Saturday morning forecast -50*C

[mayo30]

Ok, everybody that is out of Saskatoon stay away and anyone that can leave should go now.No kidding that is the forecast and as you know anything over - 40 F and C are the same,it just doesn't matter.Be careful and safe people,and don't forget to fill your propane tanks.lol.

[Pipeman]

Just everyday stuff...hehehe:C


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/people-wait-hours-in-freezing-cold-for-bushwakker-mead-1....

[Grey_Mountain]

On the rez, our car tires always go thump, thump, thump.
Isn't that normal?

GM

[sue_t]

Oh jeez ... up to -4C by Monday.
Then down to -28C by Friday.
Usually no wind at our place but Whitehorse often has a cold stiff breeze.

We don't get the lows I remember from my youth ... -60F was common each winter. I remember a -76F (-60C). Mom wouldn't let me use the ski-doo after -10F (-23C). And we weren't allowed outside to play after -20F (-29C). After -40 we didn't have to go to school.

I think we used to drive her crazy during cold spells.

Back in those days, car tires went thump, thump, thump in the bitter cold too!

[noteven]

Hi sue.t - please ship some current Yukon weather south

A bit chilly here at the moment:

temp: -33C / -27F
humidity: 71%
wind: sw at 22km/hr 14mph
wind chill: -47C / -53F

[sue_t]

Yeah, we're happy to ship that cold stuff south.

We've had a bit of a chilly snap but it's warmed up to -20C (-4F) tonight, and we're supposed to have a heat wave of -5C (23F) tomorrow.

Not so warm to melt the snow, which is a good thing. Snowmachines are getting antzy ...

[noteven]

profdant139 wrote:
So in comparison to you tough Canadians, here is how we wimpy Southern Californians deal with a drizzle -- here is a series of excerpts from our local news stations, breathlessly reporting the Storm -- very funny, and all of it genuine:

SoCal newscasters report the Storm!

What did she just ask me? "...I cover my head." Hahaha -

[profdant139]

So in comparison to you tough Canadians, here is how we wimpy Southern Californians deal with a drizzle -- here is a series of excerpts from our local news stations, breathlessly reporting the Storm -- very funny, and all of it genuine:

SoCal newscasters report the Storm!

[LastOfTheBohica]

trigley wrote:
I think you are referring to wind chill as forecasts I see are in mid -30's C. That won'take you feel much better if you are out in it but not quite as tough on vehicles, equipment etc. I would think -50C would pretty much shut everything down. I don't think I have seen -50C in my long life in AB SK & NWT & hope I never do. It is in the record books though. I have seen worse wind chills unfortunately.

I got to experience -55C (-68C Windchill) in Yellowknife, NWT one winter.

I don't complain about -30C anymore.

[soren]

sidney wrote:
Big deal. :B

Boy, you ain't lying either. One 4th of July we sat with the local highway dept. road crew, during a BBQ in Tok. Those boys have an old native word to describe the temps. climbing above -30F. They call it "Spring" :B

[sidney]

Big deal. :B

[trigley]

Grey Mountain wrote:
Oops! Had a senior moment there. Forgot that I ain't got no Canadian friends from the interior.

GM

In fact you do. Probably more than you would think. A couple of years back you mentioned your GF riding with or knowing Quanah Parker. A new name to me so I looked it up then read the book Empire of the Summer Moon. Very Interesting. I thank you for that.
Back to subject! In gratitude we are going to pack up & send you our beautiful sunny -50 whatever weather. Enjoy!!:B

[crabbin_cabin]

trigley wrote:
I think you are referring to wind chill as forecasts I see are in mid -30's C. That won'take you feel much better if you are out in it but not quite as tough on vehicles, equipment etc. I would think -50C would pretty much shut everything down. I don't think I have seen -50C in my long life in AB SK & NWT & hope I never do. It is in the record books though. I have seen worse wind chills unfortunately.

Well - I was cross - country skiing, with a group of hardy friends, at Easter time at Lake Louise - in 1954, before the ski area was developed. Staying in the Canadian Youth Hostel, adjacent to the Park Warden's site. About 2 AM every one of our group suddenly woke up! Re-stoked the wood stove and shivered until morning broke. Skied over to the Warden's office and checked their official recording thermometer It showed -60 F for about 2 AM!!

300 inches of snow at that location that winter!!

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread but just had to share a "cold" memory! 38F this morning in Mesa AZ!
John

[Orion]

The other nice thing is that the days will start getting longer in a little over 2 weeks.

That is true, however the evenings start to get lighter right around now as this is the time of the earliest sunset for much of the US. We're a little to the north just south of the 49th parallel, so our earliest sunset isn't until the 11th. Nice to think that the evenings will start getting lighter!
There is a downside to this though as the mornings here will continue to get darker until early January, but even later the farther south you go.
Here is a link to Earth & Sky that explains why the earliest sunset and latest sunrise do not happen at the solstice.

[sky_free]

I lived in Gunnison, CO for 8-years and we regularly saw temps below -30F. The coldest I saw was -48F. We were living in a mobile home at the time and the furnace ran non-stop. My Toyota Tacoma was parked outside and actually started at -48F, but there were a lot of grinding noises. Sometimes I would walk to the bus and my knees would stiffen up. Glad to live in N California now where "Cold" means below 50F. Sadly, my neighbor had to move to Saskatoon for health reasons (dust mite allergy).