[Glenco]

It was -43 WITH WINDCHILL. Regardless, I doubt anyone was working on site with -31 (-43 with windchill)

It is not a real measurement it is a fabricated number based on someone’s impression. What we really need to know is how quickly exposed flesh will freeze You know really helpful information that is why a wind chill index would be help

 

[Clearshades]

It is not -43. It is -31. Wind chill is a fabricated number to scare people into dressing for the extreme conditions. A wind chill index would be more useful similar to a UV index we get in the summer.

Have you ever worked outside and especially up in height?

 

[Glenco]

Have you ever worked outside and especially up in height?

I used to work outside as a surveyor. Knowing how quickly exposed flesh will freeze would have been helpful information not some fictitious number

 

[bodsbods9090]

I used to work outside as a surveyor. Knowing how quickly exposed flesh will freeze would have been helpful information not some fictitious number

Well they're saying 5 mins right now so I'd say it's not safe to be working outside, regardless of whatever rant your on about windchill.

 

[David A]

I used to work outside as a surveyor. Knowing how quickly exposed flesh will freeze would have been helpful information not some fictitious number

Exactly, that is what is most relevant, not different temperature numbers that are just confusing.

Someone just told me it was -50 here several years ago. No, actually it was not. It hasn't been -40 or over in Edmonton since 1972.

 

[IanO]

It's been well into the -40s (maybe with WC) in the last decade and I think recall a -51 'coldest place in the world' or something.

 

[Glenco]

Exactly, that is what is most relevant, not different temperature numbers that are just confusing.

Someone just told me it was -50 here several years ago. No, actually it was not. It hasn't been -40 or over in Edmonton since 1972.

It's been well into the -40s (maybe with WC) in the last decade and I think recall a -51 'coldest place in the world' or something.

Not true. This is why wind chill factors should not be used they just lead to confusion.

Wind chill is a terrible, misleading metric. So why do we still use it?

Wind chill doesn't mean what most people think it means.

www.vox.com

 

[David A]

Yes and another problem is using the readings at the international airport, which are not the same as in the city and can be significantly different.

Josh Classen's forecast: Edmonton could get its coldest temperatures in over 50 years

The deep freeze is here and it's not going anywhere any time soon.

edmonton.ctvnews.ca

 

[MattPT]

It's been well into the -40s (maybe with WC) in the last decade and I think recall a -51 'coldest place in the world' or something.

My memory of that coldest place in the world thing is -46 lol. But there has definitely been -40s many times since 1972…

 

[David A]

This is not just me making it up, actually the meteorologists at CTV Edmonton say no - it was 1972.

For some context, the coldest temperature in North America was -63 in Snag, Yukon in 1947, Russia has had -67.8 and Antarctica even colder.

I assume all of these are real actual temperature readings, not accounting for wind chill. In any event, we are far, far from that.

 

[Clearshades]

I used to work outside as a surveyor. Knowing how quickly exposed flesh will freeze would have been helpful information not some fictitious number

So you would agree that a calming -31 is a lot tolerable than -31 with wind? It is not the mercury that change but wind with the mercury will make it colder.
You stated fictitious numbers which they're are not hence why it always stated "fells like".
Now, if you work outside but working up high without coverages, that dynamic turns outrageously like perdition as the vortexes changes in elevations.

This is why, generally, they give people the options to work once it passes -28 (without windchill). At -31, they automatically shut it down.

 

[Glenco]

So you would agree that a calming -31 is a lot tolerable than -31 with wind? It is not the mercury that change but wind with the mercury will make it colder.
You stated fictitious numbers which they're are not hence why it always stated "fells like".
Now, if you work outside but working up high without coverages, that dynamic turns outrageously like perdition as the vortexes changes in elevations.

This is why, generally, they give people the options to work once it passes -28 (without windchill). At -31, they automatically shut it down.

Posted my reply on For What It’s Worth.

 

[MacLac]

There is only one north tower -- that accompanied with a low-rise retail building (I believe that encompasses Phases 1 and 2). Phases 3 and 4 are the two south towers.

Does this snippet indicate that 2 towers are indeed what is under construction at the moment?

 

[Clearshades]

Like Meat loaf says, "2 out of 3 ain't bad", and I prefer to hear that...

 

[SMayo]

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Does this snippet indicate that 2 towers are indeed what is under construction at the moment?

pretty sure its just one tower and the shorter commercial building