OT: Cold?

[Luigi Zanasi]

-47C (no whinechill - no wind either) so actually -53F last night in Whitehorse.

Weenie! ;-)

[Dave Balderstone]

In case anyone is feeling chilly, you should know that with windchill we're currently at -53C (-63.4F).

Brrr.

djb

[Duane Bozarth]

Ah, weenie! What's the temp--don't give us none of that whinechill factor!!!! :)

I saw -56F at (I think, no place names on the map) Whitehorse on our 10 PM news last night--that's cold! We were promised 0F last night, but the front has (at least temporarily) stalled out just to the northeast of us--it's about that 30 mi NE, but still about 20F and spittin' snow here...not that I'm complaining. The cattle are certainly thinking it's cold enough, watching them huddle.

Coldest I've ever seen here is in the neighborhood of -40F. A normal winter will have a day or so of the 0 to -10F range.

[patrick conroy]

That's the coldest I've personally been in too. About -60F windchill. All I recall was (a) it was physically painful regardless of the winter gear I wore and (b) my then nearly new 1980 Toyota Corolla actually started.

[Dave Balderstone]

When I posted, it was -39C (-38.2F).

Normal here (in the F scale) is a high of 8F and a low of -10. But todays temps are nowhere near record breakers.

Still, I spilled my coffee on the way to start the car and it froze so fast the ice was still hot...

At 1 pm, it's warmed up to -32C (-46C with wind).

But (wait for it...) it's a *dry* cold.

;-)

[Duane Bozarth]

Luigi Zanasi wrote: ...

Actually this was me, not Dave, but who's counting...

Yeah, and I'm not moving farther north or higher up, either!!! :)

That's cold enough to remind me what winter's like -- at least we now have tank heaters that don't blow out night so don't have to chop ice from the stock tanks absolutely every morning and evening. That and hauling water was a full-time job years ago... :(

[Duane Bozarth]

Dave Balderstone wrote: ...

:) I like it!!!

Records here average about -15F or so w/ the occasional -25F neighborhood. Of course, record-keeping here dates back only a little over 100 years, so it's nothing particularly unusual to set new ones, both highs and lows.

"Normals" are mid-to-upper 30s for highs w/ lows in low-to-mid 20s although this is an area of such variability there really isn't an "average"...

[Duane Bozarth]

George wrote: ...

Oh, wind isn't nice, I'll grant. Just used it as a joke. Am on the high plains directly south of Minot where the wind blows even more consistently than there, so know its effects painfully well....spent several years servicing coal analyzers and had several in the Weyburn, SK, area just over the border from Minot so know that area pretty well...

[George]

Of course, -40 is -40 regardless.

I don't call it whinechill, though. Spent a couple nights in a snow/parachute burrow and a mummy bag near Fairbanks many years ago when it was cold and calm. Then they sent me to Minot....

[Paul in MN]

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Before I moved to MN, I was in Northern B.C. & we used to work up near the Territories in the winter. It was -78 one night when we got into a pipeline camp & it never went above -45 for the next three weeks. Of course then I moved south to the warmer climates cuz I was through with that winter crap. Into Minot as well for a winter. Yikes!.. Not quite as cold but the wind never stops blowing. Then into MN where there are a few more trees to break the wind, plus an actual hill or two. The last three weeks were cold as hell in MN too. Back to work now in Angola at a balmy 90 degrees. Woohoo!!! Sure is a hell of a shocker getting back off the plane in Fargo on the way home though. About a 110 degree difference. That'll keep the goolies tucked up for a while.

P.

[Joe Gorman]

Careful, I was there one winter when it got down to about 54° at the airport. Cold enough that my fingers were cramped up after riding my bike the couple of miles to work Joe

[Jack]

yesterday it got down to 72F... windchill was 72F, amazing how that works here in Honolulu. I do like to hear about the change of seasons thought, strengthens my resolve to live here or in the deep south. Jack

[Dave Balderstone]

Ouch! That's just *mean*...

[George]

It's what happens when you list "Midwest" under "area of preference" on your USAF assignment dreamsheet.

[Dave Balderstone]

ROFL! Serves you right, then.

[Leon]

It's pretty cold here too... 60 F with no silly wind chill factor. :~)

[Dave Balderstone]

I recall a number of years ago determining that there was a 127 degree farenheit difference between me here and our tech support person in Melbourne, Florida.

[Larry Jaques]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:55:19 +0000, the inscrutable "Luigi Zanasi" spake:

And I thought the +29F was bad here, WeeGee. Enjoy!

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[Mark & Juanita]

Know what you mean, when I got up this morning it was a chilly 45 degrees F. Got down to freezing yesteday morning -- hate it when that happens, hope winter is over soon. :-)

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[Luigi Zanasi]

Last night I went out for a smoke during the intermission in the Andy Jones (of Codco fame for the Canuckistanis) show. It was -33C and I was only wearing a sweater. I wasn't cold. Amazing what one can get adapted to. After -47C, -33 felt positively balmy. Normally, I would be well bundled up at that temperature Right now I'm wrecking off (tmSM) waiting for the shop to warm up. It was

-9C in there (attached garage) this morning & -28 outside. Shows how much heat I lose from the house despite the 2X6 walls. No heat in there since Monday. For those who are curious, heating the sop is done by a 4800 watt 220V electric heater which I got at an auction this summer. This would have been a gloat as I only paid $CAN20.00 for it (don't know what that would be in Yankee pesos these days). But it ended up costing me more than $50.00 for the breaker, conduit, wire, thermostat, 30A outlet, plugs, etc., I needed to make it work. I got to the auction too late to bid on the old DeWalt RAS. Anyway, there were two of the heaters up for auction & I only wanted one, but I figured, go for a maximum of $40 for both. The guy I bid against got the $40 bid & I gave up. As I was walking away, he runs after me & asks me if I want one, as he also only needs one. Hand him a $20 (the one with the queen, not with Claudia Schiffer), pick up the heater and am on my way.