On 2021-02-10 2:30 p.m., Graham wrote:
> 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.

I think that "dry cold" things works down to about -20C. When it is
just below 0C here it is raw. It actually feels better when it is -10
because it is usually dryer.

> The dryness is a problem in that no amount of skin cream prevents painful
> skin cracks on my fingers and heels.

This is the first year that I have had a problem with cracks in my heel
I thought at first that it was a return of plantar fasciatis but it
turned out to be a big raw crack in my heel. I never used to wear
gloves very often because my hands felt okay in the cold. I learned way
too late in life that if I wore gloves I did not get cracks in my
fingers and cuticles.

Dry hands is a special problem this year because everyone is washing
their hands so often.