I live in north-central Minnesota, and we have weeks of negative temperatures in the winter. When we go out to shop or work, we dress up with coats and gloves. We usually have to scrape the ice off the car windows so we can see out and then clear off the snow before going anywhere. On the weekends, a lot of us go out snowmobiling or ice fishing. We have fun all year around, but we have to dress for it, including shoes and boots, as frostbite is no fun. We do go out and about all the time and don't let a little weather get in the way.
I grew up in Minnesota and the coldest I ever saw was a week one winter in the 1990s in Fergus Falls where the HIGH was -40… it would dip to -45 or lower overnight and the lowest hit -54. There was no wind, and I remember the fog of smoke/steam hanging over the town from all the chimneys, it just hung there, frozen. Without wind if you dressed properly it wasnt terrible… nothing mechanical wanted to work right. Tires were stiff, square spots till you got moving a while… springs could break from being cold, school buses ran till about -38 and then they decided it was just too dangerous for the kids. I had a water pipe burst in my basement and it was 4 inches away from the foundation wall, still froze. -25 with 40 mph wind feels worse to exposed flesh.
You never get totally used to minus 20, 30, or 40 degrees. You learn to tolerate it better. Same with the extreme heat. I have done both. The worst about cold to me is taking off cold, wet, boots that are crusted over with snow & road grime. Then putting them back on when you go out again.
I was in Delta Junction Alaska in Jan of 2020. When I took off from Atlanta Georgia it was about 10 C when i landed in Fairbanks Alaska it was -36 C. When I got to Delta Junction it was -45 C. I have never experienced anything like those temperatures. My beard would freeze from my breath.
North Dakota is bleak! And windy, there's nothing to stop it. Here in Minnesota, if it's above 10 degrees during the day( in the winter!) it's not a bad day
The forecast here is rain and both lows and highs in the single digits °c, 40's °f, for the foreseeable future, no freezes yet. My favorite season. You can go out in the woods and run into just about any sorts of animals, because the cold and drizzle masks sounds and scents nearly completely. Perfect camping weather for me.
Yep, 7 months of snow. I’m in Massachusetts, but only about 15 minutes from either New Hampshire or Vermont and the winters are an adventure, for sure. We are actually in a drought right now and only the northern part of New England has gotten any snow so far this year, but it’s coming, I have no doubt.
My oldest grandson and his family live in North Dakota, about 30 minutes from Canada. My youngest daughter and i went to visit them one year for Thanksgiving, and the snow and cold were brutal. Another year, i checked the temperatures for my hometown (located in the middle of Illinois), and we were colder than North Dakota and Alaska...lots of snow, wind, and cold temperatures.
What people don’t realize who are not from the US is that all of these states have very warm to hot summers for months. So they’re wonderful places to be in the summer. We have very extreme differences between winter and summer in the US. I live in Minnesota and we get a number of days in the 90’s Fahrenheit in the summer and for half the year temperatures are very nice.
Although North Pole can have winter temps that low it can also have up to 80+F in the summer. Amazing since the map they used shows us living off the coast of Mexico.😂
I live in North Dakota and moved here 6 years ago. Worked in a railyard and we had a white out blizzard on May 18th, 2019. I'll never forget that day because it was my first day on the job. Thinking it was near summertime, I was in plain jeans and a thin long sleeve. Sat outside for 5 hours trying to get some conveyors started before we quit for the day lmao. It came out of nowhere and there were so many semi trucks and trailers tipped over in the median from the unexpected snow. Then it started snowing again pretty heavily in early October that year.
I live in east central Wisconsin and I can tell you, we have no snow. It hasn't snowed once yet. We got very little snow last year. It's also staying warmer longer into fall. I'm a transplant from the south to Wisconsin. I lived many years in northern Virginia. We got way more snow there. We had a blizzard and, got over 4 ft in 2 days in 2010 in Virginia. I have to say, the summers in Wisconsin are stunning!
Wisconsin gets wayyyy more snow than anywhere in Virginia, the statistics speak for themselves. It also gets bitterly cold, especially the further you get from Lake Michigan
@@TheSloppyjoejr The last 2-3 years have been very mild in the Great Lakes. Snow totals are down and temperatures have been higher than normal. I live across the Lake in Michigan.
I grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota and it was very common to get our first snowfall in Late September-early October and then not see our lawns again until late May. We usually had a least one snowstorm where the snow would measure over 4 feet. It was great as a kid but really depressing as an adult. I now live in Florida.
You couldn't pay me to live in Australia! I will take sub-freezing temperatures and 5 feet of snow every season here in Massachusetts over your spider situation ANY day!
@maureen14, just for the record, I was a visitor back in '87 for a month, and never saw any of the "nasties". It's like bears and cougars here. They're there, but you don't see them on a daily basis.
Thanks for your reaction! My father was career military so as a child I had to move frequently and lived in many states throughout the US. My relatives lived throughout New York city and New York state and I saw some very snowy winters especially upstate. I lived right on the ocean in New London Connecticut for more than 20 years and winters there were the most unbearable for me. 4 or 5 months of wind chills below zero degrees overnight and early mornings meant falling on ice, not able to start car (sometimes door was frozen shut and car stuck in ice in the driveway unable to move). Sometimes eyelashes would freeze shut and eyeballs burned and the only way to breath was through a wool scarf over the face. I have lived in Florida now for 25 years and would never want to go back up north to live ever again.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Chicago was -27°F on January 20, 1985. This temperature was recorded at O'Hare International Airport. The day also saw a wind chill of -93°F. Chicago also experienced a record-breaking cold Christmas in 1983, when the temperature remained below zero for 100 consecutive hours. The coldest day of that Christmas was December 24, with a low of -25°F and a high of -11°F. That sort of cold got old and part of why I moved to N.C..
You have to be both tough and prepared to live in and around the Great Lakes. We love it, but you should do your research before visiting during the winter.
I went to my first college in Vermont. After one particularly unappealing night at the dinning hall, I walked out into a blizzard (appropriately dressed) to go to the Hospital a mile away that had a 24 hr dinner. Did no think twice about it.
Have you watched Tim Foust's "A Southerner in the Snow"? I think you have, but if not, he and friend Chris Chatham drive up to the Minneapolis area of Minnesota in February during a polar vortex (basically extremely cold polar air dipping down into the US Midwest).
