Just a little cold here

Anonymous-0 · Jan 14, 2011

-34C with the windchill. Strange thing is they're calling for more snow. Doesn't usually snow when the weather gets real cold. We've had a lot snow in Edmonton so far this year. Dave

Sure · Jan 14, 2011

Sure ---- now all we have to do is "Guess" where you live,

Murray Hebblethwaite · Jan 14, 2011

Gramps fell through some ice at -30 many years ago up north!

By the way, he rescued himself!

cadet trooper · Jan 14, 2011

Are you kidding me? The Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames some of the best hockey in North America and Canada and OK I have to look up -34C vs F. I left my scientific calculator at work but I know it"s cold because I think zero C is equal to 32 degrees in F.

Murray Hebblethwaite · Jan 14, 2011

Both C. and F. meet at -40 degrees, which is Absolute Zero on the Kelvin Scale!

Lyndon - AB · Jan 14, 2011

Wrong. Absolute zero on the Kelvin scale is -273.15 degrees Celsius.

cadet trooper · Jan 14, 2011

I knew there was a crossing point was not sure where I know there was a fraction of 5/9 or 9/5 somewhere in the equation I haven't used that for years since the calculator.LOL

Murray Hebblethwaite · Jan 14, 2011

That is really cold! Absolutely NO MOISTURE in the air!

Anonymous-0 · Jan 14, 2011

Actually absolute zero on the Kelvin scale is −273 °C

Lyndon - AB · Jan 14, 2011

Hey Dave,

Yeah, not a whole lot of fun. The Town of Barrhead public works called me in for extra shop and snow removal help. The cold is hard on the machinery, but with the snow still coming down, it has to run. I'm surprised as well that it's snowing this cold, but I'm also surprised that they say its going to stop early next week once it warms up. We'll see.
I was in Edmonton on Wednesday for truck parts. Pulled off of 170th st. onto the Yellowhead westbound, kept slipping sideways with the pickup! Keeps a guy on his toes!

Stay warm and drive safe!
Lyndon
Barrhead, AB

Old Roy · Jan 14, 2011

Karen Ct maybe ??

JDemaris · Jan 14, 2011

Sounds like you've got maybe -12F to -15 F actual temp? Guess we're lucky here in central NY with a balmy 3 F right now (and snowing lightly). I'm not quite ready to go out in my Tee-shirt yet.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 14, 2011

It converts to -29F with the wind chill. Dave

Anonymous-0 · Jan 14, 2011

I said where I live in my post. Dave

JDemaris · Jan 15, 2011

I said "actual temperature", not "wind chill." Wind-chill has little meaning when it comes to actual temperature. It's just a measure of the speed of heat-loss. Park a tractor outside when it's 15 below F, and 30 below F with the so-called "windchill factor" and that tractor stays at 15 F below.

Windchill is what it might "feel like" but is not in reality.

Paul Janke · Jan 15, 2011

We have +43*F here in southwest Montana this morning. Normal highs are somewhere in the low 30's.

Aaron Ford · Jan 15, 2011

Past reading has led me to believe Mr MH lives in Canada, so when he talks about "up north" it really means something. He must think I live in the tropics! Good job on the self rescue. I have a phobia about ice for years and refuse to go anywhere near it.

Aaron

blunosr · Jan 15, 2011

I like these "cold" threads. It's cold here (Fort St. John, BC, Alaska Highway) today -34C/-29F. We get it so cold we don't bother to talk about "wind chill". I was working on a pipeline over the Christmas "holidays" and in just a few minutes, got frostbite so bad both my cheeks were white and so solid that when I tapped on them it sounded like wood. Luckily my truck was not far away and was running and warm. No scarring.

A couple of years ago some friends and I were back in the mountains hunting buffalo and it got down to -55C/-67F. The guy whose tag it was, got frostbite so bad both his cheeks and the end of his nose turned black and started oozing puss (after we thawed him out). He still wears the scars. That trip ruined most of us on cold...

Bye for now,

Troy (headed out to my shop to huddle around the woodstove...)

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