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Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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The Official Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart

50° Fahrenheit (10° C) · Californians shiver uncontrollably. · Canadians plant gardens.

35° Fahrenheit (1.6° C) · Floridians buy down parkas and cry a lot... · Canadians drive with the windows down

32° Fahrenheit (0° C) · American water freezes · Canadian water gets thicker.

0° Fahrenheit (-17.9° C) · New York City landlords finally turn on the heat. · Canadians have the last cookout of the season.

-60° Fahrenheit (-51° C) · Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. · Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.

-109.9° Fahrenheit (-78.5° C) · Carbon dioxide freezes & makes dry ice. · Canadians pull down their earflaps & zip up their parka.

-173° Fahrenheit (-114° C) · Ethyl alcohol freezes. · Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg

-459.67° Fahrenheit (-273.15° C) · Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops. · Canadians start saying "pretty cold, eh?"

-500° Fahrenheit (-295° C) · Hell freezes over. · The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup
 
lozina

lozina

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Canadians love the cold north so much their entire population is pressed against the US border

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Iron Woode

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I sit reading the list whilst the temp is -1C and its snowing outside.

:hmm:
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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sandorski said:
-40c is frackin cold, Canadian or not.
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Yeah true, anything -30 or colder and I pretty much avoid going outside if I don't have to. :awe:

I do recall walking to school in like -50 back when I was in high school though. Mind you if there's no wind it's actually not too bad. Diesel engines don't like it though, and school buses run on diesel. :biggrin: I recall a whole week where they canceled the buses, which meant I could just go home. Fun times. We don't see -50's that often anymore though. Last year -39 is the coldest I can remember.

Then came college... no such thing as snow days in college. And of course same thing with work. Have to be there no matter what the conditions are like. Too much snow to clear car out on time or car wont start? Get a taxi. I've done that before.
 
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Red Squirrel

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Markbnj said:
To be honest those northern parts are most tolerable when it's freezing.
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The nice thing with being in the white or yellow area is less people. Not a big fan of the hustle and bustle of the big cities and high cost of living. The downside is the summers are so short and are hit and miss. This year we had maybe 2 weeks of summer. Now that there's snow on the ground it almost feels like a continuation of last winter, which ended in May.
 
Ruptga

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^^ If you're going to live with all that, why not go just a little further north to the permafrost, so you don't have to deal with freeze/thaw cycles?
 
sandorski

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Red Squirrel said:
Yeah true, anything -30 or colder and I pretty much avoid going outside if I don't have to. :awe:

I do recall walking to school in like -50 back when I was in high school though. Mind you if there's no wind it's actually not too bad. Diesel engines don't like it though, and school buses run on diesel. :biggrin: I recall a whole week where they canceled the buses, which meant I could just go home. Fun times. We don't see -50's that often anymore though. Last year -39 is the coldest I can remember.

Then came college... no such thing as snow days in college. And of course same thing with work. Have to be there no matter what the conditions are like. Too much snow to clear car out on time or car wont start? Get a taxi. I've done that before.
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Ahh, walking to school in -40ish temps was quite the thing. Nostrils sticking together everytime I inhaled, face feeling like needles are poking into it everytime a car drove by, good times. My fingers and toes would start aching after 10 minutes or so, fortunately the walk wasn't too much longer than that. As a 10ish year old child at the time it was all kinda adventurous, only in retrospect though. Now that I am pushing 50, I don't ever want to have that experience again. :biggrin:
 
BarkingGhostar

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So, Canadians are adding energy to the point of having a negative temp? Seems like solid [Canadian] logic.
 
Red Squirrel

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Ruptga said:
^^ If you're going to live with all that, why not go just a little further north to the permafrost, so you don't have to deal with freeze/thaw cycles?
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Need a couple weeks of above freezing temps if you want to do any kind of work on the house that involves materials that need to be worked with above freezing, like adhesives, paints etc.

Not sure what they do in the tundra, I think they have legit igloos. :biggrin:
 
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It's all true (allowing for a little hyperbole).

True minor tale: Some years ago my wife and I spent a couple weeks in the LA - San Diego area at the first of October. On a day with a temp of 21C (about 70F) I realized I was walking around the shopping centre parking lot in a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and the locals were wearing light sweaters on top of long stuff. I live along the north shore of Lake Superior.
 
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