You're right. It does get chilling to the bone when I used to drive truck. We go up that way during the winter, but after the last winter, where it was −50 because of the polar vortex coming down I. Refuse to go there. Another thing diesel freezes, and we did not have heaters in our tank. And my diesel froze and the truck froze up.
In 2000, we vacationed in Alaska for our 25th Anniversary. It was August 31, and we were in a big hotel in Fairbanks. We came down to the dining hall from our room for dinner and were interrupted by a fire alarm. Not allowed to go back up to your room to fetch your coat, everybody had to go out and wait in the parking lot until the Fire Dept cleared it. Despite being August, it was in the 40's F (+4 to +10 C) and people were scouting all the parked cars to find recently parked ones whose engines were still warm. People huddled around the grilles rubbing their hands together! We talked to one of the restaurant staff who was waiting next to us. She said, yeah, that's a rule in Fairbanks: NEVER come down to dinner and leave your coat in the room! Always keep your coat with you! I asked what do you do if the fire alarm goes off in January and it's minus 60 outside? (-51 C) and you don't have your coat? She said the hotel has a reciprocal arrangement with the Denny's grille across the parking lot. Each one's patrons were allowed to go huddle inside the other's building until other arrangements were made. BUT, she cautioned, if you don't have your coat, it is highly questionable if you could even make it across the parking lot without dying enroute if it was minus 60. Interesting factoid: If you toss hot water out of a cup up into the air at minus 60, it never hits the ground. It instantly flash freezes into a mist of vapor-like ice crystals and dissipates.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said the icy gusts on Mount Washington in New Hampshire on Friday produced a wind chill of -108F (-78C). Mt. Washington is far from a tall mountain, compared to the rocky mountains. Mt. Washington is only 6,288 feet above sea level.
Just so you know, they're sort of glossing over the fact that the average temperature in these colder states is because the lows are SOOO low. In the summers, it's really quite nice. Some clarification is needed re. Alaska. I live NW of Chicago in IL, and we have colder winters than the Panhandle in Alaska's SE, where the cruise ships run, and Anchorage, because it's on the ocean, is warmer by far than the Arctic coast, but it gets even colder near the Interior city of Fairbanks, since as with Anchorage, the water moderates the lows a bit. Also, the Mat-Su valley north of Anchorage is a big farming area, where vegetables can grow to enormous sizes--1000# or more for a pumpkin, because of the midnight sun keeping things growing 24 hours per day. Lastly, a comment below reminded me that when I've been up north in winter, I've seen parking lots where each space had a plug-in to keep the cars heated during their time shopping, or working on-site.
I lived in Northwest North Dakota for 2 years. I was a maintenance man at an apartment community. That meant no matter how cold it was I had to shovel the snow and get the ice cleared. Strangely North Dakota is where I have seen the coldest and the hottest temperature I have experienced. 50 degrees below zero in the winter and 114 degrees one summer day.
I used to live in northern New York State near the Vermont and Quebec, Canada borders. Every day going to school in January to march the morning temperature was -8F and sometimes with the wind it felt like - 25F. Snow lasted until almost May and the temperature outside was colder than my fridge. I could place a warm beer out my window for 5 minutes and it would be almost ice. The good part of living in cold areas of the US is that I did not need to wear jacket until January whenever I was back in my hometown because once your body get used to negative temperatures, 50 F feels warm. I now reside in Florida and I have only needed a sweatshirt or light windbreaker jacket once in the 5 years I have lived here. And only needed that jacket because I was near the water and its strong winds. All the native Floridians think 50 F is cold and that makes me laugh because I have in -50 F temperatures.
Great reaction Lyle mate, my better half adores the idea of living in Vermont or Maine....often mentions Bar Harbo(u)r... Makes me grin every time she says it because she can put on the regional accent perfectly, and don't even get me started on the pronunciation of lobster I'll end up in stitches from laughing. Definitely colder than Queensland.
My brother and his family live in Vermont. When my nephews were in High School, except for the worst weather, it was fashionable for the teen aged boys to wear shorts to school year round.
I'm in the snowy part of Oregon, my toilet freezes every year. 3 TO 4 FT of snow down my driveway for half the year started snow/ rain 2wks ago. We love it. I burn up at 72f
A few years ago up where I work in Prudhoe Bay the ambient was -50 and the -Wind chill was -125. We had colder ambient than that, but since we're outdoors often we go by real feel/wind chill since that's the temp you're actually being exposed to.
My son lived in Maine for a few years and he said that in between snowstorms, he and his roommate had to get on the roof to shovel off the snow so the roof would not collapse from the weight.
In northern Minnesota, it gets WAY closer than Minneapolis-St Paul. When I was living in north-central Minnesota, there was one day where the temperature was below -40 and a wind chill of -100. The radio was announcing that people should stay home unless it was an emergency. If your car broke down, you would freeze to death in a matter minutes (before mobile phones were available). We usually had the first hard freeze in September, snow around Halloween and the last hard freezes around the end of May (Memorial Day). One year my uncle had a freeze on the 4th of July that killed part of his vegetable garden. We had tank or inline heaters on our vehicles that we plugged into an outlet to keep the engines warm enough to start in the morning or during the day. Our pipes were either 6 feet underground or wrapped in heavy insulation with electic heat tapes underneath to keep them from freezing. I left there over 30 years ago, and I don't miss the cold and snow whatsoever.
I grew up between two states that were wildly different, Southern California (arid for the most part) and that was where I spent my first few years... and then we moved to Idaho, which was obviously on this list, and it's no picnic in the winter. Generally the plows come out at the end of September and the snow lasts until about early May there, and if you do a count that's up to 8 months depending on the year. If you're lucky it didn't start snowing until October and stopped by April. Especially if you're further north in the Panhandle part of the state, which is close to the Canada border, and like North Dakota, is about the same average temperature as if you crossed over the border to where the most populated parts of Canada are. As soon as I was an adult I got the hell out of Idaho and moved over to the coast here in Washington where it's much more mild (temperate rainforest), and it rains rather than snows. When it snows here I get personally offended, because the thing about rain and the reason that I moved away from snow is because you don't have to shovel rain. I had to wake up at like 4 in the morning as a kid and shovel our quarter-mile long driveway before we could go to school every day, and that was just absolutely a great way to not be able to focus in school because you couldn't stay awake. I distinctly recall walking to the bus stop through a tunnel I made in the snow that could collapse over the top of me and bury me because the snow was over my head, back when I was in first or second grade. I hate snow with everything that's in me now, and I love that I live in a place where if I want to experience it with the littles, I can choose to drive there, but it's not part of my daily reality. My daily reality is warmer if wetter than it ever was in a dry, cold place like Idaho, and I'm happy with that. My grandmother lived in Chicago and in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan growing up and I would never want to go anywhere near that Lake Effect snow, if you watch videos on that you can see how the wind has sculpted these waves into frozen shapes on the ice of the lakes and it's crazy to look at.
