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Really? This is very unlikely to meet the guidelines for WP:EVENT. See also WP:RECENTISM and WP:10YT. WP:SUSTAINED coverage after the cold snap breaks is also pretty unlikely. I am having a very hard time seeing the long term significance of this event. It's a cold snap. They come, and they go. From EVENT...
Editors should bear in mind recentism, the tendency for new and current matters to seem more important than they might seem in a few years time. Many events receive coverage in the news and yet are not of historic or lasting importance. News organizations have criteria for content, i.e. news values, that differ from the criteria used by Wikipedia and encyclopedias generally. A violent crime, accidental death, or other media events may be interesting enough to reporters and news editors to justify coverage, but this will not always translate into sufficient notability for a Wikipedia article.
...Routine kinds of news events (including most crimes, accidents, deaths, celebrity or political news, "shock" news, stories lacking lasting value such as "water cooler stories," and viral phenomena) – whether or not tragic or widely reported at the time – are usually not notable unless something further gives them additional enduring significance.
Notable: This event is separate from the early December 2017 event, and therefore deserves its own article. Recentism does not apply, because it's a current event, and not a prognosis any longer. I could argue, that the article about Brexit smelled of recentism well before then-UK PM Cameron announced the actual Brexit referendum. This article can be expanded as events unfold, and the main winter article given an informative blurb with a link to this one. -Mardus /talk04:52, 7 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
