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eh. My family is Australian since a while back, and I moved to the Yukon to live. I thoroughly enjoy riding my bike to work at and beyond -40(C/F), and am alwa
by grecy 7y ago
eh. My family is Australian since a while back, and I moved to the Yukon to live.
I thoroughly enjoy riding my bike to work at and beyond -40(C/F), and am always out snowshoeing, snowboarding, ice fishing, bison hunting etc when it's in range of -25 to -40C.
The coldest I ever saw was -48C (-54.4F) as a daytime high (before the windchill). It was about a degree colder overnight. It was glorious, and I hope to crack -52C so I will have seen a 100C temperature swing (it was once +48C in my hometown in Australia)
- samplatt 7y agoYou're not from south-coast WA are you?
- grecy 7y agoNope, but I understand your question because there are not so many Aussies in the Yukon (though more than I was expecting...)
- samplatt 7y agoFair enough. I've noticed a lot of south-coast WA people are cold-acclimatised (even more so than south-coast eastern-states, ie, Melbourne) and also see the occasional 48.C day.
- wutbrodo 7y agoUnless it's Aboriginal, your ancestry for the purposes were discussing is definitely not Australian. The timescale that non-Aboriginal Australians have been around is pretty small, likely not long enough for substantial adaptations to climate to kick in. As an easy example, consider how different Aboriginal and Eurasian-descended Australians are in skin color (excluding those descended from similarly sunny climates).