The phrase "a warm start" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a friendly or positive beginning to an event, project, or relationship.
Example: "We hope to create a warm start to the conference by welcoming all attendees with refreshments and a friendly atmosphere."
Alternatives: "a friendly beginning" or "a positive kickoff".
A warm start to the evening.
It means a warm start to the Premier League season tomorrow.
"A warm start to the season is a gift, a bonus".
NOAA, the Farmer's Almanac, and private forecasts all predict a warm winter thanks to el Nino, and, more specifically, anticipate a warm start to the winter.
With last winter a mild one and with a warm start to the current heating season, New York is close to having the warmest year since the Government began keeping records 121 years ago.
Sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s made for a warm start to the event, which officially began at 7 30 a.m. and was to run into the evening.
The model predictions are compared with operational data from a real power plant during a warm start-up and show reasonably good accuracy.
A stiction compensation method is revised and used as a warm-start to build a suitable trajectory for the predictive controller.
Convergence to the global minimum is guaranteed, since the optimization problem is convex and the global minimizer for the enriched dataset is found using a warm-start algorithm.
A key feature of the proposed method is a warm-start to the optimization procedure, with better initial solution for the nonlinear system of equations, to reduce the number of iterations needed for the calibration of the geometrical multiscale models.
"There are a lot of things in place that have locked us on course to have a really warm start to 2016," said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Nate Mantua.
