Measuring the Chill with a Winter Misery Index
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A woman on snowshoes makes her way along The Mall in Washington during a winter snowstorm that buried the city under what could be record-breaking snowfall, February 6, 2010.
( CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP / Getty )
( CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP / Getty )
Produced by Mythili Rao