cold snap

noun

: a brief period of very cold weather

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Prevent a cold snap from withering your garden by knowing your area’s last frost date and watching the weather. Charlotte Germane, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2025 Potholes wreak havoc on rims and tires, and more may pop up as Indy emerges from its current cold snap. Justin L. MacK, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025 Coming cold snap The snow flurries will be followed by plunging temperatures, with more than 65 million Americans now under cold weather alerts across 13 states from Texas to Minnesota. Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2025 The last cold snap has frozen the ice to more than average thickness. Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cold snap

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“Cold snap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20snap. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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