Windchill tonight in Edmonton, Canada: -59 degrees Celcius

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I remember windchills close to -50 when I lived in Ottawa - NOT the day to go outside if you can help it - but yipes -60? I will take having to deal with 100 F in the summer over having to deal with anything - in the winter (and those are Celsius temperatures although byAT -40 they are the same).

BRRRRRRRRRRR!

Correction made (below -40, range of F temps is -40.00018 to -459.67; C temp range is -40.0001 to -273.15).

I rate (winter temps, below 0 C) into ranges

• 0 to -10, track-suit adequately warm
• -10.001 to -30, need anorak
• -30 to -40, need combo of track-suit AND anorak
• below -40, stay indoors unless ultra-extreme emergency

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I remember windchills close to -50 when I lived in Ottawa - NOT the day to go outside if you can help it - but yipes -60? I will take having to deal with 100 F in the summer over having to deal with anything - in the winter (and those are Celsius temperatures although byAT -40 they are the same).

BRRRRRRRRRRR!

Correction made (below -40, range of F temps is -40.00018 to -459.67; C temp range is -40.0001 to -273.15).

I rate (winter temps, below 0 C) into ranges

• 0 to -10, track-suit adequately warm
• -10.001 to -30, need anorak
• -30 to -40, need combo of track-suit AND anorak
• below -40, stay indoors unless ultra-extreme emergency

How about -39.9999999999?

Do you round?

[Amby 490]

a girl I worked with told me there's a point when it's so cold you can't even tell a difference anymore...you cold canadians agree with this?

Yeah, for me that's at about -40c

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I feel like dying when it's 10F.

[Amby 490]

I feel like dying when it's 10F.

I feel like dying when it's like 25F. I guess we're wimps.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I'd move to Florida if it wasn't for all those freakin' Floridians.

[Gary and Alla 3,695]

Send some global warming to those folks!

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I feel like dying when it's 10F.

wimp

[HAL 9000 96]

Wonder how much polar ice has melted today?

Ask them Australians with that huge #### iceberg drifting towards them.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Any windchill that is below zero is the worst. The air is heavy. Makes your lungs want to die.

[zqt3344 21]

No wonder Canadian women are so horny once they come south! All that cold weather freezes them up half the year round and they need time to un-thaw and come around again!

12/13/09

Temperature of -46C in Edmonton area makes it coldest in Canada: meteorologist (CP) – 2 hours ago

EDMONTON — There's one way to deal with some of the coldest winter temperatures yet on the Prairies - outright denial.

At least that's how some folks were taking it as they strode into the Edmonton airport over the weekend after arriving from their vacations in Mexico, still dressed in their shorts and sporting tans.

Christopher Toutant walked out of the international arrivals area still wearing Bermuda shorts and a light shirt.

It didn't occur to him to prepare for a record-breaking cold snap back home.

Peter Spiker, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says temperatures in the Edmonton area early Sunday morning were among the coldest anywhere in the country.

The mercury dipped to a frigid -46C at the Edmonton airport, making it the coldest place in Canada, he said.

With the wind chill, it felt more like -59C.

Spiker said it crushed the same day coldest temperature record of about -33C set in 1968.

The vacation buzz was soon to be killed when Toutant heard the pilot announcing the current weather conditions as they landed in Edmonton.

"My smile kind of fell of my face and I think my tan fell off along the way," he said with a chuckle.

Bob McDonald's tanned face stands out in stark comparison to the wind-whipped, ruddy faces of others in the terminal who are wearing heavy coats and gloves to fend off the cold.

He just spent nearly three weeks in sunny Mexico, where the temperature was over 30C every day during his vacation.

When told how cold it was just outside those terminal doors, his eyes widened in horror.

"I am in shock," he said.

Marie Scott thoughtfully brought along some winter gear to help her daughter, son-in-law and grandson prepare for the weather after returning from their winter getaway.

"I think they're going to want to turn around and go back. I would," she said. "I'm just trying to warm their jackets because they're going to freeze just putting them on."

Environment Canada says record low temperatures were also set in other areas of Alberta on the weekend, including Cold Lake, northeast of Edmonton and in Grande Prairie, in the northwestern part of the province.

Wind chill warnings were issued for areas of Alberta Saskatchewan as a large mass of Arctic air hovered over the Prairies with conditions that could feel like -50C.

The Alberta Motor Association also urged motorists to take along thick blankets, warm clothing and an emergency kit if they're travelling during the cold weather.

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[Chica Yeyé 41]

No wonder Canadian women are so horny once they come south! All that cold weather freezes them up half the year round and they need time to un-thaw and come around again!

what a class act.

[zqt3344 21]

Well what does class have to do with this thread??? it is off topic and classless, you want class head on up to a real meaningful fact based thread not this off topic nonsense!

No wonder Canadian women are so horny once they come south! All that cold weather freezes them up half the year round and they need time to un-thaw and come around again!

what a class act.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

You are a disgusting life form.

It would be a good idea for your to gtfo now.

Well what does class have to do with this thread??? it is off topic and classless, you want class head on up to a real meaningful fact based thread not this off topic nonsense!

No wonder Canadian women are so horny once they come south! All that cold weather freezes them up half the year round and they need time to un-thaw and come around again!

what a class act.

[zqt3344 21]

And you are a disgusting illegal from Mexico, and it is time for you to gtfo now back to ole Mexcio!

You are a disgusting life form.

It would be a good idea for your to gtfo now.

Well what does class have to do with this thread??? it is off topic and classless, you want class head on up to a real meaningful fact based thread not this off topic nonsense!

No wonder Canadian women are so horny once they come south! All that cold weather freezes them up half the year round and they need time to un-thaw and come around again!

what a class act.