This afternoon's sunshine could nudge the temperature abovefreezing.
今天下午的阳光可使温度达到冰点以上。
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Experiments conducted on yeast and garden worms show neither can survive extreme cold, with 99 percent dying after spending 24 hours in temperatures just abovefreezing.
Groundhogs spend the winter hibernating in a specially dug hibernation burrow, their breathing and heartbeats slowed to a snail's pace, their body temperatures not too far abovefreezing.