-49C y con el viento -59C
Este domingo 13 recien pasado aquí en Edmonton rompimos record fuimos el lugar mas helado en todo Canada y posiblemente del planeta, la noticias decían que aun en el Polo Norte el taller de Santa Claus estaba mas caliente. No es la primera vez que hemos llegado a temperaturas asi de heladas pero usualmente es Enero o Febrero.
El domingo como a las 10 de la mañana ya estaba mas calientito (-36C) asi que todo abrigado tuve que salir porque el carro no encendia a pesar que lo deje conectado al calentador. Los carros aqui tienen un calentador en el motor y en los parqueos hay enchufles para conectarlos. La cosa que de seguro se habia aflojado el socado, pero luego que lo puse bien al rato calento y logro encender, el pobre motor chillaba tratando de calentar
. Las puertas del carro no agarraban llave se habian congelado. Ni modo dejarlo asi. Mi vecino en eso sale solo en camiseta manga corta a encender el carro
y me dice: It's cold eh! y yo brujo!!! Le puse algo de comida a los pajaritos que llegan por la casa, me dan lastima los pobres parecen sorbetes voladores. Me puse a tomar un par de fotos, el unico loco en la calle tomando fotos a esa temperatura
. La camara digital se puso se puso lenta pero logro tomar las fotos, pero solo fue un ratito y pa' dentro.
Esta foto la tome en la calle con la neblina de hielo que habia
La calefaccion estaba a todo mecate puse unas toallas y trapos extran en la puerta porque el frio encuentra un miserable hoyo y se mete. Luego agarrar algo caliente para tomar y arropado con varias mantas me puse a ver el dvd del Flight 666 de Iron Maiden que encontre en la libreria publica y pase el dia en invernacion.
Hay mara que se clava con el frio y todo eso. No digo que es hostigue e incomodo y caro porque el gas para la calefacción es caro. Pero no es todo el tiempo, ya la próxima semana va a subir la temperatura -10C, que después de estar a -30c ya uno siente super rico
Yo no me quejo peores cosas le pasa a la gente en otras partes del planeta.
fotos de otra gente
Downtown Edmonton
Un termometro
mas neblina de hielo
Temperature of -46C in Edmonton area makes it coldest in Canada: meteorologist
(CP) – 18 hours ago
EDMONTON — There's one way to deal with some of the coldest winter temperatures yet on the Prairies - outright denial.
At least that's how some folks were taking it as they strode into the Edmonton airport over the weekend after arriving from their vacations in Mexico, still dressed in their shorts and sporting tans.
Christopher Toutant walked out of the international arrivals area still wearing Bermuda shorts and a light shirt.
It didn't occur to him to prepare for a record-breaking cold snap back home.
Peter Spiker, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says temperatures in the Edmonton area early Sunday morning were among the coldest anywhere in the country.
The mercury dipped to a frigid -46C at the Edmonton airport, making it the coldest place in Canada, he said.
With the wind chill, it felt more like -59C.
Spiker said it crushed the same day coldest temperature record of about -33C set in 1968.
The vacation buzz was soon to be killed when Toutant heard the pilot announcing the current weather conditions as they landed in Edmonton.
"My smile kind of fell of my face and I think my tan fell off along the way," he said with a chuckle.
Bob McDonald's tanned face stands out in stark comparison to the wind-whipped, ruddy faces of others in the terminal who are wearing heavy coats and gloves to fend off the cold.
He just spent nearly three weeks in sunny Mexico, where the temperature was over 30C every day during his vacation.
When told how cold it was just outside those terminal doors, his eyes widened in horror.
"I am in shock," he said.
Marie Scott thoughtfully brought along some winter gear to help her daughter, son-in-law and grandson prepare for the weather after returning from their winter getaway.
"I think they're going to want to turn around and go back. I would," she said. "I'm just trying to warm their jackets because they're going to freeze just putting them on."
Environment Canada says record low temperatures were also set in other areas of Alberta on the weekend, including Cold Lake, northeast of Edmonton and in Grande Prairie, in the northwestern part of the province.
Wind chill warnings were issued for areas of Alberta Saskatchewan as a large mass of Arctic air hovered over the Prairies with conditions that could feel
like -50C.
The Alberta Motor Association also urged motorists to take along thick blankets, warm clothing and an emergency kit if they're travelling during the cold weather.
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