Posted on 01/01/2014 7:47:51 PM PST by NYer
Some of us here in the States would love advice on handling the cold. I don’t see how you bear it, or even how you survive. It’s 30F here in DC and I’m miserable, wearing all sorts of wooly socks and many layers of cashmere, fleece, wool, and dead animals, and still uncomfortable and unhappy. How do you live?
Guess it’s a good thing the NHL didn’t decide to have the Winter Classic in Winnipeg.
I lived in Grand Forks for many years.
Please do not ever say “Winterpeg” and “peters out” in the same sentence again.
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“I lived in Grand Forks for many years.”
I assume you used to visit folks north of the 49th - people like Peter Friesen and Dick Froese, those being common names in Manitoba...
-14F here right now. That’d be -25.5C. Supposed to get up to -4F for a high today.
Welcome to January in Minnesota.
Night low temps where I live in Mich.,,,not counting wind chill.
Dec. 6 -2
Dec. 7 -6
Dec. 8 -7
Dec. 9 -8
Dec. 10 -9
Dec. 11 -8
Dec. 12 -8
Dec. 15 -4
Dec. 16 -15
Dec. 24 -9
Dec. 26 -9
Dec. 27 -12
Dec. 29 -9
Dec. 30 -15
Dec. 31 -11
Jan. 1 -16
Currently, 5C (41F), bottoming out at -27C (-17F) on Sunday night. A New Years gift from Santa? Or is Algore visiting the Wst, preaching more glow-bull warming?
I’m just in central MN, but we’ve had one of the coldest Decembers that I can remember. Somehow, it wasn’t a record cold streak.
“Some of us here in the States would love advice on handling the cold. I don’t see how you bear it, or even how you survive. It’s 30F here in DC and I’m miserable, wearing all sorts of wooly socks and many layers of cashmere, fleece, wool, and dead animals, and still uncomfortable and unhappy. How do you live?”
In the ‘70s, I worked outside twelve months a year in northern Alberta, B.C. and the NWT. There were often stretches of weather(over a week at a time) when morning lows were lower than -35F and highs did not get above -10F.
Headgear, boots and mitts are important, but a quilted skidoo suit(early models were green with red lining) kept your core temperature up. When working vigorously at -30, one kept the zipper open to the waist.
Style-wise, it was sort of a “onesie”.
I never saw one in plaid, however!
The snow birds love it, all of those MB, SK and AB farmers know when to bail out.
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