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Old 01-14-20 | 02:11 PM
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Bikes: 2018 Ghost Square Trekking B2.8 e-bike; 2015 MEC Cote gravel/touring bike; 1985 Boyes-Rosser tourer, now outfitted as Winter Trundle-bike

You guys are cute.

https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-52_metric_e.html

I did NOT ride today... minus 18 (C) is my cutoff, and it is currently minus 31 *not* counting wind chill. (-23F, wind chill is taking it down to -40F)

Coldest ride for me this year was 20km at -17C air temp, on New Year's Eve.

Coldest ride EVER was -35C, and I am never doing that again, because even breathing through a mask, I was coughing for a week.

Edit in case you can't see the current weather in the link - here is the warning banner across the top of the weather forecast:

Alerts for: City of Calgary

Warnings

10:25 AM MST Tuesday 14 January 2020
Extreme Cold Warning in effect for:
  • City of Calgary
A multi-day episode of very cold wind chills continues. The coldest wind chill values will be between minus 45 and minus 50.

Extreme cold conditions are expected to last through this week and even into Sunday for some regions.

Extreme cold puts everyone at risk.

Watch for cold related symptoms: shortness of breath, chest pain, muscle pain and weakness, numbness and colour change in fingers and toes.

If it's too cold for you to stay outside, it's too cold for your pet to stay outside.

Extreme cold warnings are issued when very cold temperatures or wind chill creates an elevated risk to health such as frost bite and hypothermia.
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