Talk:Cold wave

Cleanup
This article is very badly written at best. There are dozens of instances of poor English grammar throughout the article, and some of the article looks as though it may have been copied from an external source, without being altered to show a proper encyclopedic tone. This article is of high importance, so it would really benefit from a cleanup, at least to bring it up to minimal Wikipedia standards. Rossenglish 20:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

New cold wave
What about the currently existing 2006-2007 cold wave over parts of Western North America? Temperatures have dropped to -30`C in places, and it is caused by an Arctic high which usually follows an Alutien low. Should it be included? Thanks. AstroHurricane001(Talk+Contribs+Ubx) 22:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Meterorolgy
Nees more on teh meteorology that causes a cold wave. RJFJR (talk) 16:29, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Article refers to many winter storms by name, I presume copy-pasted from a Weather Channel article about winter storms. I do not believe winter storm names should be used on Wikipedia, per NOAA guidelines, but will leave to the community to decide. A decision, when made, should be posted in the Meterorology portal hub. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.46.60.129 (talk) 15:12, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Too many examples?
This seems to me to have a lot of examples. Are they all really significant? THye seem to be showing me that moast years it gets cold somewhere... so waht? RJFJR (talk) 16:33, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Agree. But December 24, 1983 (and days before) stands out in the U.S. One ref reports 125 Record lows in 24 states. 90% of continental U.S. had below freezing temps. Temp in Atlanta: 9F, temp in Anchorage: 10F. Record low wind chills of -80F from South Dakota to Chicago. High pressure in Eastern Montana shattered records by 10 to 20 degrees throughout the state. High temperatures in the teens below zero. Sioux Falls had over 8 straight days of sub zero (not subfreezing, sub zero) temps.  I've never known it to fall below -20F except on clear, calm nights. This was a real exception - 60mph wind is not calm.  --71.38.171.100 (talk) 08:32, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Is this a specifically (North) American term?
I'm British, and have some interest in the weather, and can't recall seeing the phrase "cold wave" used on UK weather forecasts. For example, I don't remember the term being used (in Britain) about the European winter of 2005-06, even though I was following that quite closely. This article is quite strongly US-biased in its general tone, which would suggest that "cold wave" is indeed a (North) American term. I'll happily stand corrected if I'm wrong! Loganberry (Talk) 18:49, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Agree, this article is written purely from an American point of view. Even if 'Cold Wave' is an American term, there should be an explanation as such - what about cold spells in other countries? Is that beyond the scope of this article? What I find worst is the usage of solely farenheit temperatures. This makes points of the article difficult to interpret for anyone not brought up with the scale. Miasmic (talk) 18:35, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I used convert on both Fahrenheit and Celsius. That should help. Peter Horn User talk 18:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Is it just an exact US synonym for a cold snap? This should probably be spelt out one way or the other, eh? I note that the standard term in the UK ('cold snap') gets more than twice as many results on Google, which makes me wonder if we shouldn't be renaming this page... --Oolong (talk) 22:27, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

2010 Cold Wave in US
I see an article for the cold wave across Europe, but I don't see one for the US. The first two weeks of January were pretty brutal across much of the midwest and eastern US. 64.234.100.114 (talk) 03:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * bumping this up to point out two more cold waves in the US, the cold snap that was responsible for the Groundhog day blizzard and the Early December 2013 winter cold snap that has a winter storm that The Weather Channel has named Cleon. this one is expected to be one of the coldest air in North America since that Groundhog day Blizzard. --Boutitbenza 69 9 (talk) 07:14, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

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North America winter extreme of 2017/2018
Time for a separate article for the 2017/2018 northern winter temperature extremes in North America? I added a reference for the 2017/2018 N.America temperature extreme. This article is about cold waves, but it would be misleading to say nothing at all about the fact that the extreme temperature wave is uneven. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/12/28/16827022/climate-change-cold-arctic-snap-us-canada-jet-stream shows a very nice temperature anomaly map: the cold band in N.America - which completely misses west USA, which is hotter than usual, is very nice. It's claimed to come from "University of Maine's Climate Change Institute", but no URL is provided - work required... Boud (talk) 14:59, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

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December 2022 Cold Wave
There has been a cold wave in the United States in December 2022. Cwater1 (talk) 01:24, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

Move the section “Historical Cold Waves” to a new page
I think the Historical Cold Waves part should be moved to a new page called “List of Cold Waves”. This is similar to what was done with the heat wave page, and I think it makes the page less crowded. Gopher7923 (talk) 18:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)