After recent days of
brutal cold temperatures, park district officials in Wheaton and Glen Ellyn believed outdoor skating would finally return to local lakes and ponds in full force.
Not exact matches
Consider that
brutal cold brings the best ice conditions, but mom and dad are more apt to stand by the propane - fueled fire pits and watch their kids skate if the
temperature is above freezing.
Another devastating cycle of cooling and warming followed: a sudden,
brutal cold snap called the Younger Dryas around 13,000 years ago, followed by rising
temperatures in the current Holocene Epoch.
As we brace for another
brutal New York winter, Certified Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR) Caretakers throughout NYC's five boroughs are preparing their outdoor cat colonies for the
cold temperatures to come.
So for the past 3 million years the average
temperature of the earth hasn't been the warmish 15C of the past 10,000 years of interglacial period but rather the
brutal cold 3C of the glacial periods which last ten times as long as the interglacials.