Dangerously cold temperatures have settled in the midwest this week, and the Chicago set of Empire has not escaped the frigid winter weather.
The city is seeing temperatures of only -22 degrees, with wind chills dipping to the positively glacial -40s.
The shifting Polar Vortex, which is a large area of low pressure and cold air that surrounds the Earth’s poles, has basically forced some of the insane temps from the North Pole to enter the United States, leading to the record lows and at least seven deaths across the midwest.
According to Entertainment Weekly, this means that, as of right now, Chicago is colder than recently recorded temperatures on Mars, and is actually rivaling temperatures in the Arctic and parts of Siberia, which are obviously some of the coldest places on Earth.