Blogs Jan 3, 2014 at 6:00 am

Cold and Colder

Eli Sanders
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Thats nothing, its going to be -37 in the wind for the 49ers vs Packers game this Sunday. Packers always sell out, theres over 100,000 people on the waiting list, even the pre-season and practice games sell out, but so far theres less than 5,000 tickets left and they just got an waiver to keep selling, or they risk actually blacking out the game.

Thats how freaking cold it is, when The Packers cant sell out a playoff game, its cold!
Kinison on January 3, 2014 at 6:40 AM Report this
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And just wait — in only a month, there will be an outdoor Super Bowl in New Jersey.
Fifty-Two-Eighty on January 3, 2014 at 6:58 AM Report this
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My wife is from Manitoba. One time when we were visiting it got so cold the natural gas lines froze. As I recall the wind chill reached -55C (-67F).

That was the last time we visited at Christmas.
bleedingheartlibertarian on January 3, 2014 at 7:01 AM Report this
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Manitoba ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it's cold as hell. And there's no one there to raise them if you did.
--MC on January 3, 2014 at 7:11 AM Report this
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Global warming?
on January 3, 2014 at 7:54 AM Report this
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I've been to Winnipeg in the winter. Several times. -20°(f) isn't unusually cold for a Manitoba winter. Kind of typical, really.

That's why I don't live anywhere in the midwest.
Reverse Polarity on January 3, 2014 at 7:59 AM Report this
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@5 Actually, yes.
on January 3, 2014 at 8:03 AM Report this
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@4- Elegant
stonato on January 3, 2014 at 8:18 AM Report this
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Imagine the native peoples living in that for thousands of years.
Pope Peabrain on January 3, 2014 at 8:24 AM Report this
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?
Pope Peabrain on January 3, 2014 at 8:53 AM Report this
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@ 6, judging the entire midwest by Winnipeg is like judging Seattle by Lake City.
Matt from Denver on January 3, 2014 at 9:10 AM Report this
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Wow, comparing the temperature to an entire planet (whose average temp is about -70F). That is stupid. Btw, the temperature in Seattle in the summer was just as warm as the temperature on the surface of Africa. Oh, and Death Valley once got as cold as Asia.
delirian on January 3, 2014 at 9:15 AM Report this
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@ 12, they're specifically comparing it to the temperature reading the Mars Rover is taking at its location. Not for Mars as a whole, but the crater its exploring, which apparently is in a tropical latitude on that planet. It would be stupid if it were the whole planet, but as it is, it's actually kind of interesting.
Matt from Denver on January 3, 2014 at 9:25 AM Report this
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@11, the entire plains and midwest are dominated in winter by cold continental air pushing down from Canada, enlivened by injections of moisture and heat energy from the coast. Have a look at the upcoming few days on this forecast maps page (red is areas of low pressure and storm activity):

http://wxmaps.org/pix/nam.vort.html

(Scroll down. Top is current; successive frames are 12-hour increments in the computer model.)
rob! on January 3, 2014 at 9:41 AM Report this
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(To clarify, red is areas of low pressure and CONCENTRATED storm activity.)
rob! on January 3, 2014 at 9:44 AM Report this
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If the surface of Mars was -20.2 F, and no one was there to feel it, would it be cold?

Brooklyn Reader on January 3, 2014 at 9:52 AM Report this
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@ 14, Winnipeg is still appreciably colder than anywhere else, and that's normal - it is the coldest urban center in North America, colder than Anchorage on average. Hell, even today, in this terrible cold snap, they're colder than anywhere else in the Midwest.
Matt from Denver on January 3, 2014 at 10:43 AM Report this
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My favorite temperature is -40, when Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same.
care bear on January 3, 2014 at 11:05 AM Report this
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@19 - And mercury freezes.
MacCrocodile on January 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM Report this
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-20 is fairly cold ok, but I've seen -40 in Michigan. It was fun! The University closed (for one day) for the first time in 100 years! Snow day!

The nosebleeds from the dry, dry cold like that can kinda suck, but they stop quickly.

It sometimes gets to -80 in Anchorage.
But -20? I *yearn* for the day it gets to -20 in Seattle! That will be an awesome day.
treacle on January 3, 2014 at 12:03 PM Report this
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Well-played, --MC @4. Well-played.

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