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soltys Enthusiast

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Just the mentioning of cold weather and all the Saskatoonians come out. At -15, I don't know what to do with myself today. Better wash the truck before it cools off again.

JCthebigTree Enthusiast

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-40? Glad I visited Saskatoon a couple years back in September. That's cold!

That's in Celsius I'm sure...

 

I've had to head to work here in Northern Minn in a handful of -15 to -20 F mornings...this morning was -14F according to the truck... Everything works fine, steering & shocks are stiff, but otherwise fine... Makes a whining sound when starting up, but that's normal...

 

I should probably plug in the block heater, but haven't found a good place to bring the plug through the grill and don't feel like dealing with opening/closing the hood every morning.

Chris Senior Enthusiast

Chris

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Man it is cold today. 58F, this weather is killing me

NitroCherokee Enthusiast

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That's in Celsius I'm sure...

 

-40 is the same temp in either Fahrenheit or Celsius. I am not exactly sure how that happens but they are the same at those temps

JCthebigTree Enthusiast

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That's in Celsius I'm sure...

 

-40 is the same temp in either Fahrenheit or Celsius. I am not exactly sure how that happens but they are the same at those temps

So they are... I didn't realize that... I know that -18C is the same as 0F. The joys of having a Canadian roommate in college.

 

I haven't seen -40 in a couple years...lowest I've seen this year is -31. Back in college in ND, -40 was fairly common.

2fst4u Enthusiast

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Shit ya it does.... Strap yourself in front of your truck grill at -40c and then add a windchill and tell me if there is a difference!

 

If your nackers are not at your belly botton then you got none!!!! hahahah ehhhh!!!

Badass69 Senior Enthusiast

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Threads with confusion between degrees F and C are always vaguely entertaining. Who needs the metric system anyway? If it's good enough for Myanmar and Liberia, then it's good enough for the USA. Just remember -40F = -40C = painful to inhale.

 

Oh and just in case anyone doesn't realize it, wind chill affects exposed flesh. It doesn't make a bit of difference to a piece of machinery.

Actually it does. Not to some ambient temp chunk of metal no it doesn't. But to anything that has heat to lose... like your power train... it feels the wind just like you do. If you froze to death you would stop feeling the wind once your heat was all gone. ( well and your dead lol). Your truck is no different. Just not the grill and sheet metal so much lol.

 

 

Sent from the Great White North

Badass69 Senior Enthusiast

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Ah no, actually it does not. Inanimate objects do not experience wind chill. The only possible effect wind chill can have to a metal/plastic/wood etc. object is to cool it off more rapidly than if there is no wind. It is not ever going to get colder than the air temperature - no matter how fast the dang wind is blowing.

Ah wrong again bucko. An engine is just like the human body.... it feels the wind solely because it has heat to lose... just like your body. Piece of metal at ambient doesn't.... can't be colder than ambient. Wind chill is not exclusive to living organisms.... its exclusive to anything with heat to give up to the environment surrounding it.

 

We are no different.... more wind makes us cool off faster too... thus wind chill...

 

 

Sent from the Great White North

Badass69 Senior Enthusiast

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OK... they don't have "feelings" like the people on this site I need to post a hurt feelings report for ( not necessarily you).

But will an object cool more quickly with wind than without. . Yes. That's all wind chill is.

 

Once a dead body reaches ambient it stays there..... doesn't feel anymore either because its dead... but wind chill got it to ambient more quickly lol.

 

Yeah we agree... just not on our feelings lol.

 

 

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