Record cold in Canada

By Robert On January 20, 2012 · 6 Comments

Under -40 grader: Ekstrem kulde i Canada

Although Canadians are accustomed to cold winter weather, temperatures below -40 degrees are far from commonplace, says this Danish website.

Hendrickson Creek, Alberta, dropped to -41.4 degrees, a new cold record.

The coldest place in Canada over the past days was Teslin in the Yukon, which dropped to -44.0 degrees. The normal day tempoeratur in Teslin in January is -24 degrees.

See entire article (in Danish):
http://vejret.tv2.dk/artikel/id-47562415:under-40-grader-ekstrem-kulde-i-canada.html?forside

Thanks to Flemming Kjemtrup Sørensen in Denmark for this link

6 Responses to Record cold in Canada

Loquamur says:

January 20, 2012 at 1:10 pm

Please note that -40 Celsius is identical to -40 Fahrenheit. Minus forty degrees is the same in degrees-F and degrees-C. The two scales happen to match precisely at that point…and only at that single value.
Kenneth Lund says:

January 20, 2012 at 2:02 pm

is that in Celsius or Fahrenheit ? Thanks
C. Peter Davis says:

January 20, 2012 at 3:05 pm

That would be Celsius. Canada went to the metric system way back in the 70′s.
Jeff Anderson says:

January 20, 2012 at 5:27 pm

It is celsius. Denmark, as well as Canada, use the metric system.
ES says:

January 20, 2012 at 5:51 pm

Kenneth
The temperatures in Canada are in Celsius.

There were colder temperatures then -44. Watson Lake was -48, but it was that cold last year also. That temperature is still 10 degrees from it’s all time low. It’s cold but nothing unusual.
Robert the Philippino says:

January 21, 2012 at 12:31 am

I have lived through -65C in the middle of the night in Fort Francis, Ont, Canada. That was in 1995.
In day time it was -45C and sunny at noon time for three days in the row!
BRUTAL COLD!