Re: [9fans] cpu server

[Jack Johnson <fragment@nas.com>]

On Feb 9, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Geoff Collyer wrote:

> Canada is large and varied.  Temperatures in the summer around 40°C
> are possible on the prairies and in Ontario, at least.  Winters tend
> to run the gamut from bitterly cold to damned cold, though there are
> exceptions, such as Vancouver and Victoria, where it rarely reaches
> freezing.  Roughly 90% of the population live within 160km (100 miles)
> of the US border; as you get farther north, it gets colder, and Canada
> extends up to the north pole.  Currently (~20:30 Vancouver time), it's
> a balmy 5°C in Vancouver (and Calgary, amazing!), 2°C in Montreal,
> -30°C in Alert, Nunavut, -39°C in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, but that doesn' t
> include the wind chill.

I went to college in interior Alaska which is very similar to interior 
Canadian weather.  I've seen -68F without wind chill in the winter 
(though that's the extreme) and 96F in the summer, all in the same 
city.

But again, so large that when people say, "Oh, yeah, I know, I lived in 
Southeast," I just chuckle, because you might as well live in Victoria 
or Vancouver (or Bellingham!), and Fairbanks weather is nothing 
compared to anything on the Arctic coast mid-winter.

Fort St. John, now there I can sympathize....

-Jack