Report: It’s Stupidly Cold at Wesleyan and Actually Getting Colder

Could this be a flashback to Winter 2011 at Wes?

Welcome back to Wesleyan, where Foss Hill is totally frozen and High Rise is scheduled to lose hot water pretty much any minute now. According to Weather.com, which is calling this the coldest air of the season, it’s 18 degrees Fahrenheit right now in Middletown and going down to 12 degrees later tonight (which will feel like 0 with the wind chill). On the bright side, it’s supposed to warm up to a tropic 25 on Friday.

If you’re arriving in Bradley tonight from a warm locale like Florida or Los Angeles, consider boarding another flight home. If you’re thinking of going outside, consider not doing that:

Upperclassmen might recall the first weeks of Spring Semester 2011, when Wesleyan was repeatedly hammered by wintry weather that also cancelled classes and collapsed Middletown roofs. Could this be a repeat? So far, it’s mostly just the cold—there’s not much in the way of snow. But that can change quickly.

At any rate, WesKids are freezing, and possibly making themselves colder by taking their gloves off to tweet about it:

I have never been so happy to see Bradley even though it is negative 100000 degrees

— ner??us ? (@weird_vibes) January 22, 2013

But why is it 18 degrees outside

— klee (@kitkaths) January 22, 2013

@wesleying my hair froze walking from lawn to the cfa

— ally bernstein (@bellevide) January 22, 2013

my housemates are inside with weswings takeout but I will persevere in the face of adversity

— ally bernstein (@bellevide) January 22, 2013

Foss Hill is literally frozen. CNN is projecting the Butts will lose hot water in approximately six hours.

— Wesleying (@wesleying) January 22, 2013

Hope you’re bundled up today, ‘Cac.

— The ‘Cac (@inthecac) January 22, 2013

More information on Weather.com.

Update:

@wesleying update: showers are COLD in hirise, maybe consider staying stinky

— ner??us ? (@weird_vibes) January 23, 2013

Update 2: Okay, let’s just let the High Rise livefeed continue:

texting my apartment-mate from the room next door abt hirise losing hot water cuz it’s too Fing cold to get out of bed + tell her in person

— ner??us ? (@weird_vibes) January 23, 2013

thought: physical plant turned off the heat cause they thought we’d all be drunk well the joke is on me because I am not that cool

— ner??us ? (@weird_vibes) January 23, 2013

this is like when yr camping and it gets so cold that u retreat back into yr mummy sleeping bag and never come out

— ner??us ? (@weird_vibes) January 23, 2013

but for real when I stick my head out of the blankets I feel the chill wind of Nature

— ner??us ? (@weird_vibes) January 23, 2013

nature you have no place in hirise begone cruel mistress

— ner??us ? (@weird_vibes) January 23, 2013

this is the kind of cold that can only be solved by blubber. OR FUCKING CENTRAL HEATING C’MON WESLEYAN

— ner??us ? (@weird_vibes) January 23, 2013