"vulnerable to cold" is a valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a person, animal, or object that is easily affected by cold temperatures or is at risk of being harmed by them. Example: The stray cat was vulnerable to cold, shivering and huddling under a cardboard box to stay warm during the winter months.
(The ankles, he said, are particularly vulnerable to cold).
Tricked into thinking that spring is approaching, the early buds leave themselves vulnerable to cold snaps, like this one.
And they are vulnerable – to cold, violence, exploitation and prostitution, and to death as they take crazy risks throwing themselves on to trains heading for Britain.
The results are likely to give the first true indication of the scale of winter mortality among the commoner songbirds which visit gardens, particularly the very small species which are especially vulnerable to cold, such as long-tailed tits and wrens, and perhaps robins,.
But some species that are vulnerable to cold shock, like the Atlantic croaker, appear to be expanding their range and ability to survive in the Northeast because of climate change, said Kenneth W. Able, a professor at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University and the director of the university's Marine Field Station.
People in the southern regions tended to be more vulnerable to cold stress, but the northern population was more sensitive to heat stress.
Sugar depletes the immune system, making the body more vulnerable to colds and flu.
For cold, assessing chronic health impacts using exposure response functions based on time series analyses implies that those who are vulnerable to cold-related risks have the same life expectancy as the population average.
The first challenge for health and social care staff is to identify those older people who are vulnerable to cold-related ill health, even if not fuel poor and those whose vulnerability may not be apparent, for example, they do not see themselves as old or frail, and place pride in their independence and hardiness.
But preparation is impossible, he said, because the fleet is chronically vulnerable to bitter cold weather and soft snow.
"But it was the same scenario, with the very warm weather making the trees vulnerable to the cold".
