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a sudden freezing slap from the sky that turns autumn into ambush.
means A coldsnap is a brief, abrupt spell of unusually cold weather, often arriving suddenly after milder days.
from A compound of "cold" and "snap." "Cold" runs back through Old English "cald," rooted in a Germanic family of freezing words. The "snap" is the more vivid half: from a Low German or Dutch source meaning to bite or seize quickly (think of jaws snapping shut), it came to mean any sudden, sharp event. So a cold snap is literally weather that bites down out of nowhere — the same "snap" you hear in a cold blast clamping its teeth on the season.
- crop killer
- Late frosts wipe out blooming orchards in hours
- magic card
- A 2006 Magic set built on ice mechanics
- body shock
- Cold snaps spike heart attacks within days
- frost cracks
- Trees can split with audible gunshot bangs
- jet stream
- A wobbling polar vortex unleashes them southward
february 1899 russia — temperature dropped to −58°c (−72°f) in moscow, one of the most extreme cold snaps in recorded history
january 2014 north america — polar vortex brought temperatures to −50°c across midwest us and canada, causing widespread power outages
december 2022 europe — unseasonable cold snap killed hundreds in uk and caused extreme heating demands across continent