harsh winter
Severe cold season
A harsh winter is one marked by extreme cold, heavy snow, or generally severe weather conditions that make life difficult.
The phrase appears in weather reports, historical accounts, and everyday conversation: Many birds didn't survive the harsh winter.
It can extend figuratively to difficult periods: The company faced a harsh winter after the scandal.
- bitterSharp, unpleasant taste
- coldLow temperature state
- bone chillingProfoundly unsettling or frigid
- frostThin ice coating
- blizzardViolent prolonged snowstorm
snowstorm · ice storm · polar vortex · icy · freezing · wind chill · brutal · severe · frostbite · howling · wind · barren · desolate · numbing · snowed in · cabin fever · biting · chill
- Cold Expressionsfreezing cold, bitter cold, bone-chilling, cold snap, cold spell
- extreme weatherblizzard, hurricane, tornado, typhoon, heat wave
- weatherweather, rain, sun, snow, wind
- European wildernessBlack Forest, Carpathian Mountains, Alps, Pyrenees, Scottish Highlands
harsh, harshly, harshness, winter, winters, wintery, wintry, winterize, winterized