Sometimes, the best way to brave cold weather is with 140-character tweets.
The Eastern U.S. faced one of its coldest Valentine's Days yet on Sunday, with temperatures in some areas hovering around zero degrees Fahrenheit. Boston, which fell to minus-9 degrees Fahrenheit, had its coldest Valentine's Day on record, trouncing the minus-3 degrees Fahrenheit set in 1934. In New York, the low temperature was 1 degree below zero, which was the coldest the city has been since 1994. Even without a snow cover, which tends to keep things cool, the Eastern U.S. experienced one its coldest outbreaks in a decade.
It drove most people living in the brutally cold areas indoors, and -- specifically -- onto Twitter. All this, on the biggest Hallmark holiday of the year.
For singles all across the Internet, justice never felt so cold and so sweet. As couples everywhere pressed their blue lips together, forecasters delivered some of the most depressing infographics of the year.
5:30 am ET: Wind chill of -34 degrees F in #Boston, with actual air temperature of -9 degrees F. pic.twitter.com/iYI8wgpguV— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) February 14, 2016
Temperatures dropped into the negatives across the tri-state area, but the Internet always stays warm.
I can't feel my face when I'm in New...York I love it. #Freezing— Bryan Greenberg (@bryangreenberg) February 13, 2016
it's going to be 1 degree tomorrow on valentine's day which really is a perfect metaphor for my current love life, just cold & kind of sad— Andy Tongren (@andytongren) February 13, 2016
I don't understand people who live in super cold climates. Yes, this place is freezing. It can kill you. Let's raise kids here.— Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn) February 11, 2016
Flirting in cold weather is great because all of our flaws are covered by huge coats and body fat.— KELLY DIAMOND (@KellyDiamond_) February 12, 2016
Show someone you love them today by not making them go outside in this cold.— Abbi Crutchfield (@curlycomedy) February 14, 2016
Valentine's Day is hard in NYC. Even the temperature is single. pic.twitter.com/MaI8c30XQG— Matteo Lane (@MatteoLane) February 14, 2016
Telling people the temperature outside isn't enough. We need to see a screen shot of your weather app.— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) February 14, 2016
It is colder than a Victorian social snub outside— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) February 14, 2016
This weekend's weather forecast is a series of near-haikus on varieties of cold pic.twitter.com/uWZEaBFYKr— Sasha Weiss (@sashagila) February 13, 2016
It's always so warm, by the Twitter fire.