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Post by fumobici on Dec 11, 2019 15:56:24 GMT
If people were all like you e.g. sensible, there'd be huge swaths of Canada and the Northern US without a soul living in them. What's Ontario or Buffalo or Winnipeg or Missoula but Yellowknife lite?
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Post by Kimby on Dec 11, 2019 17:16:08 GMT
With global warming, Wisconsin will eventually have a climate like southern Illinois does today, and the far north may become much more habitable.
(And crowded, as the sweating masses flee the heat and humidity creeping north.)
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Post by bjd on Dec 12, 2019 7:22:17 GMT
Fumobici, there already are huge swaths of Canada with nobody living in them. 90% of the Canadian population lives within 100 km of the US border.
Meanwhile, it's raining here again and it's 10° this morning.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 12, 2019 9:57:42 GMT
Raining and cold here. Great weather for walking to vote....
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 12, 2019 12:22:08 GMT
It’s quite hard to equate stories of Greenland melting yet Yellowknife is -34.
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Post by bjd on Dec 13, 2019 9:06:48 GMT
Yellowknife is not near a coast. Why are you so concerned with Yellowknife, Mick? Do you know someone who lives there?
Meanwhile, it was 15° this morning, cloudy and with terrible winds: 90/100 kph gusts.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 13, 2019 9:21:43 GMT
I'm just fascinated by how cold it is there and how people can actually exist and thrive in such conditions.
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Post by bjd on Dec 13, 2019 11:55:55 GMT
Well, they exist but whether they thrive is another matter. Already in 2015, the Northwest Territories had 5 times the national rate of hospitalization for alcohol-related health problems.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 13, 2019 17:50:33 GMT
I've always had fantasies about spending time in places like that or at one of the Antarctic outposts for a season. Only for a limited time, of course.
I confess I stayed in today because it rained too much, and every time the sun came out, it was just a ten minute trick, so I think I did the right thing. Therefore I am beginning to fall a bit behind in my movie viewing due to the transit strike. I can go just about everywhere, but I don't always want to use the extra effort that it takes with the metro closed.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 14, 2019 13:29:31 GMT
At the other end of the scale Oz has a heatwave coming which might beat their record of 50.7 set in 1960.
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Post by bjd on Dec 14, 2019 16:23:49 GMT
We had a pleasant 19° this afternoon, no wind, some sun. Much preferable to -34 or +50.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 14, 2019 19:14:43 GMT
Bitterly cold here...but at least we've had a day without rain.
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Post by mossie on Dec 15, 2019 11:15:49 GMT
Lovely morning here, I have been able to hand deliver Christmas cards to my neighbourhood. Now extremely glad of a sit down before heading off for coffee in the kitchen.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 15, 2019 11:17:23 GMT
Lovely here too and not cold.Very pleasant in the greenhouse.
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Post by bjd on Dec 15, 2019 12:33:54 GMT
Lovely and sunny here. At 1:30 it's 17° and we may get a bit higher before it starts going down again for the night.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 15, 2019 15:48:52 GMT
Raining and cold here. Great weather for walking to vote.... So was it a choice between two evils, or was there a candidate you were excited about?
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Post by Kimby on Dec 15, 2019 15:52:49 GMT
Lots of on and off snow here. Big fluffy accumulating flakes. I shoveled the deck and hot tub off twice, and just as we were ready to use it for the first time since we drained it in April, it started snowing heavily again.
Maybe tomorrow. I hate sitting in hot water like a snow monkey while the snow piles up in my hair.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 15, 2019 16:20:14 GMT
Raining and cold here. Great weather for walking to vote.... So was it a choice between two evils, or was there a candidate you were excited about? We drove to vote. Although I didn’t necessarily vote as you might think...
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Post by Kimby on Dec 15, 2019 16:22:57 GMT
I’ve given up predicting how people will vote. I assume nothing.
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Post by mich64 on Dec 17, 2019 20:58:27 GMT
Settling in to accepting below freezing temperatures. The lake has completely frozen over as of yesterday. We have been fortunate to have not had heavy snowfalls, just a little bit every couple of days. The ski hill has opened. We have had our first snowmobile fatality of the season .
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Post by questa on Dec 17, 2019 23:48:53 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 18, 2019 6:50:01 GMT
It is freakishly warm in Berlin, and the clothing I brought is inappropriate.
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Post by bjd on Dec 18, 2019 7:06:17 GMT
Definitely not Christmassy weather here either. Some rain in the night but 16° forecast for today and high teens all through next week.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 18, 2019 13:12:06 GMT
Yellowknife -52 with wind chill! Impossible.
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Post by bjd on Dec 18, 2019 15:24:42 GMT
15° and sunny here.
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Post by mich64 on Dec 18, 2019 16:59:00 GMT
-21C feels like -31C at mid day, did not check it first thing this morning. Bright and sunny though.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 18, 2019 17:58:21 GMT
Not sure I could tell the difference between -21 and -31. It's so ridiculously cold.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 18, 2019 18:43:43 GMT
Wet again...walking the dog involves struggling across very saturated ground...I end up 3" taller when I get home because of the mud build up on my wellies. The dog weighs considerably less than I do so he just skims across the surface as I wallow.....
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Post by mich64 on Dec 19, 2019 5:35:39 GMT
Not sure I could tell the difference between -21 and -31. It's so ridiculously cold. 12:30 a.m. just checked the temperature before going to bed, -26C feels like -37. Yes Mick, it is ridiculously cold! I have to go out in the morning, not looking forward to it. Thank goodness for remote start, heated seats and heated steering wheel in our new vehicle, at least when we get in the car it will not feel like sitting on a block of ice.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 19, 2019 16:02:49 GMT
Mich, do you enjoy living in that climate? Not just the cold, but the general climate where you are?
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