And a million Saskatchewanians breathe a sigh of relief.
Update – Anthony Watts advises that temperatures this low may spawn rare Nacreous clouds. Watch for them nearer sunset. (Photo at the link)
And a million Saskatchewanians breathe a sigh of relief.
Update – Anthony Watts advises that temperatures this low may spawn rare Nacreous clouds. Watch for them nearer sunset. (Photo at the link)
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.