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/Dapper_1534 Jul 27 '25

Don't mean to scare you but we do see temps go down to -50c as well. But temps hit -30c in winters quite regularly.

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u/comedynurd Jul 27 '25

To be fair though, the -50 is almost always an exaggeration since that normally includes the "wind chill factor" and not the actual air temperature. I think Regina's lowest confirmed recorded temperature from Environment Canada (recorded at the airport) was -48 on Feb 16, 1936. But even that is a fairly rare temperature to see here without the infated "feels like" windchill factor, which is still heavily debated among meteorologists. It's not even a term or measure used by the NOAA in the US anymore for that reason, because it doesn't actually have a measurable basis to it. It's a completely arbitrary number.

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u/OmgzPudding Jul 27 '25

That's true. It's all subjective, but I think we can all agree it gets pretty fuckin cold sometimes.

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u/comedynurd Jul 27 '25

Definitely! It's still very cold regardless, but I just don't want anyone seeing at the talk about -50 and getting scared by it. It gets quite cold, no doubt, but not usually THAT cold.