MarkG

I've done it at -53C windchill temperature, and it wasn't too bad. Another 14 degrees might get a bit too chilly for my taste, though.

Partially discharged

https://www.mountwashington.org/

-38 c and 141 km/h winds. Sounds lovely

I've climbed Mount Washington 5 times but always in the June - September timeframe.

BristolUK

The Guardian says Brutal and 'bone-chilling' cold envelops US east coast and "Temperatures will reach close to 0F from Philadelphia to Boston through Saturday night, with wind chills making it feel like -10F (-23C) to -20F (-29C)."
The feels like has been colder than -30 here for around two weeks with a couple of days break when it snowed and last night through this morning -34. Obviously other parts - where people live - have been colder.

Is this coverage because Canada doesn't matter compared to the US or is it because it's expected up here and less newsworthy?

scrubbedexpat091

Everyone seems to assume Canada = cold and frozen all winter long, so a report that it's cold in Canada isn't all that newsworthy....

Obviously the entire country of Canada isn't in a deep freeze but media reports I have seen like to claim it is....

I have also seen reports acting like the entirety of the US has warm winters, forgetting about all those states that border Canada and get cold as heck in winter, and don't forget about Alaska....

Danny B

It's a bit cooler today near the top

BristolUK

I'd kind of expect better from the Guardian though.
plus one of the two states mentioned in the guardian report sticks up into Canada somewhat and if borders were drawn logically, Maine would be Canadian!

Vulcanoid

just 'all winter'? My partner got heartily tired of everyone new announcing, year round, "You're from Canada? Oh, England must be so nice and warm to you!", and having to reply "I'm from the desert. We have cacti and snakes and we're sweating on the beach at 9am. Wtf is this 20C chill midday in July?'

(Then normally followed an explanation that no he didn't speak French, what with the nearest French speaking city being further away from the Okanagan than Moscow was from Bristol)

Partially discharged

These people can be in both Maine and Canada

https://goo.gl/maps/oUgKFW7PDPD2 (plaque on the back portion of the building on the left is the border with US mailbox on the right).

https://goo.gl/maps/b1xJsTV2Wuz House in the background has the border going through it.

BristolUK

I recall a bar or something with USA across from Canada?

Partially discharged

https://goo.gl/maps/Z3jeLgRUpLw

Building at end of gravel driveway. Not the classiest of places. Not a bar anymore but a mail centre place where you can have packages delivered to the US side and pick up in Canada and vice versa. The area on the US side in New York state is quite poor.

BristolUK

Funny...looking at some of these roads with fields at the side, it's really only the yellow line that tells me it's not the UK.

That sounds daft, but I never look around me and think "this could be in the country in England" because everything I see either looks so "American" or has some other "give-away" about it.

This probably indicates how little I see out of town but even on the drive to the North of NB it still looked like Canada.

Shard

Is that building in Canada or does it straddle the border?

Partially discharged

Straddles the border.

https://goo.gl/maps/ToLoomf31P82

It is north of the US border building and south of the Canadian border building.

I've been through that area a few times for work as I've had to be in Cornwall, Ontario and Huntingdon Quebec in the same day and I've cut through northern New York State (full tank of gas later..... If cheap no name smokes are your thing that area in New York state is the place to go as well.

The people at the Canadian border building asked me how long I'd been in the USA and when I answered 'less than half an hour', their reply was 'and a full tank of gas I assume'.

The road on the west side of the river doesn't have any border building but the Canadian border people can view it across the river and it is a dead end road just leading to some cottages and the native reserve.

St Regis, QC to the west is another isolated place only accessible via the USA.

Partially discharged

The 'arret' sign and speed limit in km/h could be the giveaway that a Little Chef isn't just around the corner.

BristolUK

And green street name signs