makes its way to the East Coast for round two of extreme cold.
Coal-fired generation has provided about 6 percent of New England's power during the cold snap, compared with about 2 percent in 2016.
But the next day, the temperature plunged to 27 degrees followed by a cold snap that was punctuated by eight inches of snow.
A cold snap in the heart of California's agriculture industry could be devastating to the almond crop and ultimately lead to higher prices.
The weather office said the cold snap, accompanied by chilly winds and dense fog, week was likely to continue for few more days.
Last week's cold snap annihilated half of the pink-and-white cherry blossoms that typically draw 1.5 million tourists to Washington in early April.
In the days leading up to the European cold snap, the polar vortex didn't just get weaker, Dr. Cohen said — it split into two.
During the two-week cold snap that affected cities from the Midwest to New England, coal was the top energy provider, the study found.
"Barbie Tingz" has the cold snap of early '80s hip-hop and electro, and "Chun-Li" swaggers with the authority of the mid-90s.
For instance, he observed that Greenland had experienced a cold snap from around the year 269.868245 to 93—the so-called Little Ice Age.
Output had fallen to 9.49 million barrels at the start of the year, due largely to a cold snap that shut down some production.
When President Donald Trump questioned climate change in a tweet about the cold snap that hit the east coast in December, few were surprised.
F Myles Turner is 14-of-43 from the floor over the prior four games, but he put an end to that cold snap Saturday.
If that's not enough of a bad omen, the Olympics are now expected to begin during what might be a record-breaking cold snap.[CNN]
Updated forecasts show below-average temperatures persisting over the next two weeks, with the cold snap drifting eastward from the Midwest toward the East Coast.
Organizers in Pyeongchang are preparing to deal with the cold snap at Friday's opening ceremony and also battling the spread of a virus among staff.
The polar vortex split isn't the only factor favoring a cold snap in Europe, warmup in the Eastern U.S., and cool down in the West.
The cold snap won't just be noteworthy for its severity, however, but also for its duration — lasting at least 10 days and possibly even longer.
Meanwhile, concerns about slower weight gains among Plains feedlot cattle due to a cold snap eased as temperatures in the region turned milder by Friday.
In fact, this post-storm cold snap marks the coldest start to winter in at least a century for the northeast and Great Lakes region.
"The low level of reservations, if it were to remain, would not be enough to meet demand during a cold snap in winter," she said.
The cold snap is affecting much of the central and eastern parts of the country, with record-low daytime and nighttime temperatures expected through Wednesday.
And while this winter had an unusually cold snap, the low temperatures did not last long enough to wipe out the beetles, Dr. Rutledge said.
A severe cold snap in Florida was about to subject the O-rings to temperatures more than 30 degrees lower than at any previous launch.
This kind of event, he says, usually occurs when an early flowering of the buffaloberry plant is destroyed by a cold snap in the spring.
Norway recorded the lowest temperatures of the cold snap: minus 43 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 42 Celsius) in the southeast part of the country on Thursday.
But a cold snap that gripped the state last week may have harmed the blossoms and undermined this year's almond, peach, plum and nectarine crops.
The other day I hit up against a new and unforeseen problem — it went totally dead on me just as a cold snap kicked in.
This would continue until early Fall, when, with the first cold snap, the turtle would disappear somewhere into the earth to hibernate for the Winter.
The first significant cold snap of the season hits and somebody, like, um, the President of the United States, wonders what happened to global warming.
A cold snap has brought the lowest temperatures in decades to eastern parts of the Continent and has been blamed for at least 73 deaths.
This trick resurfaces during nearly every cold snap, along with the inevitable safety warnings (to riff off Jim Croce, don't throw it into the wind).
Go deeper: Polar vortex causes brutal cold snap across Midwest, Ohio Valley Andrew also tweeted a thread on how to respond to Trump on global warming
In 2015, Ukraine's power grid had massive outages after a cyberattack — which some officials have attributed to Russia — two days before Christmas, during a cold snap.
Iowa is currently in the midst of a "once-in-a-generation" cold snap and temperatures have been at or below freezing for the past week.
While the cold snap might seem out of place in March, the Met Office says the UK gets on average 6.9 days of snow in spring.
The cold snap dropped snow into sub-tropical Florida, where numerous people posted social media pictures of iguanas that had fallen from trees in recent days.
Insider Picks guides editor Malarie Gokey tested the Lasko heater in her New York apartment when a major cold snap kicked in, and she loved it.
The Midwest's worst cold snap in two decades was created by the polar vortex, a reservoir of icy air that usually swirls over the North Pole.
Polar vortex, bomb cyclone, cold snap — whatever you call it — it hasn't affected spring tick populations before, and it probably won't now, according to Dr. Mather.
