# Projected low of 42 C - keep warm, western Dopers! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578 "2014-03-01T04:19:45Z")\ **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:** [March 1, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/1 "2014-03-01T04:19:45Z")
Currently - 30 C in Saskatchewan, with a projected low of -42 C overnight. Huddle up, stay warm, and stay off the roads unless travel is absolutely necessary. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/2 "2014-03-01T04:57:51Z")
-42C is in that weird zone where it’s almost the same as F (it’s only off by 1.6 F. -40 is -40 in both). Do be careful folks, that’s awfully damn cold! I’ve only experienced wind chill that cold, and I thought I’d die of frozen. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/3 "2014-03-01T05:18:00Z")
Don’t even know what the wind chill is likely to be. It’s fortunately very still at the moment, but it wouldn’t take much wind at -31 to trigger some serious windchill. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/4 "2014-03-01T07:48:15Z")
Perhaps a passing mod will edit your title to move this thread from Sudan to Saskatchewan? 🙂 A low of -42C sounds very uncomfortable, as does a low of 42C, for that matter. Please take care! ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/5 "2014-03-01T13:57:37Z")
Currently -37 C. Windchill of -52 C. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/6 "2014-03-01T14:09:58Z")
Only made it to -37/-50 here. I’m a little disappointed, though still not going to open the door. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/7 "2014-03-01T15:45:27Z")
-50 with the windchill. I think I’m going to die! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/8 "2014-03-01T16:41:38Z")
Went to hear [Rah Rah](http://www.rahrahband.com/) at the Exchange last night. Aside from breaking off the plastic seat adjuster lever on the car :mad: no problems. My wife loved it though. the whole time we were there, she kept pulling out her phone and showing me the temperature. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/9 "2014-03-01T17:41:55Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > My wife loved it though. She just turned to me and said, “ah, it didn’t hit -40 last night – only -38.” I said, “try a different website” but she said she already did. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/10 "2014-03-01T17:48:19Z")
Not nearly that cold in Iowa, but our high temp on Monday is predicted to set a record for the lowest high temp ever. Minus 6 or thereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/11 "2014-03-02T00:29:46Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > Perhaps a passing mod will edit your title to move this thread from Sudan to Saskatchewan? 🙂 > > A low of -42C sounds very uncomfortable, as does a low of 42C, for that matter. Please take care! I think they all, including the OP missed your (very well-taken) point. Whoosh!!! Hey OP: +42C is like +108F. Whatever else happens in Saskatchewan tomorrow, I predict a temp of over +40C/100F will trigger massive floods and many conversions to new religions made up on the spot. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/12 "2014-03-02T01:33:33Z")
Definitely picked the right week to head to Florida! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/13 "2014-03-02T02:36:02Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Definitely picked the right week to head to Florida! Man, did you ever. It’s only -27ºC (-38 with windchill) here. Groan. They’ve been telling me for the last three years that my 2005 Corolla has a dead battery, but it keeps starting the car just fine - I’m afraid that it’s truly going to give up one of these bitterly cold days and strand me somewhere. I’ll be sure not to go somewhere in it that I can’t stay warm while I wait for CAA. Or I could go crazy and just put a new battery in the damned car. 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 2, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/14 "2014-03-02T02:56:53Z")
Woo - hoo! It got up to -25 today! It’s sunk back to -30, of course. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2014, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/15 "2014-03-02T03:01:02Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Went to hear [Rah Rah](http://www.rahrahband.com/) at the Exchange last night. How were they? ---
**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:** [March 2, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/16 "2014-03-02T03:39:39Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > …a temp of over +40C/100F will trigger massive floods and many conversions to new religions made up on the spot. :: stark unnatural heat wave hits Saskatchewan :: “I have seen it! The gods have spoken to me, and this is the proof! By the force of this holy…” :: looks frantically around, picks up discarded paper cup :: “… Tim Hortons cup, I pledge it to thee! RRRRoll up the RRRim and be saved!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/17 "2014-03-02T03:51:05Z")
“By the Power of Bread-Doh…! You…Have… the Sour!!!” ---
**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:** [March 2, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/18 "2014-03-02T04:09:52Z")
It’s currently -26C here, with wind chill taking it down to -31C. I walked a few blocks to the corner store earlier this evening, and it wasn’t too bad. Of course, I was dressed warmly, and I was moving; but it was doable. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/19 "2014-03-02T05:53:40Z")
It’s so damn cold that I’m heading out of here on Monday–north to Pinehouse Lake. The locals assure me that mosquitoes won’t be a problem. Will definitely have my survival kit with me. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578/20 "2014-03-02T06:20:42Z")
I have an aunt and uncle who just got back from a trip to Panama tonight. Not the luckiest timing on their part. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/projected-low-of-42-c-keep-warm-western-dopers/682578.md?page=2)