JIM WELLER (1:123/140) wrote to STEVEN HORN at 13:02 on 01 Feb 2004:

 JW> We had equally cold weather in Yellowknife but the cold front
 JW> finally broke today and it's up to -21. Feels like spring! 

As I recall, you might have been a bit colder and you also had wind.:-(

 JW> As my granddaughter was born here and doesn't know any other kind
 JW> of climate, she finds the complaints of recently trandplanted
 JW> southerners amusing. "It doesn't get cold here, just dark."

I don't care whether one is from Ottawa, Iqaluit, Whitehorse or
Yellowknife.  -40 is simply bone-chilling cold.  And because we seem to get
ice fog at that temeperature, things get even worse.

 JW> I also have a battery blanket which helps a lot.

I have a 2003 Honda and Honda Canada said a battery blanket was not needed.
 So far they've been right although I would not have wanted to start
without the block heater having been on. 

 JW> As well I use zero weight synthetic oil instead of 5W20.

I'd have to take a look at what I have in mine although so far lubrication
(viscosity?) has not been a problem.  But I certainly had square wheels on
the 25th, 26th and 27th.

In any case, we'll be up to eight hours of daylight in a day or so and the
temeperature will be -5 on Thursday so I think we've broken the back of
Winter.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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