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Couples, if not Mother Nature, felt the love this Valentine’s Day

Mother Nature’s ice-cold heart didn’t stop this couple from getting engaged at the Rockefeller Plaza skating rink Sunday — the coldest Valentine’s Day in city history.

Jolyon Orane, 36, wasn’t going to let the single-digit temperatures — which hit an all-time Feb. 14 low of minus 1 at around 8 a.m. — get in the way of his getting down on one knee to ask his girlfriend, Alexis Mendoza, 30, to marry him.

“In the moment, I wasn’t really cold anymore,” said the guidance counselor at Kreps Middle School in East Windsor, NJ.

“When it was just us on the ice, that’s when my heart really started racing.”

“From the first date, I knew she was really special. It just felt so natural.”

Jolyon Orane proposes to Alexis Mendoza after skating at Rockefeller Center.Helayne Seidman

The lovebirds spent the rest of the day warming up indoors, escaping the subzero temperatures, which broke the date’s record of 2 degrees, set in 1916.

Temperatures got up to only 17 degrees Sunday, which could make it the most frigid day of the season.

“Odds are that this will be the coldest weekend of the winter. It will be awfully tough to get down to zero the later we get in February,” said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines.

The cold snap will come to an end on Tuesday, with spring-like rain showers accompanied by 58-degree temps.