# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/21 "2021-12-27T22:27:02Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > So global warming is officially over? NO. ‘Global warming’ was a media term for what scientists call ‘climate change’. It involves more extreme temperatures (warmer in summer colder in winter), more storms (tornadoes, hurricanes, ‘hundred-year’ rainstorms) more often & more violent, and semi-permanent weather changes in areas (constant droughts, even desert-ification of parts of the western USA). Still, we must remember : “Blame Canada!” ---
**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 28, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/22 "2021-12-28T05:38:07Z")
And an update: > **[14 of the top 15 coldest places on Earth right now are in Canada | News](https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/coldest-places-on-earth-are-in-canada)** > > Canada in December can be cold, and this year it sure is bone chilling. In fact, 14 of the top 15 coldest places on Earth are in Canada.  The one non-Canadian place is Jakutsk, Russia, at -47 C. Clan Piper is humming along at -27 C. Bearable. ---
**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 28, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/23 "2021-12-28T06:30:49Z")
…and our furnace died on Christmas Eve, the furnace guy said the control board had gone, the manufacturer of the furnace went under about a year ago, the usual supplier in town is closed due to a covid outbreak, and they hope to get a new one to us tomorrow-ish… yay us? Fortunately it’s only -5C or so in our bit of Southern Ontario. Piles of blankets, electric heaters, and warm fuzzy clothing are doing the trick. Plus closing off the bedrooms when we’re not actually in them, and retreating to the kitchen/living room. And then cooking stuff. Looks like the cold is going to miss us in the east. The two-week forecast doesn’t go below a nightly low of -11C. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/24 "2021-12-28T06:54:10Z")
I was thinking “What about Antarctica”? Then I realized it’s summer there. But something no one here apparently mentioned in the last few months (although I might have missed it in my search): > **[Antarctica's last 6 months were the coldest on record | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/weather/weather-record-cold-antarctica-climate-change/index.html)** > > In a year of extreme heat, Antarctica's last six months were the coldest on record. Or: > **[South Pole posts most severe cold season on record, a surprise in a warming...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/10/01/south-pole-coldest-winter-record/)** > > While the rest of the world sizzled, the South Pole shivered with an average temperature of minus-78 degrees over the last six months ---
**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 28, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/25 "2021-12-28T21:14:09Z")
Minor update: the furnace guy has been and fixed things. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/26 "2021-12-28T21:52:32Z")
Fingers crossed for you. ---
**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 28, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/27 "2021-12-28T23:23:57Z")
Thanks! All seems to be working. 😀 ---
**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 29, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/28 "2021-12-29T00:38:08Z")
Glad to hear it! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/29 "2021-12-29T01:41:29Z")
Strange. Here in southwestern Ontario the temperature struggles and fails to get below freezing. Well above, straight through to the New Year. New Year’s Day forecast? 7°C (45°F for youse 'Murrikans) and rain. If you pay me enough I’ll come down there and pay for a snowplowing service, and that will get you the same weather! I have magic powers – anything I prepare for never happens, especially if it’s expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/30 "2021-12-29T02:33:57Z")
I went out and did some snowblowing yesterday in that weather, and when I got back in I immediately ordered some heated gloves. Even with my thickest snowboarding gloves, by the time I was done I couldn’t feel my fingers. It was scary 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 30, 2021, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/31 "2021-12-30T05:46:04Z")
And the beat goes on: > **[Western deep freeze: Alberta breaks 7 cold-weather records as B.C. braces for...](https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/western-deep-freeze-alberta-breaks-7-cold-weather-records-as-b-c-braces-for-snow-1.5722650)** > > Much of Western Canada remains under extreme cold weather warnings, with multiple temperature records being broken in Alberta, capping off a year of extreme weather in the region. > [@](#): > > In Alberta, where temperatures dropped as low as -55 C with the wind chill earlier this week, 26 of the province’s 34 regions were under an extreme cold weather warning. > > Seven [daily minimum temperature records](https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/weathersummaries_e.html) were broken Tuesday in the province, the coldest of which was registered in Vegreville, Alta., east of Edmonton. The new record of -44.6 C surpassed the record of -42.8 C set in 1968. Another record of -42.1 C was also set at the Edmonton International Airport, surpassing the previous record of -37.8 C set in 1992. > … > However, temperatures are expected to plummet in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, down to -37 C in Regina and -38 C in Saskatoon on Wednesday night. That settles it: I am definitely not going outside to unplug inflatable Snoopy and Kevin tonight! And I did remember to plug in the car, unlike a previous winter posting. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/32 "2021-12-30T09:43:23Z")
I wonder how Lytton BC is doing, cold-wise. Lytton (named after the same guy the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest is named after) had the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada during that heat wave 6 months ago. But that wasn’t hot enough for them, so the next day, they burned the town down.\* \*OK, I’m taking some liberties with the facts here, but it’s funnier that way. ---
**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 30, 2021, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/33 "2021-12-30T12:09:18Z")
[Lytton](https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-33_metric_e.html) is absolutely tropical Thursday morning at -14 C. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/34 "2021-12-30T23:26:28Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And I did remember to plug in the car, unlike a previous winter posting. So very important! ---
**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 31, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/35 "2021-12-31T03:15:49Z")
Snoopy and Kevin aren’t getting unplugged tonight, either! > **[Regina breaks 137-year-old temperature record during cold snap](https://regina.ctvnews.ca/regina-breaks-137-year-old-temperature-record-during-cold-snap-1.5723642)** > > The extreme cold gripping the province led to a 137-year-old temperature record being broken in Regina earlier this week. > [@](#): > > Temperatures in Regina dipped to -38.6 on Tuesday, surpassing the previous daily record for Dec. 28 of -37.2 originally set in 1884, according to a weather summary from Environment and Climate Change Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/36 "2021-12-31T17:52:02Z")
Brrrr. Better get those chestnuts roasting. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2022, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/37 "2022-01-01T00:11:20Z")
Where I live, it’s supposed it hit -20F/-29C tomorrow night. Well, good heavens, you’d think we never had these temperatures before by how the media goes on. But of course we have. When I was a dumb kid, we would go out skating in this cold. Not for long, and there were warming houses available, but we still had fun with it. I expect frozen pants to be standing in people’s yards this weekend. Maybe there won’t be so many fireworks tonight. One can hope… ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/38 "2022-01-05T16:42:07Z")
Current conditions in Saskatoon: -38C, windchill -50C. Actually plugged my car in at work. Don’t usually bother. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/39 "2022-01-05T17:16:53Z")
Ha! It’s only -29 here today. I almost went jogging it was so warm. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703/40 "2022-01-05T17:31:03Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > So global warming is officially over? No, because “Global Warming” could actually trigger the next Ice Age. It has to do with the desalinization of ocean water due to melting ice, which in turn would slow and eventually stop the “conveyor belt” currents that balance out the ocean temperature zones. This whole issue is extremely complex. It’s more than simply, “everything gets hot”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-records-temperature-below-51-c-for-the-first-time-eight-years/956703.md?page=3)