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Bcap88

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I think the reason most don’t like Winnipeg is the fact that it’s just so bitterly cold there that it just gets in the way of some of the simplest things.

I’ve heard you have to keep your car plugged in during the most brutally cold periods there because it’s so cold.

Edmonton and Calgary are close enough to being as cold in the dead of winter, but the average low for the month of January is 0 degrees and the average low for the month of February is 1 degree. So you’re probably dealing with about two months of the temperatures dropping below 0 degrees Fahrenheit at some point during the day.
I have a diesel and that thing requires the be plugged in daily during the winter or driven daily and that’s just in Chicago. I haven’t had much problem with my car but a few times I had to take the battery out and bring it inside to defrost just so it would start
 

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I hate cold dry and humid

If it was 80 and breezy year around I would love that. Unfortunately, I live in Chicago
Tell me who doesnt love 26 C. I dont know people who dont. But its great for the summer or late spring.


I think the reason most don’t like Winnipeg is the fact that it’s just so bitterly cold there that it just gets in the way of some of the simplest things.

I’ve heard you have to keep your car plugged in during the most brutally cold periods there because it’s so cold.

Edmonton and Calgary are close enough to being as cold in the dead of winter, but the average low for the month of January is 0 degrees and the average low for the month of February is 1 degree. So you’re probably dealing with about two months of the temperatures dropping below 0 degrees Fahrenheit at some point during the day.
You tell me that -17C -20C is a problem? seriously? Its a beautiful winter. Beautiful winter weather. Even -30C is great if you have right clothes for it.

I dont like -5C - +5C.
 

britdevil

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Tell me who doesnt love 26 C. I dont know people who dont. But its great for the summer or late spring.



You tell me that -17C -20C is a problem? seriously? Its a beautiful winter. Beautiful winter weather. Even -30C is great if you have right clothes for it.

I dont like -5C - +5C.

We've had 24c on the south coast of England last 8 days. Beautiful weather.
 

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that picture was taken July 8th, 2023.
I know you're just joking, but apparently the average high there for July is 80 fahrenheit and average low is 62.

My friend went there in late June once and said it felt about the same as most any other North American place, other than Florida, Texas, the desert. He said he wouldn't have known if he were in New Jersey just going by the weather those couple of days.
 

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We've had 24c on the south coast of England last 8 days. Beautiful weather.
I always run to convert to fahrenheit every time I see a celsiuis temperature, as I have little concept of estimating it, outside of the fact that I know 32 fahrenheit is 0 celsius.

That would be 75 fahrenheit and extremely comfortable.

It's an extremely disgusting and humid 32c where I live today. If the snowbirds don't have any set time where they go back to their native states, I'm sure this past week sent most of them back north.

Last weekend it was 91f here (about 32 or 33c) and it was 50-55 degrees in New Jersey. So about 10c-12c,

I can only imagine a bunch of people being fed up with the gross humidity and excessive temperatures here and being like ''Yeah, f*** this shit!'' only to arrive up there for temperatures we haven't had here (other than some overnight lows at some point in late March/early April) since probably January and being like ''WAT THE f***? WE CAME BACK HERE FOR THIS?!''.
 

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I always run to convert to fahrenheit every time I see a celsiuis temperature, as I have little concept of estimating it, outside of the fact that I know 32 fahrenheit is 0 celsius.

That would be 75 fahrenheit and extremely comfortable.

It's an extremely disgusting and humid 32c where I live today. If the snowbirds don't have any set time where they go back to their native states, I'm sure this past week sent most of them back north.

Last weekend it was 91f here (about 32 or 33c) and it was 50-55 degrees in New Jersey. So about 10c-12c,

I can only imagine a bunch of people being fed up with the gross humidity and excessive temperatures here and being like ''Yeah, f*** this shit!'' only to arrive up there for temperatures we haven't had here (other than some overnight lows at some point in late March/early April) since probably January and being like ''WAT THE f***? WE CAME BACK HERE FOR THIS?!''.

its easy... i only bothered to finally learn it a few years ago

C to F ... multiply by 1.8 then add 32

F to C ... subtract 32 then multiply by .555
 

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Tell me who doesnt love 26 C. I dont know people who dont. But its great for the summer or late spring.



You tell me that -17C -20C is a problem? seriously? Its a beautiful winter. Beautiful winter weather. Even -30C is great if you have right clothes for it.

I dont like -5C - +5C.
I've only felt -17 celsius a few times in my life. Once in a while we'd get those every few years in Jersey when I lived there. I went to Colorado one year where it was about that.

I hate winter. We don't have one where I live now and that's why I live here now. I haven't experienced a real winter in over 13 years now. Though I did make a visit back home the year after that a few times in the winter, so I'll say 12 years.

I never did mind a couple of snowfalls each year though, other than the commute to work in them because of the way everybody drives in them.

It's kind of like that down here when it rains.

When you've lived outside of those really cold elements as long as I have, as well as being as old as I am now, I might go into shock if I stepped into -17c/about 0f temps at this point in my life.:laugh:

ACTUALLY, now that I think about it. I was in North Carolina in January and it was 17f degrees for a low and just under 30f for a high. That was the first time I had felt that in at least 12 years.

It was also completely sunny and not at all windy, so it didn't feel too bad. I definitely dressed warm enough. It didn't really bother me one bit.
 
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britdevil

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its easy... i only bothered to finally learn it a few years ago

C to F ... multiply by 1.8 then add 32

F to C ... subtract 32 then multiply by .555

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One of the best parts about the winter here is my electric bill is very low.

There some sub-$100 dollar energy bills, which are nice.

Say goodbye to those for the next 6 months. My air was running constantly last night because it was still like 82f at 2:30 AM when I went to bed after the game ended.:laugh:
 

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They're probably waiting to see what Carolina does with Rod, I can't see any other reason why Woodcroft of Keefe wouldn't be the coach now if it wasn't just the waiting game with that.
 
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Man PDB right coach wrong time here. Sigh
I'm still not sure he'd be the right coach here as of 2024, but he probably would be by 2026 or hopefully even by 2025.

Most of his teams (other than Florida, his first job) were already perennial playoff teams and not only that, but also contending teams.

The Devils were a perennial playoff team coming off their first playoff miss in like 15 years before he took over.

The Sharks were in a very similar situation when he took over there. Over a decade straight of making the playoffs before missing the year before they hired him. Both us and the Sharks made the SCF in his first year here after the lone playoff miss. Only the Devils lone playoff miss would start to become the norm after one last playoff appearance/cup finals run. The Sharks still had a few more years left.

Vegas was only 1.5 years removed from a cup finals and were a constant in the conference finals both before and after he took over, until missing the playoffs.

The Stars were a perennial playoff when he took over and even made the cup finals 2 years prior.

All of his teams (Save for Florida) had/have veteran players just a little bit older than ours. Our best players are slightly younger than the best players of his other teams at the time he took over. His current team has a lot of older players, but their younger players have certainly been their best.

His teams best players when he takes over are usually in their late 20s (Kovalchuk/Parise), if not already in their 30s (Pavelski/Burns/Thornton). Our best players are currently in their mid 20s and younger.

The pattern with his teams when he's taken over are that they're already established, perennial playoff teams, if not already contending teams. We're not that yet, as we are not a perennial playoff team, nor contender because we don't make the playoffs annually yet. Hopefully that will be the case in two years from now.
 

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Feels like they're waiting on Keefe to decide what he's doing, and Woodcroft is the backup option.

Has Woodcroft been linked to other openings yet?
 
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