# So I'm probably going to freeze to death. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705 "2013-01-29T14:08:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/41 "2013-01-31T01:00:15Z")
I hear that you can make a nice shawl/burka out of kudzu that will keep you nice and toasty… ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/42 "2013-01-31T02:39:42Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > A friend here has his daughter going to school in Minnesota right now, doing a year as a high-school exchange student. I wonder how she feels right now. The last time I said something like that about the high-school girls around here, I did a month in county. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/43 "2013-01-31T05:01:37Z")
Courtesy of Environment Canada, [a helpful graphic on the effects of cold weather including a do-it-yourself windchill calculation chart.](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2013/01/24/ColdTemps_WEB.jpg) Based on that chart, here in Regina we’re at about -41 windchill. [[Checks the [EnviroCanada web-page](http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?sk9#sk9-510cwwg-062100)]] Yup, windchill currently at minus 40 or colder. [QUOTE=Sadistic Bastards at Environment Canada] **Warnings** City of Regina 8:19 PM CST Wednesday 30 January 2013 **Wind chill warning for** City of Regina continued Wind chill values of minus 40 or colder tonight and into Thursday morning. A cold Arctic airmass combined with wind speeds of 15 to 25 km/h are producing wind chills of minus 40 to minus 45 this evening over much of Southern Saskatchewan. These wind chills will persist tonight and into Thursday morning as overnight lows fall into the minus thirties. At these extreme wind chill values frostbite on exposed skin may occur in less than 10 minutes. [/QUOTE] ---
**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:** [January 31, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/44 "2013-01-31T06:34:58Z")
I lived through a few Edmonton winters. They were like nothing I ever experienced before: cold, snow, more cold, more snow, and plenty of wind; and for six months or so. But Edmonton summers? Absolutely beautiful! Kind of made up for the lousy winters. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2013, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/45 "2013-01-31T06:42:26Z")
Mrs Piper caught pneumonia at the 2002 Grey Cup in Edmonton. It was friggin’ cold. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/46 "2013-01-31T06:53:13Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Mrs Piper caught pneumonia at the 2002 Grey Cup in Edmonton. It was friggin’ cold. Yeowch! But I can believe the cold. I was at an Eskimos game at Commonwealth Stadium one October. The day had been a pleasant fall day. But when the game started that night, the temperature plunged, the clouds moved in, and the snow started. By the fourth quarter, the groundskeepers were shovelling snow off the yard lines, and I was freezing. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/47 "2013-01-31T07:11:29Z")
If I remember correctly, the next week the Oilers and the Habs played a retro-outdoors game on a temporary rink at Commonwealth - in temperatures of -25. I guess true sportsmen do suffer for their game. The Habs goalie was wearing a toque over his helmet. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/48 "2013-01-31T13:37:58Z")
NOPE NOPE NOPE Currently at -33C with a windchill of -48C. My hometown a few hours north hit -52C with the windchill. My brother picked a fabulous time to vacation in Cuba! ---
**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:** [January 31, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705/49 "2013-01-31T13:48:08Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I may have to change my name to FreezyGimpy. No need: we’re mainly water, and water expands on freezing, so a frozen body will likely float better than an unfrozen one, so you can still be Floaty. There, does that make you feel better? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-probably-going-to-freeze-to-death/648705.md?page=2)