I JUST wanted to let your readers know that here in Southern Ontario we are currently at minus 30 with the windchill, the temperature is anywhere from minus 15 to 20C and the wind (from Siberia or the North Pole!) makes it feel like minus 30-plus.

Exposure to bare skin brings frostbite in 10 minutes! We got a sprinkling of snow last night, 5cm with a few more centimetres to go over the next couple of days. And this is the good side of winter! Enjoy your balmy minus one degrees.

DAVID TURNER, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (via email).