Myths About Canada?

[colchar]

Seriously. I left my earmuffs and gloves in the car. It wasn't quite cold enough to use them today.

Ear muffs? Surely you jest.

I went out to grab milk and a couple of coffees shortly after midnight last night and the temperature was about minus two degrees celcius. I didn't even bother putting on a coat - a sweatshirt was all I needed. Heck, I didn't even bother turning on the heat in the car until my windows started fogging up. As soon as they cleared up I turned the heat off again. I wasn't cold at all - I wasn't warm but I certainly wasn't cold.

[Lavabe]

Myths About Canada?

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[YmoBeThere]

All great singers are Canadian...

[bjornolf]

I dropped my kids of at school on Monday. The temperature was 41. I wore shorts and a t-shirt. Everybody was asking me if I was cold. I told them, in all honesty, "Hey, if I add a jacket to this, this is my snow shoveling uniform."

Unless it's below freezing, I will RARELY put on long pants. Probably because 90% of the time, I'm headed from my home to somewhere else that's inside, and most inside places that AREN'T my home are set to like 75 degrees (my home is set at about 67 most of the time), which just makes me hot and sweaty if I'm wearing long pants.

[TillyGalore]

Cold is relative to each person. In NC we have 70-100 degree days plus high humidity a good part of the year, thus 40 degrees can be freakin' cold. In Canada, you're more accustomed to lower highs, thus 40 degrees is not that cold for you. So no matter when we visit Canada, it is freakin' cold.

[Bostondevil]

Is it true that there is a town in north Ontario with dream comfort memory to spare?

If so, what does that mean?

Never heard that one before.

Today, here in NC, it was 51 degrees and breezy, but very moist air - but it was fucking cold to me.

That's cold to you folks?!? Talk about wimps ;)

Yeah? Wimps? You ever lived through a summer in Durham? Typical day, 98 degree Farenheit which is what? 25 Celsius? and 98% humidity with a thunderstorm at 5 o'clock. Sitting in the 'front room' looking out towards the street? The humidity in the air is so heavy it refracts the light, makes the street look like a river of tar.

I hate Neil Young too!

[colchar]

I dropped my kids of at school on Monday. The temperature was 41. I wore shorts and a t-shirt. Everybody was asking me if I was cold. I told them, in all honesty, "Hey, if I add a jacket to this, this is my snow shoveling uniform."

Unless it's below freezing, I will RARELY put on long pants. Probably because 90% of the time, I'm headed from my home to somewhere else that's inside, and most inside places that AREN'T my home are set to like 75 degrees (my home is set at about 67 most of the time), which just makes me hot and sweaty if I'm wearing long pants.

You'd fit in well up here.

[colchar]

Cold is relative to each person. In NC we have 70-100 degree days plus high humidity a good part of the year, thus 40 degrees can be freakin' cold. In Canada, you're more accustomed to lower highs, thus 40 degrees is not that cold for you. So no matter when we visit Canada, it is freakin' cold.

Our highs aren't lower. In the summer (pretty much from late June to early September) our temps are in the 80+ range (usually at the higher end of that range). Add in the humidex and it can get downright uncomfortable at times. If we drop down to 75 degrees during that time we consider it a really shitty day.

Up here we get temperature extremes that you simply don't get down there (we really do get all four seasons). In the summer we get the temps I described above (eg. 80+). In the winter can can easily get down below zero fahrenheit.

But yeah, I guess cold is relative. I, for one, hate the cold but can still easily head out in -2 celcius weather without a coat and not be cold.

[colchar]

Yeah? Wimps? You ever lived through a summer in Durham? Typical day, 98 degree Farenheit which is what? 25 Celsius? and 98% humidity with a thunderstorm at 5 o'clock. Sitting in the 'front room' looking out towards the street? The humidity in the air is so heavy it refracts the light, makes the street look like a river of tar.

I hate Neil Young too!

The wimp comment was a joke.

But yeah, we get temperatures that high in the summer all the time. As I said in my other post in this thread, from late June to early September our temps are 80+ degrees. And we can get ridiculous humidity too. We also get bad thunderstorms and a haze from the heat. That's normal for us so we can easily handle it. I've got an old friend who now lives in Greenville South Carolina and she says the summers there aren't much worse than what we would get here when our temps were at their hottest for the year (I'm assuming the climate in Greenville would be similar to that in Durham). But we can also handle cold weather, and I mean real cold not 40-50 degree cold.

ETA: According to Wikipedia, the part of Ontario in which I live has a humid continental climate and falls within the hot summer subtype. Our weather is the same as both the Mid-Atlantic states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Virginia and West Virginia) and the Midwestern United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin). I’m betting that the climate in the southernmost of those states is akin to that in North Carolina.

[DukieInKansas]

Cold is relative to each person. In NC we have 70-100 degree days plus high humidity a good part of the year, thus 40 degrees can be freakin' cold. In Canada, you're more accustomed to lower highs, thus 40 degrees is not that cold for you. So no matter when we visit Canada, it is freakin' cold.

Cold is definitely relative. The year we had the family Christmas in FL, I left Korea in the snow. Since we were going to FL, I traveled with a winter coat and summer clothes. I left FL for a few days in Kansas where the temperature when I left town was -14 F and overnight it had been a windchill of -50F when I was out. I then flew to Houston where the temps were in the 30s. Everyone there was running around in fur coats and I was shedding as much clothing as was legal. The 80 degree temp swing made 30s feel toasty warm.

[CathyCA]

Yeah? Wimps? You ever lived through a summer in Durham? Typical day, 98 degree Farenheit which is what? 25 Celsius? and 98% humidity with a thunderstorm at 5 o'clock. Sitting in the 'front room' looking out towards the street? The humidity in the air is so heavy it refracts the light, makes the street look like a river of tar.

I hate Neil Young too!

The wimp comment was a joke.

But yeah, we get temperatures that high in the summer all the time. As I said in my other post in this thread, from late June to early September our temps are 80+ degrees. And we can get ridiculous humidity too. We also get bad thunderstorms and a haze from the heat. That's normal for us so we can easily handle it. I've got an old friend who now lives in Greenville South Carolina and she says the summers there aren't much worse than what we would get here when our temps were at their hottest for the year (I'm assuming the climate in Greenville would be similar to that in Durham). But we can also handle cold weather, and I mean real cold not 40-50 degree cold.

ETA: According to Wikipedia, the part of Ontario in which I live has a humid continental climate and falls within the hot summer subtype. Our weather is the same as both the Mid-Atlantic states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Virginia and West Virginia) and the Midwestern United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin). I’m betting that the climate in the southernmost of those states is akin to that in North Carolina.

Um, no.

North Carolina is freaking hotter than hades all summer long. And here in the swamps of Eastern North Carolina, the humidity is stifling. I've been to New Jersey in the summer. It's quite pleasant. The only place that's pleasant in the summer in North Carolina is the beach where the sea breezes are cool and ocean temps are in the mid 80s.

Colchar, you should spend the summer in North Carolina. Then you'd think that Canada is cold.

Today we're having all kind of weather here--torrential rain, wind, sun, more wind and they say the temps are climbing into the 70s. That means that tomorrow's highs in the 50s will have me bringing out the scarf and ear muffs again.

[Bostondevil]

The wimp comment was a joke.

So was mine.