Weather Idioms - Expletive Ice!

Because we are all locked into the ice today - classes cancelled, schools closed, liturgy postponed (quite a shock, that, as it is a feast day with ordinations planned) - I am sitting in the kitchen and thinking about how we talk about the weather.

I don't mean snow "showers" or "moderate rainfall".  I mean the vivid idioms that people use to describe the extremes of weather and the emotional reactions they provoke.

For instance....

Really really heavy rain might be

• pissing it down
• bucketing down
• a real toad choker
• a frog strangler

An extremely hot day might be

• hotter 'n a June bride in a featherbed [best said with a Tennessee drawl]
• fried egg time [refers to possibility of frying an egg on tarmac]
• hotter than hell

Extremes of cold might be

• cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey [sometimes  abbreviated to "brass monkeys"]
• colder than a pocket full of penguin sh*t Source: AmeriSpeak
• colder than a politician's heart

Perhaps we should create some more? Cold enough to close Concordia?