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-8 F actual, windchill is currently -25 F my legacy started and drove fine....but man its cold. power antenna was slow to go up and the heater took a while to warm me.. this weather sucks balls

Glad some of you people get the idea of what it's like up here. I live in freakin ALASKA man... I'm all for global warming, my house is above where the water would be.
BTW in winter I use a 0w/40 synthetic oil.

Hasn't dropped below 20F here yet. w00t!

Aren't oils with high viscosity ranges much more vulnerable to sheer forces and subsequent breakdown? I generally stick to 10W-30, unless it gets REALLY cold, then I'll go to 5W-20.

I beat the hell out of my car.

Hahaha so my friend is driving up to Homer, Alaska in his subie and he's following his dad. His car broke down in the middle of the Yuokon. Hahahahhaaha. The daytime high in that area was -40*.

He said it was cold as balls.

today the high was 20F, low tonight is 10F, battery is a little slow sometimes, but the car runs as smooth as ever once its warmed up atleast once that day

i run 10w-30 all year, rights now there is a little bit of 15w-40 in it. i ran out of oil last time i filled it up so i just threw that in there, but im not complaining, its quiet once it warms up

This last week it was -70 for 4 days straight in siberia. Imagine living there. It was only -20 at my house.

hard to start, no 4th gear, scraping ice off the windows, oh yeah I love this weather :rolleyes:

I have been plugging the Mercedes in this week...

Probably really don't need to...but it starts soooooooooooooo nice in the morning!

60 degrees here in the desert of Qatar. Sucks to be you guys

I lived in Winnipeg for a while.

After returning to Vancouver, someone would ask what the summer was like.

"Don't know-I was only there for 11 months."

But the classic story was that George who was working with me had been transferred from Toronto and in late September complained about the dropping temp. I said he shouldn't complain because he had lived in the "cold" climate of Toronto. The colder it got-the more he complained.

Then for a week it never got any warmer than 35 below, and with no wind an ice fog settled over the city such that you could barely see.

Didn't go out to lunch at anywhere decent and ate in the dreadful cafeteria.

Then the weather changed and we got in George's car ro go to Champs for lunch. On the way the radio gave the weather report as "Finally- clear and sunny, the sky is blue, there is no wind, the ice-fog has gone and it is 18 below."

At that point, George starts to open his window, and I said "What the hell are you doing--it's 18 below!!"

George said "If it is this hot now what's it going to like when summer comes?"

The official low that winter was 49 F below--no windchill BS.

it was raining and a balmy 7c (45f) in Halifax today, not all of Canada is in a deep freeze.

i live in winnipeg.

as mentioned, global warming would be a delight to see.

currently, were sitting at -38c with the wind chill, and tomorrow's forecast is a high of -18, but with a wind chill of -43c.

oh joy.

For the other Americans on here...


-38 degrees Celsius = -36.4 degrees Fahrenheit
-18 degrees Celsius = -0.4 degrees Fahrenheit
-43 degrees Celsius = -45.4 degrees Fahrenheit


Hahaha thank you Google Converter.

Oh and Juice91si, that is COLD AS BALLS!! Lol. Have fun in that.

juice91si wrote:i live in winnipeg.

as mentioned, global warming would be a delight to see.

currently, were sitting at -38c with the wind chill, and tomorrow's forecast is a high of -18, but with a wind chill of -43c.

oh joy.

Wind chill is an arithmetic adjustment contrived to sensationalise weather reports on TV or radio.

come back to winnipeg, stand outside, and then make that statement.

No Thanks

But hey--they only need the wind chill bs in milder climates like upper NY State.

juice91si wrote:come back to winnipeg, stand outside, and then make that statement.

ha ha
it hasn't been that cold in the zoo yet,
but some spots have been at -40F