<p>I call BS on the temperature.</p>
<p>Go to [this</a> website](<a href=“http://www.worldclimate.com%5Dthis”>www.worldclimate.com), find your home town and check the climate statistics. If you can, find an American equivalent to [this</a> page](<a href=“http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?Province=ALL&StationName=montreal&SearchType=BeginsWith&LocateBy=Province&Proximity=25&ProximityFrom=City&StationNumber=&IDType=MSC&CityName=&ParkName=&LatitudeDegrees=&LatitudeMinutes=&LongitudeDegrees=&LongitudeMinutes=&NormalsClass=A&SelNormals=&StnId=5415]this”>http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?Province=ALL&StationName=montreal&SearchType=BeginsWith&LocateBy=Province&Proximity=25&ProximityFrom=City&StationNumber=&IDType=MSC&CityName=&ParkName=&LatitudeDegrees=&LatitudeMinutes=&LongitudeDegrees=&LongitudeMinutes=&NormalsClass=A&SelNormals=&StnId=5415), which does have numbers for days where windchill dips below -40. As you can see, this happens slightly less than once a year on average in Montreal (just as said before). You can also compare to the numbers from [my</a> hometown](<a href=“http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?Province=ALL&StationName=bagotville&SearchType=BeginsWith&LocateBy=Province&Proximity=25&ProximityFrom=City&StationNumber=&IDType=MSC&CityName=&ParkName=&LatitudeDegrees=&LatitudeMinutes=&LongitudeDegrees=&LongitudeMinutes=&NormalsClass=A&SelNormals=&StnId=5889&&autofwd=1]my”>http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_e.html?Province=ALL&StationName=bagotville&SearchType=BeginsWith&LocateBy=Province&Proximity=25&ProximityFrom=City&StationNumber=&IDType=MSC&CityName=&ParkName=&LatitudeDegrees=&LatitudeMinutes=&LongitudeDegrees=&LongitudeMinutes=&NormalsClass=A&SelNormals=&StnId=5889&&autofwd=1), where the average number of days with windchill of -40 or below is 6.5. So unless your hometown is at a particularly high altitude, I don’t think the claim of weeks and weeks of -40 windchill is remotely close to being true.</p>
<p>As for snow, the optimal temperature for quantity is not below -10C…</p>