Travel to Alberta

[Grey_Mountain]

My daughter and son-in-law are in a business of hauling travel trailers from the manufacturers in Elkhart, Indiana, to points all over the US and Canada. They just returned from their first Canadian delivery -- to Grande Prairie, Alberta. They found the temperature in NW Alberta to be just a tad different from what they were used to in SW Oklahoma...

[SideHillSoup]

My dad was born and raised in a small town in Saskatchewan.
He used to tell the story of walking 7 miles to school, bare foot, in -40 weather, with snow and wind, and up hill both ways.
In 1971 Saskatchewan held a “provincial” Home Coming.
When we got to my dad’s little home town... I found out my dad was fibbing... there are no hills in Saskatchewan... ( grin)

[BobsYourUncle]

trigley wrote:

I remember it well, it was proceeded by a thunderstorm and a good rain which left the whole city a sheet of ice. I was living in west Edmonton and working in St Albert. Driving was awful.
Those temperatures were in F. It was before we change to metric.
I had one of those certificates. I must have used it to light a fire in a subsequent cold snap.:)

Aha! I didn't think anyone would remember it here. Yes that was something to remember. We were wondering if it was ever going to warm up again.
I lived on Dovercourt Ave and walked every day to Sherbrooke High. There was no such thing as drive your wimps... I mean kids to school. Temperatures didn't matter, we walked.

[Grey_Mountain]

I'm sure you all have heard of a "three-dog night," right? Nights that are so cold that it takes three dogs to keep you warm?
Well, here on the rez we've had a few three-wagon nights...

GM

[trigley]

BobsYourUncle wrote:
As a 14 year old boy, I lived in Edmonton in 1969. We had a record cold snap that lasted for weeks. It was a bit chilly there.

Highly unlikely anyone here remembers that.

In fact, tucked away in my filing cabinet is a newspaper article I clipped from the Edmonton journal after it was all over. I kept it for over 50 years.
It was still Farenheit back then.

I remember it well, it was proceeded by a thunderstorm and a good rain which left the whole city a sheet of ice. I was living in west Edmonton and working in St Albert. Driving was awful.
Those temperatures were in F. It was before we change to metric.
I had one of those certificates. I must have used it to light a fire in a subsequent cold snap.:)

[BobsYourUncle]

As a 14 year old boy, I lived in Edmonton in 1969. We had a record cold snap that lasted for weeks. It was a bit chilly there.

Highly unlikely anyone here remembers that.

In fact, tucked away in my filing cabinet is a newspaper article I clipped from the Edmonton journal after it was all over. I kept it for over 50 years.
It was still Farenheit back then.

[trigley]

ford truck guy wrote:
WAIT - - WHAT ?????? -55 C??:E
Temperature
-55

Celsius
=
-67

Fahrenheit
Formula
(-55°C × 9/5) + 32 = -67°F

WHO IN THIER RIGHT MIND WOULD ENJOY THAT????? Oh wait,, their not right in the mind, its FROZEN! ! ! :B

On behalf of the Edmonton Chamber of whatevebrrrr I must point out these would be windchill readings. Not that it would feel any better.

[BobsYourUncle]

ford truck guy wrote:

BobsYourUncle wrote:
It was minus 15C yesterday when I went outside to clear the fresh snowfall.
I must be getting soft.
I actually donned a light sweater for the occasion. My threadbare light t shirt wasn't enough....
Winter is on it's way. Almost time for a jacket now. Might have to dig out the gloves too.

darn Eskimo ! :B

:B:B

[ford_truck_guy]

BobsYourUncle wrote:
It was minus 15C yesterday when I went outside to clear the fresh snowfall.
I must be getting soft.
I actually donned a light sweater for the occasion. My threadbare light t shirt wasn't enough....
Winter is on it's way. Almost time for a jacket now. Might have to dig out the gloves too.

darn Eskimo ! :B

[BobsYourUncle]

It was minus 15C yesterday when I went outside to clear the fresh snowfall.
I must be getting soft.
I actually donned a light sweater for the occasion. My threadbare light t shirt wasn't enough....
Winter is on it's way. Almost time for a jacket now. Might have to dig out the gloves too.

[Pipeman]

Makes for a bit of hard outdoor swimming here in the Florida of Canada.

[BobsYourUncle]

The coldest day I have worked outside here, handling aluminum and building a sunroom is minus 37C. That's actual temperature, before people add a bunch too it for wind chill. And it was windy that day.

That works out to -34.6F

Yeah that was a bit on the nippy side. I even had to put gloves on that day so my hands didn't stick to my aluminum extension ladder.

My cordless tools growled more than they ran....
Wasn't too fond of the icicles hanging off my nose.
Caulking didn't stick very well. In fact, it didn't want to leave the tube.

I prefer summer.

[Crowe]

valhalla360 wrote:

DrewE wrote:
One of my good friends growing up went to college at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

He told me once that they had an informal test for how cold the day was. Take a half a cup of coffee, stick it out the window (on the second or third floor of the dorm, as I recall), and turn the cup over. If a brown splotch appears in the snow below, it's not too cold. If a small hole appears where the chunk of iced coffee hits it, it's starting to get fairly cold. If nothing at all appears on the snow, it's definitely cold and you should bundle up well.

The party trick is to take a cup of boiling water and toss it outside.
- It's its cold, it will instantly turn to light fluffy snow.

Done it many times in Michigan.

We spent the weekend in Stowe, VT, celebrating our 50th birthdays, both of which are in winter. Temp was -27 F in the morning. Being the geeks we are we spent way too much time throwing cups of hot water out the window to watch it go POOF!

[valhalla360]

DrewE wrote:
One of my good friends growing up went to college at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

He told me once that they had an informal test for how cold the day was. Take a half a cup of coffee, stick it out the window (on the second or third floor of the dorm, as I recall), and turn the cup over. If a brown splotch appears in the snow below, it's not too cold. If a small hole appears where the chunk of iced coffee hits it, it's starting to get fairly cold. If nothing at all appears on the snow, it's definitely cold and you should bundle up well.

The party trick is to take a cup of boiling water and toss it outside.
- It's its cold, it will instantly turn to light fluffy snow.

Done it many times in Michigan.

[DrewE]

One of my good friends growing up went to college at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

He told me once that they had an informal test for how cold the day was. Take a half a cup of coffee, stick it out the window (on the second or third floor of the dorm, as I recall), and turn the cup over. If a brown splotch appears in the snow below, it's not too cold. If a small hole appears where the chunk of iced coffee hits it, it's starting to get fairly cold. If nothing at all appears on the snow, it's definitely cold and you should bundle up well.