The coldest place in Canada

an article from yahoo.

Make sure you read to the very end. Even in the coldest crappy days, sometimes people's warmth still shines through.


EDMONTON (CBC) - Edmonton has established a record it would probably rather forget.


The Alberta capital recorded the lowest temperature in North America overnight Saturday and set a record as the lowest temperature on a Dec. 13 in the city's history as the current deep freeze established records across the province.


"Edmonton International Airport was the coldest place in Canada," Peter Spyker, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said Sunday. "It was -46.1 [Celsius] without the wind chill. I believe at one point it got to -58 with the wind chill."


The previous record for Dec. 13 was -36.1 C, set in 2008.


A mechanical problem unrelated to the cold left about 6,000 homes without electricity for about an hour around noon on Edmonton's southeast side.


Several other cities in Alberta saw record lows, including Cold Lake, Grande Prairie and Whitecourt.


The brutal temperatures have also brought out the best in some Calgarians.


On Saturday, Calgary police duty Insp. Rob Williams was travelling on the northbound Macleod Trail near the 22X overpass when he spotted what appeared to be a large, multi-vehicle collision.


In fact, several cars had screeched to a halt when a tiny kitten, searching for a place to get out of the cold, had wandered onto the busy road, which has a 80 km/h speed limit.


The scared kitten climbed up into the engine compartment of one of the stopped cars, Williams said in a news release, and several drivers tried to retrieve the kitten with no luck.


Working together after nearly 30 minutes in 25 C conditions, one man jacked up the front of the small car while another crawled underneath.


Williams pushed the kitten down through a tiny opening to the undercarriage where it was safely retrieved.


The owner has not been located, Williams said.


The expected low heading into Monday is a bone-chilling 33 C in Edmonton, with Calgary just behind at 31 C.


More seasonal temperatures are expected by the end of the week.

It is an understatement to say that is one lucky cat.

you mean one cool cat


thanks for posting this Elena... my pain in the ass sister is there, and it warms my chilly heart to read she is colder than I am. (Well, she always was, but that's another story!)

I used to live real, real far from there, but we would get what the tv weather men called 'Alberta clippers' drop down on us. I hated those two words.

Yep, that what we got here last week Jam, one a them clippers. But it's gone back home again.

Kerr wrote:Yep, that what we got here last week Jam, one a them clippers. But it's gone back home again.

They are really terrible- years ago my sister and BIL were on a vacation in northern Florida and one bore all the way down. He was determined to not screw the trip up and tried to outrun it - going further south everyday only to wake up freezing. They ended up in Key West and the temps were in the high 30's. - coldest ever.

Alberta Clippers blow through Ohio constantly all winter. And where I live we get Lake Effect weather, too. Double whammy.
I wish those dadburn Canucks would keep their weather up there!Maybe if we built a big high wall along the border..........

he he.... we're just trying to toughen you guys up a bit.

don't worry, though. there won't be a bill in the mail for it. we are just doing it cause we like yas.

JustaMan wrote:I used to live real, real far from there, but we would get what the tv weather men called 'Alberta clippers' drop down on us. I hated those two words.

We get Alberta clippers where I am as well, but what is worse, at least for my area, are the storms that are called "nor'easters". These are massive snowstorms that ride up the east coast and clobber southeastern New England, where I am. So far we have been pretty lucky. We have had one bad one and one medium one. Back in the winter of 1995-1996 we averaged about two bad ones a week, all winter long. That...really...sucked.

Goodness. It sounds like it DOES suck Arge!


The weather here isn't bad, but it's not great either. Last year we barely got any snow, it was unnatural for this part of the North East, but this is making up for it. Snow is great, I just hate the cold. *shivers*

I'm pleased that the kitten came through alright.