The Wordless Picture Thread

[planeden]

With that much snow it’s hard to trust the ice. It really hasn’t been that cold in Ontario this winter. The prairies are another story altogether.
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Does not compute. The lowest temp I think I've ever been in is 8F/-13C. I have no context for anything that cold.

[cudarunner]

Does not compute. The lowest temp I think I've ever been in is 8F/-13C. I have no context for anything that cold.

The coldest I've seen in these parts was in '68 at -24 F. My friend Joel (Benz) lived in central North Dakota his outside water pipes were 6 feet below ground, the stop and drains were in his basement. It wasn't unusual to talk to him in the winter and it would be -30 or lower with the wind chill. He said that the new Building Code required the water pipes to be a minimum of 7 feet below ground.

I'll stick to Walla Walla weather. Here's the forecast for the next few days;

[DZEC]

Does not compute. The lowest temp I think I've ever been in is 8F/-13C. I have no context for anything that cold.

Check this out:

https://www.toronto.com/whatson-stor...ded-in-canada/

[PaulFLUS]

So in school we were taught that people came to the Americas across the Bering strait and migrated south all the way to the bottom of Chile. Of course there are other ideas about reed boats coming from Egypt yada yada yada but it is clear that people did come across the Bering strait and at least the majority of people on the two continents migrated south from there. What I don't understand is why the Inuit or their ancestors said, "Nah, we're good here," and didn't go any further south.
No offense to anyone in the great white north but you have to admit in the days before modern housing, clothing and heating That must have been freeze your gonads off cold.

[BobH]

Check this out:

https://www.toronto.com/whatson-stor...ded-in-canada/

Pretty amazing that 2 of the 10 coldest temperatures recorded in Canada were at Iroquois Falls Ontario, Norhtern Ontario that is.

Bob

[outback]

We also had more hair, and were tempered to that climate.

As infants, my mother told us ho she would take us outside in the middle of winter, wrapped in a blanket. Then she would remove the blanket and expose are naked little butts to the cold, for a bit.

I say dealing with cold, is easier than heat.

Extremes of either one, are deadly. We are a frail, organism, no doubt.

[BobH]

Here is an interesting one from The Weather Net work regarding cold and snow in Canada.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca...ailway-history

If you do go to the link keep in mind that Regina Saskatchewan is only 250 km by road from the US border and the -60C/-76F temperature quoted is the actual temperature not with wind chill added. The wind chill factor was not done in those days. So glad I was not around for this storm. Consider too that snow is on the flat prairies and not a mountain pass.

Bob

[DZEC]

Pretty amazing that 2 of the 10 coldest temperatures recorded in Canada were at Iroquois Falls Ontario, Norhtern Ontario that is.

Bob

My mom was in school during one of those Iroquois Falls storms. Apparently, the BBC phoned the office at the Abitibi pulp plant to verify the temperature was record setting. Then, the men went to bring the kids home from school to which they had walked in the morning.

[celticcrusader]

Weather in Wales today very nice -4 bright with a bit of wind chill great weather for walking.

[PaulFLUS]

We also had more hair, and were tempered to that climate.

As infants, my mother told us ho she would take us outside in the middle of winter, wrapped in a blanket. Then she would remove the blanket and expose are naked little butts to the cold, for a bit.

I say dealing with cold, is easier than heat.

Extremes of either one, are deadly. We are a frail, organism, no doubt.

Heat is much easier for me to deal with. I spent a few years as a roofer. You get the extremes both directions in that trade. 120° plus was more comfortable for me than teens.
Even sounds strange to me that I am a hockey fan that hates baseball.