This was taken in my car, January 17th, 2007 from the front seat while I sat in the “Canadian Position”, my body hunched over, hands between my legs while I waited for the car to warm up. I managed to get one glove off and snap this before my fingers froze off. This was one of those mornings where inhaling through your nose caused your nostrils to stick shut and inhaling through your mouth gives you an ice cream headache.
Yes, that says minus 21 Celsius. And the whole time I sat there shivering, my teeth clattering, I kept repeating. There’s no warming like global warming. There’s no warming like global warming.
I clicked my boots together three times and voila … my seat warmers kicked in.
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Depends on where you live I think.
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I’m in the west end of Ottawa, the cold capital with the warm people. The nice dip actually has them talking about having part of the world’s longest skating rink (The Rideau Canal) open before February 2nd, when Winterlude starts. They were flooding away yesterday.
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i think your “wizard of oz” reference works really well. obviously, the real world is beyond your comprehension.
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It has gotten much colder than that in Ottawa, and Ottawa is not that much warmer than Sudbury. -21 is just a bit cool. And you were inside a car out of hte wind! -30 is cold. -40 is ‘freezing.’ I put that in quotes because I do realize that 0 is the freezing point of water at STP. Perhaps you need a dryer cold, so you don’t feel it so much — until your fingers start falling off. You should be used to the cold by now, or are you not from Canada?
John M Reynolds
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jmrSudburry (#4) I hear ya. I know it gets much colder. But I am still just wearing a ski shell with no lining, i.e. just a nylon jacket in reality. I won’t put my liner in until it hits -30 before the wind so I think that makes me a pretty tough Canuck.
Regarding dry, I think when its cold and moist is when it is the worst. Ottawa is almost always a dry cold which seems far more tolerable to me.
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Get an automatic car starter, it’s the best $150 you will ever spend!! Dry cold, like here in the west is alot better than the damp cold in the east. At least here if you dress warm, you stay warm, not like in the east where the damp goes right through you.
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Hunter, I had one in my last vehicle but just haven’t gotten around to getting one in my new truck. But we have so many lefties on city council, now there is talk about a motion to ban idling which means warming a car up for over a minute or two might be a ticketable offence. Go figure.
And that’s what I meant in my last post. Luckily Ottawa seems to be a dry cold.