Then a cold snap kept all the puddles frozen for days, and every bird in the ZIP code showed up at my heated birdbath to drink.
But in New England, oil-fired plants played a much greater role than coal plants in making up for increased power demand during the cold snap.
The cold snap is due to a strong cold front moving in and the battle between warm versus cold air this time of year, he says.
But cold exacts a more protracted toll, with an increase in cold-related deaths occurring as long as three or four weeks after a cold snap.
The turtles apparently fell victim to the recent cold snap in the Northeast, as well as strong winds and the treachery of the Cape's hook-shaped geography.
Brent was last at $230, up 323 percent on the day after Britain's Forties pipeline was shut due to cracks as a cold snap swept the country.
A cold snap across the continent has encouraged some refiners to delay maintenance, which could support demand and help end a bout of profit-taking, analysts said.
Power prices in the ERCOT North hub jumped to $167.50 per megawatt-hour on Monday, their highest since January, when prices reached $305 during a cold snap.
Despite a spate of wildfires and hurricanes, President Donald Trump pointed to January's cold snap in the Midwest as evidence that warnings about climate change are overblown.
The worst cold snap in years coincided with the beginning of a 40-day travel rush for Chinese New Year which falls on February 8 this year.
He has referred to it as a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese, and last month questioned global warming amid a cold snap in the eastern United States.
Investigators believe his death was related to the subzero temperatures that plunged Iowa and all of the Midwest into a miserable and dangerous cold snap this week.
The cold snap is linked to the La Nina weather event in the Southern Hemisphere that can lead to sustained and disruptive variations in normal seasonal weather patterns.
Jack Frost is nipping at France's vineyards as a spring cold snap has swept across some of the country's most famous wine regions, including Bordeaux, Champagne and Burgundy.
"A recent cold snap contributed to LNG demand for power (in Japan) as well as in city gas sector," said Boseok Jin, a research analyst at IHS Markit.
The shortfall comes at a time of peak demand after a Europe-wide cold snap blanketed most of Ukraine with heavy snow and pushed temperatures well below freezing.
The report blames the severity of the nor'easters that hit the eastern US this year and the massive March cold snap that plagued Europe on a warming Arctic.
However, as you recall, many areas had a big cold snap last week and that caused some problems for some of the famous trees, including the cherry blossoms.
Log Cabin Perfumes, as I have taken to calling the growing category of scents that evoke a cold snap all year round, are fairly new to the market.
Many coal stoves were removed before new furnaces were installed, leaving tens of thousands of people shivering without heat when winter's first cold snap arrived earlier than normal.
The cold snap comes just days after a law was introduced in Britain's parliament aimed a capping consumers' energy bills, a move which Centrica said could hurt competition.
UNHCR said on Friday refugees and migrants are dying in Europe's cold snap and governments must do more to help them rather than pushing them back from borders.
Think again -- a cold snap is going to hit a large swath of the US, while the East Coast could get pummeled by a brewing strong coastal storm.
But a high pressure system moving through Europe pushed cold air farther south than usual and into North Africa, which caused an unusual cold snap in the desert.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week promised ambiguous cold weather improvements coming in an upcoming computer update, but those didn't come in time for this Siberian-like cold snap.
Coal prices likely would have fallen further were it not for a cold snap across North Asia in mid-November that boosted demand for coal and other heating fuels.
Winter is still more than a month away, but New Yorkers are in for a cold snap this week that could bring wind chill temperatures in the single digits.
Italy was hit by a cold snap in February 2018 before the country was hit by a heat wave in the summer and strong winds and floods in October.
Brent was last at $323 per barrel, down 232 percent on the day after Britain's Forties pipeline was shut due to cracks as a cold snap swept the country.
The coal and nuclear industries are pointing to the cold snap sweeping the eastern United States as Exhibit A for why the federal government should help their power plants.
It's issued a blue alert for the cold snap — the lowest on China's four-tier warning system that goes from red at the most serious, to orange, yellow and blue.
The cold also prompted officials to close some schools in eastern Iowa, while Chicago Public Schools officials said that Wednesday's classes have been canceled due to the anticipated cold snap.
The cold snap could imperil some of the Monarch butterflies that flock to parts of Mexico to spend winter before migrating north into the U.S. and Canada during the summer.
Crude oil jumped back above $31 a barrel, after earlier in the week touching $27, as a cold snap boosted demand for heating oil across the United States and Europe.
LONDON (Reuters) - A cold snap dubbed the 'Beast from the East' sent British wholesale energy prices to at least 10-year highs on Wednesday as traders scrambled to secure supplies.
The precise details of this cold snap are still a bit fuzzy, specifically concerning whether a winter storm develops along the boundary separating the frigid air from more seasonable temperatures.
