Saturday morning forecast -50*C

Grey Mountain wrote:
Oops! Had a senior moment there. Forgot that I ain't got no Canadian friends from the interior.

GM

In fact you do. Probably more than you would think. A couple of years back you mentioned your GF riding with or knowing Quanah Parker. A new name to me so I looked it up then read the book Empire of the Summer Moon. Very Interesting. I thank you for that.
Back to subject! In gratitude we are going to pack up & send you our beautiful sunny -50 whatever weather. Enjoy!!:B

trigley wrote:
I think you are referring to wind chill as forecasts I see are in mid -30's C. That won'take you feel much better if you are out in it but not quite as tough on vehicles, equipment etc. I would think -50C would pretty much shut everything down. I don't think I have seen -50C in my long life in AB SK & NWT & hope I never do. It is in the record books though. I have seen worse wind chills unfortunately.

Well - I was cross - country skiing, with a group of hardy friends, at Easter time at Lake Louise - in 1954, before the ski area was developed. Staying in the Canadian Youth Hostel, adjacent to the Park Warden's site. About 2 AM every one of our group suddenly woke up! Re-stoked the wood stove and shivered until morning broke. Skied over to the Warden's office and checked their official recording thermometer It showed -60 F for about 2 AM!!

300 inches of snow at that location that winter!!

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread but just had to share a "cold" memory! 38F this morning in Mesa AZ!
John

The other nice thing is that the days will start getting longer in a little over 2 weeks.

That is true, however the evenings start to get lighter right around now as this is the time of the earliest sunset for much of the US. We're a little to the north just south of the 49th parallel, so our earliest sunset isn't until the 11th. Nice to think that the evenings will start getting lighter!
There is a downside to this though as the mornings here will continue to get darker until early January, but even later the farther south you go.
Here is a link to Earth & Sky that explains why the earliest sunset and latest sunrise do not happen at the solstice.

I lived in Gunnison, CO for 8-years and we regularly saw temps below -30F. The coldest I saw was -48F. We were living in a mobile home at the time and the furnace ran non-stop. My Toyota Tacoma was parked outside and actually started at -48F, but there were a lot of grinding noises. Sometimes I would walk to the bus and my knees would stiffen up. Glad to live in N California now where "Cold" means below 50F. Sadly, my neighbor had to move to Saskatoon for health reasons (dust mite allergy).

We have a whole bunich of people...guys mostly, that are in the north with the resource craze and we ran out of rental housing months ago, soooo..they are in their RV's. Campers, trailers, fifths, A's and C's. Now, it is only -9 in Kitimat, minus 11 in Terrace and minus 27 in Burns Lake. Makes me very grateful to not be in mine, this time of year. I know a guy on the prairies that is living in his, at your -45 or whatever it is.


Gary haupt

Take care we've lived through -30F, then moved.

Rats I was hoping for more from global warming!

Ah yes I should have stated that the temp. forecast was windchill degrees,kind of thought that was what everyone used to determine comfort now.The other nice thing is that the days will start getting longer in a little over 2 weeks.

A number of years back I flew into a remote northern mining camp. They had a list of dates and temp's written on the plywood next to the interior / exterior reading thermometer.

I remarked on a -53 C record from a few years earlier. The mine manager just smiled and said "Meh, that's only 60 or 70 degrees away from being a real nice day. It was a really SUNY calm day though, it was a little cold, but nice."

I was very glad the temp was in the + teens and sunny when I was there!

Oops! Had a senior moment there. Forgot that I ain't got no Canadian friends from the interior.

GM

Here in Windsor,Ontario(the Florida of Canada, where I cut my grass on the 2nd of Dec.)at 0745 hours it's 30 F outside. Yesterday it was 50 some odd degrees. Just saying......