INDIANAPOLIS -- If it feels like Antarctica when you're outside this week in Indianapolis, you're wrong: It's actually warmer on the continent home to the South Pole than it is here at home.
With wind chills of -10 Thursday morning, and single digit temperature lows in Indy Thursday into Friday, it's literally colder than Antarctica and Alaska.
As of Thursday morning, it was 34 degrees at Base Esperanza, Antarctica (one of two permanently civilized locations on the continent) and 18 degrees in Juneau, Alaska, both warmer than Indianapolis' 6 degrees.
That awkward moment when Alaska and Antarctica is warmer than where you're at. pic.twitter.com/J5rD3jo3ZQ
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The southern hemisphere is in its summer months, during which Antarctica does experience its warmest temps, but the comparison still bears a mention.
Temperatures took a big drop as colder, arctic air invaded the entire U.S. over the course of the week.
This exceptionally cold air is going to be between five-and-15 degrees colder than normal, and it's not warming up next week, either.
Right now, long-term forecast models are showing another, colder blast of the arctic early next week that's expected to affect everyone in the country.
That round of cold air will be between 10-and-20 degrees colder than usual, beginning in the Northwest and Northern Rockies before spreading south and east into the Southwest, Plains and Midwest.
Check the long-term forecast for Indianapolis here.
7-day forecast: Cold and more cold.
So bundle up, and stay safe out there.
