Cold Snap (album)

Cold Snap is a 1996 album by Weeping Tile. The band's first major label album, it features a somewhat more rock-oriented sound than the band's debut independent release.

Track listing

All songs written by Sarah Harmer

Personnel

References

Cold wave

A cold wave (known in some regions as a cold snap) is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air. Specifically, as used by the U.S. National Weather Service, a cold wave is a rapid fall in temperature within a 24-hour period requiring substantially increased protection to agriculture, industry, commerce, and social activities. The precise criterion for a cold wave is determined by the rate at which the temperature falls, and the minimum to which it falls. This minimum temperature is dependent on the geographical region and time of year.

In the United States, a cold spell is defined as the national average high temperature dropping below 18 °F (−8 °C).

Effects

A cold wave can cause death and injury to livestock and wildlife. Exposure to cold mandates greater caloric intake for all animals, including humans, and if a cold wave is accompanied by heavy and persistent snow, grazing animals may be unable to reach needed food and die of hypothermia or starvation. They often necessitate the purchase of foodstuffs to feed livestock at considerable cost to farmers.

Cold snap (disambiguation)

A cold snap, also known as a cold wave, is a period of intensely cold and dry weather

Cold snap may also refer to:

1994 North American cold wave

The 1994 North American cold wave occurred in the northern United States and southern Canada on January 18, 1994.

During the same period, the western United States experienced one of its most damaging earthquakes ever, and the eastern United States experienced a major snowfall that significantly delayed traffic.

Over 100 deaths occurred in the United States as a result of the weather.

Chicago

Temperatures in Chicago, Illinois reached −21 °F (−29.4 °C) with windchill of −55 °F (−48.3 °C), the coldest day of the 1990s in Chicago by far. Almost all primary and secondary schools in Chicago were closed that day. Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago advised residents not to go outside if they do not have to. Nearly all schools in the area were closed and four people in Cook County, Illinois died from hypothermia. Hundreds of drivers per hour complained to the AAA-Chicago Motor Club about dead automobile batteries, fuel injectors being too cold and other vehicle issues and United Airlines cancelled almost half of its flights. Tens of thousands of individuals complained about a lack of power due to severed electricity lines while water companies shut off water to homes as a result of pipe explosions. Thousands of apartment renters complained to Cook County about insufficient heat.