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Is it cold or am I a whiney little bitch?

Right on both counts

reply to peterboro
That's just plain old cold. I don't miss Winnipeg, nor Calgary because of those temps. Throw in high humidity, and it gets nasty.

reply to peterboro
Man up. This is a typical Canadian winter. Last winter was the exception, as this year is proving.

We won't know that until winter's over and we look back at average temperatures. Yes, this WEEK is typical winter, but last week I was barbecuing out on the deck in my shirt sleeves.

reply to peterboro
Uppers:

Tee shirt
Thermal longsleeve
Fleece pullover
2 piece winter jacket with fleece inner and windproff outer

Lowers:

Thermal long underwear
Regular long underwear
Sweat pants

Extremities:

Thermal socks
-30 rated boots
Thinsulate glove inners, winter construction glove outers
2 tuques
Neckwarmer

Its not enough for -40, as I've learned but it has done me well for the last 3 years until now. This is brutal. -33 and no wind chill, ouch.
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reply to Gone
You're being too literal -- I meant "typical" in the sense of being cold and snowy, instead of everyone remarking on how summer-like it is. Still, when I was out at midday yesterday the car thermometer said 22°F (about -6°C) which is hardly super cold. I think it's supposed to be quite a bit colder today (Tuesday).
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reply to peterboro
Today was the first day we really felt cold while walking around at lunch.

I took a walk to grab some food after work and with my neck exposed and the wind-tunnel effects here in the city my skin was burning. When I got home the skin was beet red after only about 10 minutes. Definitely scarf weather.

I'm so soft now after 12 years in TO after spending the previous 19 4 hours drive north.

reply to milnoc

reply to Gone
I think what he meant was the cold snap. Yes, typically around here daily highs would be -2 or so, but this is also normal for winter to have this cold snap. It's supposed to back into the single digits next week.

So far, this year still barely qualifies as a typical winter...2 weekends and grass to look at...not so wintry.
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. - Albert Einstein

reply to peterboro
Stop whining!

reply to peterboro
I am glad you clearly wrote 'wind chill' and not 'temperature' and you did not write the wind chill numbers with a 'C'. Thanks to the media many people confuse wind chill with temperature. Wind chill cannot be physically measured, it is a model based on temperature and how people subjectively feel how cold it is, given a measured wind speed. It only applies to creatures that perspire.
The wind chill can vary instantaneously with the wind speed and how sheltered or not sheltered you are. The concept is useful because it tells us not to have any skin exposed when it is cold and windy out. The sister concept of humidex is also generally misused once again thanks to the media. Maybe I'll post about that next Summer

-Bob

Yeah yeah, watts per square meter...-44*C right now.
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reply to peterboro
Your not Little!!

reply to peterboro
I was outside for a little over 7 hours yesterday... I will not be calling anyone any names for complaining about this weeks temperatures.

reply to lugnut

reply to peterboro
Snowing in the T Dot, going to wreak havoc on the roads

reply to milnoc