Fyi: this is -30,5°C for the rest of the world or 242,59K for the scientists.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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-40 is the same in C and F... I know this because I grew up in Wyoming. I've seen -40.
At that temp, you can do this neat little trick where you take a pot of steaming water (not boiling, that's a safety issue) and throw it into the air.
It will be snow before it hits the ground.
Again, don't use boiling water, and don't even try it if the temps are above -10 F. Don't throw the water into the wind, that will just splash it back onto you, and if you ignored the "don't boil" instruction, you'll be splattered with boiling water.
One you're below -20. It doesn't really matter which scale you use, it's all really cold.
Well, it matters if you're using kelvin...
If you negative Kelvin it doesn't really matter either.
Negative kelvin exists, and it's incredibly interesting.
That article is a good reminder that my intuition about what temperature is doesn't particularly correspond to reality.
Oh, that's actually really cold
Had a couple of weeks in a row of this -30 to -40 Celsius. Flat tires and dead cars abound!
Does everyone just stay home and things shut down when it's that cold?
-30 is pretty normal in Alberta through the winter. It’ll even drop to -40 for a week or two a year. People mostly stay inside, and they plug in their cars so their engine blocks don’t freeze. Cities usually invest heavily in snow plows since they use them so much each year, and everyone has snow tires. There are lots of indoor places to walk around, and downtown Calgary even has a series of “Plus 15s” which are tunnels from one building to the next, about 15 feet off the ground.
And they complain that the west coast is too rainy to leave.
For the most part, no, as that's just shit that happens every year in the Canadian prairies... Most parts of Canada have a few -30c days a year...
When it's like -50c with the windchill, social things are pretty shutdown, but businesses don't close. School buses don't run, because they don't want to be held liable for kids freezing to death.
When you are risking death by going for a walk, you don't go out unless you need to.
Only if it's snowing a lot. Otherwise you just bundle up and try not to go outside for more than a couple minutes.
Nah. Most things carry on, does this every winter
No the kids have to go to the coal mines too great the burner.
Wow there's kinda a lot of Edmontonians in this place.
Hello fellow Edmonton homie 😎
There’s dozens of us!
Possibly even 50!
Edmonton AB has been wild the last few weeks after it being unseasonably warm 
It's summer in Antarctica "science guy"
Nye hasn't posted in 2 years.
I am in Wyoming. I took this picture while driving back from the store a few days ago.
My god
I’m so sorry
Psh a few years ago, Minnesota was colder than MARS
Yeah but it was like 10 farenheit on Mars at the equator so
Sorry, we let our weather head further south this year. I have an extra toque and mittens if anyone needs them.
Signed The Canadian Prairies.
toque
Yes?
Beanie.
Edit: I think I replied to the wrong person.
Yup
Yeah, ant/arctic air breaking out is more common with climate change.
It doesn't matter much with Antarctica, as land in the south is much further from the south pole than land in the north is from the north pole