Does not compute. The lowest temp I think I've ever been in is 8F/-13C. I have no context for anything that cold.
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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;
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Check this out:
https://www.toronto.com/whatson-stor...ded-in-canada/
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.
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.
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
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.
Weather in Wales today very nice -4 bright with a bit of wind chill great weather for walking.
Minus -17 in the Scottish highlands last night, I believe the coldest temperature in the UK was 1997 minus -27.
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Interesting. I thought temperatures were supposed to be more moderate in the UK. I think I read something that said, about Scotland at least, that it never gets very hot but doesn't get very cold either. Of course maybe that's an average or something. The coldest temperature ever recorded here was 6° but that was in 1899 so we were still in that colder period which I believe was caused by some volcanic activity in Indonesia. North Florida used to have a citrus industry until the turn of the century when there were several years of hard freezes and it never really recovered. The coldest I can remember was 13°. That's still colder than I want to be.
Thats horrible, Roy.
Sorry, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to share the picture :w
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I think that gave me eye cancer.
Staying with the weather, turning colder here in the UK, around minus -6 to 7 in parts of Wales, up in Braemar in Scotland hit a minus -22 last night, If it wasn't for the warming effect of the Gulf stream the UK would suffer arctic winters quite regularly.
Jaime that’s in Celsius right? Come on that’s not cold, although since I retired the weather here in the mid south is much less cold than where I have worked. Us yanks didn’t use a Celsius thermometer on the rig when in the North Sea drilling, but out there it got to the low single digits a lot. Up on the circle in Alaska, we would get to around 20-30 below not counting wind chill every now and then. But it’s a nice calm 70 in my house. We are having cold weather for Memphis and some ice in the 20,s
It really is quite evident how much the Gulf Stream moderates European temperatures when you look at a map of European cities overlaid on a map of North America. European cities on similar latitudes as Canadian cities don't seem to suffer as cold winters.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2011...latitude-maps/
https://www.macleans.ca/society/mapp...und-the-world/
Bob
A balmy 0 f -18 c this morning.
Sunday -8f -22 c
Our furnace is having issues. House stays about 65 f. 18 c.
Parts will be here Monday
Yes, if it is damp out it does seem colder and gets into your bones. Add a high wind to that and it is even worse. The coldest I have felt in Canada was in the winter in Montreal. The temp was down to what we usually get in NW Onatrio but it was damp and the wind was up. A crisp clear sunny winter day is much preferred.
Bob
Well, weather report I just checked said Thunder Bay is -20°F with a latitude of 48.3809° N which looks to be below the UK. Arbitrarily I checked London which is at 51.5074° N, and.it was 34°F. That's a pretty big difference.
Mid Wisconsin:
-18F. -28C
@ 7:30 AM
Add into that elevation. My house for example is 54 feet above sea level. There is more air in the atmosphere at this elevation than say Denver, the mile high city. More air means it will hold more water molecules which exacerbates the effects of the humidity. Go to New Orleans in the summer if you really want to feel the effects of humidity on heat since some of it is actually below sea level. Also the football field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at the University of Florida where the Gators play is near or below sea level plus it is in a bowl AND has real grass which is watered regularly. That's why they call it The Swamp (plus the whole alligator reference and all that). Those teams from higher elevation playing there must feel like they are drowning in the air in the fall when it will still be 90°+. LSU on the other hand probably has no trouble at all there.
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The older we get the less we have to loose.
So why are we more crazy when we are young?
There's always the old standard that I grew up with-------------
"If I'd have known then what I know now"--- :w
The Byrds - chorus in My Back Pages
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now
It's the next best thing to being there.
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Thanks Charlie!!
Pete <:-}
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Hey guys, Thanks for the pic's! :)
Currently it is a very cold -13F here in St. Paul, Minnesota.
it is much to cold to drive to Wisconsin so I will be staying home. Possibly for the next 3 days until the temps get above zero.