The wind chill at the noon start is predicted to be .... -29.

Right now the temp here is -8 and I have no idea what the wind chill is.

Sooooo, I went and bought all this stuff for nothing -- tomorrow I will go get my money back, LOL. They are only going to let us immerse a body part -- arm, toes, etc -- not go all the way in. It's going to make for a much crappier story! Oh well -- I made several hundred bucks for Special Olympics, and that was really the point.