I'm in the Adirondack Mountain area of upstate NY, which is on par with Vermont. We get snow storms that deposit 4 feet of snow in about 48 hours or less. Winter temperatures can get down to -20°F and Summer temps up to 104°F. But Winter can last from November to April. We've even had surprise Winter storms as late as the end of March that deposit 2 to 3 feet of snow. The only upside to that is that it'll melt faster than it does in the dead of Winter. 😅
Ive only NOT seen snow in the month of July! I am from Northern NY.... I just got back from Australia! Went to Tasmania, Newcastle and Cape Tribulation
I was in Cheyenne, Wyoming in the middle of summer at midnight and stopped to fuel up. I was standing in the dark, filling my tank, and it was snowing. Very lightly, but in the middle of July? Went in and jokingly asked the cashier where's summer? Her response was, you missed it, it was yesterday. It's not unusual for a cold snap around the great lakes can produce wild weather. Same thing if you're up above 6,000 feet.
I have lived most of my life in New Hampshire and I cannot see myself living anywhere else. When I grew up, school was not cancelled because we got snow, we could get 3 feet and we'd still have school. School wasn't cancelled because it got cold, either, I remember walking to school at -40. I think school was cancelled 3 times in the 12 years I went to school. 4 of the top 10 snowiest states are in New England!!!
Hey brother we'd love for you to come out and visit... Just during our summer lol. Love your channel and love your content! I wish you and yours all the best!
In the northern USA can have very changeable weather. In Michigan it is common in summer to have 60-to-75 days of 85F/ 29C with at least a dozen days around 95F/ 35C. Meanwhile in winter it is also common to have 30-to-45 days where the temperature never goes above 20 F/ -6C with about 80 inches/ 203 cm of snow and at least one full week of temperatures around 5 F/ -15C. Of course, you are not a true northerner if you have not done Halloween during snow flurries or had your youth soccer game cut short or suspended due to snow fall in mid-April.
I was born and spent my childhood in Northern MN. But my grandparents did me better. They were all born in Finland, with my paternal grandfather's side being from up near the Arctic circle.
Actually in michigan it is warmer near the lakes in fall and early winter and colder in the spring and summer. back in the 1980s i went cross country skiing in 7 straight months.
New Hampshire-ite here. Lived here for 40 years now. 44º F average is deceiving. Much hotter in summer, MUCH colder in winter. Seldom do I remember many days of 44º. Having said that, the last few years have been warmer than usual, with temps hitting as low as minus 3 F. But I do remember the week of over minus 30 F a couple decades ago. That's air temp, not wind chill. Those are cold snaps of course, lasting a few days to maybe a week or 2, but 44º would feel like a heat wave about then. The vast majority of winter is well under freezing point. And we are not nearly as cold as Minnesota.
I went up to northern Wisconsin in army for winter training it was -20f an wind blowing 30 miles an hour brought chill factor down to about -40 -45 something like that. In one night it came a white out snow an it snowed 33 inches in about ten hours. I'm from Tennessee an I've never been back an I'm not going back either.
You can't imagine that cold unless you feel it. Clodest I've seen is a -32° windchill. It is so cold it hurts. It can feel like you are being jabbed with red hot needles on your exposed skin and trying to breath that cold air burns. Hats, boots, scarves, a good coat, and layering your clothes helps, but even with that beings outside for too long is to push your luck.
Moose, deer. bear, cougar, bobcat, elk, mixed with large areas of woods and water....may be cold on average but the north but believe me it is beautiful
Born, raised and live about 60 miles south of the Canadian border in Idaho. When the temp is above 60 I'm sluggish. Give me the cold with clear air to breath. And if you have a snow shovel you don't need a gym membership!
Canadian here ( Alberta ) Winter sucks -32 with out the wind chill is quite common - Also can be in the pluses ! Depends on Ma Natures mood on that givin day ! ( Lol
It can be cold here in Alaska but our summers make up for it. If one is and outdoorsman, like I am, Alaska has world class fishing, hunting and photography.
A polar vortex once brought parts of Montana down to -70°f, -57°c, without wind chill. I believe that's the closest temp ever recorded in the US. I would have thought Nome or somewhere else in N Alaska would have the record, but the oceans have a moderating influence. Canada has us beat by miles, though.
I live in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Last year we hit -32F. That is -35.5C. When it is cold like this, we just stay inside, unless some poor soul works outside. I always feel so bad for those guys.
I grew up in Wisconsin, after my younger sister and I grew up my parents moved to Arkansas. My sister went with them and about a year later I followed. As a kid I spent most of my time outside in both winter and summer. Now I'm a wimp... it goes below 50 and I'm covered to the hairline trying to stay warm, which is hilarious because when I lived in Wisconsin and it hit 50 in the spring I'd go swimming. With summers over 100 degrees in the south 50 feels a lot colder.
Assuming you are talking about a lake and not a heated pool, I’m calling bs, just hitting the 50 degrees mark in the spring would mean the water hasn’t even reached that point, probably meaning water temps are somewhere in the 32-40 degree range likely causing hypothermia within a few minutes
@@TheSloppyjoejr Pool but not heated, but who needs it heated when the sun is on it all day. I wasn't that crazy... not a polar bear, not even then. Of course I would go to the mailbox in bare feet in the snow, now just the thought makes me cringe.
I flew into Minnesota where it was -15 degrees for several days. We left there and landed in Phoenix, Arizona and it was 79 degrees. Imagine dressing to get to the airport and then when you land in Arizona you are still wearing that clothing! We had to repack or discard clothes just to get back on the next plane home.
