How cold is it?

A full two-thirds of the country is in the grips of a blast of cold Arctic air with temperatures falling to some of the lowest marks in years and wind chills plummeting to dangerously low levels. 




The nation’s capital is experiencing what could be its coldest stretch in almost 10 years, according to NBCWashington’s Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer, and brutally cold weather and snow continued to hit much of the Northeast and Great Lakes area. 




In the D.C. area Wednesday morning, temperatures were between 16 and 21 degrees with single-digit wind chills, according to the National Weather Service



I like these cold, gray winter days.  Days like these let you savor a bad mood.~Bill Watterson




I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.  Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.  ~Andrew Wyeth




Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. ~Sinclair Lewis




Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude.~William Shakespeare




Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."  ~Robert Byrne




Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. ~Unknown






And if all that doesn't help stop the shivering, I hope this will...
always works for me.  (I know I've posted it before, but I think it deserves a return engagement)