This cold air rushes up around the pipe containing the air to be liquefied and escapes at the top, thus absorbing the heat until the temperature is reduced to 312 degrees below zero.
During our trip, and especially while we were on the east side of the lake, the temperatures recorded were very low, often 45 degrees below zero.
It must not be forgotten, however, that, except for the cracking of the frozen trees, it is deathly still and quiet in these regions when the temperature drops to 10 degrees below zero.
It will easily be imagined this service cannot be very agreeable when the thermometer stands 30 or 40 degrees below zero as sometimes happens in this country.
Mr. Stuart had an excellent thermometer which indicated the lowest state of temperature to be 43 degrees below zero.
In going out however we never suffered the slightest inconvenience from the change of temperature though the thermometer in the open air stood occasionally thirty degrees below zero.
The atmosphere had been clear every day during the last week, about the end of which snow fell, when the thermometer rose from 20 degrees below to 16 degrees above zero.
The thermometer stood on an average at 8 degrees below zero, and the water in the cistern was completely frozen.
Some shelter must be found before the temperature should fall to 60 degrees below zero.
The temperature there in the fall dropped to 36 degrees below zero, and all of their walnuts of these other strains were killed to the ground, but the Carpathian came through uninjured.
They remain upon the open prairie during our severest winters, while the thermometer ranges from 30 to 40 degrees below zero, with little or no food except what they rustled on the prairie, and no shelter at all.
Vines of Rotundifolia have been known to withstand a winter temperature as low as 12 degrees below zero, but under ordinary conditions this would undoubtedly be much too severe for most Rotundifolias.
About the only points of difference are that it is much hardier (some of the Wisconsin vines stand a temperature as low as 20 degrees below zero); it is said to be slightly less resistant to mildew and more resistant to phylloxera.
It is considered hardy by those familiar with it in the Southwest, and Campbell states that it withstood, without injury, 32 degrees belowzero at Delaware, Ohio.
Early in the year we had an arctic cold wave which put the thermometer from 23 to 33 degrees below zero.
Last year at Toronto it did not fall lower than 9 degrees below zero.
You can't see the branches for the fruit, and the thermometer there falls to 22 degrees below zero.
The water is clay-coloured and turbid, always cooler than the air, which again was 4 degrees or 5 degrees below that of Calcutta, with a damper atmosphere.
The mean annual temperature throughout the Jheels is less than 2 degrees below that of Calcutta.
We were not long before enjoying the water, when I was surprised to find that of the Teesta singularly cold; its temperature being 7 degrees below that of the Rungeet.
The thermometers of arctic explorers are always filled with spirits of wine, as quicksilver freezes at about 40 degrees below zero, and is therefore unsuitable.
The mercury is 5 degrees below zero, and the aurora is glorious.
Owls hooted among the pines, the trail was obscure, the country was not settled, the mercury was 9 degrees below zero, my feet had lost all sensation, and one of them was frozen to the wooden stirrup.
In my unchinked room the mercury is 1 degrees below zero.
Yesterday morning the mercury had disappeared, so it was 20 degrees belowzero at least.
The cold was so intense that, at mid-day with the sun shining, the thermometer stood at 26 degrees below zero.
That night there came a frost, and on the morning of November 5 my thermometer showed 22 degrees below zero.
I have frequently known the thermometer range from 16 degrees to 20 degrees below zero, for a week together.
It was, however, stated in the papers, both in Canada and the State of New York, that the real cold was 40 degrees below zero, or 72 degrees below freezing point.
The quicksilver in Fahrenheit's thermometer was frozen in the ball, which marks 39 degrees below zero.
A death-like stillness reigned; the thermometer in camp had registered 37 degrees below zero, and we knew that the mercury would keep falling till midnight.
The temperature this morning registered 30 degrees below zero, and even while we were engaged tying the sleigh ropes, long icicles formed at our chins and dripped from our eyelashes.
We were hungry as hawks, desperately tired, and the temperature outside is 35 degrees below zero.
The thermometer stood at 35 degrees below zero, the coldest day we have had up to this time; and in two minutes the unfortunate man's clothes were frozen so stiff that he could scarcely walk!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "degrees below" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
