Cold enough for ya?

I lived in Calgary for four years. Every winter it was bitterly cold. One year I got frostbite on my ear from walking into work wearing a too short toque*. Every year there was a story about a guy (always a guy) who walked home from a party, passed out drunk in a snowbank and froze to death.

Every year, everyone who lived in Calgary would tell me, it was unseasonably cold this year. Every.Single.Year. Then they would talk about the chinooks** and how they would not want to live in Vancouver because it was too expensive and rainy (Yes, but the weather doesn't KILL you).

The last year I was in Calgary, I was talking to someone who just moved there. They mentioned the cold weather. I told them (with all sincerity) it was unseasonably cold this year.

Then I realised what I said and started screaming. I think they thought I was odd.

Anyhow, it's bloody cold here. It's 3 in weird American temperature, below freezing in real numbers.


Canadianisms:
*wooly cap
** warm wind that blows over the Rockies and causes warm weather in Calgary for a few days. Also melts all the snow which then refreezes as an ice slick over the sidewalk.