Coldest FT Destination?
Nov 30, 2008 | 7:58 pm
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Nov 30, 2008 | 8:13 pm
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Nov 30, 2008 | 8:42 pm
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I awoke to my normal radio station in Minneapolis one morning in early 2001 to the dj suggesting that parents Lbundle the kids up this morning - the windchill is as low as -50 and frost bite will set in quickly if you're not careful.". That was a week I only went outside between the airport, the taxi and the hotel, for a total of less than 60 seconds in a week. The rest of the time was in the skyway connectors.
I awoke to my normal radio station in Minneapolis one morning in early 2001 to the dj suggesting that parents Lbundle the kids up this morning - the windchill is as low as -50 and frost bite will set in quickly if you're not careful.". That was a week I only went outside between the airport, the taxi and the hotel, for a total of less than 60 seconds in a week. The rest of the time was in the skyway connectors.
Nov 30, 2008 | 8:48 pm
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Coldest for me was -18F in Omaha. The morning I was leaving for the airport, the hotel manager had to call me a taxi (and paid for it) because the fuel line in their shuttle van had frozen.
Nov 30, 2008 | 10:28 pm
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-30something C plus serious winds (windchill below -50C) north of Quebec City. Skiing. The place (MSA) was empty; the locals knew better than to ski in those temperatures. I drove over 500 miles expecting those conditions. 
I had no part of the body exposed; the limiting factor was the temperature of my toes.
It is necessary to specify the unit. C & F are not the only temperature scales. Arbitrons are generally frowned upon when specifying measured quantities.
I had no part of the body exposed; the limiting factor was the temperature of my toes. It is necessary to specify the unit. C & F are not the only temperature scales. Arbitrons are generally frowned upon when specifying measured quantities.
Nov 30, 2008 | 11:20 pm
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While at University one winter, in Toronto
Anne and I decided we'd had enough of indoors, and so we bravely went out "for a walk" in the snow. We rounded a corner on Bloor and I said, "Look at the thermometer!" --It was reading -20 C. And that was in the middle of the (relatively warmer) business district, not out in the suburbs where it was probably even nippier..
Prepared me for a visit some years later to Montana relatives where the same -20 C prevailed, but UA doesn't fly there--not yet, anyway.
Prepared me for a visit some years later to Montana relatives where the same -20 C prevailed, but UA doesn't fly there--not yet, anyway.
Nov 30, 2008 | 11:47 pm
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San Francisco in July!
Are you talking about in general, or as part of trips?
For the latter, beautiful Moline, Illinois, staying at the now deservedly-defunct airport Hampton Inn. Was -8 F (with a wind of about 20 mph) when the shuttle took me to the airport at 4:30 am.
Ugh.
Coldest that didn't involve a trip (I was living there for the year) was -22F in Chicago in January 1978. (It set the record for coldest day ever in Chicago).
Are you talking about in general, or as part of trips?
For the latter, beautiful Moline, Illinois, staying at the now deservedly-defunct airport Hampton Inn. Was -8 F (with a wind of about 20 mph) when the shuttle took me to the airport at 4:30 am.
Ugh.
Coldest that didn't involve a trip (I was living there for the year) was -22F in Chicago in January 1978. (It set the record for coldest day ever in Chicago).