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It's way too cold
If you haven't felt it you've probably heard about it by now - it's really cold in Toronto. With the windchill, colder than Yellowknife in fact. No surprise that Winnipeg and Regina still have us beat, but don't forget to bundle up today and tomorrow, when it's supposed to get worse. Toronto won't be seeing single digit negatives until Saturday, according to the CBC.
At 11 am, CBC reported the temperature in our fair city as -25 C. Exposed skin freezes in a matter of minutes, so be sure to don your hat and gloves when you're off to The Princess Bride tonight. Toronto EMS is advising us all to stay away from alcohol too.
If you can, do what I'm doing - stay inside, watch Tyra.
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Thanks for the link to the Radar! Looks great. I come to this site everyday and never even knew it existed, why is that? I check the city tab and the events tab everyday. Let's put the Radar on the Radar!
Wouldn't (with the winchill) Yelloknife in fact be colder than Toronto? According to your logic we are in fact, colder than Winnipeg and Regina too than.
Or maybe I'm confused.
I grew up in Winnipeg and can state that Toronto's cold is very different, it seemingly freezes you from the inside out, while Winnipeg's cold (and I'm sure Yelloknife) freezes you from the outside in.
/end of grumpy rant
I've gotten a few looks and some grins for my Costanza-calibre jacket that officially has 6x the normal amount of feathers + a hood that can cover my face, but have been warm as toast.
When its cold you should just have "sense" your fashion sense may have to suffer a little or you may have to upgrade your waredrobe a little to some thing that is warm and fashionable. It's much more appealing to be dressed for the occasion which is cold weather, you look nicer, you look warmer.
In fact, the more you leave your extremities out in the cold, the more surface nerve damage you can cause - so you may not even be feeling the damage.
Dress properly and stop complaining/whining!!! If you don't like it, go on vacation :)!!!
This cold is good for those crazy Asian long-horn beetles that have been killing off trees.
I've been sporting
- shell from a bigger winter jacket layered under
- fuzzy hoody (more of a jacket) with thinsulate lining layered under
- black-wool outer jacket (that the lining is from)
- fuzzy hat with ear flaps that come down and tie up under the chin if required
- scarf
- mits
the only part of me that feels cold when walking about town is my nose, which if it got bad enough I could adjust my scarf to cover if needed.
Its Canada, its Winter, it happens yearly - stop acting so surprised.
@Munzz: That's your choice, so make it and stop whining. But you fashion slaves look even stupider shivering in trendy fall clothes.
Also:
1) The windchill is NOT the temperature. Stand out of the wind and it doesn't even exist.
2) -15 with a pre-dawn low of -20 is cold, but if that's the coldest it gets it's still a relatively mild winter. We have had -20 days and -30 nights other years.
3) but -15 still isn't *COLD*. Toronto doesn't get *COLD*.
4) The city's so called "Cold alerts" are political, to open more shelter beds. It doesn't mean you deserve a medal for walking to the streetcar stop.
I mean you guys seem to think there is only two options:
1- Look ridiculous in Costanza-caliber jacket but be warm
2- Look fashionable but while being cold.
there is ALSO a third option:
3- look fashionable and while being warm.