A brutal cold snap that began last week — holding much of the East Coast and Midwest in its grip — has made a warm weather getaway more urgent for some travelers.
If the cold snap persisted, you might be surprised to learn that you'll see more of certain home invaders in the spring, said Richard Cooper, another entomologist at BedBug Central.
Related: Intense cold weather in the Rockies and Midwest is expected to spread east today, and one meteorologist warned of an "all-week cold snap" for much of the country.
Nine years ago, shortly before my 34th birthday and during an early cold snap in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, my husband and I bought two cemetery plots.
The grid operator has urged workers on strike at the plant several times this winter to restart the generators during a prolonged cold snap, in order to meet electricity demand.
Photographs on social media showed bare supermarket shelves on Tuesday as people prepared for the cold snap that the weather service had warned could bring the heaviest snowfall since 1982.
KABUL (Reuters) - A severe cold snap killed at least 17 people in Afghanistan on Saturday, government officials said, as heavy snowfall and rain continued to lash parts of the country.
It was not immediately clear if the shut-in would impact customers in some of the most densely populated areas in the United States during a particularly severe cold snap.
Stephen Schork, founder and editor of The Schork Report, told CNBC Thursday that the main effect of the cold snap on energy markets will be seen in the oil contracts.
So far, the bitter cold snap that has plunged a chunk of the country into a brutal freeze this week has reportedly claimed the lives of at least 18 people.
Cold snap hits much of the US Sustained winds will swirl at 25 to 35 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph possible along the Carolina coastline through Wednesday morning.
In New York we've had a very mild winter and the cold snap that we've gotten swept up in the last few days is very discombobulating, but spring will come.
FRANKFURT, Jan 2 (Reuters) - French spot electricity prices jumped on Monday after a cold snap boosted demand though prices in neighbouring Germany were lower thanks to higher wind power supply.
With two-thirds of the US now experiencing a brutal cold snap, local news indicates this extremely bad and dumb stunt that injured 50 people in 2014 is back in force.
A new gif by NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the Aqua satellite offers a visual depiction of the dramatic and deadly cold snap, demonstrating temperatures plummeting to forty below zero.
The previous burst was triggered by a cold snap in the northern hemisphere, and forecasts for a cold winter in the United States this year have raised expectations for gas demand.
Sakurai blames climate change for recent fluctuations in ocean temperatures – a cold snap in waters where the squid spawn and steadily warming waters in the Sea of Japan where they migrate.
On Friday, the S&P 113 rose 2 percent and the Dow added 1.3 percent Friday as a cold snap in North America and Europe caused a rally in oil prices.
The cold snap comes just days after a law was introduced in Britain's parliament aimed a capping consumers' energy bills, a move which British Gas owner Centrica said could hurt competition.
LONDON (Reuters) - Asian spot LNG prices rose to highs not seen since November 2014 on strong demand as a cold snap stimulated consumption in China and India launched fresh purchase tenders.
The Midwest, East Coast and South of the US is facing a frigid, early cold snap that has killed at least six people and could break more than 100 temperature records.
The Arctic warmth and the European cold snap have raised questions over whether the unusual weather occurrences are linked to each other, and if they are somehow related to climate change.
Nest will also take into account your area's weather before making a determination about a potential problem, as something like an overnight cold snap could work the thermostat more than usual.
Saturday's deaths bring the number of casualties from this year's cold snap to at least 24, as temperatures in parts of the country dropped to minus 12 degrees Celsius (10 Fahrenheit).
A balmy February lured the blooms from their buds earlier than usual, and a sudden cold snap is threatening to kill most of them off for the year, officials here say.
A local cold snap does not reverse the long-term trend that made the earth reach its highest temperature on record in 2016 — the third straight year the record was broken.
Natural gas prices fell sharply Monday, as weather forecasts for February show more normal and even warmer-than-normal temperatures for parts of the U.S., following a brutal cold snap this week.
A cold snap from February into March, later Easter holidays than usual and strikes took their toll in the first quarter, but hard data since have not pointed to a clear rebound.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A New Year's Day cold snap in the southern U.S. Plains poses a threat to winter wheat, particularly in Kansas, the country's biggest producer of the grain, agricultural meteorologists said.
So next time some joker tries to use a snowstorm or cold snap to say that climate change isn't real, sit them down and gently explain the difference between weather and climate.
Cultivating plants for such a short spurt of demand is "a dangerous game", says a farmer: a cold snap could mean flowers take longer to bloom and miss the bouquet-giving season.
Temperatures should reach the mid 40s to low 7503s Fahrenheit through the weekend and Monday, forecasters said, after a record-breaking cold snap that stopped postal service and shuttered schools and businesses.
