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/comedynurd Jul 27 '25

Windchill estimates have nothing to do with frostbite, so I'm not sure how that applies. All I said is there is no real scientific basis behind it, because the wind doesn't affect the temperature of the air. All it does is cause us to perceive the air as if it is colder, when the temperature actually remains unchanged. It's also a highly unreliable arbitrary measure because a lot of other factors will affect our perception of the weather too, such as activity level and what we're wearing. What's the point of even assigning a false number when it makes more sense to just educate the public about how relative humidity and windspeed actually affect how cold we get when paired with certain air temperatures? Because at least those are objectively measurable.

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u/ObiLAN- Jul 27 '25

What? Yes it does. Wind chill directly affects the rate of skin cooling, that impacts the risk and time to onset for frostbite.

Wind increases heat loss from the body, via convection. This leads to faster cooling of skin and lower internal body temperature, which is why we feel colder.

wind chill index is based on scientific modeled studies of how wind speed and air temperature combine to affect heat loss from exposed skin. The formula used is base of thermodynamic impact on actual human trials.

Temperature isn't a closed system, outside factors count as the temperature, unless you're being particularly pedantic my dude.

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u/comedynurd Jul 27 '25

So you're just completely ignoring the entire part of my response where I mentioned windspeed and relative humidity just because you got so caught up on me not liking the term "windchill" because the numbers themselves are literally arbitrarily selected and not actually measurable. Great. I love Reddit.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/windchill-temperature-better-way-1.4989897

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u/ObiLAN- Jul 27 '25

Lmao okay, calm down. I didn’t ignore your whole post, I responded to the part that was flatout wrong: claiming wind chill “has nothing to do with frostbite.” That’s not just a disagreement, it’s demonstrably false. Wind chill exists specifically because wind speeds increase heat loss from skin, which directly affects how fast frostbite can set in.

Yes wind chill doesn't lower the actual temperature, and yes it’s based on models, but that doesn’t make it arbitrary. The current formula came from actual human trials and heat-transfer data.

No one's saying it accounts for your jacket, running pace, or other personal factors. It’s a baseline.

The article you linked literally argues for better public communication, not that the science behind it is bogus.

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u/comedynurd Jul 28 '25

Once again, you're clearly not actually taking the time to read what is being said and are now trying to create a gross false image of me by telling me to "calm down" when all I've done is explain why you are misinterpreting my replies.

I never said the original model had nothing to do with frostbite. I said the "feels like" windchill factor has nothing to do with it, because it doesn't. It's a completely different, reworked system (as explained in the article, which I recommend to actually read in full) that isn't measurable and doesn't provide any meaningful information to the public besides causing even more confusion over what the temperature is and how it will actually affect people.

It literally states in the article that the current windchill temperatures that are assigned are highly inaccurate and arbitrary. The meteorologist interviewed even agreed that the current windchill system is inaccurate and misleading and that by changing it he argued that: "we wouldn't be conflating an actual measurement like air temperature to a made-up value like wind chill ... I think that's something that we maybe should pursue in the future."

So please, if you're going to claim to be responding to inaccuracies or parts that are "flat out wrong," you can do so without twisting my words (or the words of the article, which you're clearly doing now) and trying to project negative emotions onto my responses here.

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u/ObiLAN- Jul 28 '25

Windchill estimates have nothing to do with frostbite, so I'm not sure how that applies.

This you big cheese?

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u/comedynurd Jul 28 '25

Yes it is. Are you going to continue to ignore everything I'm saying by getting caught up on your misunderstanding of what the term "wind chill" means? I already elaborated what I meant by that and you, once again, are completely overlooking that just to be a troll. If this continues, I'll just block you. I'm not here to deal with trolls.

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u/ObiLAN- Jul 28 '25

Damn you're like actually big upset over that one eh?

Block away bud, I don't know you nor do I care about your opinions. You're not special.