Frigid!!

Wow -70f? I would die in a minute with such insane cold! I might be able to survive wearing a spacesuit with a heater attached to the back. This is how astronauts keep warm and alive on the moon! I would never live anywhere that gets colder than -10f because I do not want to risk my life. What if the heater breaks or I am shopping and freeze to death while waiting for the bus? Id like to live north but not in the arctic!
 
deafdude1 said:
Wow -70f? I would die in a minute with such insane cold! I might be able to survive wearing a spacesuit with a heater attached to the back. This is how astronauts keep warm and alive on the moon! I would never live anywhere that gets colder than -10f because I do not want to risk my life. What if the heater breaks or I am shopping and freeze to death while waiting for the bus? Id like to live north but not in the arctic!
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We still go to school in -40 to -50F... -10F is regular winterized occurrence for many Albertans. Just bundle up. :) You worry way too much for your own good, boy.

That remind me... I want to pick up a sleeping pad that can handle such low temperature for Alaska, Yukon and all..
 
souggy said:
Grande Prairie!

Edmonton came close to it one year.

Edit: Okay... apparently coldest temperature recorded was -52C in that area... O.o Must be thinking of something else.
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Maybe the -70 included the wind chill factor?
 
deafdude1 said:
Wow -70f? I would die in a minute with such insane cold! I might be able to survive wearing a spacesuit with a heater attached to the back. This is how astronauts keep warm and alive on the moon! I would never live anywhere that gets colder than -10f because I do not want to risk my life. What if the heater breaks or I am shopping and freeze to death while waiting for the bus? Id like to live north but not in the arctic!
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-70ºF is nothing.
 
Banjo said:
-70ºF is nothing.
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Yeah, I agree; I remember, as a teenager in Minnesota, one winter we had SUSTAINED wind chill temps of about 100. Because it was sustained and persistent, some car batteries actually cracked, imagine that! I've not seen nor heard of that since, although I'm sure it happens....thinking of Siberia....
 
Right now, it's 36 degrees F

Yesterday was 27 degrees F
 
-70 F isn't a stroll in the park and is deadly serious. In calm weather at -70 your flesh freezes in seconds. Not to mention breathing it would your lungs suffer immediately from the extreme cold. It's easy to say those things because we go from our warm house to our warm car to our warm office to our warm grocery stores and so on.

extremecoldflesh.jpg

picture of subzero freeze chart with wind chill factor, including calm weather on how colder temperature affects the flesh from many minutes to seconds in extreme subzero freezing temperatures.

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...rature+flesh&ndsp=18&hl=en&sa=N&start=18&um=1
 
Not the southern parts of Canada. It isn't everyday you see -70 F. It'd be more of a regular occurrence to see -20 to -30F to happen and expected to see each winter but not -70 F.
 
Banjo said:
Oh, like a Canadian wouldn't know that.
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and New England and Maine and... well entire North-eastern USA. perhaps koko should come by and experience it! we could use some of his hot air! :wave:

beside - nobody's that stupid enough to walk outside to grab a newspaper in their PJ. :dunno:
 
Oh geez at some of the comments saying -15 is nothing and other said -70 is nothing....WTF are they thinking? :shock:
 
Yet no one seems amazed at the information I provided in post # 27.
 
sequoias said:
Oh geez at some of the comments saying -15 is nothing and other said -70 is nothing....WTF are they thinking? :shock:
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I know a guy that stayed in Yellowknife for a few months... came back to Edmonton and he walked around with only a t-shirt in -15F because if he was to put on his jackets, it would be too hot for him.

We all thought he was nuts.
 
souggy said:
I know a guy that stayed in Yellowknife for a few months... came back to Edmonton and he walked around with only a t-shirt in -15F because if he was to put on his jackets, it would be too hot for him.

We all thought he was nuts.
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Damn!
 
souggy said:
I know a guy that stayed in Yellowknife for a few months... came back to Edmonton and he walked around with only a t-shirt in -15F because if he was to put on his jackets, it would be too hot for him.

We all thought he was nuts.
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Haha, speaking of nuts, I remember my youngest brother water-skiing one early spring with the last remnants of of melting ice on the lake in just his swimming trunks....now, that's nuts, lol.....
 
Tousi said:
Yeah, I agree; I remember, as a teenager in Minnesota, one winter we had SUSTAINED wind chill temps of about 100. Because it was sustained and persistent, some car batteries actually cracked, imagine that! I've not seen nor heard of that since, although I'm sure it happens....thinking of Siberia....
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You mean -100? :shock:
 
Tousi said:
Yeah, I agree; I remember, as a teenager in Minnesota, one winter we had SUSTAINED wind chill temps of about 100. Because it was sustained and persistent, some car batteries actually cracked, imagine that! I've not seen nor heard of that since, although I'm sure it happens....thinking of Siberia....
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That's amazing!!

My stepmother still keeps talking about some terrible storm in the 1970's when she could not take me to school or go get my dad. I don't remember it at all.
 
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