Talk to a night club doorman about cold. Nothing says macho like standing in a mostly open doorway between where it's +40º and -40º for six hours at a time.
I did it in Ottawa for fifteen years... I still laugh in the face of anything above about -25º. And windchill is for people who don't know how to dress in the cold.
I once dated a girl who came to Canada from her Siberian city of Omsk - her comments were on how the air was so dry that it didn't feel cold. Of course, there is colder cities like Atlan, Irkhutsk and Okhotsk.
Reminds me the story of the drunk Russian wandering in Siberia... Hocking loogies and naming villages along the way!
i played sponge hockey saturday afternoon and it was -40 (with windchill)...dress for it boys...i was sweating!!!
driving to work this morning i saw people standing at bus stop with no gloves...it's minus 'friggin 40...what are you thinking????? give your head a shake!
I mean, it's -38°C!!!! How can exist on the surface of our mother earth such a temperature, and how can it be that i live in that place?
I'm afraid to go out, i may die instantly.
Edit: -49 with windchill.
Hahahahah !
Go outside and find a soccer pole, then do this to it and take lots of pictures, then come back here and report !
What I find amazing is that the temperature at the airport is -40C this morning, but I just checked the temperature at the Forks, and it is a "balmy" -31C. It's crazy that there is a ten degree difference over a distance you could drive in about 15 minutes.
When I walked onto Portage Ave in Wolesley this morning, it looked like the apoclypse - orange sky, (furnace) smoke billowing over all the buildings of downtown, it was truly a site to see - right before my eyelids froze shut...
I mean, it's -38°C!!!! How can exist on the surface of our mother earth such a temperature, and how can it be that i live in that place?
I'm afraid to go out, i may die instantly.
Wimp. Back in the 90s we had 21 straight days where the mercury didn't go above -30 at all. Now THAT was fun. Any running cars at that point deserved a medal.
For the record, I'll take pseudo-winters over -30 any day. There's NOTHING that -30 makes better, other than an ex-Winnipegger's sense of ego.
My favourite is taking the current temperatures during January and February and converting it to fahrenheit and impressing any Americans I know with them. And then I tell 'em "I've been in worse..."
Any one live in west broadway and has jumper cables want to give me a boost tonight? Car wouldn't start this morning and had to walk to work. There is beer in it for you.
Kind of sad how it's "only" -7 in Iqaluit on that picture.
This is going to be our second day this year with temperatures not even getting up into the negative single digits. When I got up this morning my street was convered in an unmelted layer of compressed snow. One of the most depressing sights ever.
At least it's February and winter's on its way out.
My favourite is taking the current temperatures during January and February and converting it to fahrenheit and impressing any Americans I know with them. And then I tell 'em "I've been in worse..."
Add to this the explanation of how we plug our cars in. I actually had to pull out the cord one time and explain what a block heater was to some Floridians who just refused to believe that Canadians all drive "electric cars".
Best is still when they ask "C or F?", and your response is "at this temperature it doesn't matter".
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