Day 16: Baby it's cold outside

Today the daytime temperatures dipped below zero. Daytime maximum temperatures have been below freezing most days for the last week or so, but today was really cold. There was even a 'Wind Chill Advisory' issued because the effective temperature was due to be between -15 and -25 °F with the wind taken into account.

For those who are Fahrenheitedly challenged:
0 °F is approx -18 °C
-20 °F is approx -28 °C

Today was the coldest day in the region for two years apparently - just going outside was considered to be dangerous. The Friday-afternoon skiing at Exile #3's school, having been cancelled due to lack of snow a few weeks ago, was cancelled today because of the cold. Exile #2 and Exile #4 were caught in a salt-storm in a parking-lot when a gust of wind stirred up salt from the road and hurled it at their few bits of exposed skin. My excitement was the walk from work to the car. After a cold, but manageable 5 minute walk, I realised that I had moved the car earlier in the day and had left it in the opposite direction. It turns out that the advice from the TV weather reporters to avoid standing around outside was not over-stated. A ten minute walk wearing hat, coat and scarf was enough to make me not only cold, but indifferent about who might see me looking cold. Tomorrow, the temperature may reach approximately 0 °C. Suddenly that (32 °F) sounds positively balmy.