On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:37:41 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2021-02-10 1:06 p.m., Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 09:12:39 -0700, Graham > wrote:
>>
>>> >>
>>> Tomorrow will be a baking day but with overnight temperatures around -30C I
>>> have no intention of going to the SM for beef. I do have a pork fillet in
>>> the freezer and that seems to be an ideal component. Perhaps I'll call it a
>>> Lincolnshire Pastie:-)
>>
>> Definitely time to stay home, have been watching your temps, have a
>> grandson in Grande Prairie
>>
>
> It is quite common to hear people say that it is a dry cold so you don't
> feel it has much. I can appreciate that around here where it is usually
> quite humid, much like the Halifax area. I have been further north and
> found -25 to be quite bearable. When it drops past -30 that is just
> plain nasty cold. It is cold to the bone, not just smarting on the skin.
>
> FWIW... it waas -18 Chere this morning, currently -7.

Dry cold is still bloody cold. The other morning the outside air was
"sparkling" as it was so cold, the remaing humidity in the air was frozen
into ice chrystals. I haven't been out but in these conditions, one sees
icicles hanging from the tail pipes of cars.
The dryness is a problem in that no amount of skin cream prevents painful
skin cracks on my fingers and heels.