A few decades ago, I went from a 3 month (Jan, Feb, Mar) site job in Guam to home here in California for a week and then on to another site job in Thule, Greenland, for a few months (Apr, May, June).
Talk about climate shock. I got the worst cold I have ever had in my life shortly after I arrived. Only good thing, it was the daylight time in Thule. When I left it was daylight 24 hours, but still cold. The baracks buildings were like cold storage lockers, except we were inside!
We kept beer in our rooms. When we went to the rec room to watch Armed Forces TV we'd take a few cans down with us. Swap one beer for the same make in the community fridge and put one on the railing outside to cool down. After swilling down the first beer, I went out and collected the beer off the railing. I only got two or three swigs out of the can--it had frozen. Now, it was on the shade side of the building and there was a 3-4 mph breeze. I vaguely remember it was about -40 chill factor. That frozen beer made the point of all the warnings they gave us about the danger of living in the Arctic.
Got a cockpit ride in a C-141 to Nord, Greenland, about 500 miles south of the North Pole. All-in-all, an exciting time of my life.