PS: I would love to go to Australia sometime... which I know is about the size of the US and so I'm not entirely sure which part I would want to go to the most. Probably down South by the mountains down there, but I might like to see Queensland as well. I think that I would be more disturbed by those giant Kangas than I would be by any of the spiders; every time I see a video of a big kangaroo clawing at somebody's sliding glass door I feel panicked. They look like aliens with ill intent, lol.
Take a look at 2 WORLD RECORD holder Mt Baker Ski Resort in Washington State . It has the season with most snow fall at 1140 inches which I think is like 29 meters .It also holds tha yearly average of 641 inches even though it been higher the last 15 years at over 660 inches. All this from an 11,000 ft Mt.
Doing a state's average temperature is very deceiving. Pikes Peak in Colorado is 14,000 ft. Alaska is about the same size as the lower 48. Fairbanks average temperatures -40°f below. It holds the record at -80f below. The coldest in the lower 48 is -70f Below in Montana. In the Phoenix Valley in Arizona can go weeks at 110f or more a day. We were working outside the day it reached 123f But Arizona has its mountains as well. And it has reached -40°f below as well. And they had have a snowfall logged 102 in. If you look at it that way Arizona has the largest extremes of any state. Now what just took place in the Appalachians with the flood maybe the worst ever recorded. But our area in the Missouri Ozarks in 2017 log 10 to 17 in of rainfall in around 6 hours. My Ranch logged 14 in. As you can imagine the flood was massive. Rivers that typically only Run 2 ft deep were flowing 30 ft Deep in 6 hours. Missouri holds the record amount for rainfall in a short time. 12 inches and 45 minutes. Could be why we have the some of largest Springs in the world.lol Big Spring flows 276 million gallons a day. About 12 mi from my Ranch is Mammoth Springs just across the state line in Arkansas. It is the 7th largest spring in the world. It flows 9 million gallons in an hour. We also have three lakes that have a shoreline totaling about 1,000mi each. America is a place of extremes. 🚜🤠🐂
Well....there have been people living in these areas for thousands of years without modern day conveniences. But whether it was 1,000 years ago or today, people can be resilient when the need arises.
@@PatrolNation In Michigan - 0 F (-17.8 C) is not great, but is ok as long as there is no or extremely little wind. Any wind chill below sub-zero F or worse than -18 C is what is brutal. Michigan use to get 0 F several times every winter, sometimes whole weeks where the temps never got above 5 F (-15 C). When that is common you prep for it. Just in 2024 (Jan 6-8) Detroit had 42 hours straight of sub-zero (-20 C) temps. Of course, you are not a true northerner if you have not done Halloween during snow flurries or had your youth soccer game cut short or suspended due to snow fall in mid-April. My son experienced both of those in the early 2000s.
They're wrong about Michigan and Wisconsin, I live on the border of both states and in the summer it's usually anywhere between the high 70's and the high 90's sometimes 100 degrees in the summer with long stretches of 80's and 90's. In the winter it's usually in the teens with long stretches of below zero, 20-30 degrees below zero sometimes way lower.
Getting use to it is BS it's still Dam cold here in Michigan normal 28 to 36 deg. F assuming there is snow on the ground when no snow add another -10 deg. F .😄
Then you aren't native to Michigan. - 0 F (-17.8 C) is not great, but is ok as long as there is no or extremely little wind. Any wind chill below sub-zero F or worse than -18 C is what is brutal. Michigan use to get 0 F several times every winter, sometimes whole weeks where the temps never gets above 5 F (-15 C). When that is common you prep for it.
These cold states are one reason many of us are actually not amused our government want us to transition to Electric Vehicles. At these temperatures the battery doesn't hold a charge well.
I live in north-central Minnesota, and we have weeks of negative temperatures in the winter. When we go out to shop or work, we dress up with coats and gloves. We usually have to scrape the ice off the car windows so we can see out and then clear off the snow before going anywhere. On the weekends, a lot of us go out snowmobiling or ice fishing. We have fun all year around, but we have to dress for it, including shoes and boots, as frostbite is no fun. We do go out and about all the time and don't let a little weather get in the way.
I lived near Mille Lacs Lake or Garrison MN and now I'm retired in Alaska. It's like Minnesota on steroids.
Can confirm this. I'm in north eastern Minnesota. The coldest I've seen in -40F/C because the temp scales meet .
I grew up in Minnesota and the coldest I ever saw was a week one winter in the 1990s in Fergus Falls where the HIGH was -40… it would dip to -45 or lower overnight and the lowest hit -54. There was no wind, and I remember the fog of smoke/steam hanging over the town from all the chimneys, it just hung there, frozen. Without wind if you dressed properly it wasnt terrible… nothing mechanical wanted to work right. Tires were stiff, square spots till you got moving a while… springs could break from being cold, school buses ran till about -38 and then they decided it was just too dangerous for the kids. I had a water pipe burst in my basement and it was 4 inches away from the foundation wall, still froze.
-25 with 40 mph wind feels worse to exposed flesh.
In the early 80s, I saw it snowing in June in Massachusetts and we didn't even live on a mountain. We had about an inch.
You never get totally used to minus 20, 30, or 40 degrees. You learn to tolerate it better. Same with the extreme heat. I have done both. The worst about cold to me is taking off cold, wet, boots that are crusted over with snow & road grime. Then putting them back on when you go out again.
I lived in Alaska for 5 years in the military. I'm well aware of how cold it can get and sometimes how much snow can fall.
North Dakota here. At 40 below flying birds will drop out of the sky. If you pick em up and put them in your coat they sometimes come back.
Gotta love the cold and snow!☃❄ It only lasts 5 months or so...
No gb it’s too cold lmao
Used to use block heaters in New England so you could start your vehicle in the winter.
Wisconsin gets into the 90's in the summer.
But come January the boogers will freeze in your nose lol. We are a bit bipolar.
I was in Delta Junction Alaska in Jan of 2020. When I took off from Atlanta Georgia it was about 10 C when i landed in Fairbanks Alaska it was -36 C. When I got to Delta Junction it was -45 C. I have never experienced anything like those temperatures. My beard would freeze from my breath.
