Bismarck 2 [Live North Dakota Web Cam Current Wind Chill -29]

KFYR-TV ^ | 1/29/19

[Alberta's Child]

When I grew up in the Fargo area, we rooted for the groundhog to see his shadow because 6 more weeks of winter WAS an early spring.

LMAO.

[Vigilanteman]

I remember that too. It might have been in March 1986, I think. We had driven past that spot maybe 30 minutes earlier with a truckload of wood. It was very sudden. We didn't even unload the wood that day, just went in the house to get warm.

It was not long after that when a gate was installed at either end of that stretch of 19th Avenue North. Unlike most main roads, that stretch hadn't been built on an elevated berm when the new airport terminal was opened.

[109ACS]

In 75-76 I was stationed at a remote RADAR site one mile from Montana and one mile from Canada. I tried to change my motor oil one night in the RADAR tower (straight 10 weight). I opened both sides of the can, turned the can over to drain it into the funnel, and nothing came out.

Good times.

[Alberta's Child]

An old friend of mine ran a logging outfit in the bush out in western Canada. I never knew this until he explained the business to me, but they would leave their heavy equipment out in the cutting zone for weeks at a time instead of lugging it all back to town every day.

"You have no idea what cold is," he once told me, "until you've had to do an oil change in one of these things when it's -40 outside."

[EnglishOnly]

Phoenix weather: Beautiful as always! Highs in the low 70’s.

Sorry , just couldn’t let this one go by.

[xone]

Remarkably

You can't just hide in your house during the winter there. When it is 30 they will be driving with the windows down.

[Balding_Eagle]

Enough with the wind chill stuff. It’s just to sensationalize.

Worth repeating, they seem to think everyone is to dumb to get out of the wind.

come to think of it, they may be right.

[abb]

A classic story to go along with a day such as this:

https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/to-build-a-fire.pdf

To Build a Fire
Short story by Jack London

[Oldexpat]

One winter I drove from Fairbanks to anchorage at -32. You worry about a breakdown under those conditions.

[HereInTheHeartland]

21 below air temp in the Des Moines area tonight, -45 windchill.
Coldest in many years.

[Vigilanteman]

I kid you not. At North Dakota State University, the co-eds celebrate the first day of spring (usually just barely above freezing for the day’s high) by sunbathing in their swim suits. The frat boys do it by jogging, sometimes with a t-shirt and shorts and sometimes with nothing on but their gym shoes.

[maggief]

They "warmed" up the windchill factor calculation method by 10+ degrees in 2001‼️ http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WEATHER/08/20/wind.chill/

[BluH2o]

Grew up in northern Canada. On the same parallel of latitude as Minot, ND. Temperatures of -30F were fairly routine.
Speaking of Minot their chamber of commerce came up with a catchy phrase ‘Why not Minot?’ ... soon countered by ‘The reason? It's freezin!’

[pfflier]

Its just another day in the northern tier.

When I was in the USAF in Great Falls MT in the 70's, there were days when the temps were -30 and the windchill approached -100.

We just wore long johns under our fatigues and parkas. Mittens and mukluks helped too but, life went on in the Minuteman missile fields.

[Rebelbase]

These are the times that try Somali souls for choosing Minnesota.

[wrcase]

I grew up in North Dakota. The last winter I was there the temperature never got above zero in January. At night for about a week the temps went to about -50 degrees, not the wind chill. I had a graveyard shift job at the time and I just left the car running all night. The last thing you wanted to see up there in the winter was a bright sunny day. It meant it’s gonna be cold. -29 wind chill whatever, just another winter day.

[Openurmind]

I have a good friend who works at the college. I need to check on him.

[shelterguy]

These are the times that try Somali souls for choosing Minnesota.
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They are snug and warm in the free housing we give them.. And it’s not like they have to go out in the cold to get to work or anything.

[Gay State Conservative]

"You have no idea what cold is," he once told me, "until you've had to do an oil change in one of these things when it's -40 outside."

I arrived in the town in which I experienced -40 (a town about 200 miles north of Montreal) at about 5PM. When I arrived the thermometer on my dashboard read -25F.The first thing I did when I arrived in town was to fill my tank,particularly given that I was driving a diesel.When I got to the gas station the fuel nozzle was so cold that it was incredibly painful to touch even for 5 seconds.

As far as changing oil at -40 goes it must be as thick as molasses.I was stunned that my diesel,after having sat for 14 hours in -30 to -40,started that morning.But it sounded like a tank for the first hour of driving and the tires were so hard that the ride felt like a tank as well.

[ImpBill]

-7 and -41 wcf in SF, SD