He was melted out a few years ago and, like the mastodons, had food in his tummy. But he died in a snowstorm, not a Superstorm. Miraculously, the atmosphere did not flip over back then. Strieber s knowledge of climatology would fail the Virginia Standards of Learning for 9th graders. Even high school freshmen are aware that there is very little convective admixing of air between the stratosphere and the troposphere.
Supercooled water is water that remains liquid but is below freezing.
Maybe supercooled air remains gaseous at temperatures below the point that it would become a liquid, which isn t much above absolute zero.