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Are you guys really serious? With a record low of -40C, the average cold snap would be around -25C, and there would be 20s of subzero nights in a typical year. I love cold, but I have a limit.
Are you guys really serious? With a record low of -40C, the average cold snap would be around -25C, and there would be 20s of subzero nights in a typical year. I love cold, but I have a limit.
not really... I also know places with average lows like -18C or -19C which have record lows below -40°C. Or look a Moscow! Record low -42.2°C, average low -9C to -10C ! ....
Personally, I'd like to have a record low between -50C and -53C with temperatures dropping below -40C every year for a few nights.
Edit: oh, sorry.. is mistook "average cold snap" for "average min".
Last edited by tärnajokk; 07-05-2013 at 08:14 AM..
Depends on the type of winter that the climate has. If it's a climate with mild, above freezing winters then I'd prefer that they stay reliably above freezing most of the time and thus have a record low probably in the 0 to -8 range (or maybe the warmer end of the -8 to -16 range). The occasional cold day with below freezing lows like we get in Vancouver is okay, but I'd rather a mild winter stay mild for the most part.
On the other hand, if I live in a climate with solidly cold and snowy winters, then it may as well be winter all the way. In a climate like that I'd like a record low below -40, preferably around -45 to -50. Deep freezes are one thing that really make a cold winter much more interesting. As long as it's not constantly that cold (like Yakutsk) I'd like to have a few days per winter in the -35 to -45 range.
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Originally Posted by Caleb Yeung
Are you guys really serious? With a record low of -40C, the average cold snap would be around -25C, and there would be 20s of subzero nights in a typical year. I love cold, but I have a limit.
Totally serious
I grew up in Saskatoon where temperatures like that are commonplace in the winter. January has an average low of -23°C, so you can imagine temps under -25 are fairly common. Every year also sees temperatures approaching -40 at some point for a few days. Even the record setting warm winter of 2011-2012 (which featured regularly above freezing temperatures and no permanent snowpack) had one cold spell in January where we hit -38 as a low.
I've seen it go down to -45°C once (January 2004) and have seen windchills in the -40s many times and just below -50 a few times. They don't issue windchill advisories out there until the windchill is at -40 or below, and when you're a little kid they don't give you indoor recess in elementary school until the windchill is below -25.
Now, I certainly enjoy the mild, above freezing winters we have here in Vancouver, but if I am gonna live in a climate with a real, cold winter I think I'd like to have some deep freezes and cold spells like the ones I grew up with.
Are you guys really serious? With a record low of -40C, the average cold snap would be around -25C, and there would be 20s of subzero nights in a typical year. I love cold, but I have a limit.
I assumed it was the typical coldest temperature reached every winter. If so, it's the -24/-32°C bracket. The 2012-2020 average winter lowest is -29.4°C in my dream climate. The absolute record low is in the -40s.
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