The United States is in the middle of a deep cold snap, and meteorologists are saying that a "bomb cyclone" — essentially a freezing hurricane — will hit parts of the East Coast tonight.
Analysts pointed to the usual risk of a cold snap later in winter that could hurt plants in the absence of snow cover, but generally saw no immediate threat to EU crops.
A soft jumper in a coordinating green will keep you cozy in a cold snap, but if the mercury starts to climb, the breezy open knit acts as a built-in cooling system.
At the same time as the eastern half of the country is dealing with unusual heat for early June, the West is seeing the opposite: A rare cold snap accompanied by mountain snow.
Go deeper: Polar vortex splits, sending frigid air howling into the U.S., Europe The polar vortex is about to split into 3 pieces Polar vortex causes brutal cold snap across Midwest, Ohio Valley
Last week, oil prices halted the nearly17 percent drop suffered so far in January, with the turnaround fueled by temporary demand for heating oil due to the cold snap hitting the United States.
The cold snap is likely to bring a subzero windchill to New York City as the ball drops on Sunday night — and Minneapolis likely won't see temperatures above zero for the whole weekend.
The burden of high-energy bills has a trickle-down effect as families need to decide whether to budget for medical care and food or heating their home during a brutal cold snap.
Beet producers Western Sugar Cooperative and United Sugars Corp issued force majeure notices to clients late Tuesday, according to three market participants, after a cold snap hit large portions of the United States.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, hitting their highest level in more than three months, likely as a cold snap kept some workers at home.
Polar vortex: At least eight deaths have been associated with the record-breaking cold snap sweeping through much of the U.S. Midwest, and hospitals have been treating dozens of frostbite and hypothermia cases.
We're told he kept a low profile in a jacket and sweatshirt while walking through the crowds -- there's a cold snap in FL right now -- but put his hoodie down for the ride.
The iconic cherry blossoms in Washington, which were forecast to bloom early this year because of unusually warm weather in February, instead endured a cold snap this week that killed half of them.
Many records were broken during this cold snap, with the most frigid conditions found on the back side of the "bomb cyclone" that slammed the East Coast with snow and high winds on Jan.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is pulling in ships from all over to avoid a natural gas supply squeeze ahead of another cold snap and as the world's most populous nation prepares for Spring Festival celebrations.
Asian spot LNG prices are at their highest in more than three years, at almost $12 per million British thermal units, as buyers across North Asia order tankers in preparation for the cold snap.
Last year, a force majeure in Algeria delayed deliveries, while a long cold snap increased demand for heating and power generation, pushing the price of the French southern gas contract to a record high.
Prices in Europe's biggest gas markets surged 50 percent this week ahead of a cold snap that will test the region's reduced supply options and make price spikes more likely as stocks run low.
Forecasts for a mild winter have kept oil prices relatively low, but a cold snap in the Northeast "may drive prices sharply higher for short periods to attract cargoes from further away," Bloomberg reports.
In the PJM Interconnection, the regional transmission organization that powers much of the East Coast and serves 220 million customers, nearly 245 gigawatts of coal generation was forced offline during the 45 cold snap.
"The updated model from over the weekend showed an early-season cold snap for the bulk of the country, which is the last thing consumers needed to have happen," said John Kilduff of Again Capital.
But since this cold snap isn't predicted to bring much precipitation, a snow day isn't likely — meaning stocking up on cold weather gear like coats and boots to brave the outside world is a must.
Brent crude futures, the global benchmark for oil prices, rose above $65 a barrel — their highest since mid-235 — after Britain's Forties pipeline was shut due to cracks as a cold snap sweeps the country.
During a blast of blistering wintery weather, Donald Trump took to Twitter to cast doubt on global warming, implying that the cold snap undermined warnings that the Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.
Homeowners, businesses and utilities across much of the United States were keeping a close watch on fuel supplies Wednesday as a record-setting cold snap caused demand for heating oil and natural gas to soar.
Stocking a store like his requires preparation: thousands of dollars worth of salt, shovels, space heaters and window insulation need to be ready the instant the forecast calls for a heavy snow or cold snap.
Behind the men, who are close to weeping, thousands more fish drift belly-up, asphyxiated in a cold snap that killed the blue-green algae blooming along the river and deprived the water of oxygen.
The cold snap complicated efforts by crews to clear snow and ice from roadways after the blizzard, which clobbered the Northeast after sprinkling snow in areas as far south as Savannah, Georgia and Tallahassee, Florida.
Asian spot LNG prices LNG-AS are at their highest in more than three years, at almost $12 per million British thermal units, as buyers across North Asia order tankers in preparation for the cold snap.
"It caused about half of the cold snap in the 17th century that caused all kinds of havoc all over the world," Charles Mann, author of "1493: Uncovering the New World that Columbus Created," tells Axios.
