Kate,

I don't know if you are interested in this, but I still keep track of the winter road in the NWT and this year is one of the earliest openings ever! This follows from last year when we had one of the latest closings ever! You can get the full reports here: http://jvtcwinterroad.ca/

In 2006 we had the lastest opening ever and the earliest closing ever. Needless to say the Global Warmers were all over that story. Haven't heard for them yet this year, though...

Yep. That's cold, all right.

Nasty windchill, too. With that windchill, that's how you know what it's like near the North Pole without the wind.

Been away too long to remember what it was like to live in such a frigid, somewhat arctic-like climate as is Sask in the winter.

Right now, here, it's just...

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CANB0088

So I guess I can't complain, though it's been an unusually cold, snowy winter, certainly compared to how it was in the Nineties.

Climate change? Oh, ok... I see the climate changing back to being as cold as it used to be. Global warming? What are its trumpeters, nuts, or just into it to make money on the scare scam?

I meant the climate is cold again, like in the Nineties. It's been warm and hardly snowy at all so far in the 2000s, excepting this winter.

That's my own local climate report, then...

In Winnipeg, the windchill is minus 42. When it's cold like this, it must suck to be a global warming believer.

I think Delisle should lobby for the climate change conferance next year. much better than Bali where the climate(weather) is one of the most stable on the "barely saved" planet.

The environmentalists will actually have a use for dressing in a squirrel costume for their protest.

-43 in Ft Mac , time for Izzy Money Borat Dion to visit instead of trying to heat up a crisis over not sending prisoners to an Afghan Jail.

Yeah, -35 degrees is cold, can malaria be far behind?
The venerable Sask MP from Wascana, Ralphy Wha'shisname, called it "bone-snapping when he was interviewed on an Ottawa Morning radio show.
The interview degenerated from there, it was all about Afghan "detainees", the poor harmless fellas.

I do not hear the Global Warmers turning off their polluting/carbon emitting furnaces. I do not see then burning their drivers licenses, I do not hear them praising this cold weather, I do not see them walking to work. The list could go on and on.

Funny when the weather is cold you never hear them talk about Global Warming. I wonder how the rest of Canada would feel if Alberta cut off its gas to them - particularly Ontario where most of the Global Warming fanatics live and have no grasp of reality. I love your comment trent ... so true. With this cold week, it should bring down the yearly average of temp change. Forget about Global Warming, worry about the next ice age.

The good news is that if this keeps up it will help with destroying the pine beetle.

My in-laws in Newfoundland are reporting a "good old-fashioned Winter". Late last week it was -35 and -47 with the wind chill. A-a-a-a-nd six feet of snow already on the ground.

Gotta stop talking about it or I'll be obsessed with moving home, working for 50% of current salary and buying a snow machine. :)

A good day to shut off the gas valves on the houses of those moronic theives called environmentalists.

-44C, just outside Edmonton now. Nanook has the day off school-no busses running. I'll give Mrs. Eskimo a ride to work this morning. The sled dogs love this weather.

Here's a cartoon caption for you....

STOP, STOP, we've run out of carbon credits!

-47 in Uranium City at the moment, without windchill. Take that pine bark beetles!

Just to let you know that Swift Current has not yet experienced that GW thing. -38 and -49 with WC. Sittin here waiting......sure is taking its own sweet time.

25 die in China's wild weather. Thankfully it's not too warm there, or they'd have a REAL problem...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/wl_nm/china_weather_dc_18;_ylt=AgklB9ZRMa3zegPmv6JVr4r0kPUI

There are a million people in Sask?

Target poor environment for mosquitoes, that.

Just for your information Kate, it's not cold that eradicates malaria, it's the public health and insect control procedures that our intelligent, scientific, and pragmatic society has developed to deal with malaria.

Fricken' cold in Winnipeg this morning, too, btw.

Fort St. John, BC: -39C/-48C with windchill.
Maybe I should call in sick with malaria?

Hope you didn't miss out on the blizzard, that was really awesome... -38 here in Olds.

Dat's not fair.
Sask gets a heat wave.

From 66 CFR.

Ft Chip: -45.2
Coronation: -41.9
Edson: -43.0
Peace River: -44
Claresholm: -40.0
Edm centre: -35
Edm International: -44

From my window thermometer, east of Edm - -44

Jokes abound on radio, the forecast HIGH for today is -29.

