Toronto's shitting of the bed notwithstanding, they at least still have street meat, and similar projects started in Calgary and Vancouver have met with some success in recent years, in spite of the attendant profusion of puns and extreme spelling (Perogy Boyz, Feastro Urban Bistro, Fasttrac Fusion, etc).
The comparison among the datasets is based on the duration, frequency and intensity of three different spell characteristics, namely dry, wet and extreme wet spells, and their associated trends.
The possible reason is that in urban areas, people are sent to an emergency room quickly and with more severe diseases during an extreme cold spell, while people in rural areas are unable to access emergency services when they are ill.
At most of the locations, duration of extreme rainfall spells is found to be stationary, while non-stationary associations between intensity and frequency and local changes in temperature are detected at a large number of locations.
However, the health effects of extreme cold spells may be larger in these warm regions because populations are not acclimatized to cold spells and are unprepared for such events [ 3].
The 2008 cold spell that occurred in subtropical China provided a unique research opportunity to assess the health impacts of extreme cold spells in subtropical regions.
Extreme wet spells are defined using the 90th percentile of rainfall above the depth of wet day.
Less, however, has been said about the effect of extreme cold spells on mankind's capacity for violent crimes.
This will allow "more frequent and cold air outbreaks from the Arctic", causing extreme cold spells on the east coast of the US and parts of Europe.
"If you've been hearing that extreme cold spells, like the one that we're having in the United States now, disprove global warming, don't believe it," Holdren said.
