Australia wishes you well Canadian friends, it's not fun especially when your buildings are designed for freezing temps not boiling. Stay safe, stay cool
Actually, the houses in Toronto does have AC and heaters to handle both boiling and freezing temperature. It's just the west coast that's been slacking off for the past couple of decades with people thinking they can just tough it out and don't bother spending that several hundred dollars. Now mother nature kicked our asses, and still people think this is just a one time thing. So yeah, we're kinda slow here.
Vancouver definitely isn't designed for freezing temps. The whole lower mainland is designed for in between. If it snows here, everyone loses their shit, multiple power outages, everything. And when it gets hot? Well this video kinda goes over it. I miss living in Saskatchewan, the climate there is a mix of everything. A summer it can be 40c or in winter it can be - 40c. But things are built to withstand both extreme weather variations.
@@Josh-ww5kz yup, and we have people here that immediately jump to racial slurs as if all problems would go away if only white people live in this country and they won't ever need to vaccinate or wear a mask.
meanwhile here in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in the same day Canada reached 50ºc, we reached 0ºc to 5ºc and we even had snow in the mountais. Freaking crazy stuff guys
This is very much like what happened in australia a couple of summers ago with the heat and bushfires. Please stay safe all our canadian friends. From 🇦🇺to🇨🇦 xx
Mike, you couldn't be any more likable. You seem like a good guy, a caring guy, a responsible soul. And you repeatedly have great content on your channel. The ones who need to see your message probably don't watch your channel, and that's the tragedy. We all need to care more, about so many things, or we are doomed. Thanks for putting a good word out there. Peace.
You know reality is deadly serious when Mike doesn’t end his video “I don’t know where I’m going next, but I know I want you there with me.” But we are all with you on this one Mike! A great video for such a time as this! 👍🙏
I've lived in both Utah and Texas but I've never felt heat like that weekend. I stuck it out at home Saturday and Sunday but luckily on Monday my local church opened up as a cooling center. I was able to spend most of the day there enjoying the AC, since as you said, the temperature got so high even the AC in the car wasn't helping. Being just across the border down here in Washington, we did get the news about Lytton and I'm grateful you've provided a link to the relief fund so we can all help if we're able to. We were lucky that we didn't have any fires as bad as that spring up that weekend but it's only July and we've already had some close calls.
I have also lived in Utah. We always had AC and even then I'd stick my head in the freezer sometimes if we just came in from the heat. That said, my dad used to (and currently does) live in Georgia, which is extremely humid. It gets quite humid here on Vancouver Island.
After dealing with the Black Saturday bushfires in 2019/2020, Australia has nothing but sympathy for you, Canada! Will be hitting that support link as soon as I get home.
We hit 43C here in my area of Seattle, WA. Hard to imagine our friends north of the border had to endure even more. So glad you decided to post your video to raise awareness about the fires. Thank you, Mike!
this heat wave was crazy- I live in Vancouver too and me and all of my friends had no air conditioning in our homes. I sat in front of my fan the entire day and even at night it never cooled down. that was the worst, all the heat was trapped in our house all night, so my family ended up sleeping outside because it was cooler out there. it’s scary that it could ever get that hot
HUGE KUDOS to you Mike!!!! Not only did yo take us on a record setting journey, but the fact you are giving back to Lytton goes beyond words. Your generosity is humbling.
When I picture Canada, temperate pine forests and frozen tundra are the first things that come to mind. I did not realise there was a hot, dry desert with rattlesnakes in Canada.
"When the air temperature is above your body core temperature, your body can't cool off anymore". This actually isn't quite true. Evaporative cooling can allow heat exchange to air temperatures well above the body's core temperature. The strength of this cooling effect depends upon how much moisture is already present in the air. In a very dry area like death valley the effect is maximized. The wet-bulb temperature is the best way to determine if an area is survivable given sufficient access to water and shade from direct sunlight. Simply explained, it's the temperature of a thermometer wrapped in a wet towel with a fan blowing air over it. A wet-bulb temperature of 30 degrees Celsius is about the limit to safely perform any activity outside. It's not uncommon for temperatures to reach 49 Celsius in Death Valley, but since the relative humidity is incredibly low the wet-bulb temperatures is actually well within survivable range at around 21 Celsius. Just be sure to pack an extra water bottle, or five.
don't forget about the over 200 fires now all over BC, most of which are not anywhere near contained. Some are also threatening towns and cities. We also most likely won't be getting help from firefighters outside the country like we would most years because they are dealing with their own disastrous forest fire seasons in their own countries.
I was so sad to hear about the town of Linton last weekend on Dan Hurd's channel and donated through his channel. I am a volunteer firefighter here in the United States in the state of Virginia I understand firsthand how wildfire's destroy everything in their path !!!
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WOW. I was waiting for your video this week, as we, here in Australia had heard about Canada's heatwave 😢 I will be sharing your video. It has such an important message about how the world's climate has changed so dramatically in recent time. Take care, Mike.
