I don’t know where you live, but it sounds terrible…
We aren’t that cold anymore- it’s unusual to drop below zero f now- back in the 70’s, 80’s 90’s though, we woudl get anywhere from 1-4 weeks of really blistering cold -20’s, sometimes -30’s- That was on east coast, with the cold air off the ocean in winter- it was brutal- now, some years, we don’t even get snow until Feb sometimes- and might drop to -10 f for a week or 2