Type 5 is also a clear-weather form and accompanies the "cold wave" type of temperature, also numbered 5.
This should cause a fall of temperature at the adiabatic rate from the ground to the top of the colder current, and is probably the origin of the "cold wave" shown in Type 5.
This is the special characteristic of the "cold wave" type of curve during the day hours.
It is seen that there is a much greater range in the temperature from the crest of a warm to the crest of a cold wave at a height of 500 metres than at the ground.
During December, January, and February a cold wave means the following falls and reductions of temperature.
From March to November inclusive a cold wave means falls of temperature of the same amounts over the same districts, with resulting temperatures of 16 deg.
The cold wave has already been described in Chapter V.
But the weather report is for a cold wave tonight, so I think I'll get the fire going good, and it'll be cozy as a bug in a rug tomorrow morning when everybody comes.
Under the same conditions but with northeast winds there will occur heavy snow followed by a cold wave.
If the mercury does not rise appreciably on a clear winter's day it is a sign that a cold wave is stealing in, due, doubtless, to a gradual increase in pressure without its customary bluster.
Due to their north and south trend a cold wave of any severity reaches the Pacific Coast only once a generation.
The snowstorms that leave on a high wind from the west or northwest are followed by a cold wave.
A cold wave is simply a fall of temperature caused by the cold air from the upper atmosphere sweeping downwards after a cyclone of low pressure has passed.
The hurricane does not come unheralded to our shores, the freezing grip of a cold wave is forecast in time to enable us to fight it, the lightning is tamed by the metal finger we thrust upward to the sky.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cold wave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
