Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cold wave

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The result was keep. Sango123 03:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cold wave

A meterologist can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there is actually an event known as a cold wave. Delete per WP:NEO. --Peta 03:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep but deferring to people knowledgeable about meteorology if they show up. Per a Google scholar search [1] (mostly academic journals, papers and so on), there are 1,000+ results and many seem to be using the term as the article describes it. From that, seems like this is a real thing. --W.marsh 03:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Few of those articles are talking about really cold weather as this article is, the are describing specific types of air currents or something to do with lasers.--Peta 03:34, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Eh it looks to me like some are. "Damage to western Washington forests from November 1955 cold wave", "Police to round up homeless when a cold wave grips city", "The cold wave at Hong Kong, January 1893-its after effects" and so on. --W.marsh 03:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
      • Dictionary.com has an two entries for the term [2] so it appears to be real. --Edgelord 04:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
• Exceedingly weak keep only because it makes sense as the opposite of a heat wave. Made a bit stronger by the above. Morgan Wick 04:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but needs work. I must admit I had not heard of this but a quick check with two co-workers indicates that it's real enough. Environment Canada defines "cold wave" as "Marked cooling of the air, or the invasion of very cold air, over a large area." They also issue "Cold wave warnings." Here's the warning criteria for Ontario and for Atlantic Canada. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:26, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Here's two more from the NOAA's NWS and the NWS in Milwaukee in the United States. I couldn't find anything at the UK's Met Office though. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep per above. --JJay 12:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, per CambridgeBayWeather. SB_Johnny | ^talk 11:03, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per CambridgeBayWeather. bob rulz 05:22, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.