North Dakota is bleak! And windy, there's nothing to stop it. Here in Minnesota, if it's above 10 degrees during the day( in the winter!) it's not a bad day
Alaska upper parts of Alaska and Antarctica it's too cold to snow sometimes.
Even in minnesota it gets too cold to snow at times in northern minnesota.
The forecast here is rain and both lows and highs in the single digits °c, 40's °f, for the foreseeable future, no freezes yet. My favorite season. You can go out in the woods and run into just about any sorts of animals, because the cold and drizzle masks sounds and scents nearly completely. Perfect camping weather for me.
Yep, 7 months of snow. I’m in Massachusetts, but only about 15 minutes from either New Hampshire or Vermont and the winters are an adventure, for sure. We are actually in a drought right now and only the northern part of New England has gotten any snow so far this year, but it’s coming, I have no doubt.
I'm in Boise. It very rarely gets colder than -10. But the summers always have a stretch of 105 or higher.
My oldest grandson and his family live in North Dakota, about 30 minutes from Canada. My youngest daughter and i went to visit them one year for Thanksgiving, and the snow and cold were brutal. Another year, i checked the temperatures for my hometown (located in the middle of Illinois), and we were colder than North Dakota and Alaska...lots of snow, wind, and cold temperatures.
What people don’t realize who are not from the US is that all of these states have very warm to hot summers for months. So they’re wonderful places to be in the summer. We have very extreme differences between winter and summer in the US. I live in Minnesota and we get a number of days in the 90’s Fahrenheit in the summer and for half the year temperatures are very nice.
Although North Pole can have winter temps that low it can also have up to 80+F in the summer. Amazing since the map they used shows us living off the coast of Mexico.😂
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I live in North Dakota and moved here 6 years ago. Worked in a railyard and we had a white out blizzard on May 18th, 2019. I'll never forget that day because it was my first day on the job. Thinking it was near summertime, I was in plain jeans and a thin long sleeve. Sat outside for 5 hours trying to get some conveyors started before we quit for the day lmao. It came out of nowhere and there were so many semi trucks and trailers tipped over in the median from the unexpected snow. Then it started snowing again pretty heavily in early October that year.
Hey May 18th. That's my birthday.
@ happy birthday in 6 months!
I live in east central Wisconsin and I can tell you, we have no snow. It hasn't snowed once yet. We got very little snow last year. It's also staying warmer longer into fall. I'm a transplant from the south to Wisconsin. I lived many years in northern Virginia. We got way more snow there. We had a blizzard and, got over 4 ft in 2 days in 2010 in Virginia. I have to say, the summers in Wisconsin are stunning!
Wisconsin gets wayyyy more snow than anywhere in Virginia, the statistics speak for themselves. It also gets bitterly cold, especially the further you get from Lake Michigan
@susanhunter9196, have you tried skiing or snowmobiling yet? I'm on the other side of the Cheddar Curtain in Rockford.😀
@@TheSloppyjoejr The last 2-3 years have been very mild in the Great Lakes. Snow totals are down and temperatures have been higher than normal. I live across the Lake in Michigan.
I grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota and it was very common to get our first snowfall in Late September-early October and then not see our lawns again until late May. We usually had a least one snowstorm where the snow would measure over 4 feet. It was great as a kid but really depressing as an adult. I now live in Florida.
I grew up on the South Dakota plains and it got well below freezing and the wind blew all the time so there was always a wind chill factor.
You couldn't pay me to live in Australia! I will take sub-freezing temperatures and 5 feet of snow every season here in Massachusetts over your spider situation ANY day!
I'm the opposite. I would take Australia any day over cold and snow.
I loved visiting Australia. No more chance of running into critters there as here.
@maureen14, just for the record, I was a visitor back in '87 for a month, and never saw any of the "nasties". It's like bears and cougars here. They're there, but you don't see them on a daily basis.
Right! Too many poisonous animals in Australia.
Yeah, but that’s because you’re an idiot, Maureen
Thanks for your reaction! My father was career military so as a child I had to move frequently and lived in many states throughout the US. My relatives lived throughout New York city and New York state and I saw some very snowy winters especially upstate. I lived right on the ocean in New London Connecticut for more than 20 years and winters there were the most unbearable for me. 4 or 5 months of wind chills below zero degrees overnight and early mornings meant falling on ice, not able to start car (sometimes door was frozen shut and car stuck in ice in the driveway unable to move). Sometimes eyelashes would freeze shut and eyeballs burned and the only way to breath was through a wool scarf over the face. I have lived in Florida now for 25 years and would never want to go back up north to live ever again.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in Chicago was -27°F on January 20, 1985. This temperature was recorded at O'Hare International Airport. The day also saw a wind chill of -93°F. Chicago also experienced a record-breaking cold Christmas in 1983, when the temperature remained below zero for 100 consecutive hours. The coldest day of that Christmas was December 24, with a low of -25°F and a high of -11°F. That sort of cold got old and part of why I moved to N.C..
You have to be both tough and prepared to live in and around the Great Lakes. We love it, but you should do your research before visiting during the winter.
After living in Alaska for several years from Anchorage to Fairbanks, I can tell you it is very normal to have summer day in the 80s and 90s f.
I went to my first college in Vermont. After one particularly unappealing night at the dinning hall, I walked out into a blizzard (appropriately dressed) to go to the Hospital a mile away that had a 24 hr dinner. Did no think twice about it.
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Have you watched Tim Foust's "A Southerner in the Snow"? I think you have, but if not, he and friend Chris Chatham drive up to the Minneapolis area of Minnesota in February during a polar vortex (basically extremely cold polar air dipping down into the US Midwest).
You're right. It does get chilling to the bone when I used to drive truck. We go up that way during the winter, but after the last winter, where it was −50 because of the polar vortex coming down I. Refuse to go there. Another thing diesel freezes, and we did not have heaters in our tank. And my diesel froze and the truck froze up.
In 2000, we vacationed in Alaska for our 25th Anniversary. It was August 31, and we were in a big hotel in Fairbanks. We came down to the dining hall from our room for dinner and were interrupted by a fire alarm. Not allowed to go back up to your room to fetch your coat, everybody had to go out and wait in the parking lot until the Fire Dept cleared it. Despite being August, it was in the 40's F (+4 to +10 C) and people were scouting all the parked cars to find recently parked ones whose engines were still warm. People huddled around the grilles rubbing their hands together! We talked to one of the restaurant staff who was waiting next to us. She said, yeah, that's a rule in Fairbanks: NEVER come down to dinner and leave your coat in the room! Always keep your coat with you!
