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Old 01-22-2014, 12:05 PM   #430
Fidatelo
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Location: Winnipeg, MB
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Originally Posted by nilodor View Post
Isn't that every winter in Winnipeg though? You don't get called winter-peg for nothing. At least here we may get extended periods of bone chilling cold but we'll get chinooks that brings the temps back up near freezing. Although it does give the city the excuse to not plow are roads because their plan is that a chinook will just come in and clean them up anyways, so driving on sidestreets can be a bit of an adventure.

This winter has been brutal even by our pathetically low standards. It seems like every day is well below normal temperatures, and often it is also windy and snowing. Our December was the 2nd coldest in over 100 years, and it sure feels like January hasn't been much better.

It's one thing to have a few days of sub-minus-20 weather, but it's another to go literally 2 months in this stuff with almost no respite. Every two or three weeks we've had a day or two where it gets warm, but then it just immediately plunges back down to crazy low temps. It's also seemed much cloudier than normal, and as I said, windier. It's just depressing.
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