So folks, who wants to tell us exactly where this cold air is coming from, if the globe is warming all over?
Gore? Suzuki?
Missing in action?

Things could be worse. With conditions like these - http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/forecast/canada/summary_e.html?NU - one has to wonder if the Artic ice pack will still be there by the end of the week....

+5 in T.O. today, but tomorrow we will be experiencing "climate chang."

Can you say temperature envy?

(Ottawa Light freezing rain, -9)

Kind of reminds me when I was in the first grade in Manitoba, walking to school from Dufresne to
St.Anne, three and a half miles!! (no hills) Only drifts across the Dawson road.

It's been relatively cold here in southern Ontario all fall and winter, except for a mild spell in early January for a week.

Just at the freezing mark this morning.

- 40 in both C and Farenheit, right?


Crack out the homebrew jugs at Deslisle community centre, Kate!

That's what they did in minus forty degree weather in Dufresne, Manitoba.

News Alert

Canadian Premiers Channeling Al Gore !!

The annual meeting of Canadian Premiers has been interrupted by severe winter conditions and a blizzard that has shut down the city of Vancouver.

Gore does it again.

Update: Vancouver mayor refuses to "go Toronto" and refutes rumours he is requesting the Army be called out to shovel snow.

I sort of liked the "feels like -49" bit. Does -35 really feel different from -49? Thanks to the two decades plus that I spent in or near Chicago, I've seen plenty of below-zero weather, and it pretty much all felt the same.

+45 F. Scottsdale, Arizona.

"Rare Snows and Cold in Saudi Arabia Ignored by US Media"

By Noel Sheppard, January 13, 2008 newsbusters.org

The selective coverage of international weather events by global warming obsessed media continued this weekend as near-record low temperatures in Saudi Arabia mixed with snow went totally ignored by American press outlets.

Expert predictions of comming catastrophies are usually 20 years behind the times. We are finally getting the global cooling/new ice age, that was the rage in the 80s.
Please, gore/suzuki, send those co2 emmissions to Southern Alberta to warm the climate.

This was all explained in the documentary/movie, "The Day After Tomorrow", which I just watched two days ago.

According to the eminent scientist, Dennis Quaid, who in this outing used all two of his facial expressions, the melting polar icecap chills the Atlantic by 13 degrees, and a new ice age begins, rather quickly, actually. Within about two weeks, the entire Northern hemisphere is under fifty feet of snow.

Okay, it's supposed to be entertainment, BUT, when I mentioned the movie to my high school age son, he said,"oh yeah, we watched that movie in SCIENCE class a few weeks ago"!!!! Ahhhhhh!

a country classic for your viewing enjoyment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-TNdG6gjY

They renamed Global Warming into Climate Change for just such a conundrum.

Now, when the weather is different than yesterday or last week, it's "Climate Change"

If it's +32 it's climate change
If it's -32 it's climate change
If it's +6 and partly cloudy, it's climate change.

In fact, no matter what the fact on the ground may be, it's climate change - even when the climate doesn't change.

As an advertisement [read: propaganda] for the environutters, it's perfect. They never have to worry themselves with pesky truths like "reality" and stuff.

There is overwhelming evidence that proves AGW is a fraud of gigantic proportions all one has to do is stand outside for 2 minutes to feel the fraud.
Yet our own Conservative government has bought into it hook line and sinker and is about to implement devastating CO2 caps on oil producers.
This stuff is going to crush our economies close to what the NEP did.
I for one will not vote for any party buys into this garbage including the Conservatives.

But I do love how the media are describing cold weather on the Canadian prairies in January as 'sudden'.

forecast for the beacon of climate change.

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=bali

"Nature, too, proved mercurial. The weather that summer was unusually hot and dry, with temperatures in the 30's right through August. So many people died of heatstroke that newspapers stopped recording the victims' names." No, this wasn't the heatwave of 2003 in the UK (I was there for that), it was the heatwave of 1911. This is an excerpt from a book review in the Weekend Post (Jan. 26), The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911 by Juliet Nicolson. Imagine, they had climate change in 1911 without SUV's and without tar sands and a whole lot of other stuff.

