How cold is cold for you?

[Jonna_Rex]

People have different kind of tolerance when it comes to cold and I just wondered while driving back home from work and the temperature today hit as low as -38 C. What is the coldest you have experienced or perhaps even driven a car???

[littlegreenfairy]

I drive a french car (not for much longer w00) and it wont go out if the weather looks a bit dodgy or cold.

[scorp]

Probably -10c or something is the coldest ive been in (in the uk). I'm a complete wuss when it comes to cold, i start shivering around 5-10c, being tall doesnt help though.

[vixpy1]

5 degrees is cold for me!

[alfaman]

coldest I've been in was around -42 deg C , during a "cold snap" in Anchorage ..... typical winter temp was only around -15 to -25 though. I'm a real wimp now I live in the UK.

[Jonna_Rex]

Doesnt this look lovely and warm www.mtv3.fi/saa2006/fetusivu.shtml?mode=country&continent=Europe&country=FI&dd=data2vrk

[alfaman]

Jonna_Rex said:

Doesnt this look lovely and warm www.mtv3.fi/saa2006/fetusivu.shtml?mode=country&continent=Europe&country=FI&dd=data2vrk

I'd much rather have -20 and sunny than the horrible grey , dark , damp, miserable UK weather ...... at least you can go skiing.

[GetCarter]

We had -24 in Berkshire in 1979 or 1980 ... it was so cold the bog froze. Car was out of the question... didn't see it for three weeks!

[DBSV8]

Jonna_Rex said:

People have different kind of tolerance when it comes to cold and I just wondered while driving back home from work and the temperature today hit as low as -38 C. What is the coldest you have experienced or perhaps even driven a car???

All this week we were driving at -43c coldest got to -48c . found diesel starts to freeze at this temperature so now using artic diesel good for -55c .

loads of problems with gearbox oil , have to run car for half an hour at these temperaures and wear thermal clothes log journeys in case of break down.........just dont use electric windows !!
cheers

dbs

[Petrol_noggin]

ive seen -27 in pittsburgh, i have a high cold tolerance, but hate the heat. Give me a cold, crisp day with perfect visibility- great for driving or flying.

[timmy30]

GetCarter said:

We had -24 in Berkshire in 1979 or 1980 ... it was so cold the bog froze. Car was out of the question... didn't see it for three weeks!

Right that's it, I'm moving back to London. Sodding countryside.

[Zod]

I've just come back from three days in Moscow where it was -30. That was cold.

[Pigeon]

Below 5 deg C requires a flat on the jet adjusting nut to richen the mixture up a bit. Below zero the bar muffs come out, which are great. I don't really mind the cold per se. But on two wheels I don't like any temperature cold enough to put ice on the roads. Between 5 and 15 deg C I'm happiest. And given the choice, I'd take cold over hot any day - at least when it's cold you can put extra clothes on.

[m1spw]

I was pretty cold yesterday - I came home from school on my bike, and it took 30 minutes in the p*ssing rain. I got absolutely soaked, and very cold. I even managed to lock my back wheel up and left a nice long skid mark down my drive because I grabbed the brakes too quickly in my efforts to stop and get inside asap. Then again, it was probably only about 5 degrees...

[grahamw48]

Is this a competition ?

when I wer a lad we used to ave te walk te school ten mile threw't snow in us bare feet...............



Coldest I've been was in a jumbo jet at 39,000 feet...minus 50C outside. It didn't look too cold though.

[Lion-O]

North coast of Siberia - Ambient temperature was -48C and I was hanging out of an unheated Russian military helicopter doing 70mph while I was filming some people on the ground. Coldest I have ever been in my life apart from possibly just after I asked miss Jane Martin for a date when I was 15. . . .

[m1spw]

grahamw48 said:

Coldest I've been was in a jumbo jet at 39,000 feet...minus 50C outside. It didn't look too cold though.

That doesn't count! You were inside a plane! Personally I think the coldest I've been at was -28 deg C in the French Alps, skiing

[bluespanner]

Being not very well travelled, probably only about - 8 or something.

[grahamw48]

m1spw said:

grahamw48 said: Coldest I've been was in a jumbo jet at 39,000 feet...minus 50C outside. It didn't look too cold though. That doesn't count! You were inside a plane! Personally I think the coldest I've been at was -28 deg C in the French Alps, skiing

It's called sarcasm.

I do recall -22C when sk-ing in Cervinia though.

I once bought a brand new house in the middle of a very bad winter.
As the heating wasn't yet working, it was so cold INSIDE we actually put a cardigan on our border collie and went to bed in our ski suits.

[Jonna_Rex]

grahamw48 said:

Is this a competition ? when I wer a lad we used to ave te walk te school ten mile threw't snow in us bare feet............... Coldest I've been was in a jumbo jet at 39,000 feet...minus 50C outside. It didn't look too cold though.

Well when you said that, I have to tell you this; in january 1999 outside temperature was -51 C, and no I wasn´t sitting inside a plane other than a 1982 model Honda Civic and driving to work. And yes, I did get to work without problems