cold snap

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This is the second major snowstorm of the first-time mayor's administration, coming after 19 people died during a three-week cold snap in January.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

The almost-daily barrages, paired with the cold snap, have put lives at risk and created an unprecedented threat for Ivannikov's pride and joy: a collection of almost 4,000 species.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced over the weekend the opening of a new shelter in an effort to get more homeless people off the streets during the cold snap.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

“As soon as we get a cold snap, the chicories start to come out, and from the Veneto over into Friuli, you just have this, like huge variety of different radicchio species,” she says.”

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

A severe cold snap was in danger of turning the water in the planes’ radiators to solid ice, which would break the radiators.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein