I'm from a city in Siberia and how winter makes all cities look alike. Piles of snow on the sidewalks, brown snow from the sand and crusts of ice from the snow that melted from the salt. We have about the same climate, dry, with frosts down to -40 degrees Celsius, but mostly from -10 to -25. It is a pity that it was not said whether the snow is exported from the private sector somewhere, to landfills or to snow melters. I love winter, snow and frost. But not when this season lasts for 6-7 months a year. I think being a kid and living in a place where there is a real winter is a real success. I remember as a child waiting for winter to come so I could finally have fun in winter games. Did you find some unusual snowball on the road? Be sure to take it with you. Kicking a small stone of snow up to the house? Always for. As a child, winter did not bother. It always warms my soul when I see children who, like me as a child, enjoy winter to the fullest. Thanks Greg for this video!
Maybe someone else can chime in on where the snow goes. But as far as I know, they just push it and pile it up on site. Annnnnd..... they do have a few locations where they dump now, which you can find at legacy.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/snow/default.stm
It kinda depends on the city, on how they dump snow. Some sadly dont remove the snow from the sidewalks, its usually smaller cities with smaller budgets. Where I live, they bring the snow to zones in parks, if its in a parking lot they pile it in a giant mound, or they bring it outside the city. The first priority is to get the snow off the roads and that means pushing it on the sidewalks. Once they are finally done they would start removing snow pushed onto the sidewalks, but it could take a month or two
You remind me of a story from when I was in college. I went to a small science/engineering oriented school. I was taking a German language class with only a few students. Maybe six or seven. The first time we met after Christmas our instructor asked us what we'd done over break. One student said she'd gone home to Canada (some place very far north, such as Yukon or NT) and that it had been -40 degrees. Our instructor asked if that was F or C, and *every* student in the room answered simultaneously "it's the same".
Reminds me of makingn snow forts when I was a kid in Toronto. Also used to do snow camping so a lot of the survival tips were good reminders too. Unfortunately it doesn't get as cold anymore so I wonder what kids do today. I really enjoyed all the squeaky snow sounds!
Wow, those driving videos gave me flashbacks of driving from Chicago to and from Spokane, Washington in February of 2019 to pick up our second dog. Driving I-90 through the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho isn't that different or much further south than the Trans-Canada. We got stuck at one of the mountain passes because there were jackknifed semis on both sides of the highway. Super scary!
As someone from atlantic canada, this is kind of fascinating to me. We get lots of precipitation but our temperature tends to bounce all over the place so its just a rapid storm-thaw cycle. -40 feels as much like a myth to me as the abominable snowman. The dampness on the other hand.. I spent my entire childhood cold lol
Using all-season tires in the winter is a recipe for disaster as traction essentially goes to zero. The rubber gets as hard as a hocky puck and you have no traction on surfaces such as asphalt. However, if you are driving on unpacked snow, it might not make any difference as cold snow, and even cold ice, is less slippery than when tempertures are near 0 Celsius.
As an Albertan, I was little sad you didn’t show your road trip through my province, but then I remember that there’s literally nothing to show here 😂 I really love seeing Canada content!
He actually did show some footage of Medicine Hat at 3:40! It's where I'm from and definitely not a huge city so I wasn't expecting to see home in the video! Super cool!
@@kaydee2976 oh never mind then! He went from driving through BC, to saying he was in Saskatchewan so I just assumed there was no Alberta, but it’s nice to see a smaller city included, even if not directly mentioned 👏 I’d love to go to Medicine Hat one day, too!
@Scooby Doo yeah I would've thought the same thing if I didn't live in Medicine Hat. It's so close to Saskatchewan though It's a nice city but there isn't a lot to do lol. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else though!
This is one of the best depiction of canadian winter I've seen. No exaggeration, no drama, it just is what it is. After 7 years living in a country without winter, I can now appreciate how some of those images (like the full winter suit!) can seems completely alien to other people. But for me it just feels cosy and reminds me of home!
I live in New Zealand and the only time we wear clothes like that is when we go skiing. I don’t even know if my ski clothes fit me anywhere because it’s been years since I’ve gone skiing. I usually just put on a denim jacket or a puffer jacket when it’s very cold in winter and that’s enough to keep me warm. It doesn’t usually get below 0°C here and we get like 2cm of snowfall every year. Seeing all this snow in a city is insane to me. I only see snow like this on the ski slopes. Most kids walk home from school here and even in winter they don’t wear much because you don’t need to. Trainers, short socks, knee length skirt/shorts, button up shirt, and a school soft shell jacket or school fleece. That’s all kids wear. They usually don’t even wear trousers or tights in winter. And I think my area is considered cold in New Zealand because ankle length kilts used to be a stable of high school girls’ winter uniform here but schools started getting rid of the kilts which is sad because kilts are awesome. Most schools just have one uniform that you wear in both summer and winter.
Cherish the cold weather like your brother just said. I've been seeing more and more 0 degree days the past few winters in Ottawa, and I'd take snow over freezing rain anyday
@@LSOP-Im from Toronto and I loved our last 2 winters! I love how the snow is usually packing snow and melts within a week or two enough to see the grass underneath. We also got some nice sunny 10-15 degree days in December and February the past winter which were glorious! This past winter has been so warm that it is the only winter where I didnt seriously consider moving to Florida or Texas.
Another video that I've sat on for a year! This was all filmed in February 2022 when there were record snowfalls in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Watch the full survival videos with Sherman: - Winter Survival Shelter Walk-through (Quinzee) th-cam.com/video/L3R1NEnTaPc/w-d-xo.html - Winter Car Essentials Walk-through th-cam.com/video/wk2K2qnC8Iw/w-d-xo.html
Guys, treat your skate blades with some care. Being on a river dulls the blades dramically compared to zamboni ice. Bashing the blades on other surfaces is another big nono. Hope they all got sharpened after.
As someone who's moved from Edmonton to Toronto by car on 3 Jan 2010, I can relate to all of this except for driving through a snow storm at night - that's just suicidal! I really hope you had real winter tires fitted to all 4 wheels and didn't go faster than 90-100kph. glad you guys made it!
You're giving us Winnipeggers the proper winter respect. 🤣 The warming huts are just art installations now. And I see most of your filming was done in my area of the city!
Living in the southern US (Nashville), I can’t imagine trying to live out day-to-day life in the constant cold of a Canadian winter. I would need so much gear that I don’t own or even know how to use. This video illustrates that in so many ways! I’d love to see Canada one day, but it will have to be a summer tour. Thanks for a great video!
Somehwhat prepared city dwellers have: - a basic shovel for clearing snow, likely an ice scraper - extension cord for any night under -20, 1 or more snow brushes (w/ ice scraper attachment), and something for traction to help your vehicle get unstuck from snow (cardboard, sand) - at least 1 set of clothing made for the coldest weather to cover everything - a parka even if you don't need one
Nahh, spend your money elsewhere. Canada is extremely expensive in the summer and in the winter there is always the constant risk of hypothermia with ridiculous temperatures at -20,-30,-40, coupled with frozen winds and Ice/snow in large quantities. It gets so damn cold the infrastructure can't even handle it, last week there were massive water pipe bursts all over Montreal due to the extreme cold. This place should be transformed into a polar bear reserve called New Siberia or something along those lines. 😁
@@Direblade11 Eh, unless you're into outdoorsy stuff, a parka and clothing made for the coldest weather is overkill for most Canadian cities. Just layer up.
@@RandomPlaceHolderName If you ever want to travel in winter between cities or on cold days where your car can break down, you don't want to risk frostbite/hypothermia. I live in SK though. And while yeah you could maybe call a parka overkill in the city, you want it for "just in case" scenarios like a bigger power-outage at night
When I mentioned "plugging in the car" to New Zealand relatives (30 years ago) , they couldn't stop laughing... picturing very, very, very long extention cords.
I also grew up in Winnipeg and now live in Japan. So nostalgic. Just the sound of that snow block being kicked on the ground brought me right back :-) An unexpected gift. Thank you!
Are you still able to guage the actual temperature by nothing more than the sound that boots make crunching in the snow? You may not realize you have that skill but if you watch a few videos of people walking around in bitterly cold temperatures, I'm confident you will be able to, at the very least, tell when it's below minus 20.
I came here to see what other people thought of Canada and instead found the fellow Canadians haha. Grew up in Moncton, I remember the snow drifts being as tall as the front doors sometimes.
Aussie here. Spent some years in Scotland before I settled back down in Melbourne. Have always wanted to move to live in Canada (Quebec?) but the missus didn't like the idea of anything south of 0 celsius Lol... i wonder if this video will help me finally sell it!! Any tips welcome :)
@@yeahboi7562 Don't know what part of Australia you're from as I've heard that you can get snow there as well but there's nothing like freshly fallen snow at night when the moon comes out. The nights are bright, you can make out trees, hills, buildings, etc but it looks like everything is covered in sparkling gems. Very beautiful. There's a solitude to the winter as well that's meditative and the crispness to the air is incredibly refreshing and clean. Where you go does matter though. Quebec, Ontario and the Maritime provinces will have the humidity that was discussed in the video which is that damp, bone chilling cold vs the dry cold of the prairies but the prairies tends to get way more snow and wilder swings in temp and weather during the winter. Also like the video says, southern BC coastal areas with it's temperate maritime climate is much warmer overall than anywhere else in Canada (the rest of BC varies wildly with the mountains full of micro-climates).
The essential skill to live in Winnipeg is to know that you have to wear layers of clothes and a good jacket on top of that to survive being outside during Winnipeg winter. Last year was crazy though with the snow combined with the cold.
The validation for hearing someone say qinzy (however you spell it) is incredible. My dad who is from Michigan taught us how to build them and it was a regular winter activity! Where I grew up in Colorado the snow was to dry to pack so it was one of the few things me could build. I remember how warm they would get and how me and my brother would lay inside and refuse to come out. And no one has ever believed me when I talk about quinzys and thinks my dad made it up!
I come from the north of Sweden, where it gets quite cold and snowy. My brother who lived abroad for a large part of his adult life was suffering a lot more in the winter in Brazil and Ireland. The houses in Sweden are very well isolated and heated, something not as common in a lot of other countries even though the winters are milder.
Yeah the hallway to the kitchen in my dorm in Japan didn't have any glass in the windows, so whatever temperature was outside was inside the kitchen basically. I got pretty used to it, but when my parents came to visit from Sweden they were shocked to find me cooking food in +5 haha.
Hello from Calgary! As someone who loves your videos and loves traveling to Japan. It's great to sit with you while you drive across Canada! That cold snap recently was brutal. Great to see you made it okay!
Same here! And as a person from Ottawa who has by extension been skating on the Canal many times, I'm pretty sure the holes along the river in Winnipeg were where they test the depth of the ice to verify it's safe to skate on? Especially since it's off to the side where there's snow rather than on the ice where people are skating lol
I grew up and still live in Norway. I remember my winters in the 1hr outskirts from Oslo as cold and dry, but now that I study and live in Oslo, the winters are humid and wet - much worse than from my hometown! You sum it up well in your video; humid winters are much worse than dry winters - even if the temperature is higher versus lower. Sadly, in the city center there is little snow (Oslo), so for proper winter you need to travel to the inlands or skiing mountains (alpine skiing). The closer you are to the sea here, the more of an unstable winter will be brought upon your town.
@@LifeWhereImFrom Well, the very center was full of snow early to mid January this year, because of the temperatures being below -10 celsius. However, now that it's not as cold, the snow can be seen ca 10-15 minutes away from the center, upwards. The center is right by the coastline which offers humid winds. This is also a reason as to why coastal cities such as Haugesund, Stavanger and Bergen have little to zero snow.
Michigander popping in to say, watching the kiddos sledding off of the snowbank at the end of the video reminded me of my core memories as a kid. Dad would carve steps into the bank for me to walk up and sled down. If the driveway was icy, it was like being the pinball in a arcade machine. I remember a few winters that looked like what was portrayed on your video, with it being so cold that the snow just accumulated over the entire season. Its a different story now, moreso freezing rain as the norm the last decade or so.
Michigander here too! I currently live abroad and watching this (and reading your comment) gave me so much nostalgia! Winter has always been my favorite season, all my best memories are of snow. Sad to hear that our winters arent the same anymore
Minus 40 isn't too bad when you have the right gear on, you can feel the heat layer between you. -55 though is something else. Like all the materials don't work anymore and the wind goes through you like a window. So have the regular snow coats but always have that heavier gear they were using on those off chance winter days, and good winter pants
Try sticking your hand in the freezer for a minute or two organizing it and you know how cold it gets in Winnipeg without mittens or hold a ice 🧊 to csome skin for less than 30 seconds. Picture that is your nose freezing when the wind blows with windchill. Right now it is -25 but feel like - 33 c over night it will be -42 c with the wind chill. Skin can freeze in seconds or minutes. Your do not want to feel frostbite. I wish I was in Hawaii to get away from the cold. But in summer I want to done cooler +50 with the the humidity. This last for 6 months or. More mother nature decided when spring is coming. I hope it’s early this year.
Winter tip from a fellow Canadian...always crack the front two windows a bit (that's if they're not frozen shut), and the windows will de-fog 5x as fast. The humidity in the air from you're breathing has no place to go, so roll down the front windows 20mm. When driving, roll down the two REAR windows, so you don't get blasted by cold air from the front windows. Welcome to Canada, eh!
@@ithecastic bruh we're about to get the second round of near-zero weather for January and February. I can't tell you that's climate change, but an understanding of how carbon dioxide affects how the sun's rays go through/stay in the atmosphere seems like a reasonable explanation for why our coldest seasons are having snow melt.
i live in israel now, but was born and lived for 22 years in the biggest city in sibera, winnipeg snow wise looks exactly the same on the other side of the globe
As someone who grew up in a tropical country where our definition of COLD is 20 deg C, I couldn't even imagine how people survive and thrive in temperatures such as this! Unbelievable!
My experience living in Northern Illinois was I could go outside in a pair of sweats and a hoodie down to temperatures of -18C (-2F.) I once walked outside in a t-shirt and shorts when it was -34C (-30F) and that lasted all of 2 seconds before I turned back around and grabbed my winter coat. Getting the car to start was one thing but the real challenge was getting into the car when it was frozen in ice. Many a commute was also spent holding the door closed because the latch was frozen, it would usually warm up enough when I got to work 30 minutes later.
Please dont drive from morning to midnight in a snowstorm! You are insane. Please be carefull. You can very easily overestimate your attention capabilities when tired and those conditions dont allow for mistakes.
I mean i don't know why I'm surprised at other cities having "skyways" (+15's here in Calgary) but nice to see. Gotta love the flat expanse Saskatchewan standard joke. Agree with your brother on cold = great snow to move given its fluffiness. Versus near zero and "wet" snow which is heavy and thus a pain to shovel. Ah the oversight of thinking I don't plug in the car, only need to do it a few times before you remember to have a extension cord in the car during the winter. As for a survival kit/box in your car i guess it depends on how often you are outside of a city.
As a Winnipegger it was a pleasant surprise when you first mentioned you were from here a while back. Another great surprise today seeing streets I've driven by countless times on your channel. Cheers and a happy February!
Clicked the video right after seeing the title lol I always wonder why my Canadians friends are like polar bears! They could even go outside with flipflops under -10 C! While I was covered like a snowman in this video lol As an Asian born near equator, the whole canada is like an ice age! - Locals can survive by automobiles but international students can only rely on buses... ( there was no metro around the university, but I do like the metro in Toronto. It was huge and warm! )
I rely on buses too most of the time, and the Winnipeg public transit system is...severely lacking (though it is very gradually improving, there's a long way to go before it approaches the much better transit systems of Toronto and Montreal, both of which I absolutely adore...and which, by European standards, are...average at best). I live in the far south end of Winnipeg, and attend school in the far north-west of the city, and my bus commute requires 3 different buses, and usually takes between 60-75 minutes (and note that Winnipeg is not a big city...in a car, this distance is driveable in under 25 minutes, most days). Also, I do find people exaggerate the cold here. It's not that bad. I don't think we've had more 2 or 3 days since this winter began in November when the wind chill dipped to below -50°, and in all cases, it happened at like, 5 or 6 AM (in the afternoons, when days are warmest, the wind chill is almost always above -40°). Every winter, we see maybe 30 to 35 days where during working hours (say 8 AM to 5 PM), the wind chill is sometimes below -30°, with air temperatures between -20 to -25°C (and most of those days are in January and early February). *No, the worst part of the Winnipeg winter is its length.* It's March 20th as I write this. Last night's low was -18°C with a -28° wind chill, and the high temperature today was -8°C with a -14° wind chill, and while this is certainly colder than average for this time of year, it's not _anomalously-cold._ Like, I'm sure ~20% of the time, this is what March 20th looks like. And while the forecast looks pretty good for next weekend (with highs around freezing, which is roughly the average temperature at this time of year) signalling that maybe winter is slowly crawling to an end, it is likely that there will be perceptible snow on the ground for at least another 3 to 4 weeks. Like, I would be SHOCKED if we had no snow cover on Easter (April 9th). Other places in Canada (even places that get legitimate winters, like Ottawa and Montreal) have green grass and flowers growing by then, and here it's a win if there's no April snowstorm around that time. *In fact, last year, there were patches of snow still holding out against the warm-ish weather on **_May 1st,_** because we DID get a large April snowstorm.* It just gets tiresome. We have ~5.5 months of winter and ~3.5 months of summer, but only ~6 weeks of spring and ~8 weeks of fall (which happens to be my absolute favourite season). That's the only issue I have with the climate in my city.
Born in Montreal I live in So Cal now I absolutely dislike the cold (an these pictures remind me why)! and would never go back though visiting home in the fall is nice This was a very interesting video Thank you for your hard work
As seen from my home in southwest Saskatchewan I love this. It is a great video. It could have easily been expanded into several more. It well illustrates the terrors of driving on an icy highway with drifting snow. It also illustrates the delights of a sunny winter day with little wind. While it has been relatively warm (-10°C) here since Christmas with little fresh snow, the Feb 22 date that this was recorded reminds me that winter is far from over. I visited Winnipeg last August and attended a baseball game in the riverside stadium. I would love to see a video recording the pleasures of travel in the prairie summer. (Perhaps I should make one myself!)
Sugestion always have at least half a tank of fuel to prevent condensation freezing fuel lines. Also heavy sleeping bag and jumper cables. And few candles to keep warm.
I'm from Atlantic Canada (PEI land of Anne) and it was -28C here with the recent Polar Vortex that's the coldest I've ever seen here. It was actually quite nice before that even about 0C and some green grass up until mid January. I had to laugh at the "How do Canadians survive winter we stay indoors" line. So true.
We live in Southern California and never experience winter like this, at most we wear a light sweater for our winter prep in 56 F weather lol thank you for sharing winter in Canada!! So jealous of that beautiful white snow.
Thanks for sharing this video and your adventures 🙂 Sherman seems like a really good buddy to have if you ever found yourself in a pinch 🙂. (or the Zombie apocalypse 🤣) I’d have his number at the very top of my contacts list, especially during winter time. ❤ Thanks for sharing this information Sherman. 🙂🐿🌈❤️ P.s I too am a big fan of the 40°c = 40°f. I only discovered this fact last winter and I thought that it was a pretty cool fact. Even if it still kinda confuses my brain. I even sat down with a google conversion site open on my phone. I started at 20°c and added 1° until I reached 40°c, just to see how the Fahrenheit numbers progressed - it made me feel even more confused 😳
As a a person born in Winnipeg or winterpeg. Driving cars are easier how about taking a public transit in -45 Celsius To work. Layers are the best often to keeping warm. And keeping extra winter gear in the house in case you lose a mitten somewhere it has happened to me.
The problem with Canada is not the winter, it's the fact that it's cold to freezing cold from early October to early May. That's 8 months of cold to bitter cold. Then you get 4 months of warm to hot weather. It's just depressing knowing you live in a place that you will spend 2/3 of your life in miserable weather.
Pretty similar in Finland about how we handle snow. Doesn’t get very cold in Helsinki, but it gets very humid so it feels cold! Yucky dirty snow after one or two days in the city bc of sanding and grit.
My ex-colleagues from Winnipeg talked about "winter" to us in Berlin, but I couldn't even live in Germany, coming from Iran. So, no, thank you. I enjoyed this video, but I hope it always remains in my computer screen and never experience it first hand.
3:11 driving in those conditions are absolutely mental. You'd fly off in a ditch and nobody would know. I hope now people understand why Canada will fight tooth and nail for immigrants.
it's nice to see a video about something so familiar! the sounds when the temperature is below -25C are very distinct. and the troubles of sidewalks being half covered in snow, it's easier to brave the road usually. i live in a city somewhat nearby and have screenshots of the -30's we were getting last february too (as well as the snow... there was snow much, i never want to pick a shovel up again lol) i wish we had those warming huts, anything to break the wind
It totally depends where you are in Canada. Southern Ontario is a lot warmer than Manitoba. As I watch this, it is 11c on 12 Feb 2023 in Cambridge. Our winters have become so much more mild than when I was a kid. I remember how mesmerizing the snowflakes are in your headlights on the highway. I sort of miss how it used to get that snowy in southern Ontario. Don't miss the -25c, but do miss the snow.
That was super interesting! I'm from Austria in Europe, and we do get snow here too, although not much where I live (Southern Austria). But when it snows, it's often between -10°C and 0°, and it's super annoying to clean off your car because the snow is so heavy. Kinda crazy to know it would be easier if it was colder! :) I was surprised to hear that winter tires are not mandatory everywhere in Canada. I guess with all-year-tires it's okay, but here in Austria, no one really dares to not use winter tires. I'm personally not scared on driving on snowy roads, but seeing that black ice on the highway, I definitely wouldn't have driven there. How fast were you able to go on that? Also, the mesmerizing effect of snowfall while driving in the dark... it's so exhausting to drive in those conditions. I'm glad I didn't yet have to do that this winter. I love how there are tunnels and sky bridges (lol forgot the actual word) around the city so you don't have to go outside. That's so cool! Thanks for the great video ❤
It's skyways! Yeah, winter tires depends on the location or resident status. Like in Quebec, only residents have to put them on. Visitors are not required. Whereas in B.C., they'll designate the roads that require them. The whole time I was growing up in Winnipeg we never have snow tires. I think it's a bit more possible because it's so flat. But yeah, of course snow tires will be much safer. We didn't know the highways were in such bad shape (black ice). If we had, we never would have got on. As soon as we could we got off. There are long stretches where there are no good rest stops, and in the cold, you don't want to get stuck somewhere. We were driving at something like 20 or 30 km/h for the icy portions. Very, very tiring (both the night and the ice portions).
@@LifeWhereImFrom Thank you for answering! Okay, that makes sense. I'm glad you got off the highways safely and were able to continue driving in better conditions 🥰
I'm from Quebec city and today is one of the coldest here -28°C feels like - 42°C. This year we have had decent amount of snow all falling in the last month. And tough it's not always perfect, it seems we have better snow management. Most of the time the snow is either blown away on the side of the road if there is place or moved to a snow depot to comfortably clear the roads and the sidewalks. After a snowstorm, it take a few days and a lot of work (day and night) to clear everything up.
Hi Greg, this was a great video! We are in a small town east of Ottawa and right now it's -25°C with a 'feels like' of -33°C - and we are staying home! When our kids were in school, I remember that they didn't go out for recess if the temperature was lower than -13°C. They also made quinzees when they were younger, with the Scouts, but I didn't see that (my husband went on those outings!), so it was interesting to see exactly how they are made. Thanks for this video, better late than never!
Go further north and you get what we live in -40 to -50 with a windchill sometimes of -55. We have a few months of this. Good old NWT. Burrrrrr. But what you did was very dangerous. Never should you be driving after dark in a snowstorm. Its not worth it seen many accidents in my day. A $125 hotel can save your life.
Being from Quebec City I can confirm that we have cold days but also warmer ones so snow melt liquid or pass direct from solid form (snow) to vapour, so we have lots of snow but it doesn’t accumulate as much as Winnipeg!!! I didn’t know Winnipeg had so much snow. I knew it was cold but knew nothing about the snow! Also, Costco Chaude chienne! Hihihi, It’s not how it’s translated… you could say chien chaud, but nobody use that word. We just call it hot dog. Actually, Chienne chaude could have a really really different meaning. Not a PG one. 😂 But I do appreciate very very much the effort of translation!! I like feeling included when there’s video about Canada and there’s a bit of french in it. 😊
The humidity in the winter I have found is more likely to make you sweat when you are moving around in the cold, which can be really dangerous cause once you stop sweating you will freeze and be prone to hypothermia
I live in the northern U.S. so while not quite as cold as Winnipeg we still get our fair share of winter weather. I've also driven at night in a snowstorm and just like you the truck drivers on the road with me were insane. They would go flying by and kick up a bunch of snow as they did. It was terrifying anytime I saw truck headlights in the rearview mirror coming up behind me.
The worst snow was where I am from, St John's Newfoundland. It's horrible, this why I'm loving living in southern Kanagawa and we saw only a few flakes of snow one night.
Fellow former Winnipegger here. I've long since loved your channel for the Japan content, and never expected to see a video from you that triggered nostalgia more than anything. I enjoyed it very much! Thanks Greg!
The emergency kit in the trunk is so real for travel in winter, I live in Alberta and frequently drive outside of the major cities. I keep a mini shovel, tow ropes, booster cables, candles, road flares, blankets, extra gloves, and sand/kitty litter minimum on hand. I know it seems over the top but the cold is no joke if you end up solo and stuck.
Great video, did you experienced the square tire effect when it's so cold and tires have bumps in them until they warm up a bit? I don't miss -35 from my hometown in Quebec but I miss warm houses here in Tohoku.
22:48 - Not sure if it's the same car but since it might be the used "new" car you just bought the battery might be on it's last legs...although it sounds like it's cranking decently enough. If you don't already have one, a portable power pack that can jump start your car is so convenient to have. NOCO for example- small, compact and can give those extra crank amps when it's freezing no problem or if your battery is just plain dead.
That's my youngest brother's car, so a different one. Yeah, my friend Sherman showed a portable power pack in this car essentials tour th-cam.com/video/wk2K2qnC8Iw/w-d-xo.html
@@LifeWhereImFrom I was actually cracking up so hard at that car footage because the "if it whirs it starts" coupled with the mid-video flash showing that this car is a 2000s Subaru Impreza, I was having flashbacks 😂 My partner is from Tennessee and he drove his brand "new" 2007 Subaru Impreza alllll the way up to Ottawa to attend university here (where we met 😊)... His car went one whole winter without issue and that was all it could take lmao We got stranded so many places waiting for the engine to heat up or someone to give us a jump when the portable power pack didn't do the trick! Also, if your brother ever has issues with the car not starting in not Winter season, make sure he isn't using the aux power outlet at the front of the centre console-- there's a known issue with it quickly draining the car's battery 😅
Grew up in Wisconsin. Very similar. It’s not cold unless your nose hairs go “SNIK!” when you breathe in. It’s a dry cold. Germany is more of that wet cold that really chills you. You can also have pink snow when they use beet juice to melt the ice. It’s like a natural antifreeze.
Cool. I love the powdery snow you get in Winnipeg. We don’t get much snow in Vancouver but when we do, we usually get wet and heavy snow. Slushy and heavy. So hard to drive on even with snow tires.😂
As someone who's moved from Edmonton to Toronto by car on 3 Jan 2010, I can relate to all of this except for driving through a snow storm at night - that's just suicidal! I really hope you had real winter tires fitted to all 4 wheels and didn't go faster than 90-100kph. glad you guys made it!
I was avoiding this video all day thinking it would be strange. 4 min in and you have shown why and how I want to make videos like these to talk about how much I hate winter in Saskatchewan 6 months out of the year. Lived here for 46 years and can't get out. Once the kid grows up and finds her way I am outta here. 🤣
i grew up in Florida, so i experienced zero snow up until i visited Washington in winter 2020. then i moved there during Fall of the same year and stayed until mid 2022 (now im back in florida, not really by choice though). i loved taking walks around the small city i lived in, even though it was below freezing, and snowing. i soaked in as much snow time as i could, because after 25 years of no snow, i really enjoyed finally being able to experience the newness of it. i dont have a car or license, so i have 0 experience driving on snow or ice, so thats a whole different aspect i'll have to experience later. only watched my roommate drive and deal with cleaning snow off his car. the nearest grocery store was right next to our apartment, so i just walked there whenever i needed food.
Until I moved to Ontario from Connecticut I haven't considered winter tires.. But man, they make a lot of difference.. And you get 5% off of already crazy expensive insurance..
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I'm from a city in Siberia and how winter makes all cities look alike. Piles of snow on the sidewalks, brown snow from the sand and crusts of ice from the snow that melted from the salt. We have about the same climate, dry, with frosts down to -40 degrees Celsius, but mostly from -10 to -25. It is a pity that it was not said whether the snow is exported from the private sector somewhere, to landfills or to snow melters. I love winter, snow and frost. But not when this season lasts for 6-7 months a year. I think being a kid and living in a place where there is a real winter is a real success. I remember as a child waiting for winter to come so I could finally have fun in winter games. Did you find some unusual snowball on the road? Be sure to take it with you. Kicking a small stone of snow up to the house? Always for. As a child, winter did not bother. It always warms my soul when I see children who, like me as a child, enjoy winter to the fullest. Thanks Greg for this video!
Maybe someone else can chime in on where the snow goes. But as far as I know, they just push it and pile it up on site. Annnnnd..... they do have a few locations where they dump now, which you can find at legacy.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/snow/default.stm
It kinda depends on the city, on how they dump snow. Some sadly dont remove the snow from the sidewalks, its usually smaller cities with smaller budgets. Where I live, they bring the snow to zones in parks, if its in a parking lot they pile it in a giant mound, or they bring it outside the city. The first priority is to get the snow off the roads and that means pushing it on the sidewalks. Once they are finally done they would start removing snow pushed onto the sidewalks, but it could take a month or two
You remind me of a story from when I was in college. I went to a small science/engineering oriented school. I was taking a German language class with only a few students. Maybe six or seven. The first time we met after Christmas our instructor asked us what we'd done over break. One student said she'd gone home to Canada (some place very far north, such as Yukon or NT) and that it had been -40 degrees. Our instructor asked if that was F or C, and *every* student in the room answered simultaneously "it's the same".
Lol
I went to college in Fairbanks, Alaska. Everyone there knows -40 was the same in F and C.
I never knew until now! I’ve never experienced such temperatures.
Reminds me of makingn snow forts when I was a kid in Toronto. Also used to do snow camping so a lot of the survival tips were good reminders too. Unfortunately it doesn't get as cold anymore so I wonder what kids do today. I really enjoyed all the squeaky snow sounds!
Wow, those driving videos gave me flashbacks of driving from Chicago to and from Spokane, Washington in February of 2019 to pick up our second dog. Driving I-90 through the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho isn't that different or much further south than the Trans-Canada. We got stuck at one of the mountain passes because there were jackknifed semis on both sides of the highway. Super scary!
As someone from atlantic canada, this is kind of fascinating to me. We get lots of precipitation but our temperature tends to bounce all over the place so its just a rapid storm-thaw cycle. -40 feels as much like a myth to me as the abominable snowman. The dampness on the other hand.. I spent my entire childhood cold lol
Using all-season tires in the winter is a recipe for disaster as traction essentially goes to zero. The rubber gets as hard as a hocky puck and you have no traction on surfaces such as asphalt. However, if you are driving on unpacked snow, it might not make any difference as cold snow, and even cold ice, is less slippery than when tempertures are near 0 Celsius.
Has a snow brush, uses his hand.
yep i always enjoy those big semi driving fast pass me and thne a few minutes later see them in the ditch
Shorts and ice cream cones? (That’s the image, anyway.)
As an Albertan, I was little sad you didn’t show your road trip through my province, but then I remember that there’s literally nothing to show here 😂 I really love seeing Canada content!
He actually did show some footage of Medicine Hat at 3:40! It's where I'm from and definitely not a huge city so I wasn't expecting to see home in the video! Super cool!
@@kaydee2976 oh never mind then! He went from driving through BC, to saying he was in Saskatchewan so I just assumed there was no Alberta, but it’s nice to see a smaller city included, even if not directly mentioned 👏 I’d love to go to Medicine Hat one day, too!
@Scooby Doo yeah I would've thought the same thing if I didn't live in Medicine Hat. It's so close to Saskatchewan though
It's a nice city but there isn't a lot to do lol. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else though!
I didn't specifically say it, but the night driving were on the roads past Calgary on the way to Medicine Hat.
@@LifeWhereImFrom I thought I recognized those roads.
This is one of the best depiction of canadian winter I've seen. No exaggeration, no drama, it just is what it is.
After 7 years living in a country without winter, I can now appreciate how some of those images (like the full winter suit!) can seems completely alien to other people. But for me it just feels cosy and reminds me of home!
I live in New Zealand and the only time we wear clothes like that is when we go skiing. I don’t even know if my ski clothes fit me anywhere because it’s been years since I’ve gone skiing. I usually just put on a denim jacket or a puffer jacket when it’s very cold in winter and that’s enough to keep me warm. It doesn’t usually get below 0°C here and we get like 2cm of snowfall every year. Seeing all this snow in a city is insane to me. I only see snow like this on the ski slopes. Most kids walk home from school here and even in winter they don’t wear much because you don’t need to. Trainers, short socks, knee length skirt/shorts, button up shirt, and a school soft shell jacket or school fleece. That’s all kids wear. They usually don’t even wear trousers or tights in winter. And I think my area is considered cold in New Zealand because ankle length kilts used to be a stable of high school girls’ winter uniform here but schools started getting rid of the kilts which is sad because kilts are awesome. Most schools just have one uniform that you wear in both summer and winter.
I love how many other Canadians are in the comments, it’s almost our whole population here!
Cherish the cold weather like your brother just said. I've been seeing more and more 0 degree days the past few winters in Ottawa, and I'd take snow over freezing rain anyday
Ugh. I moved from Ottawa to Toronto and I miss the cold. Toronto just has an awful November that lasts for 5 months.
@@LSOP-Im from Toronto and I loved our last 2 winters! I love how the snow is usually packing snow and melts within a week or two enough to see the grass underneath. We also got some nice sunny 10-15 degree days in December and February the past winter which were glorious! This past winter has been so warm that it is the only winter where I didnt seriously consider moving to Florida or Texas.
Another video that I've sat on for a year! This was all filmed in February 2022 when there were record snowfalls in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Watch the full survival videos with Sherman:
- Winter Survival Shelter Walk-through (Quinzee) th-cam.com/video/L3R1NEnTaPc/w-d-xo.html
- Winter Car Essentials Walk-through th-cam.com/video/wk2K2qnC8Iw/w-d-xo.html
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Guys, treat your skate blades with some care. Being on a river dulls the blades dramically compared to zamboni ice. Bashing the blades on other surfaces is another big nono. Hope they all got sharpened after.
Your channel is amazing but I particularly LOVED this video. Thanks for sharing all this with us.
Shout out wpg !!! I thought that looked like birds hill in the beginning
As someone who's moved from Edmonton to Toronto by car on 3 Jan 2010, I can relate to all of this except for driving through a snow storm at night - that's just suicidal! I really hope you had real winter tires fitted to all 4 wheels and didn't go faster than 90-100kph.
glad you guys made it!
You're giving us Winnipeggers the proper winter respect. 🤣
The warming huts are just art installations now.
And I see most of your filming was done in my area of the city!
Winnipeg is so interesting that the best thing they have going for them is North Dakota.
@@Lee-ic8ln Yeah! I miss Columbia Mall :P
@@rig-a-deelio8465 Don't we all.
Living in the southern US (Nashville), I can’t imagine trying to live out day-to-day life in the constant cold of a Canadian winter. I would need so much gear that I don’t own or even know how to use. This video illustrates that in so many ways! I’d love to see Canada one day, but it will have to be a summer tour. Thanks for a great video!
Somehwhat prepared city dwellers have: - a basic shovel for clearing snow, likely an ice scraper
- extension cord for any night under -20, 1 or more snow brushes (w/ ice scraper attachment), and something for traction to help your vehicle get unstuck from snow (cardboard, sand)
- at least 1 set of clothing made for the coldest weather to cover everything
- a parka even if you don't need one
Nahh, spend your money elsewhere. Canada is extremely expensive in the summer and in the winter there is always the constant risk of hypothermia with ridiculous temperatures at -20,-30,-40, coupled with frozen winds and Ice/snow in large quantities. It gets so damn cold the infrastructure can't even handle it, last week there were massive water pipe bursts all over Montreal due to the extreme cold.
This place should be transformed into a polar bear reserve called New Siberia or something along those lines. 😁
As someone from the Canadian prairies, we are nearly as unprepared for southern heat and humidity
@@Direblade11 Eh, unless you're into outdoorsy stuff, a parka and clothing made for the coldest weather is overkill for most Canadian cities. Just layer up.
@@RandomPlaceHolderName If you ever want to travel in winter between cities or on cold days where your car can break down, you don't want to risk frostbite/hypothermia.
I live in SK though. And while yeah you could maybe call a parka overkill in the city, you want it for "just in case" scenarios like a bigger power-outage at night
When I mentioned "plugging in the car" to New Zealand relatives (30 years ago) , they couldn't stop laughing...
picturing very, very, very long extention cords.
I also grew up in Winnipeg and now live in Japan. So nostalgic. Just the sound of that snow block being kicked on the ground brought me right back :-) An unexpected gift. Thank you!
Right, that sound brought it all back for me too!
@@LifeWhereImFrom Same with the sound, but I'm from Sweden.
Are you still able to guage the actual temperature by nothing more than the sound that boots make crunching in the snow? You may not realize you have that skill but if you watch a few videos of people walking around in bitterly cold temperatures, I'm confident you will be able to, at the very least, tell when it's below minus 20.
@@mustwereallydothis Maybe a bit, but I at least know it's below -10C if the hairs in my nose starts to freeze XD
@@Narnendil 😆 That is accurate.
I came here to see what other people thought of Canada and instead found the fellow Canadians haha.
Grew up in Moncton, I remember the snow drifts being as tall as the front doors sometimes.
Aussie here. Spent some years in Scotland before I settled back down in Melbourne. Have always wanted to move to live in Canada (Quebec?) but the missus didn't like the idea of anything south of 0 celsius Lol... i wonder if this video will help me finally sell it!!
Any tips welcome :)
@@yeahboi7562 Don't know what part of Australia you're from as I've heard that you can get snow there as well but there's nothing like freshly fallen snow at night when the moon comes out. The nights are bright, you can make out trees, hills, buildings, etc but it looks like everything is covered in sparkling gems. Very beautiful. There's a solitude to the winter as well that's meditative and the crispness to the air is incredibly refreshing and clean.
Where you go does matter though. Quebec, Ontario and the Maritime provinces will have the humidity that was discussed in the video which is that damp, bone chilling cold vs the dry cold of the prairies but the prairies tends to get way more snow and wilder swings in temp and weather during the winter. Also like the video says, southern BC coastal areas with it's temperate maritime climate is much warmer overall than anywhere else in Canada (the rest of BC varies wildly with the mountains full of micro-climates).
The essential skill to live in Winnipeg is to know that you have to wear layers of clothes and a good jacket on top of that to survive being outside during Winnipeg winter. Last year was crazy though with the snow combined with the cold.
Yeah, I should have had a quick section about layers and covering your extremities and face up to combat the wind and dry cold.
The validation for hearing someone say qinzy (however you spell it) is incredible. My dad who is from Michigan taught us how to build them and it was a regular winter activity! Where I grew up in Colorado the snow was to dry to pack so it was one of the few things me could build. I remember how warm they would get and how me and my brother would lay inside and refuse to come out. And no one has ever believed me when I talk about quinzys and thinks my dad made it up!
Surprising to see a video about Canada, but a welcomed one as a fellow canadian!
Love your Japanese videos! Never knew you're a fellow Winnipegger! Could have sworn I saw you downtown here last summer
Could have been. I was there for my brother's wedding!
Despite being a Canadian who lives in these conditions, Im still watching this video
I come from the north of Sweden, where it gets quite cold and snowy. My brother who lived abroad for a large part of his adult life was suffering a lot more in the winter in Brazil and Ireland. The houses in Sweden are very well isolated and heated, something not as common in a lot of other countries even though the winters are milder.
Yeah the hallway to the kitchen in my dorm in Japan didn't have any glass in the windows, so whatever temperature was outside was inside the kitchen basically. I got pretty used to it, but when my parents came to visit from Sweden they were shocked to find me cooking food in +5 haha.
That dark, snowy drive is a whole lot of NOPE for me 😮
This. It's like asking to die or something.
Hello from Calgary! As someone who loves your videos and loves traveling to Japan. It's great to sit with you while you drive across Canada! That cold snap recently was brutal. Great to see you made it okay!
Born and raised in Ottawa, regularly gets to -25 or -30 several days a year. Love this content, makes me feel all cozy :) Well done and well filmed!
Ottawan gang!
Same here! And as a person from Ottawa who has by extension been skating on the Canal many times, I'm pretty sure the holes along the river in Winnipeg were where they test the depth of the ice to verify it's safe to skate on? Especially since it's off to the side where there's snow rather than on the ice where people are skating lol
@@co_co_chantal Looks like the Rideau canal is closed this whole year....makes me so sad this season. D:
Also born and raised in Ottawa, moved to coastal BC where we don't really get real winter, and this definitely made me nostalgic
Also, the point about the humidity in Toronto never crossed my mind! Guess it makes sense that it feels a lot colder here because of that
I grew up and still live in Norway. I remember my winters in the 1hr outskirts from Oslo as cold and dry, but now that I study and live in Oslo, the winters are humid and wet - much worse than from my hometown! You sum it up well in your video; humid winters are much worse than dry winters - even if the temperature is higher versus lower. Sadly, in the city center there is little snow (Oslo), so for proper winter you need to travel to the inlands or skiing mountains (alpine skiing). The closer you are to the sea here, the more of an unstable winter will be brought upon your town.
Interesting. I wouldn't have thought Oslo would get little snow.
@@LifeWhereImFrom Well, the very center was full of snow early to mid January this year, because of the temperatures being below -10 celsius. However, now that it's not as cold, the snow can be seen ca 10-15 minutes away from the center, upwards. The center is right by the coastline which offers humid winds. This is also a reason as to why coastal cities such as Haugesund, Stavanger and Bergen have little to zero snow.
Michigander popping in to say, watching the kiddos sledding off of the snowbank at the end of the video reminded me of my core memories as a kid. Dad would carve steps into the bank for me to walk up and sled down. If the driveway was icy, it was like being the pinball in a arcade machine. I remember a few winters that looked like what was portrayed on your video, with it being so cold that the snow just accumulated over the entire season. Its a different story now, moreso freezing rain as the norm the last decade or so.
Michigander here too! I currently live abroad and watching this (and reading your comment) gave me so much nostalgia! Winter has always been my favorite season, all my best memories are of snow. Sad to hear that our winters arent the same anymore
I never knew you were from Winnipeg! That's awesome!
This is well documented. You never fail to immerse us with what you have to offer on this channel.
Minus 40 isn't too bad when you have the right gear on, you can feel the heat layer between you. -55 though is something else. Like all the materials don't work anymore and the wind goes through you like a window. So have the regular snow coats but always have that heavier gear they were using on those off chance winter days, and good winter pants
I've lived in Hawaii my entire life and havent been out of the state. I have no concept of cold unless im inside of a Library xD
Try sticking your hand in the freezer for a minute or two organizing it and you know how cold it gets in Winnipeg without mittens or hold a ice 🧊 to csome skin for less than 30 seconds. Picture that is your nose freezing when the wind blows with windchill. Right now it is -25 but feel like - 33 c over night it will be -42 c with the wind chill. Skin can freeze in seconds or minutes. Your do not want to feel frostbite. I wish I was in Hawaii to get away from the cold. But in summer I want to done cooler +50 with the the humidity. This last for 6 months or. More mother nature decided when spring is coming. I hope it’s early this year.
Winter tip from a fellow Canadian...always crack the front two windows a bit (that's if they're not frozen shut), and the windows will de-fog 5x as fast. The humidity in the air from you're breathing has no place to go, so roll down the front windows 20mm. When driving, roll down the two REAR windows, so you don't get blasted by cold air from the front windows. Welcome to Canada, eh!
I've lived in Saskatchewan my whole life. We get -30, -35 every winter. We have survived here just as people survive in places that are +40.
In recent years Regina got a couple +40 days in summer too lol
I have a friend who runs a guesthouse in Japan that loves to tell people about how our weather has such a huge variance. -40 all the way to +40!
@@ithecastic bruh we're about to get the second round of near-zero weather for January and February.
I can't tell you that's climate change, but an understanding of how carbon dioxide affects how the sun's rays go through/stay in the atmosphere seems like a reasonable explanation for why our coldest seasons are having snow melt.
i live in israel now, but was born and lived for 22 years in the biggest city in sibera, winnipeg snow wise looks exactly the same on the other side of the globe
Niece: "are you filming this?"
Daugther: "oh yeah! I'm a TH-cam star!"
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'Keeping your freight secure...' Yeah, right :D
This was such a fun video to watch! I'm from Minnesota, so winters are generally pretty rough. I loved the skybridges part for whatever reason too!
You'll find sky bridges in downtown places in central WI too
As someone who grew up in a tropical country where our definition of COLD is 20 deg C, I couldn't even imagine how people survive and thrive in temperatures such as this! Unbelievable!
As someone from a tropical country that went to Canada during winter, the cold isn't as bad as you think until around -5C.
+1 same, from Thailand where 25C is already our premium "winter"
Currently walking to the subway in Toronto in -15, not fun!
Interesting. I walked through -25 and had a good time. I guess it's personal preference.
I'm a Winnipegger. Winter 2022 was the worst for way too much snow. I cried at one point because I couldn't deal with one more day of shoveling.😫
My experience living in Northern Illinois was I could go outside in a pair of sweats and a hoodie down to temperatures of -18C (-2F.) I once walked outside in a t-shirt and shorts when it was -34C (-30F) and that lasted all of 2 seconds before I turned back around and grabbed my winter coat. Getting the car to start was one thing but the real challenge was getting into the car when it was frozen in ice. Many a commute was also spent holding the door closed because the latch was frozen, it would usually warm up enough when I got to work 30 minutes later.
I forgot about holding the door closed!! 😂
Please dont drive from morning to midnight in a snowstorm! You are insane. Please be carefull. You can very easily overestimate your attention capabilities when tired and those conditions dont allow for mistakes.
Sending warm hugs from Calgary ^_^ We finally have chinook right now.
We Canadians are really built differently ^_^
I mean i don't know why I'm surprised at other cities having "skyways" (+15's here in Calgary) but nice to see. Gotta love the flat expanse Saskatchewan standard joke. Agree with your brother on cold = great snow to move given its fluffiness. Versus near zero and "wet" snow which is heavy and thus a pain to shovel. Ah the oversight of thinking I don't plug in the car, only need to do it a few times before you remember to have a extension cord in the car during the winter. As for a survival kit/box in your car i guess it depends on how often you are outside of a city.
As a Winnipegger it was a pleasant surprise when you first mentioned you were from here a while back. Another great surprise today seeing streets I've driven by countless times on your channel. Cheers and a happy February!
Clicked the video right after seeing the title lol
I always wonder why my Canadians friends are like polar bears! They could even go outside with flipflops under -10 C! While I was covered like a snowman in this video lol
As an Asian born near equator, the whole canada is like an ice age!
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Locals can survive by automobiles but international students can only rely on buses...
( there was no metro around the university, but I do like the metro in Toronto. It was huge and warm! )
I rely on buses too most of the time, and the Winnipeg public transit system is...severely lacking (though it is very gradually improving, there's a long way to go before it approaches the much better transit systems of Toronto and Montreal, both of which I absolutely adore...and which, by European standards, are...average at best). I live in the far south end of Winnipeg, and attend school in the far north-west of the city, and my bus commute requires 3 different buses, and usually takes between 60-75 minutes (and note that Winnipeg is not a big city...in a car, this distance is driveable in under 25 minutes, most days).
Also, I do find people exaggerate the cold here. It's not that bad. I don't think we've had more 2 or 3 days since this winter began in November when the wind chill dipped to below -50°, and in all cases, it happened at like, 5 or 6 AM (in the afternoons, when days are warmest, the wind chill is almost always above -40°). Every winter, we see maybe 30 to 35 days where during working hours (say 8 AM to 5 PM), the wind chill is sometimes below -30°, with air temperatures between -20 to -25°C (and most of those days are in January and early February). *No, the worst part of the Winnipeg winter is its length.* It's March 20th as I write this. Last night's low was -18°C with a -28° wind chill, and the high temperature today was -8°C with a -14° wind chill, and while this is certainly colder than average for this time of year, it's not _anomalously-cold._ Like, I'm sure ~20% of the time, this is what March 20th looks like. And while the forecast looks pretty good for next weekend (with highs around freezing, which is roughly the average temperature at this time of year) signalling that maybe winter is slowly crawling to an end, it is likely that there will be perceptible snow on the ground for at least another 3 to 4 weeks. Like, I would be SHOCKED if we had no snow cover on Easter (April 9th). Other places in Canada (even places that get legitimate winters, like Ottawa and Montreal) have green grass and flowers growing by then, and here it's a win if there's no April snowstorm around that time. *In fact, last year, there were patches of snow still holding out against the warm-ish weather on **_May 1st,_** because we DID get a large April snowstorm.*
It just gets tiresome. We have ~5.5 months of winter and ~3.5 months of summer, but only ~6 weeks of spring and ~8 weeks of fall (which happens to be my absolute favourite season). That's the only issue I have with the climate in my city.
Born in Montreal I live in So Cal now I absolutely dislike the cold (an these pictures remind me why)! and would never go back though visiting home in the fall is nice This was a very interesting video Thank you for your hard work
As seen from my home in southwest Saskatchewan I love this. It is a great video. It could have easily been expanded into several more. It well illustrates the terrors of driving on an icy highway with drifting snow. It also illustrates the delights of a sunny winter day with little wind.
While it has been relatively warm (-10°C) here since Christmas with little fresh snow, the Feb 22 date that this was recorded reminds me that winter is far from over.
I visited Winnipeg last August and attended a baseball game in the riverside stadium. I would love to see a video recording the pleasures of travel in the prairie summer. (Perhaps I should make one myself!)
Sugestion always have at least half a tank of fuel to prevent condensation freezing fuel lines. Also heavy sleeping bag and jumper cables. And few candles to keep warm.
I'm from Atlantic Canada (PEI land of Anne) and it was -28C here with the recent Polar Vortex that's the coldest I've ever seen here. It was actually quite nice before that even about 0C and some green grass up until mid January. I had to laugh at the "How do Canadians survive winter we stay indoors" line. So true.
We live in Southern California and never experience winter like this, at most we wear a light sweater for our winter prep in 56 F weather lol thank you for sharing winter in Canada!! So jealous of that beautiful white snow.
Thanks for sharing this video and your adventures 🙂
Sherman seems like a really good buddy to have if you ever found yourself in a pinch 🙂.
(or the Zombie apocalypse 🤣)
I’d have his number at the very top of my contacts list, especially during winter time.
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Thanks for sharing this information Sherman.
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P.s I too am a big fan of the 40°c = 40°f.
I only discovered this fact last winter and I thought that it was a pretty cool fact.
Even if it still kinda confuses my brain.
I even sat down with a google conversion site open on my phone. I started at 20°c and added 1° until I reached 40°c, just to see how the Fahrenheit numbers progressed - it made me feel even more confused 😳
As a a person born in Winnipeg or winterpeg. Driving cars are easier how about taking a public transit in -45 Celsius To work. Layers are the best often to keeping warm. And keeping extra winter gear in the house in case you lose a mitten somewhere it has happened to me.
As a native Minnesotan, this is all too familiar.
As someone living in Swift (Current) who is from Winnipeg, this video was full of familiar shots. Even that green house house in the back alley!
The problem with Canada is not the winter, it's the fact that it's cold to freezing cold from early October to early May. That's 8 months of cold to bitter cold. Then you get 4 months of warm to hot weather. It's just depressing knowing you live in a place that you will spend 2/3 of your life in miserable weather.
Part of my winter survival estrategy involves watching Life Where I'm From videos... 🙂
Pretty similar in Finland about how we handle snow. Doesn’t get very cold in Helsinki, but it gets very humid so it feels cold! Yucky dirty snow after one or two days in the city bc of sanding and grit.
My ex-colleagues from Winnipeg talked about "winter" to us in Berlin, but I couldn't even live in Germany, coming from Iran. So, no, thank you. I enjoyed this video, but I hope it always remains in my computer screen and never experience it first hand.
3:11 driving in those conditions are absolutely mental. You'd fly off in a ditch and nobody would know.
I hope now people understand why Canada will fight tooth and nail for immigrants.
I love the sounds of snow plowing at night. Really soothing.
it's nice to see a video about something so familiar! the sounds when the temperature is below -25C are very distinct. and the troubles of sidewalks being half covered in snow, it's easier to brave the road usually. i live in a city somewhat nearby and have screenshots of the -30's we were getting last february too (as well as the snow... there was snow much, i never want to pick a shovel up again lol) i wish we had those warming huts, anything to break the wind
It totally depends where you are in Canada. Southern Ontario is a lot warmer than Manitoba. As I watch this, it is 11c on 12 Feb 2023 in Cambridge. Our winters have become so much more mild than when I was a kid. I remember how mesmerizing the snowflakes are in your headlights on the highway. I sort of miss how it used to get that snowy in southern Ontario. Don't miss the -25c, but do miss the snow.
Hello from Saskatoon Saskatchewan 👋🏻🌾💛💚. This video hits all the right spots. 🤣🤣 Very honest view on our Canadian prairies winter 🥶🧊❄️☃️
That was super interesting! I'm from Austria in Europe, and we do get snow here too, although not much where I live (Southern Austria). But when it snows, it's often between -10°C and 0°, and it's super annoying to clean off your car because the snow is so heavy. Kinda crazy to know it would be easier if it was colder! :)
I was surprised to hear that winter tires are not mandatory everywhere in Canada. I guess with all-year-tires it's okay, but here in Austria, no one really dares to not use winter tires. I'm personally not scared on driving on snowy roads, but seeing that black ice on the highway, I definitely wouldn't have driven there. How fast were you able to go on that?
Also, the mesmerizing effect of snowfall while driving in the dark... it's so exhausting to drive in those conditions. I'm glad I didn't yet have to do that this winter.
I love how there are tunnels and sky bridges (lol forgot the actual word) around the city so you don't have to go outside. That's so cool!
Thanks for the great video ❤
It's skyways! Yeah, winter tires depends on the location or resident status. Like in Quebec, only residents have to put them on. Visitors are not required. Whereas in B.C., they'll designate the roads that require them. The whole time I was growing up in Winnipeg we never have snow tires. I think it's a bit more possible because it's so flat. But yeah, of course snow tires will be much safer.
We didn't know the highways were in such bad shape (black ice). If we had, we never would have got on. As soon as we could we got off. There are long stretches where there are no good rest stops, and in the cold, you don't want to get stuck somewhere. We were driving at something like 20 or 30 km/h for the icy portions. Very, very tiring (both the night and the ice portions).
@@LifeWhereImFrom Thank you for answering! Okay, that makes sense. I'm glad you got off the highways safely and were able to continue driving in better conditions 🥰
Great English language skills, Austria👍
Like always Greg, you did a wonderful job videoing and educating. Thank you.
Edmonton here. You did a fine job at showing Canadian winter.
I'm from Quebec city and today is one of the coldest here -28°C feels like - 42°C. This year we have had decent amount of snow all falling in the last month. And tough it's not always perfect, it seems we have better snow management. Most of the time the snow is either blown away on the side of the road if there is place or moved to a snow depot to comfortably clear the roads and the sidewalks. After a snowstorm, it take a few days and a lot of work (day and night) to clear everything up.
Thanks for showing a "true" Canadian winter and all the shenanigans! Nice video!
Hi Greg, this was a great video! We are in a small town east of Ottawa and right now it's -25°C with a 'feels like' of -33°C - and we are staying home! When our kids were in school, I remember that they didn't go out for recess if the temperature was lower than -13°C. They also made quinzees when they were younger, with the Scouts, but I didn't see that (my husband went on those outings!), so it was interesting to see exactly how they are made. Thanks for this video, better late than never!
As a Canadian, I can confirm -10 (Celsius) is like summer weather and it is like -40 everyday.
my dad's whole family is from Winnipeg, and i cannot tell you how happy and nostalgic it makes me to see footage of it in a YT vid 😊
Go further north and you get what we live in -40 to -50 with a windchill sometimes of -55. We have a few months of this. Good old NWT. Burrrrrr. But what you did was very dangerous. Never should you be driving after dark in a snowstorm. Its not worth it seen many accidents in my day. A $125 hotel can save your life.
this is so fun to watch as a winnipeger
Being from Quebec City I can confirm that we have cold days but also warmer ones so snow melt liquid or pass direct from solid form (snow) to vapour, so we have lots of snow but it doesn’t accumulate as much as Winnipeg!!! I didn’t know Winnipeg had so much snow. I knew it was cold but knew nothing about the snow!
Also, Costco Chaude chienne! Hihihi, It’s not how it’s translated… you could say chien chaud, but nobody use that word. We just call it hot dog. Actually, Chienne chaude could have a really really different meaning. Not a PG one. 😂 But I do appreciate very very much the effort of translation!! I like feeling included when there’s video about Canada and there’s a bit of french in it. 😊
The humidity in the winter I have found is more likely to make you sweat when you are moving around in the cold, which can be really dangerous cause once you stop sweating you will freeze and be prone to hypothermia
I live in the northern U.S. so while not quite as cold as Winnipeg we still get our fair share of winter weather. I've also driven at night in a snowstorm and just like you the truck drivers on the road with me were insane. They would go flying by and kick up a bunch of snow as they did. It was terrifying anytime I saw truck headlights in the rearview mirror coming up behind me.
The worst snow was where I am from, St John's Newfoundland. It's horrible, this why I'm loving living in southern Kanagawa and we saw only a few flakes of snow one night.
Fellow former Winnipegger here. I've long since loved your channel for the Japan content, and never expected to see a video from you that triggered nostalgia more than anything. I enjoyed it very much! Thanks Greg!
The emergency kit in the trunk is so real for travel in winter, I live in Alberta and frequently drive outside of the major cities. I keep a mini shovel, tow ropes, booster cables, candles, road flares, blankets, extra gloves, and sand/kitty litter minimum on hand. I know it seems over the top but the cold is no joke if you end up solo and stuck.
Great video, did you experienced the square tire effect when it's so cold and tires have bumps in them until they warm up a bit? I don't miss -35 from my hometown in Quebec but I miss warm houses here in Tohoku.
22:48 - Not sure if it's the same car but since it might be the used "new" car you just bought the battery might be on it's last legs...although it sounds like it's cranking decently enough.
If you don't already have one, a portable power pack that can jump start your car is so convenient to have. NOCO for example- small, compact and can give those extra crank amps when it's freezing no problem or if your battery is just plain dead.
That's my youngest brother's car, so a different one. Yeah, my friend Sherman showed a portable power pack in this car essentials tour th-cam.com/video/wk2K2qnC8Iw/w-d-xo.html
@@LifeWhereImFrom I was actually cracking up so hard at that car footage because the "if it whirs it starts" coupled with the mid-video flash showing that this car is a 2000s Subaru Impreza, I was having flashbacks 😂 My partner is from Tennessee and he drove his brand "new" 2007 Subaru Impreza alllll the way up to Ottawa to attend university here (where we met 😊)... His car went one whole winter without issue and that was all it could take lmao We got stranded so many places waiting for the engine to heat up or someone to give us a jump when the portable power pack didn't do the trick! Also, if your brother ever has issues with the car not starting in not Winter season, make sure he isn't using the aux power outlet at the front of the centre console-- there's a known issue with it quickly draining the car's battery 😅
Grew up in Wisconsin. Very similar. It’s not cold unless your nose hairs go “SNIK!” when you breathe in. It’s a dry cold. Germany is more of that wet cold that really chills you. You can also have pink snow when they use beet juice to melt the ice. It’s like a natural antifreeze.
Cool. I love the powdery snow you get in Winnipeg. We don’t get much snow in Vancouver but when we do, we usually get wet and heavy snow. Slushy and heavy. So hard to drive on even with snow tires.😂
As someone who's moved from Edmonton to Toronto by car on 3 Jan 2010, I can relate to all of this except for driving through a snow storm at night - that's just suicidal! I really hope you had real winter tires fitted to all 4 wheels and didn't go faster than 90-100kph.
glad you guys made it!
Well, living in Norway is not so different from living in Winnipeg I guess :D
pssh easy just live near US border like 90% of them already do
It’s nice to go home :) you’re lucky to have bros that you seem close with
I am so happy the metric system is standard there
Anyone knows about dauphin manitoba? Winter e.t.c
I have never seen that much snow before. Where I live, we rarely see snow. One winter it was almost 80°F
How Canadians Survive Winter, they winter in Florida🤣
I was avoiding this video all day thinking it would be strange. 4 min in and you have shown why and how I want to make videos like these to talk about how much I hate winter in Saskatchewan 6 months out of the year. Lived here for 46 years and can't get out. Once the kid grows up and finds her way I am outta here. 🤣
i grew up in Florida, so i experienced zero snow up until i visited Washington in winter 2020. then i moved there during Fall of the same year and stayed until mid 2022 (now im back in florida, not really by choice though). i loved taking walks around the small city i lived in, even though it was below freezing, and snowing. i soaked in as much snow time as i could, because after 25 years of no snow, i really enjoyed finally being able to experience the newness of it. i dont have a car or license, so i have 0 experience driving on snow or ice, so thats a whole different aspect i'll have to experience later. only watched my roommate drive and deal with cleaning snow off his car. the nearest grocery store was right next to our apartment, so i just walked there whenever i needed food.
Driving on snow is not a problem at all. Driving on ice is.
We learn something new every day! Thanks for teaching me the one thing for today, Greg! (40=40)
Until I moved to Ontario from Connecticut I haven't considered winter tires.. But man, they make a lot of difference.. And you get 5% off of already crazy expensive insurance..