"chilly atmosphere" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
Example: The room was filled with a chilly atmosphere, making everyone feel uncomfortable and tense.
Still, Mrs. Clinton may have contributed to the chilly atmosphere in her remarks just before the meeting.
You could imagine the chilly atmosphere at the breakfast table, the prime minister is said to have remarked to friends afterwards.
In the blinding heat of that love, Martha appears to have missed a clue to the otherwise chilly atmosphere of the sisters' childhood.
Paul Howlett Red Lights (Rodrigo Cortés, 2012), 11.20pm, Film4 Red Lights is rather more expansive than Cortés's thriller Buried, but once again he creates a chilly atmosphere with shocks.
A friend, now suspended from his job at Hungarian national radio for opposing the media law, says the chilly atmosphere at a recent editorial meeting was "like the [Stalinist] '50s" - except, of course, that it was funny, not scary, and no one was tortured afterward.
Despite the inclusion of the occasional folksy melody, as on "858-7", the music has a distanced formality that reflects the somewhat chilly atmosphere of the paintings.
It ends in a chilly new atmosphere of open-plan offices and hard-headed sales conferences, where backlists are pulped, the marketers make decisions on what we are allowed to read and publishers crave a 'synergistic' alliance with movie studios or television networks.
The sharp gradient between summer's stubborn warmth and the encroachment of chilly Arctic air helps prime the atmosphere for explosive storms that often unleash their fury not just on the Northeast but often on huge swaths of the United States.
Mr Kissinger's memoirs deny that the meeting was chilly, calling the atmosphere "rather warm".
But the portrait is more than all this, with its forbidding atmosphere and chilly white light.
