Biggest Coldest (WAS Re: cooling water)

[Doug Craigen <dcc@cyberspc.mb.ca>]

David J. Hamilton wrote:
> Doug Craigen writes:
>
> > Unfortunately, with such a mild winter (hardly ever below -20) I didn't
> > get much
> > chance to study really cold conditions.
>
> Yes, our winter was mild too.  Hardly ever below +30F.
>
> Dave
> Portland, Oregon
>
> PS. - Doug, where do you live??

Winnipeg, Manitoba - the "coldest big city in the world" according to some 
sources.

Of course, many people don't consider approx. 600,000 to be a big city.  What 
this really means is that there is no bigger and colder city.  How many other 
cities could make the same claim is left as an exercise for the reader.

This is similar to the problem my brother (math professor) gave me when I was 
visiting him in Lethbridge.  He pointed out the very impressive train bridge 
spanning the Old Man River.  He said the locals were very proud of having the 
world's "longest-highest" truss bridge.  The question is how many other cities 
might make the same claim?
(Rob now lives in Fresno, and a couple of winters ago he told me that they 
were having a "20 below cold snap".  Of course, he was toying with words to 
say the temperature was something like 60 F, which was 20 below what it would 
normally be.)

I often come back to biggest-coldest and longest-highest discussions when 
Maclean's magazine presents its rankings of Canadian Universities based on 
multiple criteria they've identified.


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