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Traffic is backed up on the Quesnell bridge due to an accident. Traffic was heavy with multiple collisions all over and icy conditions in Edmonton, December 6, 2013. |
Edmonton, 6th December, 2013 - It is so cold in Edmonton that the ears fell off the Robbie Burns statue outside the Hotel MacDonald.
OK, they didn’t really. But it is pretty flipping cold.
The good news — sort of — is that Gina Ressler, a meteorologist at the Weather Network in Mississauga, says a slight warming trend is on the way.
Temperatures in Edmonton will rise from -30 or so Saturday morning to about -15 late Saturday night, and will then soar into the minus single digits on Monday.
Then another cold front is expected.
“It’s just crazy,” said Ressler, who earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta. “I feel your pain.”
Here, are a few numbers to mull about that pain:
-25
The high recorded at Edmonton International Airport on Friday. The warmest temperature in Canada on Friday was 12.6 C in Greenwood, N.S. Punks.
-33.7
The bone-chilling low recorded at Edmonton International. That is frosty, but substantially short of the record for the date. That was -41.7 in 1882. The temperature at City Centre Airport bottomed out at -30.3, the coldest reading of 2013.
-42
The estimated wind chill, or temperature it felt like in Edmonton when temperature and wind speed were combined. Lowest estimated wind chill in Edmonton history: -61 on Jan. 26, 1972.
5 to 10 minutes
Amount of time it takes for exposed skin to freeze at -40 C.
-40
The low Friday morning at Leedale, a hamlet in Ponoka County 59 kilometres northwest of Red Deer. It was the lowest temperature Friday recorded anywhere on Earth. Manning, 73 km north of Peace River in northern Alberta, was the next-coldest at -39.8.
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A girl child peeks through the frosted front window of Interiors on a very cold Friday, December 6, 2013. |
+52
Temperature at Santa Elena de Uaren, Venezuela, the warmest recorded place on Earth on Friday.
-5
Ah, for the balmy breezes of Siberia. That was Friday’s temperature in Tomsk.
4,242
The number of service calls logged as of 5 p.m. Friday by the Alberta Motor Association. Most calls in Edmonton were for battery boosts. The average wait was seven hours.
16 hours, 39 minutes
The average wait time in Edmonton for a tow or a winch at 4 p.m., according to the AMA.
300
The number of people waiting for the doors to open Friday morning at the water park at West Edmonton Mall. Inside, it was 31 C. Also, the number of vehicles requiring a boost at Edmonton International Airport. The number of vehicles needing assistance on a normal winter day is 75 to 100.
1 hour, 20 minutes
Length of time it took for a medium double-double from Tim Hortons to freeze on the fifth-floor balcony at the Edmonton Journal. The 15-ounce cup was 85 C at the start.
500
Approximate number of students attending an impromptu sock hop at Greenfield School in Edmonton. The lunch-hour dance was arranged by parents Fred and Melody Mah to reward students who had to skip recess all week due to cold weather. Selections played: will.i.am’s I Like to Move It, Kool & The Gang’s Celebration and PSY’s Gangnam Style.
$739.50
Cost of a round trip flight leaving Edmonton for Maui on Saturday, Dec. 7. with a return on Dec. 14. As quoted on Cheapoair.com. Don Ho is calling.
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