This Sunday is Grey Cup football day in Canada. In 2014 the Calgary Stampeders hold the Grey Cup aloft after their victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Enthusiasm got the better of them and they broke the cup-since repaired of course. Photo Credit: Nathan Denette/Canadian Press
Unlike the US and elsewhere, most of the finals are played on open fields, and Winnipeg is not known to be warm at this time of year. Indeed, it holds the record for the coldest Grey Cup game in 1991 when temperature at kickoff was -18C.
There have been games where wind chills were even colder such as 2010 in Regina, where temps combined with wind chill during practices leading up to the game were around -25C.
This year the temperatures at game time are expected to actually be above zero, but wind gusts could also be a factor from 30 to 50 kmph.
But the Grey Cup goes on no matter what the weather and this year Canada’s premier football event features the Edmonton Eskimos of the western division facing the Ottawa RedBlacks of the east.
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