Coldest place on earth?
#1
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Coldest place on earth?
Around Edmonton, apparently so.
Worked all day in it and thought it a little nippy, picked up a wooden pitch fork un-gloved, stupidly, and my hand even stuck to that, new one on me
Worked all day in it and thought it a little nippy, picked up a wooden pitch fork un-gloved, stupidly, and my hand even stuck to that, new one on me
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Re: Coldest place on earth?
Banff has been a bit shitty with the cold this week , cant wait to get home to a tropical minus 2 or 3
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Ah, I see, you mean "currently". A bit long standing British tabloid tradition of claiming a hot summer's day as being hotter than Nairobi or something! Last time there was a discussion on this topic I think coldest actual temps being reported (by BE's in Canada) was about -56C. I think my record low is -37.
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Re: Coldest place on earth?
However, a co-worker told me that one time he was working up north (not sure exactly where) the local weather forecast said they couldn't give a windchill temperature because the table didn't go down that low.
If I remember correctly, the worst I've been out in is -44C actual and -54C with windchill.
Edit: interestingly, the table in the Wikipedia article on Antarctica's climate would class that as 'Condition 3: Pleasant conditions; all outside travel is permitted.'
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Re: Coldest place on earth?
My husband was working in Spence Bay and it was minus 47 with a 40 knot wind, he always tells me that it was that particular day that made him decide to leave Canada.....I'm not sure quite what caused him to decide to return
#9
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It's a bracing -32 here now, so I'll dress accordingly for the walk to work. The meteoroli... meteorolo... weather scientist on tv said it could be colder than normal right through Christmas.
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Batsman says the coldest he has experienced is -60C. That was one summer in Antarctica. He played golf on an iceberg in -10C.
#11
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right now at home its sunny and minus 38 (without w/c) I'm about to go outside for another cigarette, it takes longer to get dressed and undressed than it does to smoke it
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Re: Coldest place on earth?
apologies if that's TMI
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I don't know which is more disturbing with this post.....the bit about the fags, or the visual of clothes on/off TMI much?
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Mandy, I'm not anti cigarette....but whenever I see people in Canada outside in freezing conditions, I think they must be nuts...I am sure I'd just become a fair weather smoker...