If that were true, I'd switch back to *F in a second. No, the two scales converge at -40, and -46C is -50.8F. [EDIT: Whoops, sodak beat me to it.]
When I went to bed last night it was officially -43C/-45.4F. It's all academic past a certain point; it's just stupid bloody cold. I can take a reasonable amount if it's dead calm. But the slightest breeze really makes it absolutely miserable.
I didn't get around to building a shelter at all. I was focused on keeping the primary shelter (our old house) together. The furnace is working awfully hard, and so is the wood stove. The cars have held up, but get very stiff at highway speed (no surprise; imagine the wind chill factor).
This slug of arctic air is supposed to push off starting Wednesday. Good riddance. Meanwhile, all the folks in Yukon/Alaska/Northwest Territories are no doubt rolling their eyes in amusement -- "buncha wimps and whiners down there, you don't know what cold is" etc.
Edited by dougwalkabout (12/14/09 03:52 AM)