Here is a good idea of how cold it can get and what happens when it gets extremely cold:
68°F: Room temperature. Floridians start wearing heavy coats. Yugos refuse to start.
50°F: How cold a beer gets when you put it in the freezer for about 5 minutes. Californians can't stop shivering.
40°F: New Yorkers turn off the air conditioners
35°F: Average temperature of a refrigerator. Fiats refuse to start.
32°F: Water freezes.
30°F: Floridians can barely move with all of the layered clothing they have on.
20°F: Lawyers sunbathe. Californians head to Brazil.
10°F: Wisconsin people fasten their top button. Japanese cars refuse to start.
0°F: Too cold to move. Alaskans go to the beach.
-10°F: New Yorkers start wearing long sleeve shirts.
-20°F: Water freezes before it hits the ground.
-30°F: Ice fog begins to form. Floridians move deep underground and live like Morlocks.
-37°F: Mercury freezes.
-40°F: The temperature when Celsius and Fahrenheit become equal. Wisconsin people wear light jackets.
-50°F: Too cold to think. Hollywood spontaneously breaks away from the mainland and sinks.
-60°F: Democrats put their hands in their own pockets.
-80°F: Average temperature of Mars. Alaskans have snowball fights in their bathing suits.
-100°F: To cold to breathe. New Yorkers refuse to start. Lawyers have a cookout.
-150°F: Wisconsin people put their beer kegs in the oven in a desperate attempt to thaw them. Alaskans go ice fishing.
-200°F: To cold to live. Lawyers consider turning off their air conditioners.
-250°F: Santa Claus skips Christmas this year.
-300°F: Wisconsin people refuse to start.
-363°F: Oxygen freezes. Alaskans bundle up.
-400°F: Average temperature of Pluto.
-459°F: Absolute zero.
-480°F: Hell freezes. Lawyers fasten their top button.
-500°F: Al Gore finally admits that he was wrong about global warming.