This way, the viruses can get into the cell and start causing cold symptoms.

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The strong cold front causing the severe weather brought huge extremes in temperature readings.

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More heat in the atmosphere is likely to cause (and arguably is already causing) more extreme weather events, including intense heat, cold, droughts, floods, and storms.

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