Sorry StevieC, cannot feel too sorry for you. We are having a warmer than normal winter and we just are getting over a little cold spell. Ambient in the area was as low as -34 but only -30 at my house. As it warmed up a few days later, the ambient was -20 with a nice -38 windchill in the morning and warming to a balmy -26 windchill as the east wind howled in at around 40-50km/h.
The nice thing when the temps really plummet, usually the wind subsides. A few times I was clearing snow in the yard in a ball cap, sweater when it was -20 with the sun out, no wind. Last year we had a brutally cold winter. Weeks on end of nothing warmer than -20. One morning it was -40 ambient and as we drove the kids into school, the temp kept dropping. My Tb could not keep the windshield defrosted. No wind, well not much but it was into the -50's for windchill. But hey, this nice winter weather does a great job of keeping the hippies and lefties out of the Province.
The nice thing when the temps really plummet, usually the wind subsides. A few times I was clearing snow in the yard in a ball cap, sweater when it was -20 with the sun out, no wind. Last year we had a brutally cold winter. Weeks on end of nothing warmer than -20. One morning it was -40 ambient and as we drove the kids into school, the temp kept dropping. My Tb could not keep the windshield defrosted. No wind, well not much but it was into the -50's for windchill. But hey, this nice winter weather does a great job of keeping the hippies and lefties out of the Province.