-35 in Jasper Alberta -42 with WC
Yesterday was -42 and -48 with WC

The enviro-nuts here actually passed an anti-idleing by-law. This morning I noticed no one was observing that stupid by-law.

Well, I guess I shouldn't bellyache too much here in White Rock where it's "only" -1 degrees C with a windchill of -6 C and 3.5 inches of fresh snow. Of course, traffic is screwed up royally.

I think Al Gore and David Suzuki should be invited to skinny dip in Semiahmoo Bay on days like this.

Mike

For SV Jim. Having lived in the Yukon all my life I can tell you that there is an extreme difference between -35 and -49. I can still work outside at -35. At -49 things just break. Lucky today it's a balmy -39.4 that made it only -19 in the shop after running the Herman Nelson for 1.5 hours. Thats a real -39 by the way not a wind chill thing.

BTW Kate, I thought that the weather wasn't news!

Well, when it hits -40 you won't need to specify C or F - that's where the two scales meet.

A little thermal trivia I picked up in ND...

Northern Nut,
In case you haven't figured it out yet this is a private blog not a news site.

Claude, In case you don't know what an aside is, maybe you should read the following post.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007655.html

It's a balmy +2C here in Algonquin Park. We haven't had that much cold this winter unlike you guys out West. As I work outdoors I can't complain.

I just spoke with my daughter in Toronto, it's +10 there, and she went to work in her heels.

Even if global warming were real, we're talking about one degree warmer, that won't make winter go away! Other effects like El Nino explain the temperature patterns better.

We are experiencing a little dump of snow here on Vancouver Island, but it is about plus 4C at the moment, The snow turns all the usual green into a lovely white green contrast that brightens up the day.

I invite all you prairie folks to sell the farm and get your asses out here. The weather's fine.

When in doubt -- Kate's default position is sarcasm.

The IPCC & Gore Nut-Cases have been ranting that so-called MMGW will be a calamity because human Malaria cases will increase.

What is so ironic here, is that the Fear-Mongers are wrong in a few ways.

Malaria is not just a warm climate disease.

A severe outbreak occured in Siberia some time ago.

The earth is likely just experiencing another natural climate cycle. (It was warmer than this a thousand years ago)

So, as Kate's sarcasm correctly points out --- if the UN thinks, wrongly, that colder is better and it will save us from Malaria -- MINUS FRIGGIN THIRTY FIVE CELCIUS OUT TO DO IT !!

It is easy to see how one might miss all that if one gets their information only from the papers and TV.

Funny, how Mark Twain wrote about this a long time ago;

'If you do not read the Newspapers, you will be uninformed. Read them, and you will be misinformed.'

More true today because the Media has been forced into the Tabloid segment.

The Toronto Gal, in heels, is in for a rude awakening;

Enviro Canada: Wind warning with blowing snow in effect for Toronto later today.

Snow today in Vancouver for Premier Campbell's Global Warming Crisis metting.

Premier Campbell refuses to tell Alberta that energy production must stop.

Is Gordo afraid to also tell BCers that they will have cold houses and empty gas tanks ?? Start walking !

A balmy -30C here in Cowtown.(-42C with wind chill). Still a bit warmer than yesterday. Great weather for a climate change protest maybe?

some other weather trivia from the cobwebs of my mind but supplemented by wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snag,_Yukon

the scales may meet at -40 C/F, but they diverge at a ration of 9/5ths

Whew, he can rest easy now, this might just save the polar bears...they like it best when it's -50C, right?

http://polarbearcentral.blogspot.com/

Dang it all, I'm almost embarassed to mention that it is only 23C down here in Texas... I said almost ;-)

I do remember a January in Yellowknife when the temperature never got above -30C all month.

All you folks out there that are the praying kind, pray for cold in BC and Alberta. It needs to get really cold to kill the Spruce Bugs that are wiping out the northern forest.

Pray for surf...er..I mean Cold.

Well...here in the supposedly temperate 'burbs' of Vancouver, we have just experienced our ninth significant snowfall of the year so far.

More coming tonight...more coming tomorrow. Yesterday I spent an hour+ shovelling 6 inches of white, not-so-fluffy "global warming" off of my driveway.

Al Gore, you fat, flaming hypocrite....kiss my a$$! And If I hear Suzuki say "the science is settled" one more time, I'll personally rip the goatee off of his smug, self-aggrandizing face! (Although to his credit, Dr. FruitFly only maintains two or three lavish residences, as opposed to the Goreacle's four).

