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It's Colder Here Than At the North Pole

It's even too cold for Lincoln Park Zoo's polar bear.


By Shannon Antinori, Patch.com




According to Weather.com, at around 10 p.m. Monday, it was a balmy 15 degrees at the North Pole. Not so much in the Morton Grove area, where it was -11 degrees, with a "real feel" temperature of -35 when you accounted for the wind chill.

It was too cold for more than just the human population.

A spokeswoman for the Lincoln Park Zoo told DNAInfo Chicagothat even the zoo's polar bear, Anana, didn't like the sub-zero temperatures.

"Few of us are accustomed to this cold," spokeswoman Sharon Dewar said. During the deep-freeze, the city bear was being kept warm in a climate-controlled area at the zoo.

"She doesn’t typically enjoy the very cold much," Dewar reportedly said.

We're with you, Anana.

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