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Temperatures in Alberta Dip Dangerously Low
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by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | December 13, 2009 at 06:04 am
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Well I woke up Sunday morning with no place to put my head it wouldn't hurt (oops I mean freeze). As I opened the door to let my dog out, I gazed at the thermometer, it was reading -43c or 45F.
Even a slight wind in those temperatures can be extremely dangerous. Although we expect to go into the deepfreeze sometime after mid December, these low temperatures are highly unusual before January.
The temperatures create havoc for emergency services such a Fire and EMS services. It is also a major problem for the homeless. Homeless shelters are overflown and have extended their hours.
In both Edmonton and Calgary Police and Paramedics moved out to get the homeless into shelters.
At these temperatures exposed skin can freeze in less than five minutes.
There is not much relief in sight before Wednesday.
Interestingly enough, my water trough was frozen this morning. I had thought that the bowl heater had conked out, found another one that worked and went to replace it. There was no power to the court. I checked the main outlet it worked. It was so cold last night, that the electrical cord to the heater snapped like a stick.
The cold doesn't feel all that bad when you're working out there. The sunshine that accompanies arctic highs is also good for the soul.
Environment Canada 5 day Weather Forecast Elk Island National Park
Dangerously cold temperatures have settled in across much of the Prairies and northern Ontario this weekend.
Environment Canada has issued warnings, saying the wind chill could reach -50C.
At those temperatures, exposed skin can freeze in less than five minutes.
In both Edmonton and Calgary, police and paramedics were moving out to help get the homeless into shelters.
So far the news is good at Edmonton's Hope Mission, a Christian social agency that provides the bulk of shelter space with five facilities and 700 beds.
Communications director Peter Gerber says while they were fuller than usual on Friday night, there were still beds left.
If shelters start to overflow, the organization also has a warehouse with washroom facilities on hand, where clients would be provided with mats and blankets.
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at 06:06 on December 13th, 2009
That is cold in deed. you may want to make sure the horses are well feed and not exposed to the wind.
at 06:10 on December 13th, 2009
They have shelter and round bales of hay for these next few days. It's called self-preservation.
at 06:18 on December 13th, 2009
Hope you got your mittens on, cowboy!
Good thing those folks who think the world would be better off without religion, aren't homeless in Edmonton!
"So far the news is good at Edmonton's Hope Mission, a Christian social agency that provides the bulk of shelter space with five facilities and 700 beds."
at 12:01 on December 13th, 2009
Thanks Hugh for remembering those who don't have shelter from the cold. Faith based organizations show their best in these situations.
at 13:09 on December 13th, 2009
More info on homeless in Edmonton and the Hope Mission:
Source: viigo.im
at 14:27 on December 13th, 2009
I am surprised the government does not do more and leave it to the charity's?
So the the homeless about 2000 - 3000 in Edmonton have these options of shelter.
George Spady Centre (intoxicated individuals) 424-8335
Hope Mission – Couples Mat Program 422-2018
Hope Mission - Herb Jamieson Centre (men) 429-3470
Hope Mission - Youth Shelter (16-21 yrs) 717-7649
Hope Mission – Women’s Emergency Shelter 422-2018
Inner City Youth Housing Project (12–18 yrs) 479-7075
Salvation Army – Short Term Residence 429-4274
(men; $20/night, $110/wk, includes food)
WEAC (women’s emergency shelter; 18+) 423-5302
YMCA of Edmonton – Housing (16+) 421-9622
(individuals/couples/families; $25-50/night)
Youth Emergency Shelter (under 19 yrs) 468-7070
Actually Hugh I think if there was no religious charities a social caring nation such as Canada government would run shelters especially in a country that has a very cold climate. However grants are given to the charities.
As for being someone that thinks the world would be a better place without religion what you are suggesting does not change my mind the good side of religion does not eradicate it has a very, very bad side. Do you want me to list the wars or the terrorist action associated to religious indifference? Unfortunately I can give the total numbers of people that have died because of religious and ethnic cleansing or the innocent children that have died due to religious based wars.
Yep! sure! the religious missions do well in providing food and shelter.
