Yes it is actually -48 with the windchill, which as far as I am concerned is too cold to do anything. The city should just pass a law that allows everyone to stay home for today, as it is cruel and unusual punishment to go out in this!
Now I realize some of you that live up north experience colder that this regularly.
But I do not. It hasn’t been this cold since 1982!
Yeah, -48 with the windchill here too. I had to put on a sweater!
Hah, there speaks a true used-to-cold person.
It gets cold up here in NY, but I don’t think that cold. I think it has gone down to -30 or so with the windchill, but it’s infrequent.
To be honest, once it drops below zero I find it all feels the same anyway - butterly cold.
We’ll be getting some of that, but not quite as bad, next week in Montreal. Looking at -30 or so with windchill, with the high for the day of -17C. How dare they call it a “high” if it’s that far below zero? Oh well, time to get out the marshmallow-puff coat.
While here in Colorado we’re enjoying balmy +3 degrees. Wait a minute, is that a Canadian cold front? Hey! Keep your Arctic fronts to yourselves up there, willya!? Sheesh!
And just a week ago it was [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=402981] too hot.
You have cold? It got warmer today in Toronto.
:: jealous ::
Hmm. Maybe I’d better check the weather forecast.
Great, now I feel like a sissy for weeping about our -13°.
(I have severe Raynaud’s, though – so if I’m out in that for any length of time I can look forward to the sensation of having my fingers smashed with mallets when the blood returns to them.)
This winter sucks rocks. (Pretty, though!)
Just checked the weather forecast… a high of -11C on Wednesday? That’s actually normal! I’m amazed!
-48? That’s face shattering weather, that is. I’d be calling in sick to work and staying the hell indoors with the heat on max. (Yes, I’m a Canadian – southern Ontarian – and yes, I’m a cold-weather wuss) I don’t think it’s ever gotten that cold in my neck of the woods. Maybe down in the -30s with wind chill – days like that almost ripped my face off and froze my nose hairs every time I inhaled.
It seems to be balmy spring here in Toronto. It was autumn until last week, then we had a brief winter (I finally went out to buy a winter hat), and today is well above zero again. I anticipate tanning weather by early February, and our tropical fruit industry will probably be well under way by 2010.
I remember one day in March 2002 it hit 25 degrees ©. They sure don’t make winter like they used to, I haven’t owned a proper winter coat in years.
It’s going to be near 80 here today, and in the mid 80s this weekend.
Come visit sunny Florida.
Bring money.
According to the book "How to be a Canadian"
-48 is only “Nippy” and is nowhere close to the temperature that its TOO cold to go to the mall" ( a hypothetical temp. that’s never been reached…)
Who Needs all 10 fingers, anyway??
Where’s that global warming when you need it?
New England. 
I am also here in Winterpeg and damn it’s freezing. Without the windchill it was -35 at my house in the morning.
I just found this bit, meeks. Doesn’t say when though. My father recalls -58 one winter when he was a young man working up around the St. Lawrence but that would probably be unofficial temperature.
It’s such weird weather here in Chicago…it got down to around 20 degrees this week, and I was practically crying it felt so cold, since it has been so warm thus far. 20 degrees is usually nothing in January! I shouldn’t be crying until it’s at least 0, and at least -20 windchill! 
All together now!
It’s 40 below
but I don’t give a fuck
Got a heater in my truck
and I’m off to the rodeo…
Heh. My last winter in college (Urbana IL) we had a record cold - down to -25F, windchill down to -65F. That was the only time I’d heard phrases like “potentially fatal” and “exposed flesh will freeze in 60 seconds” on the weather.
I bundled up and went for a walk, it was nice out. My roommates (IL natives) laughed themselves sick and stayed indoors with the heater, blankets and hot cocoa.