Tuesday, January 17
5:00 am
It is -29 °C, with a high forecast of -27 °C
From the Environment Canada website:
Warnings
Lethbridge - Taber - Milk River4:35 AM MST Tuesday 17 January 2012
Wind chill warning for
Lethbridge - Taber - Milk River continued
Wind chill values of minus 40 or less in the mountains passes this
morning and through central and Southeastern Alberta tonight.
This
is a warning that extreme wind chill conditions are imminent or
occurring in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for
updated statements.
Cold Arctic air has moved into Alberta and has brought temperatures
near or less than minus 30. These temperatures combined with winds of 15
to 20 km/h will give wind chills of minus 40 or less. Extreme wind
chills are forecast for the mountain passes this morning and for
southeastern and Central Alberta tonight.
At these extreme wind chill values frostbite on exposed skin may occur in less than 10 minutes.
Today Cloudy with 70 percent chance of flurries. Wind becoming northeast 20 km/h this afternoon. High minus 27. Extreme wind chill minus 41.
Tonight Cloudy with 30 percent chance of flurries this evening. Clearing near midnight. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 32. Extreme wind chill minus 41.
Normals: Max. -2 °C Min. -14 °C
It looks to continue cool for a few more days. The wind chill warning says that I have less than 10 minutes to bring some more firewood into the house. Maybe I should wear mitts.
8:00 am Literature
I have finished reading "Madame Bovary". Clearly this is a classic. Over a hundred and fifty years since its first publication, the story still captures the reader. Given the subject matter of the novel, I was intrigued by the combination of the original author being male and the translator into English being female. Flaubert did a fine job, but I wonder if a woman, who can write, might be able to do even more justice to the story.
I now want to read something that is non-fiction. A book that was recommended to me when it first came out is beckoning me at the moment. The author, Christopher Hitchens, recently passed away, but his mark will remain. I also bought his last collection of essays, "Hitch-22", in anticipation of more good reading. Now to have a close look at "god is not Great".
