Tonight in my area we are going down to -31 C (-24 F) and the windchill factor will be -41 C (-42 F).

I imagine it will be about the same in Roy Hunter's area as well.

Anyone from farther north on the board, with worse temps?

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2002 e320 4matic estate│1985 300d│1980 300td
Previous: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

You should conduct an experiment tomorrow morning....start all your diesels.

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It won't be an experiment. I have to go to work .

I think -29 C was my previous record, for my w116 SD. But it had a coolant circulating heater and a battery blanket. My 300d only has a block heater and a small battery warmer (made for an ATV or similar).

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Mac
2002 e320 4matic estate│1985 300d│1980 300td
Previous: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

The heck with your cars, how do you live in temps that cold?????
My central Texas brain just can't get wrapped around that type of weather.
Give me 113* any day.......

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'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

what he said. Our high today was 111 degrees higher than your low!

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15 Golf Sportwagen TDI 35K
10 Sprinter 3500 chassis with a Class A Winnebago on it. 56K

Actually where I live is on the same latitude as Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia. Yeah.

Heat, you say? Well that is the flip side of living here. Unfortunately, it comes with humidity. We get weeks on end of temps around 35-38 deg C (95-100 F) with humidity over 80 percent, during the summer.

Personally, I dream of Arizona -- from what I read, a nice variety of climates, you can go from snow high in the mountains to desert in less than one day. If what I read is correct. THAT would suit me .

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Mac
2002 e320 4matic estate│1985 300d│1980 300td
Previous: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

I used to live in Tucson, Arizona, home of Mt. Lemmon, the southernmost ski resort in the lower 48 or so it was bragged. From the snow at the top to the desert at the bottom was about an hour, IIRC. OTOH it could also get rather nippy on clear nights in the winter and I have a picture of the University of Arizona campus with six inches of snow all over it.

Jeremy

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Yes it's nice here most of the time. We do get some rain too, about 11 inches a year on average. Doesn't sound like a lot unless you are here the day it falls.

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08 Infiniti FX-35 40K
15 Golf Sportwagen TDI 35K
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That is correct, I have lived there for short periods of time in the 1980s and 1990s.

BTW are you Anglo- or Franco-canadian?

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1959 180D
1960 190D
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1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

Hopefully you get more sack time with the opposite sex.

My recent acquisition, the 95 E300, started right up this morning @20 deg F without plugging in the heater. Didn't even need to double glow it.

It would appear that the engine/glow system is in decent condition....
Nor bad for 220K miles.

Jim

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Sad footnote to that question... this happened about mile from me:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa/Family+mourns+after+woman+dies+Aylmer+footpath/7883482/story.html

Context: a "depanneur" is the French term for an extended-hours convenience store. She essentially froze to death after collapsing on a footpath behind a brightly lit 24-hour gas station/convenience store, probably half a block from her house.

At those extreme cold temps, anyone with asthma or other lung disease can have an awful time. In my case, on those cold days I had to stop and rest when I walked into my office building (for some people the cold air does it, for me it's the transition from warm car to cold air back to warm air that almost shuts down my breathing), and even after I rest I was short of breath for a good 10 minutes.

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Mac
2002 e320 4matic estate│1985 300d│1980 300td
Previous: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Expecting 16F in Middle Tennessee tonight


Phoenix (desert) to Flagstaff is under 3 hours. Flagstaff is just over 6900 feet so expect snow.

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-31? What's the humidty?

I was in Maine a few years ago in similar temperatures and I kept on getting static electric shocks from every sodding car I passed...

...it was truly a pain in the arse.

When the wind didn't blow though it didn't feel as cold as -6 back here in water logged Europe.

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I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

As a general rule always elevated, summer and winter, but today it's 57 percent, which is livable. We can go for a week on end at over 90 percent when we have a damp spell in the summer or fall.

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Mac
2002 e320 4matic estate│1985 300d│1980 300td
Previous: 1979 & 1982 & 1983 300sd │ 1982 240d

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22