Gassco will also conduct preventive maintenance at its Kollsnes processing plant to avoid a recurrence of last winter's outage, when the 'Beast from the East' cold snap shut the plant for days just as demand spiked.
The good news is, there's still two-thirds left, but the concern going forward is actually going to be the forecast, as we expect another cold snap to take place by the end of the week.
NATIONAL An article on Tuesday about outdoor ice skating spots along the East Coast during the recent cold snap described incorrectly the location near the Chain Bridge on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal where people were skating.
OTTAWA, Jan 20.1 (Reuters) - The Canadian economy grew by a surprise 0.1% in November, driven by a boost in utility use because of an unexpected cold snap in central Canada, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday.
Every time someone in a position of power (for example) says that a cold snap in winter proves that climate change is not a thing, a dutiful chorus responds with a familiar refrain: Weather is not climate.
During the recent, extended cold snap and "bomb cyclone" that hit the northeast in January, Bloomberg News reported that portions of the nation's electric grid were strained — with power plants churning in overdrive to meet heavy demand.
With a potentially record-breaking cold snap headed for the northeastern United States this weekend, he repeated a joke he's been making for years: In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year's Eve on record.
The adjacent terrace typically seats bar patrons near its fountain and 100-year-old dragon tree, but we hit Lisbon during a cold snap, so sat inside where again, the lighting could have come down a bit.
Italy was hit by a cold snap caused by the "beast from the east" in February 2018, before soaring heat swept the continent in the summer and strong winds and floods battered the Mediterranean nation in October.
LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Prices in Europe's biggest gas markets surged 50 percent this week ahead of a cold snap that will test the region's reduced supply options and make price spikes more likely as stocks run low.
A nationwide cold snap, with temperatures as low as minus 2146 degrees Celsius, hit Britain earlier this year, leading gas prices to spike to at least 20830-year highs and electricity prices to soar more than 20 percent.
When California had record-breaking warm temperatures last fall, Jonathan Martin, a professor of meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suspected the conditions would be right for an extended cold snap in the east in early winter.
Oil soared nearly 232.19 percent on Friday as a cold snap boosted demand for heating oil and investors took advantage of the lowest prices since 2003 to close out some of their more profitable bets on price declines.
Chatterjee pointed to sky-high electricity bills in New England during a cold snap earlier this year as an example of what may happen elsewhere if policy isn't implemented to ensure electricity can reach consumers in an emergency.
The country's winter power demand is expected to peak at around 88,600 megawatts (MW) in the fourth week of January, and to increase to 91,800 MW if there is an extreme cold snap, according to the ministry statement.
Beijing Gas, a local government-controlled distributor in the Chinese capital, had a similar operation last winter to cover demand spikes in case of a cold snap, according to gas analysts at consultancies Wood Mackenzie and SIA Energy.
Brad Plumer explored the "weather wars," in which scientists are increasingly comfortable explaining the links between extreme weather events and climate change, but every cold snap gets trumpeted by those who deny the scientific evidence for global warming.
Vineyards report temperatures plunged in all three regions last week, sometimes to below -7 degrees Celsius (19°F), hurting shoots already well-developed because of earlier mild weather, and growers fear a new cold snap could cause more damage.
If you are a pet owner, especially one who is expecting to sit through a cold snap soon, it is important familiarize yourself with these winter weather precautions, so your entire family can safely ride out any storm together.
As the Midwest struggled to clear debris and salvage what was left behind after days of historic flooding, the eastern part of the country prepared Sunday for the first cold snap of what has been a strangely warm season.
He also said the gas market in Europe looked stable ahead of the winter season but said it could tighten quickly with a cold snap, adding that the potential for such volatility was one indication of a balanced market.
It was the Monday after a cold snap, and Francois, who is thirty-one and lives in Bushwick, was in a brick apartment building in East Flatbush, protecting people against another weapon of bad landlords: turning down the heat.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Refugees and migrants are dying in Europe's cold snap and governments must do more to help them rather than pushing them back from borders and subjecting them to violence, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.
The conditions that left hundreds of thousands of New York City Housing Authority residents without heat and hot water during a record cold snap, as ancient boilers struggled to keep up with falling temperatures, were decades in the making.
"In the event of a cold snap, given the current forecast availability of the French generation fleet, the risk of pressure on the electricity system is lower overall than last winter, especially for January and February 2020," RTE said.
With robust and reliable supply in Asia-Pacific and healthy stock levels, there is no need for big buyers such as Japan, China and South Korea to import spot cargoes from Atlantic producers unless a protracted cold snap occurs.
