What is "subfreezing"

Usage examples of "subfreezing".

For the next 13 days, in subfreezing weather, with 16 broken bones, I trekked across the frozen wilderness with no emergency supplies, hoping to bring back help.

To keep from crashing he quickly flips the helmet visor up so that he can see, allowing the subfreezing air and snow and ice to prick his bare face.

Following the agent out the door, he trotted barefoot down the steps, oblivious to the crusted ice on the wood planks, the snow on the drive, and the subfreezing air on his near-naked body.

First thing that morning, the sun rose high and strong, and in a matter of hours the air went from subfreezing to well above.

The stinging grains of dust had distracted her, but the subfreezing temperature and strong wind had chilled her to the bone.

Even so, the land plants which clung to a subfreezing existence were a sorry lot, nowhere near as impressive as the pika-pina and pika-pedan which thrived out on the ice sheet itself.

She knew these animals could subsist on the dry vegetation that was easily available on the subfreezing but essentially snow-less plains, but she wondered how they found water.

Oh, yeah, now this was the subfreezing temperature he remembered, the arctic air that bit so fiercely, every piece of his exposed skin burned.

It had never occurred to her to stop in the subfreezing temperatures of the desert night to look up at the sky with her naked eyes.

Duckett climbed over the coaming of the bridge cockpit, the subfreezing metal of the conning tower sticking to the crotch of his fur trousers as he felt for the foothold with his boot.

Without foam insulation the subfreezing temperatures of the deep would condense the moisture from their breathing and ice up the hull.

Between the subfreezing temperature and the wind-whipped snow, that was about all I could stand.

Having spent one season with her father in Alaska, she was well aware of the dangers of even short exposure to subfreezing temperatures.

And if the body temperature could be lowered, then a man could stand subfreezing weather in a light white sweater and white gym pants and white leather sneakers, and a man could hold a snow-flake in his hand and watch it not melt.

High levels of ultraviolet and even harder radiation, subfreezing temperatures every night, the soil loaded with superoxides, no liquid water.