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Red Sox home opener: What you need to know

The calendar may say Opening Day at Fenway Park, but the thermometer mocks us that it’s freezing with a chance of hypothermia sandwiched between this morning’s wind advisory and tomorrow’s snow threat. So if you’re going to today’s game, bundle up, cowboy up, and don’t say we didn’t warn you with these five wicked helpful tips for surviving the Red Sox’ return to Major League Baseball’s oldest ballpark.

• When Sox southpaw David Price takes the mound at 2:05 p.m., temperatures will be barely clinging to the low 40s — and dropping — with a wind chill of 32 degrees and wind gusts from the west-northwest of 40 mph, according to Bob Thompson, head meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Norton.