How Cold Is It?

here's cold and there's the kind of cold that freezes your soul.

The kind of cold that makes even winter-tested Chicago throw in the towel.

That makes battle-hardened Boston cry out "Enough already!"

And sunny Florida lament, "Not us too!"

Pretty much the entire eastern half of the United States is in the ice box. From the Canadian border to the Gulf Coast, temperatures are 25 to 45 degrees below normal.

That's 115 million people in 27 states shivering and shouting choice epithets.

It's close-the-schools kind of cold

Schools districts are canceling classes as far south as Georgia. Even in Chicago, where you'd think they'd be used to this sort of thing.

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It's warmer-in-Alaska kind of cold

In Fairfax, Virginia, the temperature Thursday morning will be -13 degrees C. In Anchorage, Alaska? -4 degrees C.