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places that have recorded both -40C and +40C
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dream_weasel sh.itjust.works dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-30
#52 · Quote Reply

There is a place in Saskatchewan that had +50c and -50C in one year. Wild that people live there, +50C is way too hot for me.

Too hot even

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M0oP0o mander.xyz M0oP0o@mander.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-13
#53 · Quote Reply

Too hot even

Nice catch

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excursion22 piefed.ca excursion22@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-09-16
#54 · Quote Reply

Minnesotans don’t cry, we’re tougher than that, or at least have realized that if we do they either freeze or turn to steam.

You haven't had real winter until you've had eyelash icicles.

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Vandals_handle lemmy.world Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-14
#55 · Quote Reply

Wouldn't west coastal be better? Water to help regulate temperature, and you don't get the hurricane effects of the eastern coast

Oceans in Southern California not warm enough to sustain hurricanes yet, on path to.
Warming ocean will also raise humidity and have less of a cooling effect.

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Vandals_handle lemmy.world Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-14
#56 · Quote Reply

Just gotta watch out for the humming but sized mosquitoes out there right?

Is a humming but a musical fart?

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Stupidmanager lemmy.world Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#57 · Quote Reply

9/5(conversion ratio) of -40 is -72 which is 32(offset) below -40. So... (9/5[F/C])*(-40[C])+32=-40[F] is where they meet.

I prefer the converted fractions for ease. Your solution while right will confuse most Americans.
(1.8x-40c)+32=-40f

Dear fellow Americans:
Fun tip, lazy (but inaccurate) math is (2x-40c)+30= -50f which when you get to normal ranges works well enough in a margin of error. Or just learn to enjoy the beautiful thing that is Celsius and stop using/converting to Fahrenheit.

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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-04
#58 · Quote Reply

kinda explain why some plants from the south can also survive up there, like 1 species of cactus.

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ThunderclapSasquatch startrek.website ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website
Joined: 2023-08-14
#59 · Quote Reply

Note to self: Don’t live there.

As a pretty much lifelong Wyomingite, it's not so bad. The wind is a bigger problem frankly.

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PapaStevesy lemmy.world PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-18
#60 · Quote Reply

I took the family on a road trip through South Dakota this summer. For some reason in my mind, I thought South Dakota is north - and north is cold. Jesus fucking Christ was I wrong. It was unbearably hot. We tried going outside in the Badlands and had to get back in the car after like 5 minutes. Fuck that place and it's crazy heat.

Yeah, the Plains get pretty hot and humid, especially with the flatness and general lack of trees. I remember a 118°F day in east-river SD in 2005 or -6, a shitty day to be a lifeguard lol. At least there's a little geography in the Badlands, and you're close to the Black Hills, which are gorgeous. But yeah, they are called the Badlands for a reason lol.

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untorquer quokk.au untorquer@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-12-03
#61 · Quote Reply

I prefer the converted fractions for ease. Your solution while right will confuse most Americans. (1.8x-40c)+32=-40f Dear fellow Americans: Fun tip, lazy (but inaccurate) math is (2x-40c)+30= -50f which when you get to normal ranges works well enough in a margin of error. Or just learn to enjoy the beautiful thing that is Celsius and stop using/converting to Fahrenheit.

Americans use fractions daily. The rest of the avoids them. The dimensional analysis maybe.

I've done 9/5+32 in my head so much it's easier and faster for me. Then it's 100% accurate to boot.

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andz lemmy.world andxz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#62 · Quote Reply

Where I live in Sweden I have not seen quite that spread of temperatures yet. But not far off... I have seen -43C and +35C in the same area.

Finnish here, I've (somewhat) likewise seen -45c and +38 in the same town. I preferred -45c, easily.

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wieson feddit.org wieson@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-24
#63 · Quote Reply

Is that true on a global level?

Yeah, continental is more extreme and maritime is milder. Look up Kazakhstan or something to compare.

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SpaceCowboy lemmy.ca SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-17
#64 · Quote Reply

My first apartment in Calgary had an issue with the fire alarm going off in very cold nights since it was an old style that used (in part not the whole system) a piece of metal though the wall and went off when the difference between the inside and out side was to much (IE on fire inside). The issue was that when you keep the inside at +20C and the outside is -45C the alarm goes off and everyon...

It's more of a dry cold though!

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huppakee lemmy.world huppakee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-15
#65 · Quote Reply

kinda explain why some plants from the south can also survive up there, like 1 species of cactus.

Shouldn't there be a place in a desert with +40 and -40? Or is there noone taking measurements there?

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M0oP0o mander.xyz M0oP0o@mander.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-13
#66 · Quote Reply

It's more of a dry cold though!

Yes, no joke its not bad.

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jumping redditor [they/them] sh.itjust.works jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-30
#67 · Quote Reply

I prefer the converted fractions for ease. Your solution while right will confuse most Americans. (1.8x-40c)+32=-40f Dear fellow Americans: Fun tip, lazy (but inaccurate) math is (2x-40c)+30= -50f which when you get to normal ranges works well enough in a margin of error. Or just learn to enjoy the beautiful thing that is Celsius and stop using/converting to Fahrenheit.

is -40 not a normal temperature, at least compared with +30c?

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ODGreen lemmy.ca ODGreen@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-06-11
#68 · Quote Reply

this summer has been unlike others. you might have done the exact same thing in half the country. when i was a kid (seems like eons ago) we vacationed there a lot, in north and south dakota (and a little mt and wy). mom and me loved the badlands. the terrain and features, wildlife, the night sky... i don't remember it ever being "too hot" to be outside. we camped, in a tent or popup; so outside...

this summer is gonna be like all the others from now on, however.

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adarza lemmy.ca adarza@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-05-29
#69 · Quote Reply

this summer is gonna be like all the others from now on, however.

i wish.

they're gonna get worse.

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titanicx lemmy.zip titanicx@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-09-15
#70 · Quote Reply

Are you talking C or F? Im pretty sure a 40 F degree temp swing happens every year in Minnesota, probably multiple times. The record in the us is 104 F in a single day, in Montana.

Yeah, I think the record where I'm from was somewhere in the neighborhood of 65 to 70 degrees in one day. And I spent two years in Minnesota and there weren't a lot of days where we had that were 40 degrees swing where it went from near freezing to 80s or 90s during the day while I was there at least.

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Stupidmanager lemmy.world Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#71 · Quote Reply

is -40 not a normal temperature, at least compared with +30c?

Normal should be subjective normal, -40 is an extreme temp and over 40c is also extreme. I’m talking 5-25c where the lazy math works well enough.

So 20c is 68f proper conversion or 70f with lazy. 30, is 86f proper and 90f lazy. Basically for a normal day the temp is close enough that no one would notice.

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beaverlicioustree thelemmy.club beaverlicioustree@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-09-14
#72 · Quote Reply

Makes sense. The more continental the more extrem. I bet you would see this even stronger in Eurasia

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