"a blast of winter" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a sudden and unexpected cold snap, typically a few days of cold and windy weather during the winter season. For example, "After weeks of mild winter weather, we were hit with a blast of winter this morning, with temperatures dipping into the single digits."
[C12.] Winter Weather Curtailed Retail Spending Last Month Shoppers curbed their retail spending in February as a blast of winter weather hurt demand for spring apparel.
A blast of winter, meanwhile, has visited an unlikely place: the desert Southwest.
They know what that resource can mean to someone facing a mountain of debt, a chronic illness, or a blast of winter without a warm winter coat.
* The popular Gears 1 map Fuel Depot, back with a blast of winter courtesy of Mother Nature, aka Epic Games.
Today there are 24 rooms spread out over the waterfront, including isolated Beach Cottages among the dunes, where my wife and I spent a very cozy evening, awaking in the morning to a blast of winter sunlight breaking over the edge of the world.
Plant several in a big pot for a blast of Christmas color.
The gooey marmalade sauce is like a blast of summer sunshine, while the stodgy crust is nursery food of the first order.
Ready for a blast of late 90's fighting game nostalgia?
Special windows will not shatter even from a blast of 1,000 pounds of explosives -- the same amount contained in a car bomb that buckled the walls of the old Nairobi embassy and collapsed an adjacent office building.
Treat yourself to a blast of poetry this summer.
As well as losing money, it has alienated developmentalists by investing in such unbucolic areas as telecoms, Internet firms, makers of hiking gear and Canadian airport builders.In response to a blast of criticism this week from the press and the opposition, Clare Short, secretary of state for development, has refined the government's concept for the rudderless CDC.
