# \-48 with the windchill...are you kidding me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702 "2007-01-12T14:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/1 "2007-01-12T14:34:23Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/2 "2007-01-12T14:37:53Z")
Yeah, -48 with the windchill here too. I had to put on a sweater! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/3 "2007-01-12T14:41:56Z")
[QUOTE=borschevsky] Yeah, -48 with the windchill here too. I had to put on a sweater! [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/4 "2007-01-12T14:48:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/5 "2007-01-12T14:52:35Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/6 "2007-01-12T14:59:09Z")
And just a week ago it was [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=402981] too hot. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/7 "2007-01-12T14:59:17Z")
You have cold? It got warmer today in Toronto. :: jealous :: Hmm. Maybe I’d better check the weather forecast. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/8 "2007-01-12T15:05:28Z")
Great, now I feel like a sissy for weeping about our -13°. (I have severe [Raynaud’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud's_disease), 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!) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/9 "2007-01-12T15:07:30Z")
Just checked the weather forecast… a high of -11C on Wednesday? That’s actually normal! I’m amazed! ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/10 "2007-01-12T15:08:56Z")
-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. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/11 "2007-01-12T15:14:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/12 "2007-01-12T15:17:00Z")
It’s going to be near 80 here today, and in the mid 80s this weekend. Come visit sunny Florida. Bring money. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/13 "2007-01-12T15:17:46Z")
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?? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/14 "2007-01-12T15:21:06Z")
Where’s that global warming when you need it? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/15 "2007-01-12T15:46:24Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] Where’s that global warming when you need it? [/QUOTE] New England. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/16 "2007-01-12T15:51:02Z")
I am also here in Winterpeg and damn it’s freezing. Without the windchill it was -35 at my house in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/17 "2007-01-12T16:00:44Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] 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. [/QUOTE] I just found this [bit](http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00184761&id=aGcKAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA348&lpg=RA5-PA348&dq=Coldest+temperature+recorded+in+New+York+State), **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. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/18 "2007-01-12T16:01:01Z")
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! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/19 "2007-01-12T16:32:17Z")
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…_ ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702/20 "2007-01-12T16:43:31Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/48-with-the-windchill-are-you-kidding-me/387702.md?page=2)