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[hari seldon]

[kermo]

My friends in Winnipeg are giggling over this one. "Real winter" started last month, and at the moment the temperature at today's high: -21.8C. When you take the 37 km/h winds into account, you get something that feels more like -34.

However, the children are still bundled up and sent out to play at recess. It becomes too cold to play outside when frostbite is likely to set in within less than 5 minutes.

At this moment, if you stood outside in Winnipeg, your uncovered skin would literally start freezing within 9 minutes.

This thought warms me somewhat as I shiver on the streets of Yongin.

[JongnoGuru]

Does one feel the differences in coldness when it gets down that low? To me, freezing is freezing, and I wonder whether I could tell if it were -21 or -34.

[tommynomad]

It's not so much that you can tell the difference, but your body can.

At -21, you could still curl up in a snowbank and have a shot at waking up in the morning. At -34, you'd be one dead gurusicle.

In Winnipeg, we generally stop playing ball hockey below -30.

[casey's moon]

I'm from the same basic neck of the woods as the Winnipegers, and I'd like to add that your LUNGS certainly know the difference. Breathing in a big gust of -30 or worse air is really painful!!! Also, when it gets around -35 or colder, things break -- like the plastic around the stickshift in my dad's manual truck -- just shattered to little bits.

And your nose hairs freeze together when you breathe.

And your tears freeze in your eyelashes.

And I once (no joke) saw a street guy with a very long icicle hanging from his nose in Thunder Bay. I think he may have been letting it gather there on purpose though, probably out of Thunder Bay-style boredom.

[kermo]