Nice try and I would never be in a position to need such charity, but do see a need for governments getting more involved in social care for the most vulnerable and weak and those who are unemployed that end up on our streets.
at 14:32 on December 13th, 2009
Add 780 in front of all these phone numbers You have to dial a 10 digit number in Alberta now.
at 06:18 on December 13th, 2009
Good point HA. Yep mittens are definitely required.
at 07:37 on December 13th, 2009
The weather network said Edmonton was the coldest place on the planet last night, at -45C, or -49F. Sure glad I'm not there - that's insane!
at 08:26 on December 13th, 2009
Lol I was just out in it. Water trough is froze up. More fun and games:)
at 07:49 on December 13th, 2009
Bundle up, ACP:)! Thanks for sharing!
at 08:27 on December 13th, 2009
You're welcome Rhonda:)
at 08:02 on December 13th, 2009
Hope you stay warm , Pocci!!! Now I am really worried....
at 08:04 on December 13th, 2009
Beautiful pictures, absolutely lovely, despite the dangerous cold. Hope you and all beasties stay well and warm.
at 08:28 on December 13th, 2009
Will do my best , fun and games.
at 08:35 on December 13th, 2009
That calls for a Nekked Sarah Palin and Danielle Smith Hot Tub party!!!! M-M-M Sarah and Danielle Nekked!!! droolllll
at 09:46 on December 13th, 2009
Barry I just had thought. Does Ramada ring a bell?
at 09:22 on December 13th, 2009
Count the herd cowboy.
at 09:46 on December 13th, 2009
All present and accounted for.
at 11:10 on December 13th, 2009
Thank you for the pictures of your place cowpoke. : )
It looks like a winter wonderland, but I know living in it is a lot different than looking at how pretty the snow looks and the beautiful trees.
Stay warm!
at 11:52 on December 13th, 2009
Thank you a211423, the trees are my carbon credit:)
at 11:56 on December 13th, 2009
Brrr, too cold for me, but good story!
at 12:21 on December 13th, 2009
Thank You:)
at 13:47 on December 13th, 2009
We are now going in to the Ice age trust the scientist to get it wrong. lol
Hey hot coffee with a dram of whiskey helps to take the cold out of your bones, take care of that dog or his tail might drop off with frost bite. Having spent a cold winter in Canada I know what its like, what ever you do keep those fingers warm on the key board and don't catch frost bite.
Just keep warm and don't stay to long outside, if you have to go out as we all care and I will be thinking of you whilst I sink some cold ones on the beach today sitting in the tropical rain. Look the weather can not always be perfect Karl you have to grit those shivering teeth together a wait it out. (tongue in cheek).
Laughing can make you warm too.
The pictures would look great on a Christmas card.
Take care
at 06:44 on December 14th, 2009
great story albertacowpoke! Your findings are now being very well backed up by the latest investigations into the faked numbers for the Antarctic by British climatologists at the CRU, recently exposed in 'Climategate.'
A whole new can of worms opening over Antarctic weather stations data. Compelling evidence has come to light that many temperature stations unfavourable to the warmist agenda were dropped by the scientists and their final computations were rigged artificially to show an upward trend of warming. Take a read of the following to see how the scam was put together……
“From: Tom Wigley
To: Phil Jones
Subject: HadCRUT2v
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:16:28 -0700
Cc: Tim Osborn , Ben Santer
Phil,
Why is there so much missing data for the South Pole? The period Jan 75 thru
Dec 90 is all missing except Dec 81, July & Dec 85, Apr 87, Apr & Sept 88,
Apr 89. Also, from and including Aug 2003 is missing. Also — more seriously but correctable. The S Pole is just representedby a single
box at 87.5S (N Pole ditto I suspect). This screws up area averaging. Itwould be
better to put the S Pole value in ALL boxes at 87.5S.I have had to do this in my code — but you really should fix the ‘raw’gridded data.For area averages, the difference is between having the S Pole representthe wholeregion south of 85S, and having (as now) it represent one 72nd of thisregion. Itis pretty obvious to me what is better.This affects the impression of missing data too of course.
Tom.”
