So in memory's of days gone by I kin remember vividly leaving a bottle of six year old Gibbsons on the front seat of the truck and a bottle of ten year old Wisser's on the front seat...So at fifty-five below the six year old bottle gelled but the ten year old Wisser's did not but oh did it light a fire all the way down when ya took a pull on it...... Oh yes and the seat of the truck did not compress at all when ya sat on it...we had a bout two and a half weeks of it warming up to fifty below...That use to be just standard weather for the first two week' s of January here.....
Yeah, we were around -25C to -35C for those first two weeks. Below -30C you really can't feel the difference, except that you can't take it for too long.
Well share the wealth already! We're gonna be around 25F by Monday. Normal is -13C (18F) daytime and -23C (5F) nights. We haven't been even close since early November. We hit -47C last nite, and further north down to -60C with windchill. Our posties don't have vehicles, so when it gets like this, they wait until later in the day or the next day. The humidity is almost desert levels, unlike Northern BC's mountain region, so your skin really takes a beating. You can tell how many have gotten caught in this cold. They're missing a piece of ear or the face has larger than normal pock-marks (chunks of skin rubbed off to warm up.) :banghead3:
This week looks like its going to be a cold one as well in Montreal. I went shopping for long johns last night!
I'm disappointed with the big name brands for out here. I'm gonna look at the old red flannels or winter sports long johns, next year. We've got some big Hutterite and Mennonite farming colonies around here and they either make them or have them made. Any colder, and I might be able to sing soprano.
We have a lot of Amish and the much nicer Mennonites around here. I get lots of work re-doing Amish jobs, especially Amish electricians. I work outside and have several sets of long johns and insulated underclothes, the big brown blizzard suit comes out today, layers upon layers. 0 degrees this morning, tropical compared to the great white north.
My theory is that the more wool content the warmer they are, but so many of them are synthetics. By the time you finish cleaning off the snow and ice, you're in a sweat, and you have to change or freeze. You sure picked a great place to avoid them in Ridgecrest, CA. :2_thumbs_up_-_anima
