It's - 42 degrees Celcius here

[StuH]

Well today it's -43 Celcius supposed to warm up by Tuesday. I think that is -47 Farhrenheit. Anyway it's a good excuse to play guitar all day.

The coldest I've ever experienced up here was -62 Celcius in Faro, Yukon. It was the first year I lived up here and was working in an open pit lead zinc mine. Three cold spells in a row lasting for two weeks each. We operated in those temperatures with very low equipment availabilty. Huge cracks began developing in the booms of our shovels. All three had to be rebuilt the following spring and summer. It is a bizarre thing, but you can feel sources of warmth from great distances at these temperatures. I can remember being able to feel the heat off the haul trucks from about 50 feet away as they passed by.

I've lived here for a little over 12 years, the old timers tell me hitting -70 was not an unusual thing to see 20 years ago. It sounds barbaric but it is very tolerable if you are dressed for it. Very little wind here. I betcha a cold winter Winter near Lake Superior say in northern Minnesota is far worse.

Thanks for the concern.

 

[roadkillbill]

It's no wonder Celsius never quite caught on here...

Just curious, StuH...whaddya do for heat, and how much does it cost? Here in VA my gas bill for last February was about $350...I can only imagine what that would be at -40C..

 

[nvosmeier]

For C to F conversion we were taught to double the temp and add 30. This never comes out exactly... but within a few degress.

So, 25C would be 25+25+30=80F degress. John s in Perth, AU said it was 34C that would be 98F.

But that makes Clive's 45c = 120F. That can't be right can it?

When it gets in the neg numbers it works the same. But in my simplified system it gets further and further off base as you move farther out to the extremes of temp.

I checked these temps in the converter and they were all off by 3 to 7 degress. But hey, it's a quick way to convert on the fly.

45c I had as 120F but it's 113F
25c I had as 80F but it's 77F
34c I had as 98F but it's 93
-42c I would have as -52F but it is -43

The formula to calculate the degrees in farenheit from degrees in celsius;

(degrees in celsius * 9) /5 + 32 = degrees in Farenheit.

 

[StuH]

It's no wonder Celsius never quite caught on here...

Just curious, StuH...whaddya do for heat, and how much does it cost? Here in VA my gas bill for last February was about $350...I can only imagine what that would be at -40C..

Well there are only two in my house. Our heat is electric. I have my power bill averaged based on a full years use so I ended up paying $240Cdn (216USD) per month. That's heat, lights and hot water;the works. My lights run me about $80 bucks a month, and to keep the car plugged in is about $25 bucks so that's about $135 per month or about $1620 per year for heat and hot water.

Most people here have wood stoves. For a real cold year in a medium sized house say 2000 sq ft you are looking at 10 cords at about $150 per cord for $1500 per year.

I lived in a place that had oil heat about 9 years ago. That would cost me about 1200 bucks a year to fill, I would dare to say at todays prices it would cost well over $2000 a year for oil in this house. Propane is not an option as it gels in these temperatures.

All in all electric heat is economical here provided your house is energy efficient.

 

[woodman]

Global warming doesn't mean that it's going to be warmer everywhere, just that the Earth as a whole has more heat in it. Global warming is changing currents in the jet stream and in the sea, bringing warmer air and water to some places, making them warmer, but bringing colder air and water to others, making them colder.

that's the best thumbnail analysis i've heard in quite some time.

 

[TG]

It hovers just above freezing most of the winter here with perhaps a few weeks just below. Lots of drizzle and rain.
But even though I grew up in Canada (albeit in the southern Ontario 'banana belt') I was never as uncomfortable as I am here. This chilly dampness goes right into you.
Well below freezing but dry would be preferable.

 

[TDPRI]

The formula to calculate the degrees in farenheit from degrees in celsius;

(degrees in celsius * 9) /5 + 32 = degrees in Farenheit.

Yeah, as I said. I'll take my "rough" formula for it's ease of calculating on the fly.

 

[sneakyjapan]

the coldest I`ve ever experienced was -40 around the Lesser Slave lake area in Alberta. Worked for Chevron at the time...outdoors, I was with the survey crew looking for oil. We had to keep the trucks running all night...hey it was Chevron...gas and diesel fuel wasn`t a problem. It was 15 minutes outside and back in the truck to warm up `cause any exposed parts begin to freeze and facial hair white and frosty. Loved the job inspite of the cold...saw lots of wildlife and during moose season saw plenty of them along the cut trails through the forest made by the native Canadian cat skinners. Sometimes just saw the piles of innerds the hunters left behind... hey, closest supermarket was 200 kilometers away...kids want meat ya gotta shoot it. Great times...haven`t thought about that for a while. Don`t miss the -40 though.
-40C is = -40 F...whatever way ya look at it...it was frickin` cold eh.

 

[weelie]

The coldest I've ever experienced up here was -62 Celcius in Faro, Yukon.

OK, I get off here. You are mad!

I've only "done" around -40C. That's was when I was living just off the polar circle here in Finland. It is and was way too cold for me! I don't even bicycle when it gets below -25C.

Anyway, we've had 7C now for a few weeks. No snow in sight.

 

[Sarge]

Here in Pittsbugh it's been in the 60's since Wednesday and it's supposed to continue. The Harley's gettin' lots of miles on her, but snow is commin' Friday.

 

[1293]

I can never remember the formula for converting from C to F. I can remember that the boiling point of water is 212F/100C and the freezing point is 32F/0C. I just set C as the independant variable and use the linear equation:

y=mx+b.

m = dy/dx = (212-32)/(100-0) = 1.8.

Using the freezing point coordinates, you get 32 for the y intercept:

F = 1.8C + 32.

Knowing a few fundamentals is much easier than remembering a bunch of formulas.