Cold wave

Winters this year have been wreaking havoc around the world with extreme cold and snowstorms. Millions of people around the world are facing extreme weather conditions and the consequences that they come with, like cancelling of flights, highway blockades, and almost zero travel at a time when people go to their homes ahead of the holiday season. Howling winds, heavy snow and frigid air which can turn boiling water into ice instantly have hit most of the nations like the USA, India, Japan and parts of Europe, including parts of the world which are normally temperate. But why the world is freezing? It is due to a phenomenon called La Nina, which is almost the opposite of the warming phenomenonof the El Nino effect. La Nina is an oceanic phenomenon that influences the atmosphere around us by opposing El Nino. When warm winds blow, the surface of a body of water warms. The El Nino effect causes trade winds to blow east, pushing warm water off the surface of the Pacific Ocean towards America's west coast. As a result of heat evaporating into the atmosphere, temperatures rise in regions near the equator. Cooler water from the depths naturally begins to rise. Buffalo began to clean up after a severe blizzard brought the city to a standstill with record snowfalls on Tuesday. Authorities were digging out from under four feet of snow (1.2 meters) dumped during a deadly Christmas blizzard, even as the National Weather Service predicted a final two inches of snow on Tuesday. New York...

environment Cold wave hits southern Brazil with record-low temperatures Unlike India facing intense heatwaves or France battling drought, Brazil this week has witnessed some of the most chilling temperatures ever seen in its southern states. Experts are not ruling out climate change and say that the extraordinary weather conditions are catalysed by the subtropical storm Yakecan. Read more In his This week, Mendonça’s fictional world became a reality in southern Brazil. While Recife and other parts of the northeast continue to enjoy temperatures of around 28 degrees Celsius, thermometers in southern states have reached unprecedented lows. The Federal District, just south of Brasilia, recorded its Belo Horizonte, the capital city of Minas Gerais, recorded its Several cities in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Porto Alegre, and Sao Jose dos Ausentes states received snowfall, caused by subtropical storm Yakecan, prompting people to gather on streets to enjoy the rare phenomenon The arrival of cold fronts in the south is quite common this time of year, but it is rare for these temperature drops to arrive with such fervour and to reach as far north as they have now. Meteorologists are saying the cold wave is a result of the Yakecan subtropical storm, initially called a cyclone, hitting southern Brazil and Uruguay. “In autumn, it’s natural for polar air masses from the Antarctic region to travel closer to the equator, bringing down temperatures,” Brazilian meteorologis...

In this paper, by using forecasts of the highest and lowest daily surface air temperatures from the Coupled Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2) over a period of 9 months, NCEP/DOE reanalysis data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), and data from the U.S. NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC), three cold waves are identified during 2015–2016 in China, and the CFSv2 forecasts of these cold waves are evaluated. The results show that the high-resolution CPC data and the low-resolution NCEP/DOE data both very clearly show the temperature drops and temperature anomalies of these cold waves. The earlier the forecast lead time is, the greater the errors in the beginning and ending dates of the cold waves between the CFSv2 forecasts and the observations; there are errors of 1–2 days in the durations of the cold waves between the CFSv2 forecasts and the observations. CFSv2 exhibits certain abilities to forecast the overall temperature drops and temperature anomalies of cold waves at forecast lead times of 0, 5, 10, and 15 days, but the CFSv2 prediction ability is poor at forecast lead times exceeding 20 days. CFSv2 can predict the spatial distribution of temperature drops better than it can predict that of temperature anomalies, but the absolute errors in the observed temperature drops are greater than those in the observed temperature anomalies. The temperature drops from the CFSv2 forecasts are obviously underestimated in North China, South China, and their...

FARGO — It is no longer news that the first Arctic air since Christmas is on it's way and will blow in Friday, probably with some blowing snow. Ultimately, it is not known how the upcoming cold wave will compare to the week before Christmas, but it will likely be somewhat similar. One significant difference, however, may be the upcoming cold wave's duration. It appears it will be a long cold wave, with daily high temperatures mostly near or below below zero starting Saturday and lasting through the following week, the first week of February, and probably into the second week. So we had better get used to the idea that it is about to get cold and stay that way for a protracted period. January gave us a break. Following a cold December, the coldest month of the year was warmer than average. February, the second coldest month of the year, is looking cold again. John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a position he has had since May of 1985. Wheeler grew up in the South, in Louisiana and Alabama, and cites his family's move to the Midwest as important to developing his fascination with weather and climate. Wheeler lived in Wisconsin and Iowa as a teenager. He attended Iowa State University and achieved a B.S. degree in Meteorology in 1984. Wheeler worked about a year at WOI-TV in central Iowa before moving to Fargo and WDAY..

It’s a recognised truth that constraint breeds creativity. What we may lack in assets or necessities, we usually make up for in resourcefulness. Art, for the most part, adheres to this rule too. Some of the most radical collectives have scored their mark on history not through cultural and social immunity but through oppression and coercion. And yet there’s a dualism at play here. While art movements and micro scenes prosper out of their own limitations, both political and financial restraints can forcibly lead to their demise, or worse, erasure from their critics’ shared memories. This was quite nearly the fate for cold wave; a movement so ambitious in scope yet so alien and uncharted in its public esteem. Had it not been for the efforts of revisionist labels such as New York’s Minimal Wave, Angular Recordings, Wierd Records and Ghostly International, who resuscitated the genre back to life in the early to mid 2000s, the genre may have been condemned to obscurity. Cold wave (or coldwave)’s origins bloom from the imminent death of punk’s first wave of artists between 1976 and 1978. The collective sound was controlled yet ‘colder’ than that of their snotty predecessors – punk, with a depressive groove. The development of home-based modular synthesisers, while primitive in their functionality, added another dimension to what was, for the better part of a decade, guitar-led music. These prototypical acts consumed Europe from the late 70s and throughout the 80s. During this pe...