With robust and reliable supply in Asia-Pacific and healthy stock levels, there is no need for big buyers such as Japan, China and South Korea to import spot cargoes from Atlantic producers unless a protracted cold snap occurs.
Usually, this is regulated by the polar vortex that circles the North Pole several miles up in the stratosphere -- not to be confused with the "polar vortex" nickname that's been attached to every cold snap and snowstorm in recent years.
U.S. crude oil futures soared over 28 percent on Friday as a cold snap boosted demand for heating oil and investors took advantage of the lowest prices since 29.4 to close out some of their more profitable bets on price declines.
Cities across the Midwest and Northeast U.S. set new record low temperatures Wednesday and Thursday morning as a once-in-a-generation cold snap swept through the U.S. The frigid conditions have been linked to at least nine deaths already.
Owners of today's battery electric vehicles found out during last week's cold snap that the range that shows up on their instrument panel is, at best, an estimate that can be impacted by things like terrain and a motorist's driving style.
The National Meteorological Service has warned of a cold snap and temperatures getting down to freezing for the next few days, a situation that has raised concerns about rising poverty in Argentina and the number of people living on the street.
BOSTON, Mass (Reuters) - A dangerous cold snap bringing life-threatening cold was settling in across the northeastern United States on Saturday and a snow squall triggered a pileup of dozens of vehicles on a Pennsylvania highway that left several people dead.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A cold snap destroyed half of Washington's premier variety of cherry blossoms this week, muting the pink-and-white display that normally draws about 1.5 million tourists to the U.S. capital, National Park Service officials said on Friday.
BEIJING, Feb 23 (Reuters) - China's imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) rose to a record in January, as the world's most populous nation rushed to shore up supplies ahead of another cold snap and the Spring Festival celebrations this month.
"We went in with a hypothesis that we wouldn't see warmth in this time period, in which case we might have had to explain how the Norse were hearty, robust folk who settled in Greenland during a cold snap," Lasher said.
France, usually a net exporter of electricity, imported a record 22022 gigawatt-hours of power on a net basis in January, the highest level since 250, as a cold snap increased demand for heating amid a series of prolonged nuclear outages.
JAPAN OVERCOMMITTED With robust and reliable supply in Asia-Pacific and healthy stock levels, there is no need for big buyers such as Japan, China and South Korea to import spot cargoes from Atlantic producers unless a protracted cold snap occurs.
By studying a population of lizards both before and after a particularly severe cold snap, scientists have documented natural selection in fast motion, where the surviving reptiles—after just a single winter storm—came to resemble their cold-adapted cousins to the north.
The night marks our second failed attempt in a week to get some time on the court; our previous try was thwarted by a wintry cold snap that kept the spacious outdoor courts nearest to Sport's apartment in Chinatown all but deserted.
It is the second time in recent years that the colony has been badly hit during the breeding season; four years ago no chicks survived when rain followed by a sudden cold snap meant they became soaked and subsequently froze to death.
A triangle of pumpkin pie, with a spoonful of whipped cream slopped over it, brings me back to an iron-frame bed in an attic above a black potbellied stove in a converted schoolhouse during an October cold snap in Parry Sound, Ontario.
The Legal Aid Society has threatened to take the New York City Housing Authority to court unless the agency agrees to refund up to $15 million in rent to tenants who were left without heat or hot water during this winter's cold snap.
A nationwide cold snap with temperatures as low as minus 10.3 degrees Celsius and widespread snow has led to a sharp increase in gas demand which is used to heat as much as 80 percent of Britain's homes and also for cooking.
Warsaw's spike in air pollution was driven largely by a severe cold snap that forced thousands of private households, especially the most destitute ones, to crank up poor quality heaters that burn things like coal and garbage to beat back the winter chill.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's largest oil pipeline could shut down for weeks for unscheduled repair work, sending the price of crude to new two-year highs and triggering a steep rally in natural gas prices, just as a cold snap sweeps the country.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has rebuffed calls from the gas industry for an urgent review of the country's gas storage capacity after a cold snap this month triggered warnings of supply shortages and gas prices spiked to their highest in at least a decade.
An early winter sharp cold snap in northeast Asia and the first November snow fall in Tokyo in 54 years this week has boosted prices for thermal coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG) as power stations fire up to meet a surge in electricity demand.
A business owner in the neighborhood, concerned that he hadn't seen Antonio walk past and wave hello for a couple of days during a brutal cold snap, called the police and asked if they could go to the alley and make a "wellness" check.
Propane on Tuesday was $11.04 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) and butane was $9.95 per mmBtu on a heating value basis at the Mont Belvieu, Texas, hub, a $1.09 spread and the widest since a 2013 cold snap in North America sent prices soaring.
