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On january 1, 2014 it was colder in Canada than it was on Mars

I was on facebook and i found this

Today in "Baby, it's cold outside" news:

The daytime high on New Year's Eve in Winnipeg, Canada, was colder than the high on Mars, The Manitoba Museum shared on its Facebook page.

Or, as Time put it, "Winnipeg’s New Year’s Was Literally as Cold as a Barren Alien Wasteland."

From Facebook:

"According to the Curiosity Rover, Mars reached a maximum air temperature of -29°C today. Winnipeg's high was -31°C."

And that doesn't even include wind chill, which made it feel as cold as -50° C. That's -58°F and -- breaking news -- that's pretty cold.

The Winnipeg Sun noted it was also colder in Manitoba's capital city than the North Pole, calling December 2013 the coldest December in Winnipeg since 1933:

"There has been a cooler New Year’s Eve on record, with the mercury dropping to -38.3 C on Dec. 31, 1884. But that is of little solace to most Winnipeggers enduring a cold that, with the windchill factored in, felt like -48 C."

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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=733497846671229&set=a.456449604376056.98921.367116489976035&type=1&theater

http://blogs.discovery.com/inscider/2014/01/it-was-colder-in-canada-than-on-mars.html#mkcpgn=fbsci1

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It got to -13 Fahrenheit last night where I live, which equals to -25 .C, The coldest its been while I've lived here (Mass) was -22 degrees Fahrenheit, during the daytime that is, which equals to -30 .C, didn't keep track of how low the temperature went down the night before. Plus I was in eighth grade and that was about ten or eleven years ago now.

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@cameron83:

Huge country but visit the west coast for sure. Vancouver is the best (said with not an iota of bias -- :P)

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Still pretty dreamy.

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@lykopis said:

@cameron83 said:

@lykopis Is this true?

Just silly headline-attracting fun. While yes, at one moment in time Winnipeg's temperature was colder than Mars, you need to bear in mind the climate in Mars fluctuates wildly from day to night and even the ground to a meter above ground due to the planet's thin atmosphere.

This is more to do with December breaking records with the city in terms of coldness (since the 1930's).

If you want the technical rundown, here's a link.

Beautiful city by the way which enjoys some pretty balmy weather in the summer. Winter is always cruel there, unfortunately.

Wow,I actually didn't know that.

Thanks :)

Maybe I'll visit Canada in the foreseeable future.

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@lykopis Is this true?

Just silly headline-attracting fun. While yes, at one moment in time Winnipeg's temperature was colder than Mars, you need to bear in mind the climate in Mars fluctuates wildly from day to night and even the ground to a meter above ground due to the planet's thin atmosphere.

This is more to do with December breaking records with the city in terms of coldness (since the 1930's).

If you want the technical rundown, here's a link.

Beautiful city by the way which enjoys some pretty balmy weather in the summer. Winter is always cruel there, unfortunately.

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@zeroplus: people have red hair but lets be honest here its Orange...

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Wow...!

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@monsterstomp:

Its in general there are place worst than this, in Québec where we recorded a -41,6 and that's without the facteur éolien IIRC. But anyway its not a contest. You can come in Canada if you want ahahah :).

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Awesome.

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Its 43 degrees here in Aus. I'd rather live in Canada.

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Global Warming? The f*** is that?

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Wow...

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Whoah...I actually thought Mars would be have more extreme temperatures than that.

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Ok.

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@jedixman said:

... glad I don't live there...

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i always thought mars was red.

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...eh?

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i don't care about Canada but Mars is cool

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Now that's icy.

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... glad I don't live there...

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...wow.