[Vision2020] Edmonton, Alberta: warmest winter ever?

[Ralph Nielsen]

Thanks, Nick, for that info on my former place of residence. The  
coldest temperature I experienced in my 6 years there was -40F or C  
(same). When it's that cold and you are walking into into even a  
slight breeze you can't run, or you will inhale too much cold air too  
fast. Your nose freezes, so you periodically have to take a hand out  
of a glove or mitten to thaw your nose. Then you put the hand back to  
warm it up until the next time. If you weren't lucky enough to have a  
"plug-in" for your car at your place of work, you had to spend your  
coffee breaks running your car to warm it up so the battery wouldn't  
freeze.

Oddly enough, in 1968, the fifth winter after I came to Moscow, I was  
in Mexico City, where the headline of the largest newspaper,  
Excelsior, was "Minus 40 grados en Moscu, Idaho!" -40 is the same in  
F or C.

A couple of years ago I heard on the CBC (1010 AM, Calgary) that in  
Alberta they now need air conditioners in domestic dwellings in  
summer. A man in Edmonton, who had a luxury penthouse apartment, had  
to spend $30,000 to get air conditioning installed.

And we mustn't forget that in northeastern Alberta, humans are  
operating one of the largest producers of carbon dioxide on earth at  
the Athabasca tar sands near Fort McMurray.

Ralph



nickgier at roadrunner.com nickgier at roadrunner.com

Sat Jan 9 10:27:08 PST 2010
Good Morning Visionaries:

I set my Roadrunner weather to Edmonton, Alberta, where my daughter  
and son-in-law live.  They had the warmest November on record and  
these temperatures today indicate that it may turn out to be their  
warmest winter in recorded history.

Jan. 9, 2010 27°-3°F.  The usual January day is 20 degree cooler, but  
I should check with Ralph Nielsen who used to live there for many years.

Folks, we are talking global climate change not bad weather here and  
there.

Nick Gier

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