WOW it's cold today!

[Tantor]

I wish I could just stay home!! -30 windchill...yuck.

I hope they don't let the kids outside at school today......

[Disney_Mama]

Only -23 here with wind chill.:beach:

[bunnyfoo]

Yes it's freezing! Luckily, I got a lift to the subway and I can walk underground to work so it wasn't too bad. I'm not looking forward to going home though.

[BitsnBearsMom]

I back onto the school and they didn't let the kids out for morning nutrition break here - right now it's -16 but feels like -27 with the wind chill..... brrrrrrr. Every card but ours had either busses cancelled or schools closed - my older ds' that is bussed was NOT impressed that he still had to go!! :rotfl2:

Stay warm everyone!!

[trassita]

We have had quite the cold snap as of late. Saturday alone was -47 with the windchill, and today the entire school division is closed due to a windchill warning. (they close school if it is -40 or colder with the windchill).

My SO and I were talking just last night about why or even how our ancestors decided to settle in Manitoba. 6 months of this?! What were they thinking?!!

[princess pooh]

It's freezing here too :cold:

I had the morning off and I'm really dreading going to work now.

[SandraC]

So cold, I want to say the "F" word....
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[tophee99]

We are sitting about -30 too. Kids are off school, roads are closed....we are stuck in town for the day. Thank goodness for the warmth in doors.

I love that "F" word............wish I was there....:goodvibes

[drag n' fly]

It is suppose to be +7c here today. Gotta love chinooks!:goodvibes

[kwmitchell]

It was -42 on the way into work this morning without the windchill. I don't think we will have to worry about windchill on any of the rides at DL. Ha HA. Heck us Canadians will be swimming down there if it's above 10C. March better hurry up and get here soon!

[SaraMc]

The whole time I was walking from the car to the drugstore with DS in my arms I kepts saying, just have to make it 3 more days, 3 more days till I get to say the f word too.... Florida :) But its cold. Poor little DS was all bundled up and looked quite shocked at how cold it was out there. Glad we are in for the rest of the day all snuggled up.:hug:

[balatonbabe]

With these cold snaps, I just keep thinking...hope it's this cold next year at this time when I'm in FL :)

[popinl]

We're all the way up to -26 with the windchill now!!!
Only 33 more days until I can say the F word.....hopefully it doesn't stay this cold until then...enough already

[laura001]

-30 here with the windchill too!!!! YUCK :eek: YUCK:eek: YUCK:eek:
I despise winter!!!!

I love the "F" word comment....lol!!!!

[grover]

was a balmy -40 when i left for work this a.m
with out the wind.
nice.

[SandraC]

ds7 took his Florida photo album to school this afternoon for show & tell. His teacher waved her fist at me.....heeheehee. S

[murcor]

oh, you poor people in Manitoba :eek:

I guess I will join Disney_Mama :beach:
only -22 here in Nova Scotia

[angel_bright05]

Another Winnipeger here. Yep..gotta love the -40 mornings! My hair was frozen this morning when I went outside. It wasn't even wet. Even better was the -50 Saturday morning :scared1: Hurry up summer.

[BitsnBearsMom]

You know you are a Canadian when you can refer to -22 as 'ONLY -22' :rotfl2: :lmao:

It is 'only' -24 with the windchill here right now!!

Why oh why did I let them talk me into going to Disney in AUGUST????? I need Disney NOW :rolleyes:

[MouseGirl]

Hi everyone - I have a big favour to ask of anyone in the Toronto or Waterloo area. My husband is flying from Ottawa to Toronto and arriving around 8:30 tonight. He's supposed to be driving down to Waterloo tonight for meetings in the morning. I've checked the Environment Canada website and MTO road conditions website and things don't look too bad - any firsthand reports on what your weather there is like right now? I'm wondering if he's better to just stay in Toronto tonight and drive down to Waterloo first thing in the morning...