Thank you Mike for this important video. 🙏 I pray that our Canadian neighbors on the west coast get relief from the heat and from climate change! We need to do our part to make sure we slow down climate change.
Well done on getting the message out, and your generous donation. I remember learning about that part of BC in geography in high school when I lived in Australia. That's when I learned the expression 'rain shadow' and that BC had wine regions!
Glad you added the extra talk segments. It's natural to get excited about setting a record, but with such tragic consequences, it would have made you look uncaring and clueless. This was such an unbelievable occurance.
Hi Mike, so sad to hear about the good folk in Lytton as well as the overall death toll from the heatwave. Several fellow Aussies have already echoed my own thoughts so I'll confine myself to wishing you and all your loved ones the best for the remaining summer. Especially hope your parents and older relatives are keeping cool and hydrated. Great that you have changed from your usual tack to highlight the issue of changing climate and stimulating thought on how to adjust to it. As you probably know, a great deal of southeastern Australia suffered wildfire devastation two summers ago and people are still trying to rebuild their lives and cope with Covid too. Stay safe and I look forward to next week's story. Cheers from Michael downunder in Melbourne.
Lytton’s new record of 49.6 degrees was hotter than the highest temps ever recorded in Las Vegas and Phoenix. I live in Penticton. I spent the afternoons in Okanagan Lake 👍🏽
My mom's ex's youngest daughter lives out in BC. And I heard from her that a week ago that her grandmother passed away, probably due to the heat. Literally no joke, this is bad. Vancouver has always been very temperate for weather. We hit 42C in Southern Ontario with the humidity, I can't imagine what being so close to 50C dry is like.
It's hard to imagine BC like this. I do remember flying into Calcutta (now Kolkata), India once, when the captain announced it was 50C on the tarmac. I approached the aircraft door, and almost turned around and went wherever else that airplane was going next.
I had a similar experience in Manaus, Brazil. xD The airport is VERY well air conditioned, but once those doors open and you step into that 50 degrees with humidex reaching 99%... it's like being hit by a wall of heat, or trying to breathe in a hammam... xD I legit had to sit outsite in the shade for a good 15 minutes, just getting used to breathing that humid air! I'm from Montreal, we get humid in the summer... I thought I'd never want AC again in Canada after the Amazon, did well with just fans for years, but I caved in last summer... still not the Amazon, but those heat domes be brutal.
I'm so happy I found your channel. You make me proud to be from Vancouver and to know all the secret gems of BC. And so cool of you to donate money to try help those affected by the fire .
Over 700 people died in British Columbia? That's horrible! I know looking back on trying to "make a fun" heatwave video....kinda lost it's "fun" part when told about Lytton and all the people who died and are still feeling the effects. I've been to Death Valley, California in June before...it was only in the low 40's C during my visit, but couldn't use the AC in my car, since it would overheat (this was the early 1990's). Great job showing/explaining and being respectful too. And for sure, donate if you can those reading/watching this!
Thanks for sacrificing yourself in this heat. Here in Alberta we have had 39 c as well. Great idea for the go fund me relief for the town of Lytton. Thanks Mike and Cheers!
Great job Mike. North Idaho has been at it's hottest ever as well. Normally we would hit the plus 100s late July/early August, we hit it in June. Had a few weeks of high 90s since and it won't let up soon. I hate the heat which is why I moved to north Idaho from central Arizona. I'm glad I invested the money a couple years ago for the A/C units in my house. They have been sold old since the middle of June. Stay hydrated!!!!!!
Mike, you handled this so well. Thank you also for giving us all a simple and easy way to show support for the individuals impacted by this climate change.
Thanks Marta. That means a lot. I’m not an environmental scientist and feel like I’m not educated enough on the topic of climate change to speak about it, but since I was there, I thought I’d share my experience.
Thank you for making this video. It ended up having a very important message for the viewers. I will remember the heatwave of 2021 here on the island 🏝
Even Death Valley is getting close to beating it’s record. It almost reached 130 degrees Fahrenheit. It reached 127 degrees. Time stamp: Saturday July 10th 2021
I came out of my first deployment to Alert, in the high arctic in late July, where it hovered around the freezing point. I went on leave to Oliver, BC, where it was 118F (48C) but they lacked an Environment Canada official recording device. Basically, I melted. The next day I was swimming in Osoyoos Lake: 29C. Lovely!
I just drove back from Alberta yesterday and from Revelstoke all the way down to Hope it is just covered in smoke and you can still see the smoke and flames from a distance, it is horrible!
Thanx Mike for making this vid. A heatwave is not a joke lots of people and animals die. We will pray for all the people who lost someone in BC due to the heatwave. Please stay safe and stay cool🙏🇨🇦.
I hope your family was okay. In France, when our first heat wave hit us in 2003, it was so new and so long at that time (more than two week), 15,000 people died specially old people. Since then, we learnt and every summer we are a little anxious when temperatures go high.
