Cold today...

[wabi101]

091500Z 00000KT 15SM FEW200 M36/ A3056

[MCB]

sucks to be working the ramp at that airport.

[ettw]

I feel for our cargo and ramp guys when it goes -36 with 36 knots of wind and a windchill of -56 or so. They don't get paid enough!

Cheers,

ETTW

[benoit.baril]

091500Z 32010G15KT 6SM IC DRSN SKC M39/M43 A3030 RMK
SLP266=

[beaverbob]

Kriste, its even snowing in White Rock today!

[pilotman15]

092300Z AUTO 16015KT M42/ A2977

[FlowPack]

I thought it was march.



METAR/TAF

EDMONTON/EDMONTON INTL/AB


SPECI CYEG 101412Z 20004KT 2SM BR FEW080 FEW240 M42/ RMK AC1CI0 VIS
SE 10 SM=

METAR CYEG 101400Z 21004KT 3SM BR FEW110 FEW240 M41/M44 A3041 RMK
AC1CI0 VIS E 10 SM SLP398=

METAR CYEG 101300Z 26005KT 3SM BR FEW110 FEW240 M40/M43 A3040 RMK
AC1CI0 SLP396=
METAR CYEG 101200Z 20003KT 15SM FEW110 FEW260 M40/M44 A3039 RMK
AC1CS0 SLP393=


TAF AMD CYEG 101439Z 1015/1112 VRB03KT 3/4SM BR FEW080 SCT250 TEMPO
1015/1017 1/4SM IC FZFG
BECMG 1017/1019 3SM IC
FM102000 25006KT P6SM SKC TEMPO 1020/1022 5SM IC
BECMG 1023/1101 15006KT
RMK NXT FCST BY 101800Z=

[wabi101]

101500Z 25008KT 35SM SKC M31/M39 A3036 RMK SLP359=

It's warming up! life is good!

[Mr. North]

OMAL 101600Z 01009KT CAVOK 27/08 Q1015 A2997

Suckers!

[robshelle]

YEG -42, according to the radio today, the previous record was -29'C! Wow, clobbered the record good!

Rob Benusic
CYEG Tower (thank god not this morning!)

[beaverbob]

Global warming at its finest

[bobcaygeon]

No RJ depattures from yeg this am (cutoff is -40 just like the navajo )

Guess they have to use the mighty Dash or an airbus

[swordfish]

Cambridge Bay had a chill factor this morning of -63.

You woossies from Southern Canada go into conniptions once it gets below -25, FFS. In Yellowknife (and even worse further north!) we spend weeks in succession between -36 and 43. Mercifully the wind doesn't blow much in those conditions so we only have ice fog to contend with. But in YRB, YPC, YSY, YEV, YCO and numerous other places on the Arctic coast, they have the joy of those temps PLUS 10-25 kt winds all day...

When it hits -40 in YEG, it's almost front page news. Good God.

[Donald]

Cambridge Bay had a chill factor this morning of -63.

You sure about that?

Weatheroffice

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca
Cambridge Bay Airport
Past 24 Hour Conditions Imperial Units
Date / Time (MDT) Conditions Temp (°C) Humidity (%) Dew Point (°C) Wind (km/h) Pressure (kPa) Vis (km) Wind Chill
10 March 2009
14:00 Ice Crystals -37 59 -42 NW 22 102.3 16 -53
13:00 Ice Crystals -38 59 -43 NW 26 102.3 16 -55
12:00 Ice Crystals -38 60 -43 NW 22 102.3 6 -54
11:00 Ice Crystals -39 61 -44 NW 22 102.3 10 -55
10:00 Ice Crystals -40 63 -44 NW 22 102.3 13 -56
9:00 Ice Crystals -40 61 -44 NW 22 102.4 15 -56
8:00 Ice Crystals -40 62 -44 WNW 22 102.4 16 -56
7:00 Ice Crystals -40 63 -44 NW 22 102.4 8 -56
6:00 Ice Crystals -39 59 -44 NW 22 102.4 16 -55
5:00 Ice Crystals -39 60 -44 WNW 22 102.4 16 -55
4:00 Ice Crystals -38 59 -43 WNW 22 102.5 16 -54
3:00 Ice Crystals -38 59 -43 WNW 22 102.5 16 -54
2:00 Ice Crystals -38 60 -43 NW 22 102.5 16 -54
1:00 Ice Crystals -38 59 -43 NW 22 102.5 16 -54
00:00 Ice Crystals -38 59 -43 NW 22 102.5 16 -54
9 March 2009
23:00 Ice Crystals -38 59 -43 NW 18 102.6 13 -52
22:00 Ice Crystals -39 61 -43 NW 18 102.6 24 -54
21:00 Ice Crystals -39 60 -44 NW 26 102.6 24 -56
20:00 Ice Crystals -38 59 -43 NW 17 102.6 24 -52
19:00 Ice Crystals -37 60 -42 NW 15 102.7 24 -50
18:00 Ice Crystals -37 58 -42 NW 15 102.7 24 -50
17:00 Ice Crystals -36 56 -42 NW 15 102.6 24 -49
16:00 Ice Crystals -36 57 -42 NNW 18 102.6 24 -50
15:00 Ice Crystals -37 56 -42 NW 24 102.6 24 -53
14:00 Ice Crystals -37 57 -42 NW 26 102.6 24 -54

They had 63% humidity, but the coldest windchill was ONLY -56, so suck it up princess!

[Rudy]

No RJ depattures from yeg this am (cutoff is -40 just like the navajo )

Guess they have to use the mighty Dash or an airbus

Why would a Canadian airline with a Canadian airplane not be able to operate in Canadian weather?

[swordfish]

They had 63% humidity, but the coldest windchill was ONLY -56, so suck it up princess!

Ooops! I'll have to stop believing what I hear on CBC radio...

[swordfish]

Why would a Canadian airline with a Canadian airplane not be able to operate in Canadian weather?

They don't want any liability suits from woossies freezing their tits off in cold weather ....

[Rudder Bug]

I was in Cuba 20 days ago and Fort McMurray right after. Good grief!

[Canoehead]

I thought it was march.



METAR/TAF

EDMONTON/EDMONTON INTL/AB


SPECI CYEG 101412Z 20004KT 2SM BR FEW080 FEW240 M42/ RMK AC1CI0 VIS
SE 10 SM=

How does it only 'mist' at -42? I must've slept through that met class!? LOL...

[lilfssister]

FG is only reported at 1/2 mile or less vis. BR from 6 down to >1/2.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

If the visibility is zero in fog and there are clouds of vertical development with tops to say twenty five thousand feet would that not be towering fog?

[lilfssister]

Wellllll.....

Visibility is based on what you see/measure on the ground. Not sure anybody can see/measure a 25K top in 1/2 mile vis?

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Ever heard of pilot reports on cloud tops Sis?

[lilfssister]

Sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry...a METAR is based on what the observer sees. The tops would be a PIREP.

[Cat Driver]

O.K. Sis you are indeed correct with that statement...so lets try this again from another approach.

If I were to have departed your airport and wishing desperately to get my attention with the possibility of quiet enjoyable evening and maybe a sleep over you asked me for a pirep on the departure to advise you of the tops and the Vis was reported as zero in fog.

When I finally called you back and reported moderate to heavy turbulence during the climb with solid IMC to 25,000 feet, would you not consider that towering fog?