Here are some of our favorites: She helped provide shelter to homeless people A single act of generosity was multiplied again and again after a Good Samaritan paid for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people in Chicago from a historic and potentially deadly cold snap.
Even as a cold snap grips Northern Europe and Asia, bringing snow as far south as Rome for the first time in six years and temperatures as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit in the United Kingdom, it's actually warmer in parts of the Arctic.
A powerful blizzard battered the Northeast on Thursday, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people and snarling travel amid a long cold snap that has gripped much of the United States for more than a week and killed more than a dozen people.
In 2013, a 110,000-gallon fish-breeding facility with a fiberglass replica of the Devil's Hole was opened, at a cost of $4.5 million, to grow a "lifeboat population" in case the species blinked out from a cold snap or something else in the wild.
The climate context: The globe as a whole is still much warmer than normal, and scientists say the cold snap in parts of the U.S. in no way invalidates the overwhelming scientific evidence showing global average temperatures are increasing due to the burning of fossil fuels.
Earlier on Wednesday, SoCalGas, a unit of California energy company Sempra Energy, said it had started withdrawing natural gas from its Aliso Canyon storage facility for a second day in a row to support the reliability of the region's gas and electricity systems during a cold snap.
Forecasts of a more extended November cold snap across the U.S. sent natural gas prices to a near two-year high, as investors worry about rising demand at a time when supplies are at the lowest level to start the winter heating season in 15 years.
PARIS, April 12 (Reuters) - France could face a tight gas supply in the 2017/13 winter period because suppliers do not have enough reserve storage capacity as required by law to meet demand if there is a prolonged cold snap, said major gas storage company Storengy.
This means its utilities may order LNG cargoes only when they require gas at short notice - for instance during the current winter cold snap and supply crunch - possibly bringing a sudden spurt of purchases to a spot LNG market that in the past has seen limited activity.
Temperatures from southern New England to the upper Midwest should reach the mid-40s to low 50s Fahrenheit through the weekend and Monday, forecasters said, after a record-breaking cold snap that stopped mail deliveries in some parts of the Midwest and shuttered schools and businesses.
Devoid of Light's cold snap is a welcome reprieve from the legions of muddled black/death currently polluting the collective extreme metal conscious (for better and for worse), and a nostalgic blast from a past that many of us wish we'd been able to witness first-hand.
An unexpectedly harsh cold snap across North America resulted in record gas demand New Year's Day, while at the same time natural gas producers from Pennsylvania to North Dakota are being forced to shut in some production at the well head due to the cold temperatures.
"Climate isn't a day, climate is long term," Myers said, as he also pointed out that the pre-Thanksgiving cold snap that the President was tweeting about at the time was mainly concentrated on just one part of North America and not over the whole world.
PARIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - France has sufficient gas in storage to see it through winter even in the event of an exceptionally cold snap, thanks in part to a sharp increase in the flow of liquefied natural gas (LNG), network operators GRTgaz and Terega said on Friday.
"People that are living in tents right now, outside, when you get a cold snap like this they often don't want to leave their tents and go to a shelter because if they do their stuff can be stolen," Mr. Hohlbein said in a phone interview.
Image: NASA/Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen/MODIS/Land Processes Distributed Active Archive CenterAs to why we're experiencing such extremes at the moment, NASA offers this explanation:The map of North America underscores one of the realities of weather—when a cold snap hits one region, warmth often bakes another one.
The globe as a whole, however, is still much warmer than normal, and scientists say the cold snap in parts of the U.S. in no way invalidates the overwhelming scientific evidence showing the planet is warming over the longer term due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy.
The climate context: The globe as a whole is still much warmer than normal, and scientists say the cold snap in parts of the U.S. in no way invalidates the overwhelming scientific evidence showing global average temperatures are increasing due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy.
When the former basketball star Julius Erving flew into the city for a visit from the Bahamas during the January cold snap and found himself in need of warmer clothes, he called Boyds, as he has since back when he was Dr. J., slamming dunks for the 76ers.
"Typically you will see this on a day or two on a much smaller scale, but at this point this cold snap has lasted for so many days, the ice is building thicker and thicker as these days continue," said Andrea Czopp, a spokeswoman for Destination Niagara USA.
Read more: The frigid 'polar vortex' cold snap engulfing the US is so bad it can give people frostbite in 5 minutes The La Crosse weather service said Wednesday morning's temperature may have been the "all-time coldest record for the office" since it opened 23 years ago.
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A powerful blizzard battered the U.S. Northeast on Thursday, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people and snarling travel amid a cold snap that has gripped much of the United States for over a week and killed more than a dozen people.
Victory for Ledecka, who is a world champion snowboarder, was a welcome distraction for organizers from questions about the empty seats in venues, which they say were due to some postponements at the start due to winds, the Lunar New Year and a cold snap at the start of the Games.
