Temperature right now - 29 with a wind chill of -47

In case you didn't know, Canada uses the Celsius system to record temperatures in their country. Moving to Canada one of the more difficult things for me to figure out other then the loonie and the toonie was how to gage the temperatures. When it was summer not really a problem. Guestimation worked great. If it was in the 20's - good, in the low 30's not so good, in the upper 30's global warming.

With the winter weather I had to come up with my own conversion chart to simplify my life. And I thought I would share this with you.
Canadian Celsius = o degrees
Fahrenheit = 32 degrees
Temps by Claudia = You don't need a toque (in English we call them hats) but best to carry one in your car, but don't wear it in the car because then you look like you are from Quebec and I guess that sucks

Canadian Celsius - 10
Fahrenheit 14 degrees
Temps by Claudia - Best be wearing that Toque and your gloves, still can stick tongue to metal without losing skin and sounding like Jerry Lewis. People are still jogging - like outside - these are silly people.

Canadian Celsius -17.7778 degrees
Fahrenheit - ZERO
Temps by Claudia -You will lose part of your tongue and lips if you accidentally slam your face against a metal pole or put a metal clip for a gate in your mouth. Everyone around you will laugh at you like Jerry Lewis - fuck them

Canadian Celsius -25 degrees
Fahrenheit -13 degrees
Temps by Claudia - SNOT FREEZING COLD. You don't need to blow your nose, best to just chip the snot out of your nose at this temp. If you have a cold, well then you got snot icicles. Or as I like to call them snotcicles. You best be plugging your car in at night and more importantly unplugging it in the morning or you will be driving down the road with an extension cord behind you like some freaking tail, and people will be laughing at you like Jerry Lewis - fucking sick Canadian sense of humour.

Canadian Celsius -40 below
Fahrenheit - 40 below
Temps by Claudia - BINGO did you know that at this temperature on both charts it is equally as cold. At this temperature who really cares, you know? At this temperature your skin freezes and breaks off about the same. At this temp if you were either on a) part of the Donner Pass party or b) with a South American Soccer Team who had a pilot that sucked and deserved to be munched on you would have very little issue with throwing Johnny on the Barbie for din din.

Canadian Celsius -47 below
Fahrenheit -52 below
Temps by Claudia- Somewhere between zero and this temperature your sense of humour freezes and you begin to find Jerry Lewis mildly amusing. At this temp. breathing isn't such a good idea cause you can cause frostbite to your lungs, how in the hell do Canadians have a sense of humour when you can freaking frostbite your lungs? How does breathing in this cold feel? - think of the biggest bong hit you ever took and how you choked and gagged and then you realized that the Pink Floyd The Animals Albums was like genius. It's like that but without
that Pink Floyd thing.

If you are worried about how the little sparrows survive in this cold, I saw this in my backyard this morning.