January 15, 2024
January 15th is the 15th day of the year. There are 351 days remaining until the end of the year.
A polar vortex has sent most of North America into a deep freeze.
Environment Canada has issued a Extreme Cold Warning for Chatham-Kent, Middlesex, Lambton and Essex counties.
Temperatures as low as -18 degrees Celsius combined with winds of 30 km/h will give wind chill values as cold as -30 this morning.
Cloudy and cold today, with a high of -14 before the wind chill is worked in.
The intersection of Oxley Drive and Sandys Street/Orangewood Blvd will be shut down overnight tonight.
Construction crews will close the intersection at 6 p.m., reopening it at 6 a.m. tomorrow.
Crews are replacing a water pump.
Detroit Lions fans can celebrate.
The Lions beat the L.A. Rams 24-23 to win their first playoff game in 32 years.
It was the first playoff game at Ford Field and the Lions first playoff game in 16 years. The win snapped a 9 playoff game losing streak.
On Saturday, the Houston Texans crushed the Cleveland Browns 45-14, while the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Miami Dolphins 26-7 in one of the coldest games in NFL history.
The coldest game in league history remains minus-13 for the 1967 NFL championship, when the Packers beat the Cowboys at Lambeau Field in a game that came to be known as the Ice Bowl. The wind chill that day was minus-48 degrees.
Today’s matchups will feature the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Buffalo Bills, and the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The winner of the Eagles/Buccaneers game will play the Lions in Detroit on Sunday at 3 p.m.
Team Canada brought home the bronze at the IIHF under-18 Women’s World Championship in Switzerland over the weekend.
They were unsuccessful in defending their gold medal after losing to Czechia on Saturday. Sunday morning they beat Finland 8-1, Blenheim’s Abby Stonehouse scored two goals (one being the game winning goal) Abby was named the Canada Player of the game. Stonehouse finished 4th in tournament scoring with 11 points in 6 games.
The U.S. defeated Czechia for the gold medal.
Today is Blue Monday which is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. A British psychologist came up with it in 2005.
It’s called Blue Monday because it’s the perfect mix of all of the factors that make us depressed: Bad weather, high debt from the holidays, the realization of just how far away next Christmas is and how far away we are from our next vacation, failing on our New Year’s resolutions and low motivation at work.
For what it’s worth, the guy who came up with Blue Monday says it was, “never my intention to make the day sound negative, but to inspire people to take action and make bold life decisions.”
