Too cold to fly in Winnipeg

[marmar]

(CBC News) If you thought it was cold in Winnipeg yesterday, wait until you step outside today — it's worse.

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In Winnipeg, the daytime high temperature for Tuesday is only expected to reach –31 C but the windchill will make it feel more like –40 to –50. That means exposed skin can freeze in less than five minutes.

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Grounded planes

It's so cold that one airline has decided not to fly in or out of Winnipeg.

ExpressJet, a partner of United Airlines, cancelled some flights Monday night and Tuesday morning.

Passengers are being moved onto flights operated by other airlines and rerouted through other cities. ExpressJet says the unique combination of extreme low temperatures and ice crystals exceed safe operating guidelines for their aircraft. ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/extreme-cold-in-winnipeg-cancels-flights-1.2479967

[Brickbat]

1. I've flown out of airports at that temperature. Must be something about their aircraft.

[B Calm]

2. Winnipeg is north of North Dakota, it's suppose to be cold.

[NightWatcher]

7. Cold in Canada you say? I'm shocked

I will be surprised when it snows in the Keys down here, but not when it's chilly in Canada.

[cyberswede]

13. ...

[arcane1]

14. All that work creating a user ID and signing up

Just for that.

I wonder about people sometimes.

[polly7]

3. My niece is supposed to fly home to Watson Lake today,

I hope she can get a flight somehow.

It's -31 here without the windchill .... Winnipeg always gets it worse.

[rurallib]

4. that temp is almost unimaginable

I was in some -40 temps once and can barely remember what it was like. All I can remember is that my windshield would never clear. It was near Ottawa in the middle '90s

[Nye Bevan]

6. The only good thing about a temperature of -40

is that it is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit. So you can simply say "it's -40" without any ambiguity.

Other than that, the benefits of such a temperature are somewhat few.

[rurallib]

9. I tried that - everybody looked at me

like I was an idiot.

[polly7]

8. That is very cold.

It's supposed to get bad here yet for the next few days, and the wind pick up. I don't mind it at all, but my heart goes out to the elderly who are pretty much trapped in their homes, and many people in the cities who have few warm places to go to during the day.

[Nye Bevan]

5. Shows why it's now "climate change" instead of "global warming". (nt)

[polly7]

11. It's always been that cold here, and worse. But I am a true believer in climate change. nt.

[SkyAintFalling]

10. Not too cold to fly...

...but way too cold for support personnel to perform the required ground servicing.