extreme cold
Bone-chilling temperatures
Extreme cold describes temperatures far below comfortable or survivable ranges—conditions that pose serious danger to living things and can damage materials.
The phrase often appears in weather warnings: An extreme cold advisory is in effect through Friday.
What counts as extreme varies by context; for humans, it typically means well below freezing, while scientific or industrial uses may refer to cryogenic temperatures approaching absolute zero.
- bone chillingProfoundly unsettling or frigid
- parkaInsulated hooded winter coat
- polar vortexPersistent circulating cold air mass
- freezing pointTemperature of phase transition
- permafrostPerpetually frozen earth layer
shivering · ice storm · tundra · hibernation · hypothermia · supercooling · absolute zero · blizzard · wind chill · below zero · cryogenics · polar night · ice age · cryopreservation · subzero temperatures · snowdrift · frozen tundra · cryosphere
- AntarcticaSouth Pole, Amundsen, Scott, penguins, ice sheet
- FairbanksFairbanks, North Pole, aurora borealis, northern lights, ice fog
- cold climatestundra, taiga, boreal forest, alpine zone, permafrost
- Extreme Conditionsblizzard, hurricane, tornado, typhoon, heatwave
- extreme temperaturesfreezing, boiling, scorching, frigid, subzero
- Extreme Terrainabyss, arctic, Antarctic, Antarctica, Death Valley
extreme coldextreme heat
Severe high temperature
scorching heat · sweltering heat · oppressive heat · burning hot · inferno