Thanks for your video. As a railfan, I love going through the canyon to watch trains and I drove through Lytton on the day it broke the record a couple of the weeks ago and it was quite amazing to feel those temps, and then completely heartbreaking to hear the loss of the town the very next day. Best wishes.
meanwhile here in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in the same day Canada reached 50ºc, we reached 0ºc to 5ºc and we even had snow in the mountais. Freaking crazy stuff guys
Mike, thanks for showing us this. I’m an American living in the Southeastern states and that kind of heat isn’t something to play with. The Death Valley comparison really hit it home just how hot it was. The fact that it’s getting hotter and hotter in Canada shows just how much trouble our planet is in. Hopefully our generation can spur some change before it’s too late.
@@55points The Chinese lead the planet in solar power and they are doing all they can. The Communist Party made fighting global warming a priority. Africa doesn't yet generate enough emissions to matter. India and the US are the major problems.
The hottest day where I am in Alberta, was 37 but felt like 41. I walked home from work for 15 min. It was horrible and I can't imagine how it was over there in BC 😢
Please be careful with the extreme weather. You need to carry extra water. Water activated cooling neck wraps, hat, sunscreen. Only go outside if you must. Stay inside. Drinks couple of litres of water during the day. A cool bath. Or run water over your wrists , cool wet hat will keep you cool. If you want drinks to get cold and you dont have a fridge. Tie your drinks with string and drop them in a river . Before the fridges were invented thats what people did. Good luck Canadians I hope the bush fires stop. Much Love from Australia
I’m not criticizing your post, because drinking water is very important in that kind of heat. I just want to add that salty snacks are also important along with fluids. Hyponatraemia (an imbalance of electrolytes) can be even deadlier than dehydration. Love your idea of putting drinks in cool water.
Actually, also stay inside and not move around too much. The problem is heat AND humidity (at least in parts of BC), which prevents your sweat from evaporating and cooling you down. You just find yourself drenched in sweat and still overheating.
OK everyone... RELAX... just live, drink water, and enjoy your day! you WILL NOT DIE. it's like common sense isn't so common if everyone has to say it!! AND who the fuck is gonna STAY INSIDE unless you must go outside... IN north america, we don't have to go outside, WE WANT TO GO OUTSIDE!!!!
@@highdsociety923 I suppose so, I should have advised people to find some shade, or a cool place instead of inside (I kinda forgot that not everyone has air con).
You’re great Mike when we were not even stepping out of our house, you went there and were standing, even hiking in the hottest temperature ever record to bring such quality content for us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’m also a Vancouver Resident like you….. well technically suburb, Surrey. :)
Another great video on not just taking us somewhere new but they’ll always fill with great information about what’s happening & how we can help also 👍👍
Stay safe out there dude! Been a long time subscriber and you've helped to keep me sane during some really tough times for me lately. Much love from across the pond in the UK!
Thanks for doing this! I visited Lytton only a few years ago and I was gutted to see the aftermath. Hoping they can rebuild, my heart goes out to everyone affected by the wildfires and the heat wave.
Sympathy and empathy from Northern California. Donated to the Lytton fund, because I know you guys did the same for Paradise when it burned a couple years ago.
What a hot week it was, Mike! I was in Whistler then and I thought it was hot there. The heat you were in though was nuts. Your swim looked so refreshing, your reward for another great video.😊
I live in Seattle and we broke the heat records too. For the last few years August has been wildfire season, which is something new in western Washington. Seattle gets blanketed with heavy smoke for days/weeks. I have just purchased my first home air purifier. If you live in the Pacific Northwest, consider buying your own air purifier before the fire/smoke season hits again.
Haha when i was filming the ice sculptures in Québec City back in February my camera kept freezing... I even made contraptions with wool gloves and heating pads to try and keep it going. Gotta love Canada! ❤
Merci mille fois for providing context for your trip. The destruction of Lytton was a terrible tragedy. The hottest I've ever experienced was "only" 112 (44.4) in Sacramento many years ago. BTW, our bodies can *usually* cool themselves when it gets that hot if we sweat because of evaporative cooling. The problem we had in an unairconditioned orderly room on Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio when it got hot was that the fan evaporated all the sweat and we ended up with hot air blowing over us and not cooling us down. Your wet shirt should thus have been able to prevent heat stroke as long as it stayed wet. That said, I was in the Peachtree 10K years ago on the Fourth of July in Atlanta and started feeling chills at about mile 2 so I knew to slow down and walk under the water cannons until I cooled down. When I finished, the medical tent staff threw icy towels on me to bring my temperature back to a safe level. Heat is quite dangerous and I'm glad you realized it.
Thank you for documenting this. What seemed like an exciting anomaly turned sour pretty quickly. Thanks also for your support for Lytton. (I love the dry Thompson River Valley - as a break from the damp west coast, not as a glimpse into our future).
I was born in Vancouver and don’t even recognize it anymore- NEVER see weather like this! Really appreciate your kind heart and help in bringing awareness to climate change.
Great minds think alike!! Loved the video man, I was in Lytton that day filming a short special on heat domes & the science behind frying an egg on the sidewalk, maybe we crossed paths 😊 nothing but respect for filming in that heat, it was hard to even talk
Wow bless you for doing this. And wow you wove the mood whiplash into the video from "Previous Mike." I can't imagine how horrific these temperatures feel, and the loss of so many people is abominable.
It was kind of hard to believe at first. My co-workers from out of country told me that but they were wondering how and why Canadians were dying. I had to explain to them that we're not used to this s***. And if you can get yourself an air conditioner for your apartment. When I lived in Vancouver it never got that hot never never ever. That's just crazy
Really sorry to hear such heat in such a beautiful place like Canada. Remember air currents can do funky things, and the high heat isn't necessarily indicative of a crisis...you have to go by overall planet temp. I live in Phoenix, AZ - and it is really hot outside. My pool is 34 degrees Celsius - not much relieve, plus the salt chlorinator doesn't function well in this temp. Seems like Phoenix has been hotter in the last couple of years. Also bear in mind that you car air conditioner is a heat pump - it moves heat from one place to another. When the temp outside is that hot, it has a hard time getting rid of the heat it pumps from inside your car to outside, and the efficiency goes down.
I have family and friends out in BC. Some sitting in their homes with their cars packed, waiting for evacuation notices. This heat is crazy, and all the fires are incredibly scary. All those people who lost their home in Lytton. And everyone who has died because of the heat. The heat dome made its way eastward and it did cool off a bit by the time it got to us in Ontario, but it was breaking records all the way across the Prairies. We had already broken temperature records for June in Ontario before the heat dome even got to us. So much for the Great White North 😓😢
Last I heard, the Lytton fire may have been human caused, some say possibly by sparks from a train passing, but also that this also displaced a lot of First Nations people who were living near the town as well.
I don’t usually comment on the videos Mike. I have the upmost respect for the content you produce. You go above and beyond to please the viewers. You really put BC on the map. Thanks for everything you do. You’re honestly amazing Mike.
According to Wikipedia, the hottest temperature recorded in my country Bangladesh was 45.1°C (113.2°F) back in 1972, in Rajshahi (a city in the West of Bangladesh). You guys beat us quite a bit! Also last year in April the higgest we got was 'only' 41.2°C (106.2°F) in Jessore (a bit more south of Rajshahi).
It's not just breaking new records but that the new temps are so much higher than previously. Environment Canada is still predicting low to mid 30s every day for another two weeks in the area.
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Love that you are helping Lytton! So sad what happened there.
So sad. Thanks Robyn.
Dude this is such an important video. Thanks for creating videos with such integrity my man. 🙏🏻
Australia wishes you well Canadian friends, it's not fun especially when your buildings are designed for freezing temps not boiling. Stay safe, stay cool
Thank You Aiden, Appreciate your thoughtfulness! 🇨🇦
Thanks Aiden, that's really sweet of you to think of us across the planet
Actually, the houses in Toronto does have AC and heaters to handle both boiling and freezing temperature. It's just the west coast that's been slacking off for the past couple of decades with people thinking they can just tough it out and don't bother spending that several hundred dollars. Now mother nature kicked our asses, and still people think this is just a one time thing. So yeah, we're kinda slow here.
Vancouver definitely isn't designed for freezing temps. The whole lower mainland is designed for in between.
If it snows here, everyone loses their shit, multiple power outages, everything. And when it gets hot? Well this video kinda goes over it.
I miss living in Saskatchewan, the climate there is a mix of everything. A summer it can be 40c or in winter it can be - 40c. But things are built to withstand both extreme weather variations.
@@Josh-ww5kz yup, and we have people here that immediately jump to racial slurs as if all problems would go away if only white people live in this country and they won't ever need to vaccinate or wear a mask.
It was hotter in B.C. than it was in parts of the Middle East. Never thought I'd live to see that.
Yea, unbelievable!
Phoenix too
Right!
No honey it’s still hotter here in Iraq 💀 the only record u can’t beat us on
meanwhile here in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in the same day Canada reached 50ºc, we reached 0ºc to 5ºc and we even had snow in the mountais. Freaking crazy stuff guys
I live in Kuwait where 50 degrees is a normal summer day. Never thought Canada would experience such heat. So scary.
This is very much like what happened in australia a couple of summers ago with the heat and bushfires. Please stay safe all our canadian friends. From 🇦🇺to🇨🇦 xx
Mike, you couldn't be any more likable. You seem like a good guy, a caring guy, a responsible soul. And you repeatedly have great content on your channel. The ones who need to see your message probably don't watch your channel, and that's the tragedy. We all need to care more, about so many things, or we are doomed. Thanks for putting a good word out there. Peace.
You know reality is deadly serious when Mike doesn’t end his video “I don’t know where I’m going next, but I know I want you there with me.” But we are all with you on this one Mike! A great video for such a time as this! 👍🙏
I've lived in both Utah and Texas but I've never felt heat like that weekend. I stuck it out at home Saturday and Sunday but luckily on Monday my local church opened up as a cooling center. I was able to spend most of the day there enjoying the AC, since as you said, the temperature got so high even the AC in the car wasn't helping. Being just across the border down here in Washington, we did get the news about Lytton and I'm grateful you've provided a link to the relief fund so we can all help if we're able to. We were lucky that we didn't have any fires as bad as that spring up that weekend but it's only July and we've already had some close calls.
I have also lived in Utah. We always had AC and even then I'd stick my head in the freezer sometimes if we just came in from the heat. That said, my dad used to (and currently does) live in Georgia, which is extremely humid. It gets quite humid here on Vancouver Island.
I lived in NYC and just south of DC. The BC heat was much worse.
Thanks Mike for being sensitive to what has transpired in Lytton.
After dealing with the Black Saturday bushfires in 2019/2020, Australia has nothing but sympathy for you, Canada! Will be hitting that support link as soon as I get home.
We hit 43C here in my area of Seattle, WA. Hard to imagine our friends north of the border had to endure even more. So glad you decided to post your video to raise awareness about the fires. Thank you, Mike!
this heat wave was crazy- I live in Vancouver too and me and all of my friends had no air conditioning in our homes. I sat in front of my fan the entire day and even at night it never cooled down. that was the worst, all the heat was trapped in our house all night, so my family ended up sleeping outside because it was cooler out there. it’s scary that it could ever get that hot
Fans just dont cut it a/c struggle at those temps. Feel for you. Our normal summers in some parts of Australia.
HUGE KUDOS to you Mike!!!! Not only did yo take us on a record setting journey, but the fact you are giving back to Lytton goes beyond words. Your generosity is humbling.
I appreciate you made this video because that heat dome will be remembered for a long time, especially the loss of Lytton....thank you Mike!
When I picture Canada, temperate pine forests and frozen tundra are the first things that come to mind. I did not realise there was a hot, dry desert with rattlesnakes in Canada.
Indeed! Canada has a desert area where triple digit (Fahrenheit) daytime highs are common during the summer season!
Rattlesnakes are Native to parts of Canada
"When the air temperature is above your body core temperature, your body can't cool off anymore". This actually isn't quite true. Evaporative cooling can allow heat exchange to air temperatures well above the body's core temperature. The strength of this cooling effect depends upon how much moisture is already present in the air. In a very dry area like death valley the effect is maximized. The wet-bulb temperature is the best way to determine if an area is survivable given sufficient access to water and shade from direct sunlight. Simply explained, it's the temperature of a thermometer wrapped in a wet towel with a fan blowing air over it. A wet-bulb temperature of 30 degrees Celsius is about the limit to safely perform any activity outside. It's not uncommon for temperatures to reach 49 Celsius in Death Valley, but since the relative humidity is incredibly low the wet-bulb temperatures is actually well within survivable range at around 21 Celsius. Just be sure to pack an extra water bottle, or five.
Melting snow on the Rockies at a crazy pace and leaving it more fire prone. West coast is going through it this year
Same desert Dude :D Sonoran all the way to Mexico. I lived in Okanagan 15 yrs ago and we had around 40C a lot back then.
don't forget about the over 200 fires now all over BC, most of which are not anywhere near contained. Some are also threatening towns and cities. We also most likely won't be getting help from firefighters outside the country like we would most years because they are dealing with their own disastrous forest fire seasons in their own countries.
I was so sad to hear about the town of Linton last weekend on Dan Hurd's channel and donated through his channel. I am a volunteer firefighter here in the United States in the state of Virginia I understand firsthand how wildfire's destroy everything in their path !!!
That’s so very thoughtful. Great Neighbours! ❤️
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WOW.
I was waiting for your video this week, as we, here in Australia had heard about Canada's heatwave 😢
I will be sharing your video. It has such an important message about how the world's climate has changed so dramatically in recent time.
Take care, Mike.
I was camping by 70 mile house during this epic heatwave.. i basically hid underneath my truck for a day and a half..
That sounds terrible :( lucky you are doing good 🙏
Very wise
Thank you Mike for this important video. 🙏 I pray that our Canadian neighbors on the west coast get relief from the heat and from climate change! We need to do our part to make sure we slow down climate change.
Well done on getting the message out, and your generous donation. I remember learning about that part of BC in geography in high school when I lived in Australia. That's when I learned the expression 'rain shadow' and that BC had wine regions!
Glad you added the extra talk segments. It's natural to get excited about setting a record, but with such tragic consequences, it would have made you look uncaring and clueless. This was such an unbelievable occurance.
Extreme heat wave isn't that good promotes forest fires.
Hi Mike, so sad to hear about the good folk in Lytton as well as the overall death toll from the heatwave. Several fellow Aussies have already echoed my own thoughts so I'll confine myself to wishing you and all your loved ones the best for the remaining summer. Especially hope your parents and older relatives are keeping cool and hydrated. Great that you have changed from your usual tack to highlight the issue of changing climate and stimulating thought on how to adjust to it. As you probably know, a great deal of southeastern Australia suffered wildfire devastation two summers ago and people are still trying to rebuild their lives and cope with Covid too. Stay safe and I look forward to next week's story. Cheers from Michael downunder in Melbourne.
Living here in Tobiano on Kamloops lake we saw temps that high. My husband has a temperature ’gun’ that actually recorded 54 C in the sun!
We were like 6 degrees away from the hottest temperature ever recorded on the planet, and some people still claim climate change is a hoax.
Lytton’s new record of 49.6 degrees was hotter than the highest temps ever recorded in Las Vegas and Phoenix. I live in Penticton. I spent the afternoons in Okanagan Lake 👍🏽
Hottest recorded temp in Phoenix was 47.7 by the way. Good luck to the people of Lytton
My mom's ex's youngest daughter lives out in BC. And I heard from her that a week ago that her grandmother passed away, probably due to the heat. Literally no joke, this is bad. Vancouver has always been very temperate for weather. We hit 42C in Southern Ontario with the humidity, I can't imagine what being so close to 50C dry is like.
It's hard to imagine BC like this. I do remember flying into Calcutta (now Kolkata), India once, when the captain announced it was 50C on the tarmac. I approached the aircraft door, and almost turned around and went wherever else that airplane was going next.
I had a similar experience in Manaus, Brazil. xD The airport is VERY well air conditioned, but once those doors open and you step into that 50 degrees with humidex reaching 99%... it's like being hit by a wall of heat, or trying to breathe in a hammam... xD I legit had to sit outsite in the shade for a good 15 minutes, just getting used to breathing that humid air! I'm from Montreal, we get humid in the summer... I thought I'd never want AC again in Canada after the Amazon, did well with just fans for years, but I caved in last summer... still not the Amazon, but those heat domes be brutal.
Mike you always deliver with class. Awesome that you care. That’s why we all watch! 👍👍
I'm so sorry to hear this. My heart goes out to you all.
I'm so happy I found your channel. You make me proud to be from Vancouver and to know all the secret gems of BC. And so cool of you to donate money to try help those affected by the fire .
Over 700 people died in British Columbia? That's horrible! I know looking back on trying to "make a fun" heatwave video....kinda lost it's "fun" part when told about Lytton and all the people who died and are still feeling the effects. I've been to Death Valley, California in June before...it was only in the low 40's C during my visit, but couldn't use the AC in my car, since it would overheat (this was the early 1990's). Great job showing/explaining and being respectful too. And for sure, donate if you can those reading/watching this!
Thanks for sacrificing yourself in this heat. Here in Alberta we have had 39 c as well. Great idea for the go fund me relief for the town of Lytton. Thanks Mike and Cheers!
Great job Mike. North Idaho has been at it's hottest ever as well. Normally we would hit the plus 100s late July/early August, we hit it in June. Had a few weeks of high 90s since and it won't let up soon. I hate the heat which is why I moved to north Idaho from central Arizona. I'm glad I invested the money a couple years ago for the A/C units in my house. They have been sold old since the middle of June. Stay hydrated!!!!!!
Wow~! Thanks for Posting the video , really sorry for those who suffered losses~! so sad~!
Mike, you handled this so well. Thank you also for giving us all a simple and easy way to show support for the individuals impacted by this climate change.
Thanks Marta. That means a lot.
I’m not an environmental scientist and feel like I’m not educated enough on the topic of climate change to speak about it, but since I was there, I thought I’d share my experience.
Fantastic video--Canada as hot as Death Valley? Thank you so much for telling the whole story about what is going on. Just a spectacular video today!
Thank you for making this video. It ended up having a very important message for the viewers. I will remember the heatwave of 2021 here on the island 🏝
Even Death Valley is getting close to beating it’s record. It almost reached 130 degrees Fahrenheit. It reached 127 degrees.
Time stamp: Saturday July 10th 2021
Thank you for shedding more light on this environmental issue. Got to admit that I shed a tear or two on this one. 😢
PS I donated a multiple of chai (חי) - it means "life" - to the Relief Fund. How could I not? And I then posted the link on my Facebook page.
I came out of my first deployment to Alert, in the high arctic in late July, where it hovered around the freezing point. I went on leave to Oliver, BC, where it was 118F (48C) but they lacked an Environment Canada official recording device. Basically, I melted. The next day I was swimming in Osoyoos Lake: 29C. Lovely!
I just drove back from Alberta yesterday and from Revelstoke all the way down to Hope it is just covered in smoke and you can still see the smoke and flames from a distance, it is horrible!
The Okanagan is pure smoke right now.
Thanx Mike for making this vid. A heatwave is not a joke lots of people and animals die. We will pray for all the people who lost someone in BC due to the heatwave. Please stay safe and stay cool🙏🇨🇦.
Spent a few days in the Lytton area just before the fire, I’m still in shock that it happened
I hope your family was okay. In France, when our first heat wave hit us in 2003, it was so new and so long at that time (more than two week), 15,000 people died specially old people. Since then, we learnt and every summer we are a little anxious when temperatures go high.
Wait, it that was the first time you had heat wave?
@@purplepenguin005 In a (almost) lifetime yes, because the previous one as long and as hot was registered in 1947.
@@mooldoo C'mon dude, heat waves aren't anything new...
@@purplepenguin005 they are in recent history certainly in Europe .. first half of 20th century had more issues with cold waves ..
Thanks for your video. As a railfan, I love going through the canyon to watch trains and I drove through Lytton on the day it broke the record a couple of the weeks ago and it was quite amazing to feel those temps, and then completely heartbreaking to hear the loss of the town the very next day. Best wishes.
Thank you Mike for all that you do! Very sad for the people of Lytton!
meanwhile here in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in the same day Canada reached 50ºc, we reached 0ºc to 5ºc and we even had snow in the mountais. Freaking crazy stuff guys
Not that surprising considering it was winter in the southern hemisphere and in the mountains.
Mike, thanks for showing us this. I’m an American living in the Southeastern states and that kind of heat isn’t something to play with. The Death Valley comparison really hit it home just how hot it was. The fact that it’s getting hotter and hotter in Canada shows just how much trouble our planet is in. Hopefully our generation can spur some change before it’s too late.
Unless you get China India and Africa on board its over. and they wont bother.
@@55points The Chinese lead the planet in solar power and they are doing all they can. The Communist Party made fighting global warming a priority. Africa doesn't yet generate enough emissions to matter. India and the US are the major problems.
Good on you to donate to the Lytton relief fund. Such a sad turn of event for this little town.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this subject and still posting the video. You did it in such a good way, like you always do.
Donated.
Thank you so much!
The hottest day where I am in Alberta, was 37 but felt like 41. I walked home from work for 15 min. It was horrible and I can't imagine how it was over there in BC 😢
That heatwave was no joke, so many people lost their lives
masked sheeple, what you think could go wrong?
@@tazkforcealpha Ask Murphy.
Please be careful with the extreme weather. You need to carry extra water. Water activated cooling neck wraps, hat, sunscreen. Only go outside if you must. Stay inside. Drinks couple of litres of water during the day. A cool bath. Or run water over your wrists , cool wet hat will keep you cool. If you want drinks to get cold and you dont have a fridge. Tie your drinks with string and drop them in a river . Before the fridges were invented thats what people did. Good luck Canadians I hope the bush fires stop. Much Love from Australia
I’m not criticizing your post, because drinking water is very important in that kind of heat. I just want to add that salty snacks are also important along with fluids. Hyponatraemia (an imbalance of electrolytes) can be even deadlier than dehydration. Love your idea of putting drinks in cool water.
Actually, also stay inside and not move around too much. The problem is heat AND humidity (at least in parts of BC), which prevents your sweat from evaporating and cooling you down. You just find yourself drenched in sweat and still overheating.
@@karenpolansky9097 I think that’s why Mike bought a Gatorade in the video since that has electrolytes in it.
OK everyone... RELAX... just live, drink water, and enjoy your day! you WILL NOT DIE. it's like common sense isn't so common if everyone has to say it!! AND who the fuck is gonna STAY INSIDE unless you must go outside... IN north america, we don't have to go outside, WE WANT TO GO OUTSIDE!!!!
@@highdsociety923 I suppose so, I should have advised people to find some shade, or a cool place instead of inside (I kinda forgot that not everyone has air con).
I know the heat isn't much fun but this part of Canada is somewhere I'd love to visit, just looks nice.
We had it kind of easy in Victoria BC, it reached around 40C. I have never experienced anything like that!
You’re great Mike when we were not even stepping out of our house, you went there and were standing, even hiking in the hottest temperature ever record to bring such quality content for us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’m also a Vancouver Resident like you….. well technically suburb, Surrey. :)
death valley felt insecure and responded accordingly: 54.4C on 7/10
please, don't taunt BC.... this place can feel quite competitive at times.
Another great video on not just taking us somewhere new but they’ll always fill with great information about what’s happening & how we can help also 👍👍
Stay safe out there dude! Been a long time subscriber and you've helped to keep me sane during some really tough times for me lately. Much love from across the pond in the UK!
Glad to hear it. Thanks Tyler! Stay well.
Thanks for doing this! I visited Lytton only a few years ago and I was gutted to see the aftermath. Hoping they can rebuild, my heart goes out to everyone affected by the wildfires and the heat wave.
I read that this record passed the all time records for South America and Europe. Amazing.
Such a class act !!!. Makes me proud to be Canadian. !!!
Sympathy and empathy from Northern California. Donated to the Lytton fund, because I know you guys did the same for Paradise when it burned a couple years ago.
God bless all the people who suffered the wildfires.
Mike great video and so inspiring that you are donating the profits to Lytton 🥺🙏🏽
It was 42° in Campbell River last week
Wow, that’s a really wonderful video, especially in these times. I hope you the best!!!!!!!
What a hot week it was, Mike! I was in Whistler then and I thought it was hot there. The heat you were in though was nuts. Your swim looked so refreshing, your reward for another great video.😊
I live in Seattle and we broke the heat records too. For the last few years August has been wildfire season, which is something new in western Washington. Seattle gets blanketed with heavy smoke for days/weeks. I have just purchased my first home air purifier. If you live in the Pacific Northwest, consider buying your own air purifier before the fire/smoke season hits again.
