Weather where you are?

Paul LeClair said:
Close to minus 50 Celsius apparently. Maintenance is trying to warm the cold jet engines up enough to start…
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Watched a program on TV about somewhere in Russia it's so cold that they have to put tyre warmers on to Landed planes to stop the tyre rubber freezing, other wise the tyres would crack and disintegrate on take off.
 
Alzero said:
The usual operating environment of an airliner is about that cold all the time, summer and winter. 10,500m is a pretty inhospitable place.
As for local weather, yesterday at the shore it was 30c, this morning in the mountains at 1500m its 13c,
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Yeah I know. Problem is on the ground. Engines are now warm but still can’t leave as the accordion gate:ramp thing ( that passengers enter the plane from) to retract. Apparently the mechanism is frozen solid….,. Now 14 hours late leaving..,.,
 
Went to the regional 2024 motorcycle show here in Abbotsford, BC Today Jan12, Friday. Broke a cold record for the day in many southwest cities here, , -18c and -25C wind chill. After spending 7 days in hospital fighting my own health demons, it’s been a shock to the system.
 
My flight Calgary to Victoria that was supposed to leave 8 am has just been cancelled and we just “deplaned” at 11:15 pm. WestJet is trying to weasel out of paying compensation by blaming the cold weather “outside of their control”. Frustrating. Deciding whether to get a taxi home or book in one of the airport hotels, no idea when next available flight will be but certain not until tomorrow earliest.

Steve, sorry to hear of health challenges. Diane and I are going to be in Victoria fit a couple weeks for the “warm ish weather”, may pop over to Vancouver by helicopter, if we do I’ll give you a call
 
A few years ago my wife and daughter had flights from here to New York cancelled with follow-on missed booked activities due to extreme weather and funnily enough that was one of the exclusion clauses for compensation. However we were fully compensated for when our departure plane couldn't land on a Greek island due to high wind. Pot luck that I hope is in your favour Paul.
 
Paul LeClair said:
My flight Calgary to Victoria that was supposed to leave 8 am has just been cancelled and we just “deplaned” at 11:15 pm. WestJet is trying to weasel out of paying compensation by blaming the cold weather “outside of their control”. Frustrating. Deciding whether to get a taxi home or book in one of the airport hotels, no idea when next available flight will be but certain not until tomorrow earliest.

Steve, sorry to hear of health challenges. Diane and I are going to be in Victoria fit a couple weeks for the “warm ish weather”, may pop over to Vancouver by helicopter, if we do I’ll give you a call
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Extreme weather causing delays, cancellations at Canada's busiest airports

Extreme cold temperatures are affecting Canada's busiest airports, with many experiencing delays and dozens of cancellations
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Stuck in Calgary in the cold due to flight cancelations. At the zoo it is too cold to let the penguins outside. Ski hills are closed. It is so cold apparently the airplane "de-icing fluid" no longer works and the airport workers can't work outside very long.

 
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Ever heard of travel insurance? It is now necessary here for domestic flights, I’ve flown 7 times in the last 2 years and been fucked over on 5 of them
 
Cosi said:
Ever heard of travel insurance? It is now necessary here for domestic flights, I’ve flown 7 times in the last 2 years and been fucked over on 5 of them
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We have the insurance coverage to flexibility rebook our flights as necessary for any reason. Now Saturday night ,was supposed to fly yesterday morning, still no available flights.
To add to the situation just got an “Emergency Alert” that the Provincial power grid is not coping with the extreme cold and higher demand, they are asking everyone to shut offf lights and major appliances, not use electric ovens or electric heaters. This really is not going to be safe if the power goes out….
Supposed to start warming up within another 24 - 48 hours
 
The Provincial Emergency Weather Alert of a few minutes ago about rotating power outages says minus 40 to minus 50 Celsius by tommorrow morning. A news report a few minutes ago of minus 58 Celsius not far north of us. Bloody hell.
 
Minus 50c 😯 fuck me, I can’t even imagine that. Hang on, if you got on a plane and it crashed, and you survived….. you’d die anyway. Get a hotel Paul.

And here I was complaining to my wife on the phone that I was feeling the cold in Melbourne, 20c.

No more complaints from me.
 
chrisk said:
Minus 50c 😯 fuck me, I can’t even imagine that. Hang on, if you got on a plane and it crashed, and you survived….. you’d die anyway. Get a hotel Paul.

And here I was complaining to my wife on the phone that I was feeling the cold in Melbourne, 20c.

No more complaints from me.
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God god, and then there’s those pesky polar bears…. No thanks
 
Paul LeClair said:
The Provincial Emergency Weather Alert of a few minutes ago about rotating power outages says minus 40 to minus 50 Celsius by tommorrow morning. A news report a few minutes ago of minus 58 Celsius not far north of us. Bloody hell.
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Bloody hell Paul, hard to even imagine for us in the antipodes, that power issue must be a real concern.
We always have concerns up here in our aged care facilities if we lose power in the summer - generators not up to scratch, usually not a good outcome:cry: Hope the situation improves.
 
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