Baby It's Cold Outside!

It hits you like a ton of bricks from the moment you begin to feel it.
I'm told it's been a long, cold winter on the Prairies already. And if today's bitter temperatures — minus-33 degrees when we landed in Saskatoon earlier today — are any evidence of it, we won't contest that claim (and that's without a wind chill, by the way).
"But it's a dry cold" is a phrase you may hear in these parts on occasion. Believe me, it's hardly (ahem) cold comfort. Bone chilling doesn't begin to describe Old Man Winter's icy grip.
Even inside the Credit Union Centre, where the 2009 BMO Canadian Figure Skating Championships are slowly kicking into gear, the chill is in the air. I'm wearing a coat in the media centre as a type this and let me assure you, I'm not alone.
Good news is on the way, though. A cab driver assured me today it's "warming up" to minus-15 on Thursday. The mercury is expected to climb above zero by the weekend.
Sounds like a veritable heat wave if you ask me.
Imagine that.