Apart from the obvious admission above that data is “missing” we have the smoking gun of more climatologist data fraud as shown by the latest computer analysis of the GHCN Mean Temperatures dataset(s) into an SQL database. It seems the more experts look into these numbers the more ‘fudge’ they find. One analyst has found that of the original 110 dataseries, only 18 are left to compile the official IPCC final numbers. The original 2700+ datapoints are down to around 600. And what do you know – the series shows a whopping slope of 0.0447 which would mean a trend of 4.47 degrees of warming per century! It is not possible to accidentally remove all series that show less of an upward trend, and settle for 18 of the most upward trending series (thus raising the warming / century by 3 degrees!). I don’t know how they do things with the GHCN dataset, or who is responsible for this, but just like New Zealand this is pretty damning evidence that all the “adjustments” are done to deliberately corrupt data to cause specific trends. At the Air Vent climate site they have put a lot of work into a Steig Antarctic reconstruction and hope to publish a paper on it soon. However, anyone can independently verify this fraud themselves by setting up an SQL-database and running their own sql-queries – although I suspect it’s mostly IT nerds who know how to do that. http://savecapitalism.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/ghcn-antarctica-careful-selection-of-data/#respondat 06:45 on December 14th, 2009
A whole new can of worms opening over Antarctic weather stations data. Compelling evidence has come to light that many temperature stations unfavourable to the warmist agenda were dropped by the scientists and their final computations were rigged artificially to show an upward trend of warming. Take a read of the following to see how the scam was put together……
“From: Tom Wigley
To: Phil Jones
Subject: HadCRUT2v
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:16:28 -0700
Cc: Tim Osborn , Ben Santer
Phil,
Why is there so much missing data for the South Pole? The period Jan 75 thru
Dec 90 is all missing except Dec 81, July & Dec 85, Apr 87, Apr & Sept 88,
Apr 89. Also, from and including Aug 2003 is missing. Also — more seriously but correctable. The S Pole is just representedby a single
box at 87.5S (N Pole ditto I suspect). This screws up area averaging. Itwould be
better to put the S Pole value in ALL boxes at 87.5S.I have had to do this in my code — but you really should fix the ‘raw’gridded data.For area averages, the difference is between having the S Pole representthe wholeregion south of 85S, and having (as now) it represent one 72nd of thisregion. Itis pretty obvious to me what is better.This affects the impression of missing data too of course.
Tom.”
Apart from the obvious admission above that data is “missing” we have the smoking gun of more climatologist data fraud as shown by the latest computer analysis of the GHCN Mean Temperatures dataset(s) into an SQL database. It seems the more experts look into these numbers the more ‘fudge’ they find. One analyst has found that of the original 110 dataseries, only 18 are left to compile the official IPCC final numbers. The original 2700+ datapoints are down to around 600. And what do you know – the series shows a whopping slope of 0.0447 which would mean a trend of 4.47 degrees of warming per century! It is not possible to accidentally remove all series that show less of an upward trend, and settle for 18 of the most upward trending series (thus raising the warming / century by 3 degrees!). I don’t know how they do things with the GHCN dataset, or who is responsible for this, but just like New Zealand this is pretty damning evidence that all the “adjustments” are done to deliberately corrupt data to cause specific trends. At the Air Vent climate site they have put a lot of work into a Steig Antarctic reconstruction and hope to publish a paper on it soon. However, anyone can independently verify this fraud themselves by setting up an SQL-database and running their own sql-queries – although I suspect it’s mostly IT nerds who know how to do that. http://savecapitalism.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/ghcn-antarctica-careful-selection-of-data/#respondat 09:08 on December 14th, 2009
John you forget to mention the latest news here, that the so called e-mails and so called fraud was actually a fraud it self.
It seems now from EU news channels that the e-mail may have been doctored with and that this was organised by some big player in the Industry.
Fortunately they did not manage to hijack the Copenhagen conference has they had hoped.
There is no missing data. However, there are some criminals that try to discredit Copenhagen and Science. Sadly it will take until after Copenhagen to finalise the investigation and to prosecute those people.
at 06:51 on December 14th, 2009
Thank you for your comments John. When it comes to climate change When it comes to climate change, you'll get as many opinions as there are people.
Very seldom have we gone lower than -40, at least in the last 21 years before the winter solstice. Even in January it is rare. I have kept records of overnight temperatures for 21 years now and the last two years were below average between 2 and 3c (2007 and 2008). This is based on monthly averages and obviously non-scientific. Just a guy that likes to keep track of things to keep myself mentally prepared. November was also one of the warmest on record in those 20 years. That's why this sudden switch is psychologically hard to take.
at 09:16 on December 14th, 2009
This is an article today's telegraph.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
at 09:41 on December 14th, 2009
Climate Change News from cbc.ca.
Source: cbc.ca