This year was the hottest I have ever felt. I'm from Lytton BC, I'm glad our town is getting recognized for how horrible the fire was.
Haha when i was filming the ice sculptures in Québec City back in February my camera kept freezing... I even made contraptions with wool gloves and heating pads to try and keep it going. Gotta love Canada! ❤
Merci mille fois for providing context for your trip. The destruction of Lytton was a terrible tragedy. The hottest I've ever experienced was "only" 112 (44.4) in Sacramento many years ago.
BTW, our bodies can *usually* cool themselves when it gets that hot if we sweat because of evaporative cooling. The problem we had in an unairconditioned orderly room on Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio when it got hot was that the fan evaporated all the sweat and we ended up with hot air blowing over us and not cooling us down. Your wet shirt should thus have been able to prevent heat stroke as long as it stayed wet. That said, I was in the Peachtree 10K years ago on the Fourth of July in Atlanta and started feeling chills at about mile 2 so I knew to slow down and walk under the water cannons until I cooled down. When I finished, the medical tent staff threw icy towels on me to bring my temperature back to a safe level. Heat is quite dangerous and I'm glad you realized it.
Can't imagine how hot it got there. Stay safe out there. In 2000 I went to California with my family that was a hot desert state
great advice
Thank you for documenting this. What seemed like an exciting anomaly turned sour pretty quickly. Thanks also for your support for Lytton. (I love the dry Thompson River Valley - as a break from the damp west coast, not as a glimpse into our future).
I was born in Vancouver and don’t even recognize it anymore- NEVER see weather like this! Really appreciate your kind heart and help in bringing awareness to climate change.
Right here too in Tisdale Saskatchewan I think this is the hottest weather since I moved here, 11yrs ago from Philippines 🇵🇭thanks for the info
Great video. So sad about the village of Lytton. I have donated as well.
I agree I can't believe my contry that people call "COLD" Was the 2nd HOTTEST TEMPETURE EVER!
Great minds think alike!! Loved the video man, I was in Lytton that day filming a short special on heat domes & the science behind frying an egg on the sidewalk, maybe we crossed paths 😊 nothing but respect for filming in that heat, it was hard to even talk
Thanks for making this video Mike. The world needs to be aware of this.
Wow bless you for doing this. And wow you wove the mood whiplash into the video from "Previous Mike."
I can't imagine how horrific these temperatures feel, and the loss of so many people is abominable.
It was kind of hard to believe at first. My co-workers from out of country told me that but they were wondering how and why Canadians were dying. I had to explain to them that we're not used to this s***. And if you can get yourself an air conditioner for your apartment. When I lived in Vancouver it never got that hot never never ever. That's just crazy
Really sorry to hear such heat in such a beautiful place like Canada. Remember air currents can do funky things, and the high heat isn't necessarily indicative of a crisis...you have to go by overall planet temp. I live in Phoenix, AZ - and it is really hot outside. My pool is 34 degrees Celsius - not much relieve, plus the salt chlorinator doesn't function well in this temp. Seems like Phoenix has been hotter in the last couple of years. Also bear in mind that you car air conditioner is a heat pump - it moves heat from one place to another. When the temp outside is that hot, it has a hard time getting rid of the heat it pumps from inside your car to outside, and the efficiency goes down.
I have family and friends out in BC. Some sitting in their homes with their cars packed, waiting for evacuation notices. This heat is crazy, and all the fires are incredibly scary. All those people who lost their home in Lytton. And everyone who has died because of the heat.
The heat dome made its way eastward and it did cool off a bit by the time it got to us in Ontario, but it was breaking records all the way across the Prairies. We had already broken temperature records for June in Ontario before the heat dome even got to us. So much for the Great White North 😓😢
Last I heard, the Lytton fire may have been human caused, some say possibly by sparks from a train passing, but also that this also displaced a lot of First Nations people who were living near the town as well.
Yes 1500 First Nations were displaced from the Lytton Fire. So sad.
I don’t usually comment on the videos Mike. I have the upmost respect for the content you produce. You go above and beyond to please the viewers. You really put BC on the map. Thanks for everything you do. You’re honestly amazing Mike.
I appreciate that!
Oh what a dreadful waste of all life we must band together all over the world and stop this evil devastation ❤️
We have extreme weather in Australia too, hope the fires are extinguished soon.
According to Wikipedia, the hottest temperature recorded in my country Bangladesh was 45.1°C (113.2°F) back in 1972, in Rajshahi (a city in the West of Bangladesh). You guys beat us quite a bit!
Also last year in April the higgest we got was 'only' 41.2°C (106.2°F) in Jessore (a bit more south of Rajshahi).
I was working outside that day doing delivery in downtown Vancouver, probably the hardest and busiest shift I've ever done!
Thanks for doing your job and not dying!
SEVEN HUNDRED? I had no idea that heat wave claimed that many lives.
he's dealing with that heat like a champ
It's not just breaking new records but that the new temps are so much higher than previously. Environment Canada is still predicting low to mid 30s every day for another two weeks in the area.