Bring In The Brass Monkeys!!!

[Moira]

Last winter on Amherst Island, the battery on my 50D died when I was finally getting the chance to shoot my first Saw Whet.  It was -23.  A fellow photographer told me to warm it up in my hand.  I had my usual hand warmers in my mitts and the battery came back to life.  Made me very happy!

[BIGFRANK]

A friend had it effect his image stabilized binoculars in the same way. We were at "spring" Raptor Watch at Beamer and the batteries in his binos died in about 15min. Luckily he had his "old fashioned" set in the car. Seems the cold has broken for now thank goodness...welcome to winter in Canada!

[Kin Lau]

I saw footage on the weather network that a viewer sent in...he was taking water from a kettle after it boiled and throwing it in the air and it fell as snow.

I tried that on Monday and Tuesday morning... it works. It doesn't turn into snow, rather it evaporates into a cloud.

Monday was only -24C in the morning, Tuesdays was -33C here in Vanier, Ottawa East. We only reached a high of -21C on Tuesday :shock: .. that's ambient temp, not windchill.