The Chicago Bears are preparing to take on the Cleveland Browns at Soldier Field this weekend, and fans had better be ready to bundle up.

That’s because the Bears could be facing one of the coldest games in team history when they take the field along the shores of Lake Michigan, with frigid temperatures and blustery winds expected.

Current forecast models suggest that the game-time temperature could be in the upper-single digits, and if that’s the case, it would only be the 11th game played at Soldier Field with the mercury below 10 degrees.

What’s more, the blustery conditions could push the wind chills below zero, ranking it among the coldest games ever played at the iconic stadium.

But what is the coldest game the Bears have ever played at Soldier Field?

Surprisingly, the Bears have never played a game at the stadium where the temperature was below-zero, but they came very close on several occasions. The coldest came in 1983 when the Bears and Packers squared off on a frozen December day in the city. The game-time temperature was approximately 0.5 degrees, with a wind-chill of minus-17 degrees.

Both of those were record-setting marks for the Bears, who seem to have a penchant for playing the Packers on extremely cold days.

In fact, the two teams played at Soldier Field with a wind chill of minus-16 degrees in Dec. 1978, and a 2008 game where the game-time temperature was 2 degrees, with a wind chill of minus-13.

More recently, a 2022 game between the Bills and Bears was played with the temperature at 7 degrees and a negative-11 wind chill.

The Bears have played only one game with an air temperature below zero, doing so in a Dec. 1972 game against the Vikings. In that game, the air temperature was minus-2 at kickoff, and the wind chill was a blustery negative-26, making it the coldest game in Bears history by both measures.

The coldest game in NFL history was the iconic “Ice Bowl” at Lambeau Field, when the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys played with an air temperature of minus-13 degrees, with a wind chill of minus-48 degrees.

The coldest wind chill in NFL history was recorded at Riverfront Stadium during a 1982 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and San Diego Chargers, with a wind chill of minus-59 recorded at kickoff.