I asked what do you do if the fire alarm goes off in January and it's minus 60 outside? (-51 C) and you don't have your coat? She said the hotel has a reciprocal arrangement with the Denny's grille across the parking lot. Each one's patrons were allowed to go huddle inside the other's building until other arrangements were made. BUT, she cautioned, if you don't have your coat, it is highly questionable if you could even make it across the parking lot without dying enroute if it was minus 60.
Interesting factoid: If you toss hot water out of a cup up into the air at minus 60, it never hits the ground. It instantly flash freezes into a mist of vapor-like ice crystals and dissipates.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said the icy gusts on Mount Washington in New Hampshire on Friday produced a wind chill of -108F (-78C). Mt. Washington is far from a tall mountain, compared to the rocky mountains. Mt. Washington is only 6,288 feet above sea level.
Just so you know, they're sort of glossing over the fact that the average temperature in these colder states is because the lows are SOOO low. In the summers, it's really quite nice.
Some clarification is needed re. Alaska. I live NW of Chicago in IL, and we have colder winters than the Panhandle in Alaska's SE, where the cruise ships run, and Anchorage, because it's on the ocean, is warmer by far than the Arctic coast, but it gets even colder near the Interior city of Fairbanks, since as with Anchorage, the water moderates the lows a bit. Also, the Mat-Su valley north of Anchorage is a big farming area, where vegetables can grow to enormous sizes--1000# or more for a pumpkin, because of the midnight sun keeping things growing 24 hours per day.
Lastly, a comment below reminded me that when I've been up north in winter, I've seen parking lots where each space had a plug-in to keep the cars heated during their time shopping, or working on-site.
I lived in Northwest North Dakota for 2 years. I was a maintenance man at an apartment community. That meant no matter how cold it was I had to shovel the snow and get the ice cleared. Strangely North Dakota is where I have seen the coldest and the hottest temperature I have experienced. 50 degrees below zero in the winter and 114 degrees one summer day.
I used to live in northern New York State near the Vermont and Quebec, Canada borders. Every day going to school in January to march the morning temperature was -8F and sometimes with the wind it felt like - 25F. Snow lasted until almost May and the temperature outside was colder than my fridge. I could place a warm beer out my window for 5 minutes and it would be almost ice.
The good part of living in cold areas of the US is that I did not need to wear jacket until January whenever I was back in my hometown because once your body get used to negative temperatures, 50 F feels warm. I now reside in Florida and I have only needed a sweatshirt or light windbreaker jacket once in the 5 years I have lived here. And only needed that jacket because I was near the water and its strong winds. All the native Floridians think 50 F is cold and that makes me laugh because I have in -50 F temperatures.
Great reaction Lyle mate, my better half adores the idea of living in Vermont or Maine....often mentions Bar Harbo(u)r... Makes me grin every time she says it because she can put on the regional accent perfectly, and don't even get me started on the pronunciation of lobster I'll end up in stitches from laughing. Definitely colder than Queensland.
My brother and his family live in Vermont. When my nephews were in High School, except for the worst weather, it was fashionable for the teen aged boys to wear shorts to school year round.
They do here in Massachusetts too, year round. "Sweatshirt/Short weather", they call it.
I'm in the snowy part of Oregon, my toilet freezes every year. 3 TO 4 FT of snow down my driveway for half the year started snow/ rain 2wks ago. We love it. I burn up at 72f
Vermont is cold. In January and February we can get as cold as the negative 20s or 30s. Add in a wind chill and it could be negative 30s or 40s.
You should check out the Ice Bowl, the 1967 championship game between Dallas and Green Bay.
A few years ago up where I work in Prudhoe Bay the ambient was -50 and the -Wind chill was -125. We had colder ambient than that, but since we're outdoors often we go by real feel/wind chill since that's the temp you're actually being exposed to.
My son lived in Maine for a few years and he said that in between snowstorms, he and his roommate had to get on the roof to shovel off the snow so the roof would not collapse from the weight.
In northern Minnesota, it gets WAY closer than Minneapolis-St Paul. When I was living in north-central Minnesota, there was one day where the temperature was below -40 and a wind chill of -100. The radio was announcing that people should stay home unless it was an emergency. If your car broke down, you would freeze to death in a matter minutes (before mobile phones were available). We usually had the first hard freeze in September, snow around Halloween and the last hard freezes around the end of May (Memorial Day). One year my uncle had a freeze on the 4th of July that killed part of his vegetable garden. We had tank or inline heaters on our vehicles that we plugged into an outlet to keep the engines warm enough to start in the morning or during the day. Our pipes were either 6 feet underground or wrapped in heavy insulation with electic heat tapes underneath to keep them from freezing. I left there over 30 years ago, and I don't miss the cold and snow whatsoever.
California holds the record for the deepest snow.Tamarack, California had a 450 inch snowfall in 1911.
I grew up between two states that were wildly different, Southern California (arid for the most part) and that was where I spent my first few years... and then we moved to Idaho, which was obviously on this list, and it's no picnic in the winter. Generally the plows come out at the end of September and the snow lasts until about early May there, and if you do a count that's up to 8 months depending on the year. If you're lucky it didn't start snowing until October and stopped by April. Especially if you're further north in the Panhandle part of the state, which is close to the Canada border, and like North Dakota, is about the same average temperature as if you crossed over the border to where the most populated parts of Canada are. As soon as I was an adult I got the hell out of Idaho and moved over to the coast here in Washington where it's much more mild (temperate rainforest), and it rains rather than snows. When it snows here I get personally offended, because the thing about rain and the reason that I moved away from snow is because you don't have to shovel rain. I had to wake up at like 4 in the morning as a kid and shovel our quarter-mile long driveway before we could go to school every day, and that was just absolutely a great way to not be able to focus in school because you couldn't stay awake. I distinctly recall walking to the bus stop through a tunnel I made in the snow that could collapse over the top of me and bury me because the snow was over my head, back when I was in first or second grade.