And just to note; It was NOT warming temps that caused the recent outbreaks of Pine Beetle. I believe it was a policy of Man trying to control forest fires the last few decades -- forest fires that periodicaly cleaned up old dead trees and the pests. Old trees cannot resist the beetles as easy as healthy ones.

The fanatics protested; 'save the trees'. They died of old age anyways. The Beetles then had lots of homes. The Beetles multiplied. The Beetles' populations grew so large they now killed even healthy trees.

Can't the Fanatics get anything right ? :)

Patrick Moore was right all along on the DDT ban. Malaria killed Millions, not DDT.

Patrick was right about foresty. Clear-cut, leave meadow, healthy rejuvenation.

Patrick was also right all along on Kyoto.

Suzuki has been been wrong on most things.

Who does the CBC favour with free (PAID !)air time ? Pathetic.

Sarge here: I'm on holidays, sitting in the Hunter Valley of Australia right now. Temp is expected to reach 35C today (that's on the plus side!) Sorry I'm missing the cold.

NOT!!!!

-73 below with the wind chill at the Ekati Diamond Mine in NWT two nights ago.
It was -40 with a 20 to 30 km wind.
David Suzuki's name kept coming up for some reason.

this is great news for our forests the pine mountain beatles are dying of by the millions as I speak because of this cold snap!One less thing for the global warming alarmists to point at . To bad.

cold here in the "other center of the universe", northern N.B., since late Nov. Is nacreous a new word for U.F.O.?

I feel so guilty..had to leave the gas-guzzlin'SUV running all day so it wouldn't freeze up.Sunny Manitoba not so sunny today,it was a** freezing cold,and whiteout conditions in lots of the SE corner of prov.Burnt a hellish pile of wood in the stove as well...so sorry Al!

Suzuki's probably in Cuba warming his pasty little ass and supporting the great Marxist leader....Gore's probably at the Anti Israel summit......

I'm not trying to brag about how cold it is but this morning I saw a brass monkey with its masculine bits resting beside the monkey's feet.

Still nothing compared to the winter of '69 when the temp stayed below -22 C for 6 weeks. Most nights it dropped to -40 or lower. Much of the rural areas were without phone service. The lines were above ground and they kept breaking in the cold. The farmers owned their own telephone companies and it was up to the farmers to repair the broken lines.

Monday's Calgary Herald had two interesting headlines right beside each other:

“Climate Change hot on agenda” and
“Deep winter freeze socks in Calgary”

The winter freeze story headline was 5 times larger than the climate change story. Very appropriate.

Whenever it gets this cold, I now wonder:

"Who let Al Gore into Canada?"

dmorris: "Okay, it's supposed to be entertainment, BUT, when I mentioned the movie to my high school age son, he said,"oh yeah, we watched that movie in SCIENCE class a few weeks ago"!!!! Ahhhhhh!"

Seriously? If this was presented as fact, the teacher should be fired. Compressional warming (contrary to what was said in the movie) cannot be "
negated" by air sinking "too quickly". Newtonian physics don't break down at speeds of air currents. I hope you had a talk with this teacher.

Also: I'm betting that tonight or tomorrow night will see the first -50°C reading of the season in Saskatchewan--specifically, Key Lake or Uranium City. As I write this, it's already -41 at UC and -44 at KL.

SVJ...just some trivia. At any temp below -40 ( C or F),the body does not know the difference.It has been medically proven that the brain cannot distinguish the difference,it just knows it's godawful cold.As an aside...at 5 AM today...Windchill -55C in St.Albert,actual -39. Nuts to GW,but keep killing off them pine beetles!!

The whole thing saves us money in Elliot lake on our buildings. No Fire Escapes. Just pour a barrel of water out the window and slid down the icicle

As I look at my thermometer presently sitting at a balmy -38 below, I keep thinking how nice it would be for Canada to have some of this global warming.Funny that you never hear from these foam at the mouth tree huggers when it makes them look like idiots. Save the planet...buy a Hummer.

Just read that the agrometeorologist at the agricultural research station in Swift Current recorded a windchill of -57 yesterday (Tuesday). Coldest temperature here in 25 years. Hope that GW gets here soon.