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Re: Is it cold or am I a whiney little bitch? Howdy Mike2009
Yep, -28C on my deck this morning. If you want to read an example of the misuse of the windchill factor and the temperature read this from Canoe:
»cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2013···006.html
It misrepresents the windchill as the temp by including the C and states that the windchill plunged the mercury to -45C. We know that the windchill cannot have any effect on a thermometer. Not to mention that no ordinary person has a mercury thermometer anymore.
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| I've had a mercury thermometer outside my kitchen window for the past 20 years. It's not like the suckers wear out or expire ya know  |
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BTW, it's -20 in Mississauga this AM... No wind to speak of... |
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 donoreoPremium
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North York, ON | reply to lugnut
said by lugnut :I've had a mercury thermometer outside my kitchen window for the past 20 years. It's not like the suckers wear out or expire ya know
An actual silver mercury one? Red is not mercury. |
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| said by donoreo:said by lugnut :I've had a mercury thermometer outside my kitchen window for the past 20 years. It's not like the suckers wear out or expire ya know
An actual silver mercury one? Red is not mercury. My bad. I assumed it was mercury. It's a red alcohol one. |
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 KardinalDei Gratia ReginaPremium
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N of 49th | reply to peterboro
A wee bit chilly this morning. I've even included a pic of an old-fashioned red-alcohol thermometer (courtesy of Stu Mills at CBC-Ottawa, as I don't have one myself). It's a balmy -28C with a windchill of -39.
A tad cool this morning
Tweet from CAA: If you are stranded on the side of the road, the estimated wait time for service is 80 minutes. Car won't start at home: 3 hours.
Now, if your car won't start at home, what is the expectation that, after getting it going at home, you drive to work, leave it outside all day, and it starts in the evening when you want to go home? Realistically, I don't see this making much sense.
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| said by Kardinal:Now, if your car won't start at home, what is the expectation that, after getting it going at home, you drive to work, leave it outside all day, and it starts in the evening when you want to go home? Realistically, I don't see this making much sense.
i loved the way my truck whined this morning... luckily it warmed up pretty quick. Thank heavens for longjohns |
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I DO, however, still have a 40 year old medical thermometer that's mercury. At least I don't have to worry about dead batteries in that sucker the once in a blue moon when I need it. |
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donoreoPremium
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North York, ON | said by lugnut :I DO, however, still have a 40 year old medical thermometer that's mercury. At least I don't have to worry about dead batteries in that sucker the once in a blue moon when I need it.
Rectal thermometer?  |
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 corsterPremium
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Gatineau, QC | reply to peterboro
Glad I replaced my battery a few weeks ago, otherwise i'm fairly certain my car wouldn't have started today. Somewhere around -30 in Gatineau when I left my apartment this morning. |
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 digitalfuturSees More Than ShownPremium
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Why do many people (except Corster ) not replace the battery until the car won't start? |
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| said by digitalfutur:Why do many people (except Corster ) not replace the battery until the car won't start?
To cheap. My dealer tests the battery every fall. I replaced it a couple of years ago for $100. No problems this morning.
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KardinalDei Gratia ReginaPremium
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N of 49th | said by DKS:said by digitalfutur:Why do many people (except Corster ) not replace the battery until the car won't start?
To cheap. My dealer tests the battery every fall. I replaced it a couple of years ago for $100. No problems this morning. Either too cheap or don't think about it because it's not broken yet. "Hey, my car started yesterday; it's only today that it's broken".
I wonder if they think about tyres the same way. 
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 AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just AcerbicPremium
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I guess I wont complain it was -24 with the windchill this morning, quite balmy actually. |
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Peterborough, ON | reply to Kardinal
said by Kardinal: Tweet from CAA: If you are stranded on the side of the road, the estimated wait time for service is 80 minutes. Car won't start at home: 3 hours.
Now, if your car won't start at home, what is the expectation that, after getting it going at home, you drive to work, leave it outside all day, and it starts in the evening when you want to go home? Realistically, I don't see this making much sense.
I think you are misinterpreting their premise. The are only advising that you will get priority if you are at the side of the road in the cold as opposed to in your warm home waiting. |
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Peterborough, ON | reply to peterboro
I don't want to hear from all the climate change conspiracy whack jobs but...
Back in the day it seemed like we had cold like this for weeks on end and even a couple months straight and now it's a run of several days. Not that I'm complaining. |
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KardinalDei Gratia ReginaPremium
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N of 49th | reply to peterboro
said by peterboro:I think you are misinterpreting their premise. The are only advising that you will get priority if you are at the side of the road in the cold as opposed to in your warm home waiting.
Not at all - I get it that it's warm at home so that the primary focus is on stranded motorists. That makes perfect sense. My question is for the people who jump their cars to get it started at home, and then drive to work and somehow expect it to start at the end of the workday if it has been sitting outside all day. It's a bit like the definition of insanity being "performing the same act over and over and expecting a different result", ie/ why would it magically start after sitting all day in a parking lot when it didn't while sitting at their house overnight.
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Peterborough, ON | said by Kardinal:said by peterboro:I think you are misinterpreting their premise. The are only advising that you will get priority if you are at the side of the road in the cold as opposed to in your warm home waiting.
Not at all - I get it that it's warm at home so that the primary focus is on stranded motorists. That makes perfect sense. My question is for the people who jump their cars to get it started at home, and then drive to work and somehow expect it to start at the end of the workday if it has been sitting outside all day. It's a bit like the definition of insanity being "performing the same act over and over and expecting a different result", ie/ why would it magically start after sitting all day in a parking lot when it didn't while sitting at their house overnight. I don't see where you are referring to that situation in your post. Where do you get this "it won't start if you go to work scenario"? |
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said by DKS:said by digitalfutur:Why do many people (except Corster ) not replace the battery until the car won't start?
To cheap. My dealer tests the battery every fall. I replaced it a couple of years ago for $100. No problems this morning. Well if you have a car that needs an inexpensive battery consider yourself lucky.
I had to replace mine this past summer, $216 installed from my dealer but at least the battery went silly during the summer because I seriously doubt it would have kicked over this morning at -17C here in Mississauga if it was that weak, even with the full synthetic oil I run in my car.
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I am glad we live in City and not up north. Toronto is not as cold as it used to be 10-15 years before.
And OP you are not whiner but just a typical Canadian. |
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