I hate snow with everything that's in me now, and I love that I live in a place where if I want to experience it with the littles, I can choose to drive there, but it's not part of my daily reality. My daily reality is warmer if wetter than it ever was in a dry, cold place like Idaho, and I'm happy with that.
My grandmother lived in Chicago and in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan growing up and I would never want to go anywhere near that Lake Effect snow, if you watch videos on that you can see how the wind has sculpted these waves into frozen shapes on the ice of the lakes and it's crazy to look at.
I'm in the Adirondack Mountain area of upstate NY, which is on par with Vermont. We get snow storms that deposit 4 feet of snow in about 48 hours or less. Winter temperatures can get down to -20°F and Summer temps up to 104°F. But Winter can last from November to April. We've even had surprise Winter storms as late as the end of March that deposit 2 to 3 feet of snow. The only upside to that is that it'll melt faster than it does in the dead of Winter. 😅
LOL Lyle, winter can be terrible here.
I'm in Kentucky, and I can't imagine dealing with those temps or the amount of snow they get.
You had me giggling, watching this from the mountains of New Mexico while it's snowing and currently 25 degrees fahrenheit 😂
Ive only NOT seen snow in the month of July! I am from Northern NY.... I just got back from Australia! Went to Tasmania, Newcastle and Cape Tribulation
Wow, that's a trip around Australia. Hope you enjoyed your time here.
@ yeah I love your country!
I was in Cheyenne, Wyoming in the middle of summer at midnight and stopped to fuel up. I was standing in the dark, filling my tank, and it was snowing. Very lightly, but in the middle of July? Went in and jokingly asked the cashier where's summer? Her response was, you missed it, it was yesterday. It's not unusual for a cold snap around the great lakes can produce wild weather. Same thing if you're up above 6,000 feet.
I have lived most of my life in New Hampshire and I cannot see myself living anywhere else. When I grew up, school was not cancelled because we got snow, we could get 3 feet and we'd still have school. School wasn't cancelled because it got cold, either, I remember walking to school at -40. I think school was cancelled 3 times in the 12 years I went to school. 4 of the top 10 snowiest states are in New England!!!
Hey brother we'd love for you to come out and visit... Just during our summer lol. Love your channel and love your content! I wish you and yours all the best!
In the northern USA can have very changeable weather. In Michigan it is common in summer to have 60-to-75 days of 85F/ 29C with at least a dozen days around 95F/ 35C. Meanwhile in winter it is also common to have 30-to-45 days where the temperature never goes above 20 F/ -6C with about 80 inches/ 203 cm of snow and at least one full week of temperatures around 5 F/ -15C. Of course, you are not a true northerner if you have not done Halloween during snow flurries or had your youth soccer game cut short or suspended due to snow fall in mid-April.
I love living in Minnesota. I wouldn't last very long in a warmer climate, I hate heat.
I live in Nebraska and 50°f in the winter is warm but 50 in the summer is cool
I was born and spent my childhood in Northern MN. But my grandparents did me better. They were all born in Finland, with my paternal grandfather's side being from up near the Arctic circle.
Actually in michigan it is warmer near the lakes in fall and early winter and colder in the spring and summer. back in the 1980s i went cross country skiing in 7 straight months.
I’m from Minnesota. One thing not mentioned is that it can get too cold to snow.
New Hampshire-ite here. Lived here for 40 years now. 44º F average is deceiving. Much hotter in summer, MUCH colder in winter. Seldom do I remember many days of 44º. Having said that, the last few years have been warmer than usual, with temps hitting as low as minus 3 F. But I do remember the week of over minus 30 F a couple decades ago. That's air temp, not wind chill. Those are cold snaps of course, lasting a few days to maybe a week or 2, but 44º would feel like a heat wave about then. The vast majority of winter is well under freezing point. And we are not nearly as cold as Minnesota.
Great stream Lyle and I know at -40deg it will freeze engine oil and fuel
NorthPole Alaska here. Don't have to imagine ....mid November about 6 hours of daylight and sub zero temps . It's a thing. You adapt.
I went up to northern Wisconsin in army for winter training it was -20f an wind blowing 30 miles an hour brought chill factor down to about -40 -45 something like that. In one night it came a white out snow an it snowed 33 inches in about ten hours. I'm from Tennessee an I've never been back an I'm not going back either.
Oh you got caught in an Alberta Clipper! We used to get two or three of those each year, but we have only had one bad storm like that recently.
You can't imagine that cold unless you feel it. Clodest I've seen is a -32° windchill. It is so cold it hurts. It can feel like you are being jabbed with red hot needles on your exposed skin and trying to breath that cold air burns. Hats, boots, scarves, a good coat, and layering your clothes helps, but even with that beings outside for too long is to push your luck.
Shows how relative everything is lol, I don't even consider turning my heat on until the house hits 60F.
Quick correction…when we in New Hampshire are at zero Fahrenheit … you are at -17.78 Celsius 👍
Moose, deer. bear, cougar, bobcat, elk, mixed with large areas of woods and water....may be cold on average but the north but believe me it is beautiful
Born, raised and live about 60 miles south of the Canadian border in Idaho. When the temp is above 60 I'm sluggish. Give me the cold with clear air to breath. And if you have a snow shovel you don't need a gym membership!
Canadian here ( Alberta ) Winter sucks -32 with out the wind chill is quite common - Also can be in the pluses ! Depends on Ma Natures mood on that givin day ! ( Lol
It can be cold here in Alaska but our summers make up for it. If one is and outdoorsman, like I am, Alaska has world class fishing, hunting and photography.
A polar vortex once brought parts of Montana down to -70°f, -57°c, without wind chill. I believe that's the closest temp ever recorded in the US. I would have thought Nome or somewhere else in N Alaska would have the record, but the oceans have a moderating influence. Canada has us beat by miles, though.
I live in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Last year we hit -32F. That is -35.5C. When it is cold like this, we just stay inside, unless some poor soul works outside. I always feel so bad for those guys.
I live in Alaska and it has gotten to -70 f in Fairbanks and the average is -50 f! We get an average of 20- 50 inches of snow!
Colorado just got 4 feet of snow in less than a week!
