CHICAGO — Brutal cold has many Chicagoans thinking about getting away to some place warmer.
How about Mars?
Chicago is currently one of the coldest spots on the planet and is even colder than Mars. According to NASA, the current temperature on Mars is minus 2 degrees. Chicago was minus 6 degrees with a wind chill of minus 20 degrees as of 9 a.m. Monday.
The city nearly beat a record for low temperatures, but fell 1 degree shy of the 1983 record when a temperature of minus 13 was recorded at O'Hare International Airport overnight Monday, according to the Tribune.
That means that it was colder overnight in Chicago than in the South Pole, Antarctica, which was at minus 12 degrees at the local time of 3:57 a.m.
There are a few spots on Earth more chilly than Chicago. The North Pole is at minus 18 degrees, and Siberia, home of the coldest town in the world, is currently at minus 31 degrees.
A wind chill advisory will remain in effect until 10 a.m. Monday.
Today’s forecast high temps across much of Canada and the upper midwest are colder than the last reported high from Mars by @MarsCuriosity pic.twitter.com/bGYWG3yIOa
— Mars Weather (@MarsWxReport) December 15, 2016
