I live in Calgary, and this was actually about 2 weeks ago. It's now 10:30 pm and 0C, and will be a high of +8C tomorrow (with a prediction of +14C on Wednesday). It was so cold that my car died while I was actively driving it. The battery and alternator just quit life, and I had to get both replaced less than two weeks ago. Now I don't even have to warm my car up.

So, question: before modern heating, insulation etc, how did indigenous people keep warm/comfortable/alive with that level of cold?

So meanwhile I’m in Australia where it’s summer, and the weather has all gone a bit strange

Well, I’m glad that where I live in Ontario is unseasonably warm right now because my furnace shut down last week and I’ve been heating my house with fireplaces and electric heaters until a chimney guy can come in and clean out some blockages. It’s usually pretty darn cold around here at this time of year.

Meanwhile, in southern Ontario, other than a few really cold days, it's been unseasonably warm here. Climate change at its finest.

I guess that's what they are called the Calgary Flames. They need to be flames to stay warm when they play.

For everyone who asks why we live up here...it's because this is the only extreme we have to deal with. No hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves....just a cold snap or two, and we always know when those are coming.

Just so we're clear, we were hit pretty hard this year and the prairie provinces got the worst of it. They're always colder than the rest of the country as they're so darn flat. Here in Toronto, it's currently foggy and 1 degree C (34F), with very little snow on the ground.

I grew up in England, so have had some freezing winters (nothing like those in the post) I have also experienced -25c. There are some people here in Perth that have never seen snow first hand or experienced a frost. We do have +40c temps here though - I'm sure some residents of Canada have never experienced that either.

Who all has seen the movie "Day After Tomorrow?" When the flags freeze, you know what's happening.

I am so grateful to be a Canadian living in Southern Ontario, um I walked a km with just a sweatshirt today, I've shoveled my driveway exactly once this season, no wonder all of Canada hates Alberta, more than their obnoxious political beliefs

Welp I guess where the polar vortex went when we lost the freezing weather from Finland

There was a report on NPR, which seemed to spread the environmentalist echo chamber about HORROR OF HORRORS! a utility that was building a new gas-fueled plant (One of many utilities). Folks, I'd like to believe that one day, surprisingly soon, we'll be living in a society that its mostly fueled by green energy, whether including thorium reactors or not. But even in a society with a negative output of carbon dioxide, there will always be room for some gas-produced electricity and some places where you'd better have an ICE truck.

How is that global warming working for you?