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Good Morning from Labrador!
01/18/11 at 02:57:41

Rise and shine folks! PerrydaSavage is coming at you this morning from the town of Churchill Falls, smack dab in the interior of Labrador and home to one of the largest hydro electric power projects in the world ... right now at 6:50am its a bone chilling -29 deg Celsius! Brrrrrrrr!!! Shoulda packed my woolies!

Sent up here for a few days to oversee some engineering retrofits to a vehicle maintenance shop ... I have NEVER experienced cold like this before!

Have a great day folks!

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prechermike Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Kalashna Kitty, from Skat Posts: 1190 Ponzer, NC Gender:	Re: Good Morning from Labrador! Reply #1 - 01/18/11 at 03:46:03 Cool Perry, that is about -20 farenhieght for us in the states. It is a balmy 39 here this morning.
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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline On two wheels... again Posts: 3805 WV Gender:	Re: Good Morning from Labrador! Reply #2 - 01/18/11 at 05:13:37 That's a beautiful picture Perry. Hope you get to have some fun while you're there. And once I see a minus sign, that's just downright COLD, no matter what you put behind it. So I'm sending you a big warm HUG.
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Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Reply #3 - 01/18/11 at 07:37:14

Perry -

Since you're an engineer, plesae explain to me the common sense of using Celsius (centigrade to us OFs) instead of Fahrenheit, which is far more accurate.

In Celsius, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100; so there are 100 degrees between the two points.

In Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32, and boils at 212, so there are 180 degrees between the same two reference points. Almost twice as many as in Celsius.

But unless you express temperature in fractions of a degree, Celsius is far less accurate. So why does the world want to use a less accurate method of measuring temps?

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John_D FSO Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' and smilin' Posts: 1658 Vancouver, WA Gender:	Re: Good Morning from Labrador! Reply #4 - 01/18/11 at 08:16:11 Awesome pic, and I'd LOVE to go riding snowmobiles, haven't done that in many years. But that's just pretty dang cold, no matter what scale you're using!
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Reply #5 - 01/18/11 at 08:36:38

Here in the work camp now, having a lunch break ... still -20 deg C or so ... still cold enough to freeze the balls on brass monkey preachermike!

Jerry; I have NO friggin' idea bud!! LOL!! We use the Celsius scale for temp. ONLY because the Canadian govt. deemed it so back in the late 70's ... prior to that we used the same systems of measurement as you Yanks ... excepting for gallons ... our gallons were larger than yours ... now our liters are smaller! LOL!!

Babyhog ... thanks for the BIG, warm hug!

John ... I didn't take that pic ... it's one I scabbed off of the Internet to give y'all an idea what the lay of the land is like all the way up here! And yes, riding snowmobiles is fun ... but not as fun as motorcycles!

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Reply #6 - 01/18/11 at 10:00:06

Still a great pic.
I had one season on a sled. Of course the year I got it was one with little or no snow in Southern Maine. We had to haul the rigs up to Aroostook County and Quebec to get some decent riding in.
My wife made me get rid of it the next year. She did not like me coming in smelling like a chain saw exhaust! Grin

No, they don't compare to riding a bike IMO. Staying off the bikes during the winter just makes you look forward to and appreciate the coming riding season.

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kimchris1 Serious Thumper Offline Pink Posse Rider... Posts: 2135 Belfair, Washington Gender:	Re: Good Morning from Labrador! Reply #7 - 01/18/11 at 11:19:47 Jeeze Perry, that is plain cold where your at. What in the world did you do to warrant being sent to that cold of an area? Did you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar again? Sending you warm hugs and will have a cup of hot coco for you. Take care and send pics if you can..Take care, kim
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Reply #8 - 01/18/11 at 12:07:57

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 01/18/11 at 07:37:14:

Perry -

Since you're an engineer, plesae explain to me the common sense of using Celsius (centigrade to us OFs) instead of Fahrenheit, which is far more accurate.

In Celsius, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100; so there are 100 degrees between the two points.

In Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32, and boils at 212, so there are 180 degrees between the same two reference points. Almost twice as many as in Celsius.

But unless you express temperature in fractions of a degree, Celsius is far less accurate. So why does the world want to use a less accurate method of measuring temps?

I only use the Kelvin scale, personally!
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Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Reply #9 - 01/18/11 at 12:14:02

runwyrlph wrote on 01/18/11 at 12:07:57:

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 01/18/11 at 07:37:14:

Perry -

Since you're an engineer, plesae explain to me the common sense of using Celsius (centigrade to us OFs) instead of Fahrenheit, which is far more accurate.

In Celsius, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100; so there are 100 degrees between the two points.

In Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32, and boils at 212, so there are 180 degrees between the same two reference points. Almost twice as many as in Celsius.

But unless you express temperature in fractions of a degree, Celsius is far less accurate. So why does the world want to use a less accurate method of measuring temps?

I only use the Kelvin scale, personally!
Grin

Rankine is more precise. Grin

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Good Morning from Labrador! Reply #10 - 01/18/11 at 12:31:15 Once "Miserable" is reached, what the temp is becomes purely academic. But, If I am stuck out in it, I wanna know what it is, so I can justify all the whining.
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Reply #11 - 01/18/11 at 13:24:52

verslagen1 wrote on 01/18/11 at 12:14:02:

runwyrlph wrote on 01/18/11 at 12:07:57:

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 01/18/11 at 07:37:14:

Perry -

Since you're an engineer, plesae explain to me the common sense of using Celsius (centigrade to us OFs) instead of Fahrenheit, which is far more accurate.

In Celsius, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100; so there are 100 degrees between the two points.

In Fahrenheit, water freezes at 32, and boils at 212, so there are 180 degrees between the same two reference points. Almost twice as many as in Celsius.

But unless you express temperature in fractions of a degree, Celsius is far less accurate. So why does the world want to use a less accurate method of measuring temps?

I only use the Kelvin scale, personally!
Grin

Rankine is more precise. Grin

cool - learned someting new today!

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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 29300 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Good Morning from Labrador! Reply #12 - 01/18/11 at 21:51:46 Down here,... we question the sanity of people in that kinda' weather... ... and that pains me, Perry... 'cause I think you're smarter than me... Stay warm...
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Re: Good Morning from Labrador!
Reply #13 - 01/19/11 at 02:22:11

No way I'm smarter than you Serowbot ... or anyone else here at Suzukisavage.com for that matter!

As for my sanity ... well, that's a whole other issue ... but up here in the Great White North, you do what ya gotta do if ya wanna keep the bank off of your back!

BTW, here in Churchill Falls it's positively tropical this morning as compared to yesterday ... it's up to -20C! Wink

Will be heading back down south to St. John's in a few days ...

Have a great day folks!

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buttgoat1 Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1042	Re: Good Morning from Labrador! Reply #14 - 01/19/11 at 09:40:20 after this, you'll probably be wearing shorts and t shirts at spring thaw and feel like your breaking a sweat
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