Comments | 23daves: Learning to Live Outside

23daves

Learning to Live Outside

Jan 21, 2005 22:10

Montreal is cold. That in itself isn't a particularly incisive or descriptive sentence to begin a journal entry with, but sometimes the bare facts need to be stated without fanfare. Besides which, if you were walking down a street in Montreal braving temperatures of minus 25 degrees (celsius), poetry and metaphors wouldn't come easily. All you'd ( Read more... )

Comments 8

Frostbite anonymous January 22 2005, 06:19:13 UTC

You could have gotten frostbite yesterday. You have to factor in the windchill to the temperature and time outside with exposed skin. You could even get frostbite at -15 if the windchill is high enough. Montreal is a great city to see shows in. The audience is extremely enthusiastic.-Laurie

Re: Frostbite bonsai_human January 22 2005, 09:45:39 UTC

The audience is extremely enthusiastic.

Trying to keep warm, probably!

Re: Frostbite 23daves January 23 2005, 00:46:50 UTC

Well, it would seem that (taking into account windchill) the lowest temperature was -41 yesterday, considerably lower than I reported. So you're quite right, that is 'frostbite' temperature. My post seems considerably less whiney now.

God, and to think I actually was vaguely worried my eyelids might drop off - I should have been genuinely worried.

bonsai_human January 22 2005, 09:44:28 UTC

I cannot conceive of that sort of cold. The worst I've ever experienced wouldn't be much below freezing, probably five below at the absolute worst. I don't think I could live with any colder.

23daves January 23 2005, 00:53:22 UTC

Believe it or not, minus five down to about minus fifteen without windchill is almost a negligable difference. That feels like a persistent, nipping cold you'd rather not be in. As I've said in a reply to another post, I've since discovered that yesterday was a (dangerously) cold day, and has entered the record books for this part of Canada. With windchill factored in, it was actually nearer -41. For any great length of time (ie longer than 15 minutes), I don't think anyone can actually live with that.

poodlepants January 22 2005, 11:30:17 UTC

bwahahahahahhahahha

welcome to canada ;)

it was -34 here last week. the car stopped working.

vilebody January 22 2005, 18:42:11 UTC

-7 in paris last feb in the sunshine is the coldest I've got, and that was bad enough. Yowzers. I would have been finding a dead yak and cutting into it with my light sabre and climbing inside by -15. What a brave fellow you are!

Going to print out my lifes work tonight. Just in case ...

23daves January 23 2005, 00:49:31 UTC

Good idea.

The interesting thing is that a damp climate -7 isn't greatly different from a Canadian dry -20 or so without windchill. It's when the wind kicks in that it actually hurts.

And don't worry, I didn't spend much time outside. Nobody in their right minds would have. Perhaps that would also explain Prince's calm presence (unless he was an hallucination, as I'm beginning to suspect.)