[daacon]

ok seems us Canadians are not the only ones that like to whine about the weather So here is you change to tell us you coldest and warmest stories.

Coldest -53C but that was a low as the thermometer went, and without Wind-chill. As young lad , working on the rigs I was up in the Yukon one winter. We had actually blown the rig motor and had a new one was flown in. Imagine working for 20 minutes at a time (then warming up for 20) , trying to install a motor , dressed with gear like a deep sea scuba diver ! A 36" Pipe wrench is workable - however the smaller tools it was like trying to pick up a penny with your elbows! It was shortly after this a career chance was made for me

Warmest +43 C - I was in Las Vegas (no humidity) with a very stiff breeze. Anyone who has been there knows all the Casino’s are kept fairly dark and roughly a constant 18C or so. Walking outside it was like a blow dryer on high about 2 cm from your face! I find that worse than -53C actually as in the cold you can always get warmer - however even in Vegas they frown on stripping naked outside in public (most places!)

Edit: What prompted this thread ? -34 today with only a slight breeze ''feels like -40ish !" Weather Winners nice title dooooooooooooooooooooh !

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Last edited by daacon; 01-29-2008 at 10:12 AM.

[Peter Zack]

Clear you're in a deep freeze in the west today Dave. More talk about weather when the view out the window is all frosty and white.

Ok I'll play.

Cold: Not the coldest but the most exciting. (coldest was Lab city which is not far from the Arctic circle, air temp -51C, wind chill -68C, frostbite in 20 seconds with exposed skin).
I as well worked on the Oil rigs but offshore on the East coast. One year we had a Force 2 hurricane blow through in the winter (December), possible only because the Gulf Stream moved by us about a kilometer or 2 away.. Winds that reached 90Mph in the gusts and temps that hit -30C or so in the wind chill. What added to the fun was the 50 foot waves and the spray that would freeze to anything solid. Nothing like seeing a 5-6 story building sized, wall of water coming at you every 20 seconds or so.

Heat: Greece back in the 70's. Spent a summer in the homeland. They had a heat wave that topped 115F (46C). with about 20% humidity. That lasted a week with an average temp around 40C. Sleep was impossible. Much wine was consumed. Don't remember much.

[Peter Zack]

Have a look at this I found on some Canadian weather extemes. The Pincher Creek note is wild. Lucky me, Cornerbrook is part of my territory for work !


Victoria
Victoria is the city with the lowest annual average snowfall: 47 centimetres.

Lakelse Lake
The heaviest snowfall in one day was 118.1 centimetres at Lakelse Lake, January 17, 1974.

Winnipeg
Winnipeg has the sunniest winters with the most hours of sunshine during December, January and February: 358 hours.

Windsor
The most humid city is Windsor with the highest average vapour pressure, 1.78 kilopascal, during June, July and August.

Chicoutimi
Chicoutimi has the greatest number of days per year with blowing snow: 37 days.

Corner Brook
Corner Brook is the snowiest city with an annual average snowfall: 422 centimetres. Note that several smaller places also in Newfoundland and Labrador, St. Anthony (505 cm), Churchill Falls (465 centimetres), Happy Valley-Goose Bay (459 centimetres), Gander (443 centimetres) and Deer Lake (425 centimetres) have higher annual snow fall.

Vancouver
The city with fewest days below freezing is Vancouver (photo of Vancouver), which has an average of 51 days per year with freezing temperatures.

Yellowknife
The city with the coldest winters, according to the average nighttime temperature during December, January and February, is Yellowknife: -29.9 degrees Celsius. It is also the coldest city with a mean annual temperature of -5.4 degrees Celsius and it has the sunniest summers with the most hours of sunshine during June, July and August: 1037 hours.

Thompson
The city with the shortest frost-free period is Thompson, with 64 days.

Kamloops
Kamloops has the warmest summers with an average daytime temperature of 27.2 degrees Celsius during June, July and August.

Estevan
The sunshine capital is Estevan with the greatest number of hours of sunshine per year: 2500 hours. Estevan also has the highest annual number of hours per year with clear skies (between zero and two-tenths sky cover): 2979 hours.

St. John's
St. John's is the city with the greatest number of days per year with fog: 121 days. It is the windiest city, with the greatest average annual wind speed being 24 kilometres per hour; and has the greatest number of days per year of freezing precipitation: 38 days.

Prince Rupert
Prince Rupert is the cloudiest place with 6123 hours per year with overcast skies (between eight-tenths and total sky cover). It also has the fewest thunderstorms days, 3 per year. Prince Rupert is also the wettest city, with a total annual precipitation of 2552 millimetres.

London
London is the city which has the most days per year with thunderstorms: 36 days.

Kelowna
Kelowna has the calmest winds with the greatest percentage of wind observations per year of calm conditions (39%).

