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sparkuri

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Might just be Mount Washington New Hampshire this week.





Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire isn’t just cold — at minus 36 degrees with a windchill of 94 below, it’s tied for the second-coldest place on Earth, according to a tweet from the observatory. In fact, according to the latest data available from the Curiosity rover on Mars, Mount Washington feels colder than the surface of our celestial neighbor, which was measured at minus 78 degrees.

As of Saturday morning, the wind was gusting at more than 100 miles per hour at the summit, which is 6,288 feet above sea level, according to the observatory’s website.

“We should end up being the coldest location tonight in the Lower 48,” Mike Carmon, senior meteorologist at the Mount Washington Observatory, told the New York Times. “We basically just start saying it’s stupid cold outside.”

Mount Washington is among the coldest places on the planet — and beyond - The Boston Globe



Pretty cool pic...
 
Onetrickpony

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Mars and the North Pole are warmer than Winnipeg: A guide to how damned cold it is
Tristin Hopper
December 27, 2017 4:50 PM EST
Canada is really cold right now. It’s so cold that statues of John A. Macdonald are taking themselves down. It’s so cold that Pamela Anderson is wearing sealskin. It’s so cold that people are warming themselves around Andrew Scheer’s personality.

But don’t take our word for it. Below, a series of shocking statistics to bolster your indignance that somebody thought it was a good idea to put a country here.

It’s colder in Winnipeg than it has ever been in Scotland (ever)

Scotland is famous for its harsh conditions. How else to explain a culture built around fried food and wool? Regardless, the coldest ever temperature recorded in Scotland is only -27.2 C — and even then it was a rare occurrence that occurred on the country’s northernmost tip. In Winnipeg on Boxing Day, meanwhile, it approached -30 C. This is food for thought when considering the shock of Scottish immigrants who came to settle the prairies. Even a hearty family from the Scottish highlands would have only managed to prop up a rudimentary cabin before they were being hammered by temperatures unknown to their entire family tree.


Honestly, we should never have trusted the cold weather credentials of a nation of kilt-wearers.Shaughn Butts / Postmedia
If your car won’t start in Edmonton, it will take 16 hours for a tow truck to arrive

Despite snow being the default road condition in Alberta, the province’s urbanites never quite seem to grasp the rigours of winter driving. This is best exemplified by the current Canadian Automobile Association wait times for roadside assistance. On Wednesday afternoon, there was a 17-hour wait for a full tow, a 16-hour wait for a battery boost and a four hour wait for those who might have locked their keys in the car with the engine running. In the corn-fed, chain-carrying Alberta hinterlands, meanwhile, the waits are no longer than two hours.



Mars and the North Pole are warmer than Winnipeg: A guide to how damned cold it is
 
BeardOfKnowledge

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It's been absurdly cold here for the last week. Today's the first day in a while we don't have a cold advisory and it's still -32.
 
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