big freeze
Severe cold snap
The big freeze is a period of extremely cold weather, especially one that persists for weeks or longer: The big freeze of 1963 shut down Britain for months.
In cosmology, the Big Freeze is a theoretical end state of the universe in which all matter disperses and temperatures approach absolute zero—heat death through infinite expansion.
- blizzardViolent prolonged snowstorm
- winter stormSevere cold-season weather
- glaciationIce sheet spreading process
- ice stormFreezing rain accumulation
- absolute zeroTheoretical minimum temperature
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