The phrase "a spell of cold" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period of cold weather or a temporary cold snap.
Example: "After a warm autumn, we were surprised by a spell of cold that arrived in early November."
Alternatives: "a cold snap" or "a period of cold weather".
"What is new is this paranoia combined with a spell of cold weather in the United States and the 'climategate' release.
Customers including your correspondent are fuming about repeated power cuts in Johannesburg as Eskom has failed to cope with a spell of cold weather.
Apples, pears, plums, cherries, strawberries, blackcurrants, raspberries, and many others all need a spell of cold to boost their growth the following season.
These incursions occurred after unusual waterfowl movements that were associated with a spell of cold weather in the Black Sea area where HPAI H5N1 virus is believed to have been endemic since autumn 2005.
See articleRussia was gripped by a spell of intense cold, with temperatures in Moscow falling to their lowest in 50 years.
Ina Rosenbaum of Rochester wrote these thoughts during a spell of particularly cold weather: "I have already sent our annual contribution, but we are visiting in southern California and reading about the dreadful cold weather you are having back East.
However, a spell of intensely cold weather during the winter of 1996, when temperatures in parts of the Northeast fell to as low as twenty degrees below zero, seemed to kill many adelgids.
We caught a glimpse of what the natural gas crisis may look like when a spell of bitter cold descended on the Northeast this past winter causing natural gas prices in the region to skyrocket, paper mills in New England to temporarily close and layoff workers and numerous industrial users to have gas supplies interrupted.
If the mood really has been changed by a localised spell of cold weather - and that is a theory rather than a conclusion, I know - it shouldn't depress them too much.
Peter Yealands, owner of New Zealand's largest privately owned vineyard, said a recent spell of cold, wet weather could cut the yield of the coming harvest by half.
South Korea battles freak cold spell Jump to media player South Korea is so concerned about power blackouts during a freak spell of cold weather that the government has told some businesses to start limiting their heating.