Snag
The lowest temperature recorded in Canada is -63 degrees Celsius at Snag on February 3, 1947.

Pincher Creek
The most extreme change in temperature took place in January 1962 in Pincher Creek when a warm, dry wind known as a chinook, brought the temperature up from -19 degrees Celsius to 22 degrees Celsius in an hour.

Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat is the driest city with 271 days without measurable precipitation.

[Lowell Goudge]

peter

you left out rogers pass, that wonderful place where we paid a guy $5,000 to get a route through the rockies, only to spend billions on three seperate longer tunnels under it.

average annual snowfall 33 feet (10 meters) with 50 feet typical, and 100 feet about once every 10 years.

The only question I have is where do you put 100 feet of snow?

[Peter Zack]

50 feet? Holy S**t Batman. Put it? You don't put it anywhere. You stand there and stare at it and then "spend billions on three seperate longer tunnels under it."

[CJCram]

It's a gorgeous sunny day here in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan! It's currently -37 C with a -51 C windchill as of 10:00 am I won't be walking our dog today... I don't think he'll mind.

[Gooshin]

as my mother always told me, there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.


ohh and its 0 degrees here in Toronto

[daacon]

I as well worked on the Oil rigs but offshore on the East coast. One year we had a Force 2 hurricane blow through in the winter

A fellow Rig Pig !! Wow that sounds nasty and scary ! Worked mostly large service rigs myslef , had a chance to go to Suadi but turned it down - did a couple large drilling rigs with the spinning chain still got all my fingers

Heat: Greece back in the 70's. Spent a summer in the homeland. They had a heat wave that topped 115F (46C). with about 20% humidity. That lasted a week with an average temp around 40C. Sleep was impossible. Much wine was consumed. Don't remember much.

Nice pass out helps the sleeping

Edit: Amazing weather facts as well Pincher Creek now that would be outstanding !

[lost]

Hottest, I think it was 2 years agos that my wife and I went to Vegas at the end of July. If I remember right, it was 117 or so. I do remember the news folks at night saying that it was record highs for the time of year. Actually was more bearable than the several 108+- degree days we have had here in the past (more humidity here).

Cold I won't even mention because if I had to live where some of you do I would learn to hibernate through winter!

[daacon]

peter

you left out rogers pass, that wonderful place where we paid a guy $5,000 to get a route through the rockies, only to spend billions on three seperate longer tunnels under it.

average annual snowfall 33 feet (10 meters) with 50 feet typical, and 100 feet about once every 10 years.

The only question I have is where do you put 100 feet of snow?

Yeah been through there a few times don't forget it also has the last gas station where prices for fuel often require a co-signer.

[daacon]

It's a gorgeous sunny day here in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan! It's currently -37 C with a -51 C windchill as of 10:00 am I won't be walking our dog today... I don't think he'll mind.

Ouch !!! Feel for ya ... our Dog has shortened his outside 'bidness to the deck about 2 feet from the door back to warmth !

[daacon]

Hottest, I think it was 2 years agos that my wife and I went to Vegas at the end of July. If I remember right, it was 117 or so. I do remember the news folks at night saying that it was record highs for the time of year. Actually was more bearable than the several 108+- degree days we have had here in the past (more humidity here).

Cold I won't even mention because if I had to live where some of you do I would learn to hibernate through winter!

Vegas in the heat I hear ya the heat in Louisiana (I was in New Orleans in September the year before Katrina) now I would have to hibernate!

[reeftool]

I work as a truck fleet and transport refrigeration mechanic in upstate New York in the Saratoga Springs area. We had a cold snap in feburary 1979 and the temps went down to -42F. The answering service called me out on a sunday afternoon and I never made it back home until tuesday night. Nothing ran! That was the year they stopped making #1 diesel and nobody knew to cut their fuel with kerosene. I ended up with some mild frostbite on my hands and feet but the paycheck that week more than made up for it. I haven't seen it that cold here since.

[F-Stop]

Lucky me, here next to St. John's, from what it sounds the crappiest place in Canada to live... haha. But yeah, the wind gets annoying after a while. Thankfully here in Portugal Cove (Other side of the point I guess you could say) we don't get the excessive fog which can been seen rolling into St. John's from the Atlantic Ocean - interesting to watch nonetheless. Back to the wind though, it could be an amazing day but either a more than slight breeze or cold wind will ruin it all.

[Bramela]

Hello guys,
Very interesting posts there. I cant imagine the cold temps you all mention, wind chill factor of -50 deg, unbelievable!! I would die in anything near that
Hottest temp recorded in Australia, some years back I believe was 55-56 deg C.
Where I am hottest gets to approx 43-44 deg C but averages about 30-35c during summer.
Humidity 85 - 90% regularly, thats the killer.
Cold? Nah you people wouldnt want to know. lowest about 5deg C and that is considered cold where I live. (You can all have chuckle about that one)