Tuesday, December 15, 2009

OMG!! It was REALLY cold here on Sunday!


(from front page of Edmonton Journal Dec 13th)

EDMONTON SHATTERS COLD RECORD
At -46.1 C, coldest city on the continent beats previous benchmark
low by 10 degrees
F-F-F-F-FRIGID!!!!: Trees caked with fog along 109th Street at
83rd Avenue form an ice cave on Sunday. Edmonton was the coldest
city in North America at minus 46.1 C. recorded at 5 a.m., or minus 58.4,
with the wind chill, at the international airport.
Photograph by : Ed Kaiser, The Journal