-32 Celsius in Winnipeg today. -40 with windchill. Expected to be even colder by Saturday.
Grew up in the 'Peg and am quite familiar with this extreme cold. Your car tires are almost flat on the bottom and when you blow your breath into the air,tiny ice crystals form in the air.
Just went to my garage which is not attached to my house. The temp is -18, but it was bitter and I live in a spot with crazy wind all the time year round. Just checked Peterborough weather, I'm 40 minutes east, and it says -15, with a windchill of -37. Huge difference,...wonder what mine is then. I'm not opening my door again until April.
I worked in Minneapolis some years ago at a corporate site. Their trees, not especially large ones, were all bent in one direction.
I was told that the winds from the prairies caused it, and that every few years the corporation would replant them facing in the other direction. And that in a few years they would be bent back again.
I left before the winter set in, but l I could tell in early Fall that their winters were memorable. Probably not as memorable as yours, but memorable to me from Massachusetts :)
I spent a part of my younger days in Minneapolis. I was awfully fond of East Lake Harriet. It's not even close to the city it used to be. It's been invaded. So sad.
Being from Boston, I was famiiliar with a bit of a mix of races, nothing like today of course. But I was struck by how homogeneous Minneapolis was.
I asked someone if they had any people who were not nordic half in jest. He replied they did have some great plains indian citizens. This was back in late 70s, early 80s.
That split milk story says a great deal about religions/customs proforma missing the point. Very sad.
I find the auroras very disturbing on some visceral level, an ancient ancestor of mine is tugging on my mental sleeves saying, "RUN."
I was delighted that Iran, with tech from both Russia and China as I understand it, blocked Starlink. Based on the videos I've seen from Iran that were shown to multiple foreign embassy officials, they were being used to coordinate some very violent activities.
That paper vase is fabulous, that sort of think would scare my dog senseless. He is a great worrier, any deviation from the norm is a source of significant anxiety.
Thank you for bringing us the odd, sad, and/or wonderful, as always!
Fantastic coverage of the SAA aurora event. Seeing charged particles bypass Earth's weak spot really highlights how fragile the magnetic shield is in certain regions. Been tracking radiation data for satelites over Brazil, and this geomagnetic chaos makes those anomaly zones way more unpredictable. Getting a purple band where auroras normally can't form says alot about this storm cycle's intensity.
I know a lady who is totally into the Auroras and she said they come from the north pole area, period, but the weather mod people are producing fake ones now, probably why they will be seen other places. Hearing 2026 is going to be a shit show of psyops and lots of it with Project blue beam sky stuff and NASA is at it again; doing their latest actornaut magic show.
Minneapolis was settled in a large part by Icelandic immigrants. Lots of blue eyed and blonde hair people. I competed at the University of Minnesota many times. I spent about 4 days in the summer one year cruising on a fair sized boat, on a series of connected lakes, just south of Minneapolis. It was beautiful.
-32 Celsius in Winnipeg today. -40 with windchill. Expected to be even colder by Saturday.
Grew up in the 'Peg and am quite familiar with this extreme cold. Your car tires are almost flat on the bottom and when you blow your breath into the air,tiny ice crystals form in the air.
You get to know first hand that -40° C = -40° F
My better half's nephew lives in the Yukon and it has been between -45 and -50 for the last month I think. Just his normal though.
Just went to my garage which is not attached to my house. The temp is -18, but it was bitter and I live in a spot with crazy wind all the time year round. Just checked Peterborough weather, I'm 40 minutes east, and it says -15, with a windchill of -37. Huge difference,...wonder what mine is then. I'm not opening my door again until April.
I worked in Minneapolis some years ago at a corporate site. Their trees, not especially large ones, were all bent in one direction.
I was told that the winds from the prairies caused it, and that every few years the corporation would replant them facing in the other direction. And that in a few years they would be bent back again.
I left before the winter set in, but l I could tell in early Fall that their winters were memorable. Probably not as memorable as yours, but memorable to me from Massachusetts :)
I spent a part of my younger days in Minneapolis. I was awfully fond of East Lake Harriet. It's not even close to the city it used to be. It's been invaded. So sad.
True, so much of what was great about it is gone.
Being from Boston, I was famiiliar with a bit of a mix of races, nothing like today of course. But I was struck by how homogeneous Minneapolis was.
I asked someone if they had any people who were not nordic half in jest. He replied they did have some great plains indian citizens. This was back in late 70s, early 80s.
That split milk story says a great deal about religions/customs proforma missing the point. Very sad.
I find the auroras very disturbing on some visceral level, an ancient ancestor of mine is tugging on my mental sleeves saying, "RUN."
I was delighted that Iran, with tech from both Russia and China as I understand it, blocked Starlink. Based on the videos I've seen from Iran that were shown to multiple foreign embassy officials, they were being used to coordinate some very violent activities.
That paper vase is fabulous, that sort of think would scare my dog senseless. He is a great worrier, any deviation from the norm is a source of significant anxiety.
Thank you for bringing us the odd, sad, and/or wonderful, as always!
Fantastic coverage of the SAA aurora event. Seeing charged particles bypass Earth's weak spot really highlights how fragile the magnetic shield is in certain regions. Been tracking radiation data for satelites over Brazil, and this geomagnetic chaos makes those anomaly zones way more unpredictable. Getting a purple band where auroras normally can't form says alot about this storm cycle's intensity.
I know a lady who is totally into the Auroras and she said they come from the north pole area, period, but the weather mod people are producing fake ones now, probably why they will be seen other places. Hearing 2026 is going to be a shit show of psyops and lots of it with Project blue beam sky stuff and NASA is at it again; doing their latest actornaut magic show.
Minneapolis was settled in a large part by Icelandic immigrants. Lots of blue eyed and blonde hair people. I competed at the University of Minnesota many times. I spent about 4 days in the summer one year cruising on a fair sized boat, on a series of connected lakes, just south of Minneapolis. It was beautiful.