I am no meteorologist, but, dude, it is freeze-your-fingers-off cold.
WHIO-TV’s Rich Wirdzek is painting a picture that would make a polar bear cringe.
Wirdzek told the Breaking News team wind chills could be at minus 25 and minus 35 below zero throughout the day. He says it could be as cold as 40 below in the evening.
Brrrrrrrrr.
The weather is bad, but as they say, things can always be worse.
Here are five things that are colder than Dayton:
Jack Nicholson in “The Shining”
No thermostats appeared on screen but it had to be colder than Dayton to make a man-sicle out of Jack.
All work and no play makes Jack a frozen boy in the original big screen adaptation of the Steven King novel.
By the way, the Mayo Clinic says hypothermia, the thing that happens when your body loses heat faster than it produces it, kicks in when your body’s core temperature drops below 95 degrees.
The widely accepted normal core body temperature is 98.6 degrees.
John Castellani of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine told livescience.com in 2010 that 56.7 degrees was the record for the lowest body temperature at which an adult was known to survive. That person had been submerged in cold, icy water.
Liquid nitrogen
If you think 40 below is bad, try minus 346 to minus 320.44 on for size. Misusing liquid nitrogen can cause your flesh to freeze.
Not a cute look at all.
The Snow Miser
You are not really cold unless whatever you touch turns to snow in your clutch.
Snow Miser, the half-brother of Heat Miser in the 1974 Christmas classic “The Year Without a Santa Claus,” is too much.
He’s Mister Icicle
He’s Mister Ten Below
That really, really cold place in Antarctica … Yeah that one
Drum roll, please … NASA scientists last month revealed that the coldest place on the planet is a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau. Temperatures on a clear winter night can dip below minus 133.6 degrees, NASA says.
The record of minus 136 degrees was set on Aug. 10, 2010.
The space agency says the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth is the northeastern Siberia towns of Verkhoyansk and Oimekon. Temperatures dipped to a 90 degrees below zero there in both 1892 and 1933.
Uranus
Uranus has 27 moons and is likely poisonous to humans, according to NASA.
But the average temperature is minus 350 degrees.
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