Yikes
I grew up in Wisconsin, after my younger sister and I grew up my parents moved to Arkansas. My sister went with them and about a year later I followed. As a kid I spent most of my time outside in both winter and summer. Now I'm a wimp... it goes below 50 and I'm covered to the hairline trying to stay warm, which is hilarious because when I lived in Wisconsin and it hit 50 in the spring I'd go swimming. With summers over 100 degrees in the south 50 feels a lot colder.
Assuming you are talking about a lake and not a heated pool, I’m calling bs, just hitting the 50 degrees mark in the spring would mean the water hasn’t even reached that point, probably meaning water temps are somewhere in the 32-40 degree range likely causing hypothermia within a few minutes
@@TheSloppyjoejr Pool but not heated, but who needs it heated when the sun is on it all day. I wasn't that crazy... not a polar bear, not even then. Of course I would go to the mailbox in bare feet in the snow, now just the thought makes me cringe.
As a Vermonter I can say we get snow from October until April
I flew into Minnesota where it was -15 degrees for several days. We left there and landed in Phoenix, Arizona and it was 79 degrees. Imagine dressing to get to the airport and then when you land in Arizona you are still wearing that clothing! We had to repack or discard clothes just to get back on the next plane home.
It's 2 in the afternoon and 34 degrees, the Queensland harsh summer heat. I’m on smoko.
I lived in Idaho for 20+ years I have personally seen that -62 in the winter and I have pictures of 125 in the summer
I lived three Years South of Chicago, Illinois and I had over 5 feet of snow outside my front door.
No Goanna's running around to throw on the Barbe. But we do have a Postman who wears short pants when it's -30C and snowing. And I am Canadian
Live in Fargo North Dakota transplant from Miami Florida winters can be brutal but Fargo is a nice place to live
PS: I would love to go to Australia sometime... which I know is about the size of the US and so I'm not entirely sure which part I would want to go to the most. Probably down South by the mountains down there, but I might like to see Queensland as well. I think that I would be more disturbed by those giant Kangas than I would be by any of the spiders; every time I see a video of a big kangaroo clawing at somebody's sliding glass door I feel panicked. They look like aliens with ill intent, lol.
In Wisconsin, 60F is shorts weather.
Take a look at 2 WORLD RECORD holder Mt Baker Ski Resort in Washington State . It has the season with most snow fall at 1140 inches which I think is like 29 meters .It also holds tha yearly average of 641 inches even though it been higher the last 15 years at over 660 inches. All this from an 11,000 ft Mt.
Parts of Alaska don't see sunlight for over 3 months
Doing a state's average temperature is very deceiving. Pikes Peak in Colorado is 14,000 ft.
Alaska is about the same size as the lower 48. Fairbanks average temperatures -40°f below. It holds the record at -80f below. The coldest in the lower 48 is -70f Below in Montana.
In the Phoenix Valley in Arizona can go weeks at 110f or more a day. We were working outside the day it reached 123f
But Arizona has its mountains as well. And it has reached -40°f below as well.
And they had have a snowfall logged 102 in.
If you look at it that way Arizona has the largest extremes of any state.
Now what just took place in the Appalachians with the flood maybe the worst ever recorded.
But our area in the Missouri Ozarks in 2017 log 10 to 17 in of rainfall in around 6 hours. My Ranch logged 14 in. As you can imagine the flood was massive. Rivers that typically only Run 2 ft deep were flowing 30 ft Deep in 6 hours.
Missouri holds the record amount for rainfall in a short time.
12 inches and 45 minutes. Could be why we have the some of largest Springs in the world.lol
Big Spring flows 276 million gallons a day. About 12 mi from my Ranch is Mammoth Springs just across the state line in Arkansas. It is the 7th largest spring in the world.
It flows 9 million gallons in an hour.
We also have three lakes that have a shoreline totaling about 1,000mi each.
America is a place of extremes.
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In 1962 I attended university in a Rocky Mtn state. One morning I went to class a t -10°F
Lake effect causes snow, not cold. As a matter of fact, lake effect makes it warmer.
There are people who are homeless up in Alaska who survive sleeping outside in tents and out of them too. It amazes me, too.
Well....there have been people living in these areas for thousands of years without modern day conveniences.
But whether it was 1,000 years ago or today, people can be resilient when the need arises.
GB lives in the Minnesota area they mentioned.
Yeah, I don't know how he survives lol
@@PatrolNation In Michigan - 0 F (-17.8 C) is not great, but is ok as long as there is no or extremely little wind. Any wind chill below sub-zero F or worse than -18 C is what is brutal. Michigan use to get 0 F several times every winter, sometimes whole weeks where the temps never got above 5 F (-15 C). When that is common you prep for it. Just in 2024 (Jan 6-8) Detroit had 42 hours straight of sub-zero (-20 C) temps. Of course, you are not a true northerner if you have not done Halloween during snow flurries or had your youth soccer game cut short or suspended due to snow fall in mid-April. My son experienced both of those in the early 2000s.
They're wrong about Michigan and Wisconsin, I live on the border of both states and in the summer it's usually anywhere between the high 70's and the high 90's sometimes 100 degrees in the summer with long stretches of 80's and 90's.
In the winter it's usually in the teens with long stretches of below zero, 20-30 degrees below zero sometimes way lower.
Here's a video for you : NFL Coldest Games of All Time
He has seen it I think
The Snowiest states are in the West: California, Alaska, Washington, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado
I figured it out. 160 inches is like, 4 meters. WAY too much for me!
Minnesota is awesome! I'll take 0 over 100 any day😎✌
Getting use to it is BS it's still Dam cold here in Michigan normal 28 to 36 deg. F assuming there is snow on the ground when no snow add another -10 deg. F .😄
Then you aren't native to Michigan. - 0 F (-17.8 C) is not great, but is ok as long as there is no or extremely little wind. Any wind chill below sub-zero F or worse than -18 C is what is brutal. Michigan use to get 0 F several times every winter, sometimes whole weeks where the temps never gets above 5 F (-15 C). When that is common you prep for it.
These cold states are one reason many of us are actually not amused our government want us to transition to Electric Vehicles. At these temperatures the battery doesn't hold a charge well.
Canada
gets most of it.
I imagine our neighbors to the north, in Canada, get colder.
Greetings from Detroit, the only large USA city NORTH of Canada (Windsor).