Google Doodle celebrates Canada’s coldest day, -63 ℃ • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Doodle celebrates Canada’s coldest day, -63 ℃

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Post by maxerickson » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 1:01 PM UTC

justinsteele wrote: post #41

maxerickson wrote: post #18

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All the geegaws on a modern engine make it less important.

Sure, it may be less important, but I'd hate for someone to think that means it's majorly less important (in other terms, unimportant).. letting a car warm up in cold weather is good for it, regardless of innovations.

Most of the time it just wastes gas. Well, beyond making the cabin comfortable it just wastes gas.

Re: Google Doodle celebrates Canada’s coldest day, -63 ℃

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Post by seanmcdirmid » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

bernardom wrote: post #2

I've seen the wrong side of -40, when I was flying to work in Ft McMurray, Alberta for a consulting job. One time, I drew the short straw and had to go pick up our SUVs at the parking lot upon landing. They were outside, plugged in. The car started with the saddest sound I ever heard a mechanical thing make. I put it in reverse, hit the gas, and pulled out of the spot. Then I put it in drive and hit the gas- and the…

I visited Changchun and Harbin one winter, as I was on the bus from the former to the latter, I watched the thermometer (ya, all these buses prominently displayed the outside temperature) drop from about -25 to -40...suffice it to say, my digital camera stopped working after about 5 minutes.

When I got back to beijing, it was only -10, I felt like I could wear shorts.

Re: Google Doodle celebrates Canada’s coldest day, -63 ℃

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Post by jcd748 » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 2:17 PM UTC

hluska wrote: post #27

caiob wrote: post #6

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I'm from Yellowknife, about 1000mi north of Ft McMurray. More often than not, we hit -45C with a windchill of ~ -60c. The coldest it's ever been up here was -52c in 1947, if I'm not mistaken..

I'm from Regina, Saskatchewan and for the first time in my life, I can honestly say that our mere -45 windchills don't sound so bad. :) Stay warm!!

I'm originally from Saskatoon, and remember a day around 2004 or 2005 where it was in the -40s, -62 with the windchill. Once was enough - I can't imagine "more often than not"!