On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:30:44 -0700, 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:
>>>
>>> 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.

Always emigrate towards the sun.

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