It’s the peak of Summer in Antarctica.
Fyi: this is -30,5°C for the rest of the world or 242,59K for the scientists.
-40 is the same in C and F… I know this because I grew up in Wyoming. I’ve seen -40.
At that temp, you can do this neat little trick where you take a pot of steaming water (not boiling, that’s a safety issue) and throw it into the air.
It will be snow before it hits the ground.
Again, don’t use boiling water, and don’t even try it if the temps are above -10 F. Don’t throw the water into the wind, that will just splash it back onto you, and if you ignored the “don’t boil” instruction, you’ll be splattered with boiling water.
Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in pot. Pls hlpelp.
You’re going to need uncooked ramen, some glue, and sandpaper…
One you’re below -20. It doesn’t really matter which scale you use, it’s all really cold.
Well, it matters if you’re using kelvin…
If you negative Kelvin it doesn’t really matter either.
Negative kelvin exists, and it’s incredibly interesting.
That article is a good reminder that my intuition about what temperature is doesn’t particularly correspond to reality.
Oh, that’s actually really cold
bit nippy
Had a couple of weeks in a row of this -30 to -40 Celsius. Flat tires and dead cars abound!
Does everyone just stay home and things shut down when it’s that cold?
For the most part, no, as that’s just shit that happens every year in the Canadian prairies… Most parts of Canada have a few -30c days a year…
I’m pretty sure Ontario as a whole has more than a few -30 days. Same goes for (at least some of) Quebec. Manitoba is also cold to the same degree.
It’s mainly just the west coast that’s warmer. I’m not too sure about the east.
I agree with the op.
What’s your definition of “few”? I used to work outside in the Ottawa region until 2020 (which is known to be a pretty fucking cold region) so I was exposed to it and -30c days (actual temperatures, not windchill) happened maybe 10 or 15 times a year… At night though, we would go down to -30c more often than that and it was a pain to work in…
I’m in and around that area now, I was taking into account wind-chill. Without wind-chill, I suppose -30 and below isn’t nearly as common as I made it out to be.
Although in north-western Ontario, it at least used to reach that in February quite often. Definitely feels colder in the capital region with the dampness.
Working at night at -30 sounds terrible, sorry you had to endure that.
-30 is pretty normal in Alberta through the winter. It’ll even drop to -40 for a week or two a year. People mostly stay inside, and they plug in their cars so their engine blocks don’t freeze. Cities usually invest heavily in snow plows since they use them so much each year, and everyone has snow tires. There are lots of indoor places to walk around, and downtown Calgary even has a series of “Plus 15s” which are tunnels from one building to the next, about 15 feet off the ground.
And they complain that the west coast is too rainy to leave.
Only if it’s snowing a lot. Otherwise you just bundle up and try not to go outside for more than a couple minutes.
When it’s like -50c with the windchill, social things are pretty shutdown, but businesses don’t close. School buses don’t run, because they don’t want to be held liable for kids freezing to death.
When you are risking death by going for a walk, you don’t go out unless you need to.
No the kids have to go to the coal mines too great the burner.
Nah. Most things carry on, does this every winter
Wow there’s kinda a lot of Edmontonians in this place.
Hello fellow Edmonton homie 😎
There’s dozens of us!
Possibly even 50!
Love you, Wyoming, but the temperature in Antarctica is too damn high.
Correct. This is the real takeaway here. It’s terrifying that Antarctica is so warm.
Fucking OUCH. We hit 6 degrees a few days ago and it felt like the end of all things. I can’t even imagine being in the negative double digits.
Happened in Chicago a few years ago. It sucked a lot and all the efforts couldn’t keep our shitty apartment pipes from freezing. But at least I have a very cute photo of my dog bundled up and ready to go out. So there’s that…
Even last week it was like -24 with wind chill. Absolutely brutal.
That look says “What is this shit, we need to move.”
The booties T.T
Ugh please smooch yer dog for me because he is too cute!
Haha! Such an adorable picture!
Double digit negatives is where you start to realize that nature can kill you with complete apathy. Just breathing hurts. You must cover your face or risk frostbite in a surprisingly short time frame. The scarf or mask you have wrapped around your head to keep your ears from freezing off directs your breath past your eyes. The moisture in your breath then freezes on your eyelashes and eyebrows. I have had to blindly pull my gloves off to free my eyelashes from the frost that has frozen my eyelids shut.
I once spilled a bucket of water on my leg in double digit negatives. (Hoses are not an option in such weather and animals still need to drink. ) The water froze my pant leg solid within a minute. It was a very uncomfortable waddle back up to the house.
0/10 would not recommend to a friend.
That sounds absolutely miserable. I know someone who used to live in Alaska and they said you could throw a hot cup of coffee into the air and the liquid would freeze before it even hit the ground. That sounds ridiculous to me, but after reading your comment, I’m starting to believe.
In my area, the coldest I’ve experienced is ~5F (-15C) and it’s usually above freezing, so I’m used to running outside to grab the mail or whatever in shorts. Then I went to my sister’s house and it was -13F (-25C) and tried doing the same. So much regret.
Think of the difference between 77°F and 32°F. That’s how much colder -13 is than 32°F. It’s easy to just mentally lump all below freezing Temps into one feeling, but it’s a big scale.
The harsh winters of the Midwest was one of the main reasons I moved to a more temperate area. I really don’t like the cold.
My town gets -10°C occasionally (less now than in the past), but when it does the sky is clear and the wind is still. It’s beautiful weather. Frost covered everything, melting in the sun where the sun touches
It feels fine in shorts and short sleeves in the sun, but cold if a breeze comes up
Kid named Lutely: 😳
He fucks me, he fucks me not…
I am in Wyoming. I took this picture while driving back from the store a few days ago.
My god
I’m so sorry
Edmonton AB has been wild the last few weeks after it being unseasonably warm
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Sorry, we let our weather head further south this year. I have an extra toque and mittens if anyone needs them.
Signed The Canadian Prairies.
toque
Yes?
Beanie.
Edit: I think I replied to the wrong person.
Yup
It’s summer in Antarctica “science guy”
A good response from Wyoming here.
Wyoming doesn’t exist.
If it isn’t in our records… Then it doesn’t exist!
Idk, my state touches it, and I’ve been to Yellowstone.
But I’m confident N. Dakota doesn’t exist.
So fuckin cold the single escalator is gonna become stairs
Nye hasn’t posted in 2 years.
Yeah, ant/arctic air breaking out is more common with climate change.
It doesn’t matter much with Antarctica, as land in the south is much further from the south pole than land in the north is from the north pole
