Little known facts: It snows in Canada

[Durandal]

I remember driving home from work when I was in high school here. No 4-wheel drive, no ABS, so I had to pump the brakes to slow down. One time, I was pulling out of a parking lot and hit an ice patch, and my car just started spinning. In that situation, you kind of just have to go with it. Thankfully it was late at night, and no one was wandering around.

Glad I don't have to deal with that shit in CA.

[Isolder74]

Well driving home from the Christmas Visit we hit a patch of ice and spun out and a couple of 4X4's stopped and helped pull us out. We had snow tires and were not driving all that fast but sometime black ice is black ice.

[Hawkwings]

I rode my bike on black ice once. I was down on the ground before i even knew what was happening.

[Phantasee]

I hate to add another anecdote, but it just happend to me today. I went out to the car, which my mother had conveniently parked outside, and almost wiped out on all the black ice beside the car, all over the driveway. I managed to grab the antenna before I hit the ground. Ripped it off, but who cares? I fucking hate that car anyway. I do hate it a little less after today, though. Falling on ice sucks.

[The Yosemite Bear]

I remember driving home from work when I was in high school here. No 4-wheel drive, no ABS, so I had to pump the brakes to slow down. One time, I was pulling out of a parking lot and hit an ice patch, and my car just started spinning. In that situation, you kind of just have to go with it. Thankfully it was late at night, and no one was wandering around.

Glad I don't have to deal with that shit in CA.

Come to yosemite, we will remind you and humble you fast...

other note, head light broken on passanger size, that rock just fell infront of them....

grrr.

[Guardsman Bass]

We've had some unusually heavy snowfall here in Utah this month, but fortunately I managed to avoid wiping out (on a left turn, I tried to brake too quickly, and would have slid into the guy in front of me if I hadn't turned right).

I remember when I was sixteen, there was a blizzard that I foolishly went out into because I had already ordered a pizza from Little Caesar's. Now, the major road had been plowed, but the road the Little Caesar's was on was up a long uphill on a residential/light commercial area road, and it hadn't been plowed. I remember my truck couldn't even make it up the hill; I had to pull a sliding turn into an even more snowed in residential area, turn around, then slide down the hill while trying to avoid the other unfortunates who had slid off to the side. I can only thank Cthulu that I didn't hit any red lights; the road was so slick stopping would have been extremely difficult.

[aerius]

Another little known fact. It gets a little nippy in Canada.



With the windchill it's around -24°C.

[The Yosemite Bear]

as per national weather service it's supposed to be 35*f low, with a 55*f high. It's currently 20*f outside.

[J]

Another little known fact. It gets a little nippy in Canada.

Fortunately, we don't live in Winnipeg, where that thermometer would be off the bottom of the scale already.

[Aaron]

It's -26C in the Ottawa Valley right now, with the wind chill. Around the middle of Feb we should hit -40/-45 for a few days.

Isn't Toronto right off the lake? I imagine the wind must be murder, it is in Kingston which is right where the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario meet.

[The Grim Squeaker]

Another little known fact. It gets a little nippy in Canada.

Fortunately, we don't live in Winnipeg, where that thermometer would be off the bottom of the scale already.

As a friend of mine from Mannitoba said:
"Unless it was 35 degrees below, we all got kicked out into the yard for breaks. Even In Preschool. We'd huddle into a circle and try to imagine staying warm to each other".

[Isolder74]

At what Temp does it not matter what side of the thermometer you are reading off of>?

[The Grim Squeaker]

At what Temp does it not matter what side of the thermometer you are reading off of>?

Celsius. Can any Manitobans confirm what temps in Winnipeg, Manitoba small children were still forced out into the playground to "play"?

[Isolder74]

At what Temp does it not matter what side of the thermometer you are reading off of>?

Celsius. Can any Manitobans confirm what temps in Winnipeg, Manitoba small children were still forced out into the playground to "play"?

Actually i was referring to a themometer with both f and C on it.

[J]

At what Temp does it not matter what side of the thermometer you are reading off of>?

-40°.

Can any Manitobans confirm what temps in Winnipeg, Manitoba small children were still forced out into the playground to "play"?

Well, it's below -30°C, at least, it was about 10 years ago when I was last there for a swim meet in the dead of winter. That's how cold it was and there were still tons of kids outside on playgrounds.

[The Yosemite Bear]

when J and muse go to a swim meet and remember to bring an ice axe just in case.

[General Trelane (Retired)]

Can any Manitobans confirm what temps in Winnipeg, Manitoba small children were still forced out into the playground to "play"?

Well, it's below -30°C, at least, it was about 10 years ago when I was last there for a swim meet in the dead of winter. That's how cold it was and there were still tons of kids outside on playgrounds.

There's a reason we call it Winterpeg!

Growing up in rural Alberta, I don't recall any weather limits on sending kids outside. There were always a few cases of frostbite during recess on the coldest days.

Now living in Edmonton, my son's elementary school won't let kids play outside if the air temperature or wind chill is below -15C. Each school has their own policy, so this threshold varies drastically (one in a nearby neighbourhood has -23C as its limit).

[SCRawl]

When I was in high school gym class, we used to play touch football -- shirts and skins -- on the back lot of the school. On an asphalt surface. In February and March. (It might have been more March than February, but (a) it's been a long time, and (b) I'm sure it was still below freezing.) I shit you not.

[Lagmonster]

When I was a kid, going out to play in the winter wasn't about the temperature, but the wind.

We would happily saunter out on days where it was -25 as long as the wind was calm and the sun was shining. But on days where it was -15 with a blizzard in our faces, we'd prefer to stay indoors.

My dad, the king of unsafe play areas, would pile all the snow from the lane onto one spot in the yard, smooth out one side as a long ramp with snow-side 'bumpers', level in a half-pipe on the side of the hill, and then turn the hose on it. Kids came from up the road to go sliding down our ice slide, which took you about fifty feet even on the flat portion off the bottom of the slide.

[Isolder74]

At what Temp does it not matter what side of the thermometer you are reading off of>?

-40°.

-40 was what I was looking for. Its the spot that both scales read the same number. Only got to see once while I was living in Chicago.

[defanatic]

I live in Australia, and snow seems like a very novel concept. Is it true that you can fashion snow into rudimentary projectiles and throw them at things?

I can honestly only say I've seen snow twice in my life. Once when I was in Japan, and the other time was when my family went into some mountains during winter. Maybe I shall one day visit this "Canadia".

[Adrian Laguna]

At what Temp does it not matter what side of the thermometer you are reading off of?

-40 C = -40 F

[Isolder74]

its snowed very heavily here in weber county. There is a good foot and a half of snow on the ground here at Weber State University. The only thing i am worried about is managing to get home after I leave today.

Of course they only close the school after the place is a total disaster!

[J]

Update, we got more snow today!



Park bench, with footbridge in the background somewhere



Some snow covered trees



Closer zoom of the trees

[Darth Wong]

This snow had goddamned well better hang around until the weekend. It's sledding time.