Canada is really cold right now. It’s so cold that statues of John A. Macdonald are taking themselves down. It’s so cold that Pamela Anderson is wearing sealskin. It’s so cold that people are warming themselves around Andrew Scheer’s personality.
But don’t take our word for it. Below, a series of shocking statistics to bolster your indignance that somebody thought it was a good idea to put a country here.
- Approximately 0.00003 per cent of Canada isn’t freezing right now
- A swath of Canada the size of Europe was under an extreme cold warning – That’s a swath of Canada roughly 3,500 km wide. For context, the distance between New York and Mexico City is only 3,400 kilometres.
- Canada’s warmest city is still colder than the record lows of more than 30 countries
- Saskatoon is colder than both the north and south poles
- Alberta’s warmest place was almost as cold as Mars – for a few minutes, all of Alberta was about as cold as Mars’ Gale Crater
- Toronto is colder than CFS Alert, the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited place
A couple choice quotes:
“If an exasperated Winnipegger had gotten into their car and tried to drive to a part of Canada that wasn’t under an extreme cold warning, it would take them a minimum of 10 hours.”
“The highest temperature experienced by the rover were -23 C. A Calgary Boxing Day shopper, therefore, might have found themselves getting into a car that was literally colder than a Martian spacecraft. “
Why.
Mars and the North Pole are warmer than Winnipeg: A guide to how damned cold it is
Gay Ryan 