arctic cold
Bitter northern freeze
Arctic cold describes temperatures so severe they evoke the polar regions—bitter, biting, dangerous to exposed skin.
The phrase emphasizes extremity: The arctic cold snap sent temperatures plunging below zero.
Arctic here functions as an intensifier, distinguishing ordinary winter chill from something far more punishing.
- freezingExtremely cold
- bone chillingProfoundly unsettling or frigid
- polarOf extreme latitudes
- polar vortexPersistent circulating cold air mass
- tundraFrigid treeless biome
frozen tundra · glacier · ice cap · North Pole · frostbite · icy · bitter · blizzard · permafrost · subzero · below zero · frozen · windchill · wind chill factor · hypothermia · snow · ice · dead of winter
temperature intensity
arctic coldscorching hot
Extremely high in temperature
tropical heat · sweltering · broiling · white-hot · boiling hot
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