Reality check: "The globe as a whole is still much warmer than normal, and scientists say the cold snap in parts of the U.S. in no way invalidates the overwhelming scientific evidence showing global average temperatures are increasing due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy," Axios' Andrew Freedman wrote earlier today.
But I'm willing to bet that somewhere out there there's a kid who wants to do, not be told to do, and at the end of the project wants to feel the wind in her hair and smell a cold snap coming across the plains, crisp and clear and full of the future.
Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film Snowpiercer portrays class war among the few survivors of a global cold snap in which almost everyone in the world has perished and most of the remaining people left are fed cockroach sludge and made to toil in abject conditions—but ends with a moment of triumph.
ATHENS — Human rights groups stepped up their warnings on Thursday about the living conditions for migrants in Greece after three people died during a recent cold snap on the Aegean island of Lesbos, and as dozens of asylum seekers near Athens threatened to resume a hunger strike if the situation did not improve.
Naftogaz said it would seek damages from Gazprom for its failure to restart daily deliveries of 18-20 million cubic meters of gas, which has forced it to take emergency measures to make up for the shortage at a time when a Europe-wide cold snap has blanketed most of Ukraine with heavy snow.
But there is no direct link between those long-term global trends and the short-term fluctuations we experience in the weather from day to day and season to season — not the record warmth of the past few days, and not the next arctic cold snap to sweep through, either, whenever it may come.
In a glimpse of the future, gas prices spiked to A$45 a gigajoule in Victoria in July, about six times the price of Asian LNG, as a cold snap and a power shortage in neighboring South Australia led to a surge in demand, forcing gas to be piped from the country's north, incurring high charges.
The big picture: An air mass that originated in the High Arctic is sweeping through the U.S., but even though temperatures are expected to start easing this afternoon and be above freezing this weekend in parts of the Midwest, this is likely not the last time this kind of sudden cold snap could affect large portions of the nation.
NEW-YORK-PRISON/ U.S. Justice Department orders investigation of frigid Brooklyn jail: media The U.S. Department of Justice late on Wednesday ordered an investigation into a Brooklyn jail where inmates said they spent days in frigid, dark cells after a fire cut power and heat during a cold snap in New York City, media reports said.
" Cautioning readers that one of his anthologies, "Cold Snap," required "strong nerves and an even stronger stomach," the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1995, "Reading Thom Jones's fiction is like speeding in an open car: The landscape blurs, the momentum becomes intoxicating — and then the brakes are applied, with no warning.
What's next: Forecasters expect temperatures to drop further late Wednesday and into Thursday morning in some locations, per AP. Go deeper: Arctic blast set to spread across the U.S. in record cold snap Snow storm strikes the Midwest Early blizzard demolishes harvests already threatened by spring floods Editor's note: This article has been updated with the latest weather forecast.
While low temperatures may plunge below zero Fahrenheit, this cold snap is not likely to break many records, in part because of the lack of widespread snow cover across the U.S. Intensity of Arctic blasts can be concisely described by the lowest 850-hPa pressure level temperature ... -32°C over North Dakota on Christmas Eve morning beneath lobe of tropopause Polar Vortex.
We talked about weather cycles; the effect of a cold snap on early corn (it's like the brain freeze headache that strikes when you eat ice pops too fast); commodity prices and loans; his wife's teaching job, his three daughters and white deer hunting; why he voted for Mr. Trump; the impact of tariffs; federal farm aid; and China's leaders.
Just this week, he mocked the science of climate change because of a cold snap in the Northeast, tweeting, "Whatever happened to Global Warming?" transcript But in direct language, the 22012,22011-page assessment lays out the devastating effects of a changing climate on the economy, health and environment, including record wildfires in California, crop failures in the Midwest and crumbling infrastructure in the South.
When Campbell-Staton repeated the chamber experiments, he found that the surviving southernmost lizards were now more resistant to lower temperatures than before the cold snap, and at levels similar to their northern counterparts (they can tolerate temperatures down to around 6 degrees C or 42 degrees F). Analysis of the lizards' DNA revealed 14 genomic regions that distinguished individuals before and after the storm—genetic tweaks that endowed the lizards with cold-tolerating abilities.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE took to Twitter Thursday to note the record-breaking cold weather currently slamming much of the eastern U.S., saying the country could use some "global warming" during the cold snap.
"When something happens — whether it's a cold snap, a wildfire, a hurricane, any of those things — we need to think beyond what we have seen in the past and assume there's a high probability that it will be worse than anything we've ever seen," said Crystal A. Kolden, an associate professor at the University of Idaho, who specializes in wildfires and who is currently working in Tasmania during one of the state's worst fire seasons.

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