"How about that weather EH?" No Canadian wants to admit this, but we secretly love attention when it comes to one thing: The Weather. We are all complete weather whores. If you say "it sure is cold here in North Dakota" we'll say "Bring it on!" and tell you how freezing it is here. And then we'll throw in the windchill factor to really get your jaw to drop. (Unless, of course, you're from Russia. We'll tip our hats to you and proudly take the Silver medal for frozen tundra).
And with that, I post this mornings temperature: -37C locally (-34.6F my American besties). Ahhh, it's with much satisfaction I watch your jaw drop to imagine the unfathomable cold. It's the 31st of January today and this is a milestone for a lot of us "northern" folk. We survived the coldest effing month ever. We've heard the terms "Deep Freeze" and we've dealt with the "Exposed skin freezes in 8 seconds!" news broadcasts. We made it.
I'll be honest. February will probably be freezing too but there's a promise of a warmer day. Come summer, we'll all complain about how scorching hot it is and how 'just a few months ago it was -30 and now it's 30 above!" -- but nothing, nothing at all, will compare with the pride we feel when we ask another Canadian "Is it cold enough for ya?"
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