With today’s release of the Environment Canada’s Top Ten weather stories for 2004;
At Saskatoon, for example, the air temperature on January 28 dipped to -45�C, the coldest in 33 years. Add the wind and it felt more like -59. Exposed skin froze in less than 10 minutes. At times in January, even the planet Mars was warmer than Canada. The rover Spirit recorded a night-time minimum of -15�C on the Red Planet while in Key Lake, SK (some 570 km north of Saskatoon) it dipped to -52.6�C on January 29 making it the coldest place on Earth.
A team of researchers at the University of Toledo has created petunias that survive in temperatures so low that other flowers curl up and die in two hours.
Because, I’d really miss my garden these days.
Remember, this cold weather you’re experience is George W. Bush’s fault for not implimenting Kyoto Protocol & economical suicide. It’s Global Whatever.
Nah, it’s the earth fighting back against Bush – “Try to make me warm up up, huh? I’ll show you”.
Of course either way it’s still Bush’s fault.
-45? I’m not impressed. During my news days in Weyburn, Sask, a farmer told me his thermometer was registering -53 one Christmas. I’m pretty sure this was true, because he told me his thermometer was “really expensive” and, besides, everybody knows Sask folks don’t lie.
At least that’s what they kept telling me…