"Cooling" Is Far More Dangerous Than "Warming" – The Lid

I spent the final eight days of 2022 traversing several states by car in wintry weather. While I was only a couple hundred miles away, I didn’t get to western New York, where nearly 40 people — and sadly, more nationally — lost their lives as blizzard conditions and sub-zero temperatures subsumed Buffalo and about half the country.

Some cold weather victims were caught outdoors and froze to death; others suffered heart attacks while shoveling snow; many died in homes lacking heat. No matter the situation, the underlying killer was frigid winter weather.