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Cold in Canada vs. Cold in the US

Postby Kicker774 » 2/5/2007, 9:53 pm

So with the recent albertta clipper offensive that has gone through the mid-western and great lakes reigon of the US you would think that by looking at the non-stop school/church/business/road closings crawling across the bottom of the TV screen that a major snowstorm has hit the reigon and has brung us to our knees.

But no, it's just cold. No snow. Just cold. Ok so it's very cold but nonetheless it shoudln't be this big of a deal.

Don't you Canadians go though 0 degrees (Farenheit) weather every winter? Canada doesn't just shut down for the season.

I usually don't agree with the senior citizens of the world but I saw an article on CNN interviewing some 70 year old farmer in North Dakota. Basically he said "It gets cold every winter, some winters are colder than others. Just dress warmer"

I can only imagine the rest fo the sotry the old codger gave the reporter ..
Back in the winter of '38 we had use our own clothes to keep the cattle warm. Why I milked those cows in nothing but my swimmin trunks and it was 20 below!!!

You Canadians must laugh at us for being so terrified of the cold.
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Postby Random Name » 2/6/2007, 6:42 am

I don't understand your crazy emperical system.


If you're closing at zero you must have some fear of the water freezing.
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Postby beautiful liar » 2/6/2007, 9:18 am

How could they get to the water, Sarah?!?!?

of course, it depends on where in Canada you are to what's considered really cold, because the weather differences across the country are huge. I don't know what 0F is in terms of cold, but I've been through Canadian winters where the low has only been -20C, and others where it's gone down to -50C...but that's been in completely different regions of the country.

This winter's been pretty mild in Toronto (but we all still bitch about it)
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Postby ihatethunderbay » 2/6/2007, 3:38 pm

It's expected to get to -41 either tomorrow or the next day, and I still have to walk to school.
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Postby beautiful liar » 2/6/2007, 5:45 pm

Two years ago I got stuck walking home from school in a sudden blizzard. When I got home my entire face was blistered and peeled.

I feel your pain :(
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Postby Kicker774 » 2/6/2007, 7:57 pm

0 degreees Fahrenheit = -17.78 degrees Celsius

32 F = 0 C
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Postby laurel » 2/6/2007, 8:15 pm

...wow. -17c sounds perfectly balmy to me.

we've been between -20 to 40 the past week or so.
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Postby Axtech » 2/6/2007, 9:01 pm

yeah, -18C is child's play
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Postby Kicker774 » 2/6/2007, 11:03 pm

Exactly you guys go on like it's nothing up there and here in Ohio mass chaos ensues from some 0 degree (-17 c) weather and a few inches of snow.
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Postby Gimme_Shelter » 2/7/2007, 2:13 am

oh no, not -17


how will i survive
i might still need a small jacket over my tshirt

but probably not
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Postby Lando » 2/7/2007, 3:46 am

Yeah that's like HOT weather for outdoor hockey.

We usually play naked it gets so warm.
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Postby Random Name » 2/7/2007, 10:48 am

Kicker774 wrote:0 degreees Fahrenheit = -17.78 degrees Celsius

32 F = 0 C


Your scale makes no sense.

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Postby Rusty » 2/7/2007, 7:15 pm

Gimme_Shelter wrote:oh no, not -17


how will i survive
i might still need a small jacket over my tshirt

but probably not


I actually did that today....true story.

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Postby Lando » 2/8/2007, 4:04 pm

had a jacket over your t-shirt?

YOU REBEL!
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Postby AnnieDreams » 2/8/2007, 6:40 pm

a lot of people here wouldn't go out when it went past -20 degrees
but, that's only if they didn't have anywhere to be, or no car, or something.
basically, I wouldn't walk my dog.

I've never in my life seen anything short of out-door fieldtrips cancelled for the cold. Unless the school heating system went down.
Only blizzardness cancels stuff.
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Postby christa lynn » 2/8/2007, 9:08 pm

I'm one of those Canadians that doesn't get horribly cold weather. I get the ocean to moderate temperature. It might get to -20 or -25 C on a really cold day on a nearby skihill (ie on top of a mountain hehe), but never anything worse than that. I just get rained on all winter (and fall and spring). I get the "wet cold" that soaks one's socks.
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Postby Rusty » 2/8/2007, 11:30 pm

I'm going to NB today and it's gonna be cold! Boo cold, yay trip!

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Postby Random Name » 2/9/2007, 12:15 am

christa lynn wrote:I'm one of those Canadians that doesn't get horribly cold weather. I get the ocean to moderate temperature. It might get to -20 or -25 C on a really cold day on a nearby skihill (ie on top of a mountain hehe), but never anything worse than that. I just get rained on all winter (and fall and spring). I get the "wet cold" that soaks one's socks.



Yeaaahhhh coastal weather!! :D

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Postby Sonya » 2/10/2007, 11:46 am

i miss those days.

i'm kinda on the other end of the scale out here. last week hit 38 degrees, 70% humidity. pfft. i miss snow.
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Postby AnnieDreams » 2/10/2007, 5:00 pm

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