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Originally Posted by Hali87
I literally shudder at the thought of anything past -10, so I think Sask would take some getting used to (the coldest place I've ever been was Tremblant and I think lows were around -30 while I was there).
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One of the things that makes me a bit skeptical about the ideal dry -10 climate, actual life experiences in frigid places aside, is that cities like Halifax get these conditions sometimes and people tend to gripe about them. Similarly the +6 and dreary days that people tend to say are so terrible on here are some of the days that people really like come January. I've never heard anybody in Halifax comment that they'd like to return to -10 degrees after a cold snap. Maybe part of it is that Halifax gets a decent number of non-frigid sunny days in winter; you rarely get that feeling of "I haven't seen the sun in X weeks" that can happen in Vancouver.
Major snowstorms and whatnot get old pretty quickly but, on average, those are fairly rare events. Consequently they have a lower impact on day-to-day activities than people tend to think. As I like to point out, downtown Halifax gets 10 cm or greater snowstorms less than 5 days a year on average (4.8 days at Halifax Citadel). In December, a given day is more likely to hit 10 degrees Celsius than it is to have a snowfall of 5 cm.
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