It's cold in them thar hills! (or prairies, as it were . . .)

The picture below was taken this morning and is one of our kitchen windows. Icey windows are not at all unusual in these parts, but consider that this is a triple-pane window. We normally only get ice like this on our double-pane patio doors. As C used to say when he was little "It's beezing dold!"




No school in our school division yesterday or today due to extreme wind chills. Ahhh . . . winter in Manitoba. Maybe we'll do some baking today!

This was in the e-mail inbox this morning:

WIND CHILL WARNING

TEMPERATURES OF MINUS 30 TO MINUS 35 COMBINED WITH NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 KM/H ARE PRODUCING WIND CHILLS OF MINUS 45 TO MINUS 50 OVER ALL SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MANITOBA THIS MORNING. EXTREME CAUTION IS ADVISED AS THESE EXTREME WIND CHILL VALUES WILL PERSIST THROUGH THIS MORNING. UNDER THESE CONDITIONS EXPOSED SKIN MAY FREEZE IN AS LITTLE 5 AS MINUTES. WIND CHILL VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO MODERATE THIS AFTERNOON BUT REMAIN NEAR OR BELOW MINUS 40 FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. LIGHT WINDS ARE EXPECT TONIGHT SO WIND CHILL VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE. HOWEVER TEMPERATURES ARE ALSO EXPECTED FALL BACK BELOW MINUS 30 OVERNIGHT.

Now that I've posted the obligatory "NO SCHOOL TODAY" notes on the kids doorknobs and turned off their alarm clocks, methinks I'll go crawl back beneath the covers . . .