cold winds
Frigid air currents
Cold winds are chilly air currents, typically associated with winter weather or exposed locations.
The phrase appears literally in weather contexts and poetically to evoke harshness or inhospitality: Cold winds swept across the plains.
Figuratively, cold winds can signal unwelcome change or hostility: Cold winds are blowing through the industry.
- chillCold sensation or relaxation
- bone chillingProfoundly unsettling or frigid
- gustBrief wind surge
- bitingHarshly critical or cold
- frostThin ice coating
howling · bitter · blizzard · icy · arctic · polar vortex · northerly · breeze · shiver · teeth chattering · windchill · blustery · drafty · piercing · cut to the bone · raw · whipping · gale
- wintersnow, ice, frozen, frost, icicle
- wind effectstornadoes, hurricanes, sand storms, dust storms, blizzards
- Cold DesertsGobi Desert, polar desert, Antarctic, Gobi, Atacama
- Subarctictaiga, boreal forest, subarctic, Arctic Circle, permafrost
- weatherweather, rain, sun, snow, cloud
- ArcticArctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Arctic wildlife, Arctic exploration, Arctic research
temperature
cold windshot winds
Warm moving air masses
scorching winds · sirocco · desert winds · Santa Ana winds · warm currents
cold, colds, colder, coldest, coldly, coldness, wind, winds, windy