Many Latin American governments have granted their cold warriors sweeping amnesties, seeking to induce a kind of national amnesia.
The current cold snap sweeping the midwest and east coast has packed tens of thousands into emergency housing in small towns and major cities alike.
I stepped out of a car into the cold wind sweeping up the valley and began hiking through an area crosshatched with vineyards.
"The idea of a cold front sweeping across the nation in springtime is doing it in a way that's tongue in cheek," he adds.
The bitterly cold weather sweeping Britain and the rest of Europe has been linked by scientists with the ice-free seas of the Arctic, where global warming is exerting its greatest influence.
In its latest outlook for conditions through February, the National Weather Service predicts abrupt swings in temperature and precipitation, with cold waves sweeping the South and the East and a decent string of northeasters along the Atlantic Coast.
A mass of cloud over the country is like "a tablecloth being thrown across a table"; cold air sweeping south is like "a layer of treacle working its way across a plate of dessert".
He pulled hard on the restaurant door, forcing it open, and stumbled with his tattered flowers into the dark realm between the door and the velvet drapes that had been hung to keep the cold from sweeping in over diners at the front of the room.
They arrived in May and stayed on until midautumn, long after the population had emptied and the stores had mostly shuttered, and Philip would send us a Talk of the Town piece about Wellfleet just as the first cold was sweeping up over the dunes on Cahoon Hollow: A piercing blue sky, gentle ocean breeze, low humidity, clean air.
We walked under avenues of India-rubber trees as large as oaks, and between trellises of tea-roses in bloom, and high clumps of Arundo donax, but a cold wind sweeping through the long alleys made the scene cheerless in spite of this southern vegetation.
