Temperature in Winnipeg at 7am...a chilly -33C, -45C with the windchill, converts to -27F and -49F respectively. It's beyond invigorating.

If you were to lick a metal pipe, like just about every Canadian has done at some point in their lives [aaah, the joy of discovery!], the moisture on your tongue would instantly freeze to the pipe. Try talking with your tongue clamped between your teeth and you can imagine how difficult it would be to communicate with that person. You're in even worse trouble if you happen to freeze your lips to that pipe, too. You then have two options, well you have three really but the third often results in leaving some of your tongue behind [and all three result in pain]: have your mom scrape your tongue off the pipe with a small spatula, or have her pour really warm water over your tongue and the pipe. Make sure she has enough water to get the job done in one shot, or your whole head becomes frozen to the pipe. The third option? Clamp down on your tongue and just rip it off, which takes a huge amount of courage.

I haven't even warned my kids about this aspect of our winter. Sure as hell they'll try it, just because daddy said not to.

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-27? Holy Jesus. Doesn't all atomic motion stop soon?

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Might be a summer day for Quinn!

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I moved to the tropics now (about 225 miles southeast of Fargo) so we aren't supposed to get as cold. Only around -17F

Touching metal in the winter when it gets really cold always sucks. If you are wearing gloves, that generally produces enough moisture that you "stick" to the metal that you touch when you take your gloves off to touch it with your bare hands. Sometimes holding bare metal for more than 5 to 10 seconds is almost impossible due to the burning sensation of the cold metal on bare skin.

My friends have a bichon dog and her tongue always hangs out of her mouth, about an inch MINIMUM. Always. Well, she was sniffing the ground as she was let in through the patio door in the winter and her tongue hit the metal track and instantly stuck. She freaked out, pulled away and left a little tongue skin on the metal frame. She is now very careful to keep her tongue away from that area in the winter

And to think I was impressed when my car displayed outside temp of -10C in December.

I feel inadequate now

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So long and thanks for all the fish

-10

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I have a friend who lives in Connecticut, his snow pictures are pretty (and pretty impressive)

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So long and thanks for all the fish

LOL! Yesterday morning I felt like sawing up some wood. I was pissed off when I had to turn the handle warmers on as it was getting a bit painful hanging onto the chainsaw.

Man, does wood ever split nice at these temps!

It is easy to tell when I have to put another shirt on as my boots will freeze to the concrete as I leave the house. I just love the sound of walking on hard pack snow when it gets cold like this.

It doesn't really matter for us up here. The farmers still go by at 6:30am on their way to the coffee shop no matter what it is like outside.

The herd of buffalo across from my place really enjoy these cooler temps.

I thought we would see some -40 but alas I will just have to settle for -35... and that pisses me off too. I wanted to video a can of beer freezing in 2-1/2 minutes outside while sawing up my wood. (which I purposely do for exercise)

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Of all the things to learn on this forum - I didn't even know that chain saws had handle warmers!

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Get to know Quinn, you'll learn lots you thought you'd never know. Like whiskey & apple juice.

I've found cold is relative. Over Christmas break I was driving to NC and stopped in north Florida to get gas. It was prob 35F but with 99% humidity and a 20knot wind. My teeth were chattering pumping gas wearing a jacket. 2 days later in NC I was outside in a tshirt and jeans standing in the snow in 12F air, but dry and calm winds. Felt fine, a little cold but fine.

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And what's wrong with following Health Canada's guidelines regarding recommended food groups?


Reminds me of a New Year's Eve outdoor party I attended a few years back...-40C with a windchill to -50C or so. You had, like, 4 minutes to drink your beer before it froze solid. I had to quit after a dozen, WAY too much trouble to relieve yourself when you're all suited up.

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Whiskey and apple juice doesn't freeze like beer does.

There is a guy active in the IV community that designs these outdoor hot tubs - maybe Blair Stunder??

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-25deg, 1:00am on a clear start lit night with the moonlight bouncing off the snow swept landscape, water jets on and with the ambient submerged lights on, Excessive quantities of Gibson's finest and apple juice, and many decibels of Symphonic Metal (Sirenia, Echoterra, Atargatis, Sonata Arctica, Winterstorm, Rhapsody, Kivimetsan Druidi, etc.) becomes a paradise where all your dreams come true.

Life wide open.

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You realize that water at 60F would feel warm in those conditions

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Steve and Quinn, I think you guys will get a kick out of this one. Temps in Minneapolis (where I live) are expected to get to about -15F tonight. I am watching TV right now, and there is a scroll going across the bottom of the screen for the schools that are delaying the start of school by 2 hours or cancelling school.

Man I can remember walking to school when temps were well below -20F and it wasn't even a question of delaying the start of school. Do they do that for the schools up there where you guys are?

Hi Kevin.

In Winnipeg, school buses don't run when it hits a windchill of -30C or so. Those temps are dangerous for the kids if the buses were to break down. Schools, however, stay open. The parents are expected to deliver their kids. There's no outdoor recess below -25C. Schools don't close unless we're hit by a huge snow storm.

I've seen those scrolling messages you mentioned when I watch American channels. I was a little baffled about the delays and cancellations. Schools up here are required to provide a minimum number of instructional hours per school year. Could it be that those numbers are different for your schools?

I used to walk to school, too, when I was a little boy. We lived only a couple of blocks away. Colder temps just meant you dressed a little warmer and walked a little faster. My mom used to say that when she was a little girl on the farm, she had to trudge 3 miles to school and back through waist deep snow, uphill both ways! And then she had go pick rocks in the fields. Old people, go figure.

It's a balmy -25C here this morning, -32C with the windchill, but the forecast for Sunday is a tropical -4C. Nice tobogganing weather.

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