# Canada records temperature below -51°C for the first time eight years **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703 "2021-12-27T04:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/1 "2021-12-27T04:35:31Z")
[https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/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. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ 🥶 ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/2 "2021-12-27T04:42:34Z")
So that means that in the past year, Canada has had a temperature variation of greater than 100 degrees Celsius! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/3 "2021-12-27T04:43:29Z")
but not in the same place! a couple of years ago, we lived through an 80 degree swing: -40 in January, +40 in July ---
**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:** [December 27, 2021, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/4 "2021-12-27T04:46:48Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > but not in the same place! Yet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/5 "2021-12-27T04:48:40Z")
Point. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/6 "2021-12-27T05:54:16Z")
So global warming is officially over? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/7 "2021-12-27T06:17:34Z")
So… Yay us? Here in Edmonton, the low is -35 tonight, and forecast to be -37 tomorrow night. > [@](#): > > Wind chill minus 37 in the morning and minus 42 in the afternoon. Frostbite in minutes. That’s the actual government forecast for tomorrow. Good times! ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/8 "2021-12-27T06:24:15Z")
For context, -51C is -60 degrees in the US, Liberia and Myanmar. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/9 "2021-12-27T06:34:23Z")
And the cold is also coming to Saskatchewan: > [@](#): > > Mid-morning on Sunday, Val Marie was the warmest spot in Saskatchewan at a balmy -21 C, with a wind chill of -33 C, while Key Lake was the coldest, recording -42.1 C, with a wind chill of -50 C. Regina had -23 C, with a wind chill of -33 C, and Saskatoon had -26.5 C, with a wind chill of -35 C. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/10 "2021-12-27T06:34:45Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > So global warming is officially over? We do what we can. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/11 "2021-12-27T07:37:22Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > So global warming is officially over? Cold comfort, that. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/12 "2021-12-27T12:50:29Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/13 "2021-12-27T15:22:15Z")
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. > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > So global warming is officially over? Hey it says right there it had been 8 years since the last time… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/14 "2021-12-27T15:27:17Z")
You Canadians don’t know what _real_ cold is. Why, it’s 19F right now in Seattle. 🥶 ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/15 "2021-12-27T15:30:07Z")
CAN-NA-DA!!! CAN-NA-DA!!! CAN-NA-DA!!! > **Summary** > > (bottom text so that the Board’s macros will allow me to submit my joke post) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/16 "2021-12-27T16:45:34Z")
> [@Mark\_Finn](#): > > 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 greater Edmonton area has a million people. It’s -42 this morning with the wind chill, -37 without. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/17 "2021-12-27T17:55:51Z")
But it’s a dry cold 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/18 "2021-12-27T18:59:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Cold comfort, that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/19 "2021-12-27T19:06:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/20 "2021-12-27T19:09:44Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Why, it’s 19F right now in Seattle. 🥶 Just doesn’t look seasonal without a minus sign in front of it. 🧐 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703.md?page=2)