Canada records temperature below -51°C for the first time eight years

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years

A bit nippy in the NWT tonight.

:snowflake: :snowflake: :snowflake: :snowflake: :cold_face: :snowflake: :snowflake: :snowflake: :snowflake:

So that means that in the past year, Canada has had a temperature variation of greater than 100 degrees Celsius!

but not in the same place!

a couple of years ago, we lived through an 80 degree swing: -40 in January, +40 in July

Yet. :slight_smile:

Point.

So global warming is officially over?

So… Yay us?

Here in Edmonton, the low is -35 tonight, and forecast to be -37 tomorrow night.

That’s the actual government forecast for tomorrow. Good times!

For context, -51C is -60 degrees in the US, Liberia and Myanmar.

And the cold is also coming to Saskatchewan:

We do what we can.

Cold comfort, that.

In the Canadian/NWT settlements with those quoted cold temperatures - very few people have to suffer through them. Meanwhile - in Yakutsk, Russia - 300,000 people have to bear the cold (it’s -46 C there as I write this).

The quarter-million-year long decision tree that leads a bunch of apes evolved in the East African Rift to wind up living in a place like Rabbit Kettle, NWT, is truly a wonder to imagine.

Hey it says right there it had been 8 years since the last time…

You Canadians don’t know what real cold is.

Why, it’s 19F right now in Seattle. :cold_face:

CAN-NA-DA!!!

CAN-NA-DA!!!

CAN-NA-DA!!!

Summary

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The greater Edmonton area has a million people. It’s -42 this morning with the wind chill, -37 without.

But it’s a dry cold :wink:

:slightly_smiling_face:

Earlier today, we were at -37C. Now, we’ve warmed up to -30C, and the predicted high is -25C.

Bright sunshine though, so there’s that.

Just doesn’t look seasonal without a minus sign in front of it. :face_with_monocle: