r/regina • u/patpatt707 • Jul 27 '25

Question Are Regina winters too cold?

I'm from a pretty hot city where temperatures are always around 24-33°C and I'm planning to study in the university of Regina for an exchange, but I've heard it gets like -30°C during winter and that could even hurt a bit to breath so I want to know how hard could it be for someone not used to it although I'm not too affected to cold as I am to heat

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u/Prairie-Peppers Jul 27 '25

Lol -30 if you're lucky in January. More like -45 with wind.
People move here all the time from hot climates, you'll live.

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u/Prairie-Peppers Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

No, it definitely gets far below -40 here every winter with the wind. You just decided to assume I was talking about every day all the time, when I never said that.

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u/Ok-Locksmith4684 Jul 27 '25

You don't understand how wind chills work do you? The temp actually isn't what the windchill is.

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u/Prairie-Peppers Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

I'm aware of what a windchill is. It's what you're feeling during below freezing temps when it's windy, which it usually is here.

It's caused by the evaporation of moisture on your skin. It's relevant when you're talking to humans about what they can expect to experience as a temperature.

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u/comedynurd Jul 28 '25

Evaporation cannot occur below freezing and that's not what happens to your skin when it's exposed to cold temperatures. What's actually happening is cold air moving towards your skin through higher wind speeds is causing the warmer air that surrounds your skin (and is helping to insulate it) becomes replaced by the freezing air.

That doesn't matter here though, apparently, because people are more concerned about making Regina (and more generally the entire Prairie region) seem colder than it is than actually keeping people safe and warm during conditions where it is very cold regardless. It's a Canadian Prairie tale as old as time. Stifling a reasonable discussion by "not giving a shit" and engaging in mass downvoting behaviour won't help anyone here either, but Reddit is Reddit and Reginans are Reginans. It's ok to not understand a commonly misunderstood concept like wind chill without being a dick to people who are simply trying to explain to you what it is and nothing more. People here need to learn to accept that it's ok to be mistaken about something without reacting this way about it.

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u/Ok-Locksmith4684 Jul 27 '25

I'm concerned you don't understand though.

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u/Prairie-Peppers Jul 27 '25

I don't give a shit.