From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-Id: <6F69EFEE-5C40-11D8-9B50-000A95E29604@nas.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Jack Johnson Subject: Re: [9fans] cpu server To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:14:42 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dd2d07aa-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Feb 9, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Geoff Collyer wrote: > Canada is large and varied. Temperatures in the summer around 40=B0C > 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=B0C in Vancouver (and Calgary, amazing!), 2=B0C in Montreal, > -30=B0C in Alert, Nunavut, -39=B0C in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, but that = doesn' t > include the wind chill. I went to college in interior Alaska which is very similar to interior=20= Canadian weather. I've seen -68F without wind chill in the winter=20 (though that's the extreme) and 96F in the summer, all in the same=20 city. But again, so large that when people say, "Oh, yeah, I know, I lived in=20= Southeast," I just chuckle, because you might as well live in Victoria=20= or Vancouver (or Bellingham!), and Fairbanks weather is nothing=20 compared to anything on the Arctic coast mid-winter. Fort St. John, now there I can sympathize.... -Jack=