Thanks ever so much,
MouseGirl

[AprilFool]

Do they actually cancel classes in some cities when it gets cold!!?? I'm in Winnipeg and they sometimes cancel buses but i don't think the school boards care when your kid (Mine is 6) walks to school and it is -50. She "skipped" school once this year cause I didn't want to walk her all the way there (1.2km) with her 2 year old sister that doesn't like her scarf!

[popinl]

They don't close the schools here if it is too cold, just if it is snowing too much. I don't blame you for letting your daughter "skip" school when it is that cold 1.2 km both ways is a lot for a 2 year old or even a 6 year old when it is -50 outside

[SandraC]

Our School's policy is; if the wind chill is -25 the kids stay in for recess. bbrrrrrrrrrr. S

[BitsnBearsMom]

Here they keep the kids in if it's too cold but they will also close schools if the temps go below -35 according to the teachers whose kids I look after. Kinda silly if you ask me b/c they really need to remember we live in CANADA!! In Igloo's even!!

Another cold one here today but the walk to school wasn't too bad as long as we bundled up!

[laura001]

Here they keep the kids in if it's too cold but they will also close schools if the temps go below -35 according to the teachers whose kids I look after. Kinda silly if you ask me b/c they really need to remember we live in CANADA!! In Igloo's even!!

Another cold one here today but the walk to school wasn't too bad as long as we bundled up!

I was thinking just that yesterday as far as school closures. I am from the Niagara Region (banana belt of Ontario..lol) and kept hearing about schools closing in Buffalo yesterday because of the cold. Hmmmm.....

BitsnBearsMom- I see you are from Guelph, my DD is there at the University. She says it is cccccoooooolllllllddddd there, I was complaining to her yesterday about the cold, she said I had no idea...:laughing:

[BitsnBearsMom]

Oh my it was bad here yesterday - -30 with the windchill and it 'warmed up' to -27 - the kind of cold that hurts your eyes and hurts to breath - couldn't even begin to imagine how bad it is out in Manitoba for those people in the -40's Wouldn't have been too bad here if it hadn't been so darn windy - Guelph is always windy though!! I know I was thankful to have dh home to do the walk to and from school!!

[Kelly5538]

Yup - it's naaaaaasty cold here in Orangeville too! YIKES!

That's why I booked our trip this morning! LOL

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Oh puhleeze...we were in the -30s last fall when you Ontario folks were still in shorts and t-shirts...we've gotten used to it by now :rotfl2:

[BitsnBearsMom]

We're just a whole lot softer here in Ontario ;)

[laura001]

Oh puhleeze...we were in the -30s last fall when you Ontario folks were still in shorts and t-shirts...we've gotten used to it by now :rotfl2:

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Bring back the Tshirt and short weather please Mr. Weatherman!!!!

[popinl]

Oh puhleeze...we were in the -30s last fall when you Ontario folks were still in shorts and t-shirts...we've gotten used to it by now :rotfl2:
Usually by this time of the year we're used to it as well...we got spoiled in December, and we're paying for it now....much warmer today only -14 with windchill of -20 ;)

[bunnyfoo]

One of the benefits of the cold weather is that my parents have started driving to work so I end up getting a lift to the subway station. Much much better than guessing what time the bus is going to arrive. And I don't have to leave as early in the morning!

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Usually by this time of the year we're used to it as well...we got spoiled in December, and we're paying for it now....much warmer today only -14 with windchill of -20 ;)

Oh I know...I was just being a smarta$$...was born and raised in Ont (moved out here in the spring of '99). We had an unusually brutal start to winter this year...it's not unusual to have a white Halloween (never mind a white Christmas)...have had snow on the ground at the end of October 6 out of the 8 years I've been out here but this year we spent most of Nov below -25 and had close to 4 feet of snow on the ground before December (and it's still here).

Basically we get winter about a month earlier and it lasts about a month longer and those cold snaps that last a few days in southern Ont last a few weeks out here. Of course being further north we get shorter days in the winter but longer days in the summer.