What's wrong in Winnipeg?

spiritedenergy · #1 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:34 AM**

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.

Xelebes · #2 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:38 AM**

Just be glad you're not living in the larger Siberian cities - where it gets to -50 to -60 C with no wind.

Just be glad.

That's all I can really say.

trueviking · #3 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:42 AM**

its been -39 for 3 nights in a row now...we might as well get below 40 dammit.

i blame the voyageurs....damn rivers.

summers are wonderful though...i mean of course the 3 weeks between the melt and the first mosquitoes....2 weeks if the rivers flood.

spiritedenergy · #4 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by trueviking

its been -39 for 3 nights in a row now...we might as well get below 40 dammit.

i blame the voyageurs....damn rivers.

summers are wonderful though...i mean of course the 3 weeks between the melt and the first mosquitoes....2 weeks if the rivers flood.

don't be so negative!

last summer (the only one i experienced) was amazing though, simply amazing, i still have that light and that air in my heart.

The Jabroni · #5 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:45 AM**

What are you guys talking about? It's so friggin hot outside you know! I'm telling you, 5 Ice Caps today, and still sweating. I'm not going to sleep well tonight...

...yeah I know, it's still 6 months away, but you gotta dream, am I right? We're going to be fine. We've been through this before, so this shouldn't be too much of a problem. If the temp reaches below -50, then I begin to worry.

drew · #6 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:48 AM**

Nothing's wrong here. It's just the usual dead of winter cold snap.
Don't be fooled from last year's mild winter...
global warming has never heard of Winnipeg in January and February.

At least the Festival snow sculptures aren't melting...

spiritedenergy · #7 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by The Jabroni

What are you guys talking about? It's so friggin hot outside you know! I'm telling you, 5 Ice Caps today, and still sweating. I'm not going to sleep well tonight...

...yeah I know, it's still 6 months away, but you gotta dream, am I right? We're going to be fine. We've been through this before, so this shouldn't be too much of a problem. If the temp reaches below -50, then I begin to worry.

i've never been through this before, i never ever could ever imagined i may have to experienced this... i know i have some karma to expiate, i know God has a plan for me

SpongeG · #8 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:55 AM**

is it your first winter?

spiritedenergy · #9 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

is it your first winter?

yep, i'm 1 year old

vid · #10 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:57 AM**

It's a balmy -27 in Tundra Bay!

We really are like a Tundra - cold, very dry (15% of monthly precip for 8 months running now!) and windy. This stuff won't let up until Friday at the earliest, either, and a lot of places are forecasting for a repeat starting on the 18th.

We're going to have one hell of a forest fire season, and once again the blueberry crops will be nil.

Smron · #11 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:57 AM**

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..."

Coldrsx · #12 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 4:58 AM**

ouch

SpongeG · #13 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 5:05 AM**

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Originally Posted by spiritedenergy

yep, i'm 1 year old

I mena in winterpeg

spiritedenergy · #14 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 5:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

I mena in winterpeg

yes, and probably last

SpongeG · #15 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 5:14 AM**

haha

i grew up up north and there was one week i remember the last winter i was there - it did not go above -35 for over 7 days

never again

Hardhatdan · #16 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 5:24 AM**

My nipples are hard just reading this thread.

The Jabroni · #17 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 5:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by Hardhatdan

My nipples are hard just reading this thread.

I'm way ahead of you on that!

Canadian Mind · #18 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 5:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Xelebes

Just be glad you're not living in the larger Siberian cities - where it gets to -50 to -60 C with no wind.

Just be glad.

That's all I can really say.

I'm jelous, we lose bragging rights to those buggers.

BTW - was 10C here today.

Greco Roman · #19 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 5:29 AM**

Seriously; why are you guys hogging all the cold? Don't be so damn selfish and pass it on out west here.

Why can't E-town get some cold nights for a change? I'm growing tired of Alberta's pseudo-winters

IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly, it would do wonders for the mountain pine beetle epidemic.

Xelebes · #20 Posted: **Feb 5, 2007, 5:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by Canadian Mind

I'm jelous, we lose bragging rights to those buggers.

BTW - was 10C here today.

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.