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1:49 99°F = 37.2°C
3:23, 6:31, & 7:49 100°F = 37.7°C
4:31 90°F = 32.2°C
6:47 121°F = 49.4°C
7:18 -60°F = -51.1°C
8:24 117°F = 47.2°C
11:16 110°F = 43.3°C
11:19 125°F = 51.6°C
12:06 134°F = 56.6°C
Right, just google xF to C for conversion
C= (F - 32) x 5/9
Better yet is cricket to F. A cricket is a small insect that "chirps" at night when it is warm, there is a famous one that tells a puppet to stay out of trouble. Count the number of "chirps" in 14 or 15 seconds and add 40, that's the temp in F⁰.
@@sagemaster6814 google seems infinitely easier lol
@@felycitiand it’s how math skills die. Especially since Google is rapidly becoming less and less trustworthy
@Michaelschemlab
I also posted to Chris a heat index converter. I don't think he realized that when Lawerence said 99F with 90% humidity that converts to 76C or 170F in real temp. I don't know how humid it gets in Germany.
I've found that when it's hot and humid, all a fan does is blow hot, wet air on you.
ITS NOT the heat, its the HUMIDITY!!!!!!!
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It's like trying to cool down by having a dog breathe on you...
When the dog is panting
get a better fan
Europeans often say, "Why don't Americans just open the window?"
Answer: Because once the ground heats up, it doesn't cool down at night anymore.
I might be 90 degrees at 4 in the morning in some places.
I would say "Because I don't care to have bugs crawl into my place." I guess they don't have bugs there that aren't from the Middle East.
@@dner75-xh9le Well, we have screens that come for free with the windows so that's usually not a problem.
It's 9pm in West Texas and it's still in the 90°F
@@Trifler500 We have screens here, bud. I have a window to let our cats outside. I get that this is complex for you, but at least we don't have thousands of deaths when it gets above 40 degrees Celsius, Cool Breeze.
America is the third largest country in the world. It crosses every weather zone. People die in the snow they die in the heat they die. In the floods they die in the ocean. We are very strong we will survive. Thank you for your channel.
We're 4th largest. Russia, Canada, and China are larger.
@@JoAnnaHolsman china is not bigger
@@JoAnnaHolsmanin total surface area we are bigger. chinna is bigger not including lakes and shit which still have land under them
its debateable when adding territories and if measurements are true, plus water borders like the great lakes or oceans. plus like the person said above, for instance look at the usa canada border on lake huron. 80ish miles of lake are split down the middle, so 40 miles along the whole lake is still usa territory. on some stats like SPECIFICALLY land area, it would not include that nor the great lakes which are larger than probably 10-20 countries.
Third, fourth, whatever, it's big.
I'm a wedding minister, and often am asked to officiate a ceremony outside - at a park, or an outdoor venue. One summer, I was asked to officiate in middle Georgia. It was 101F (38C) and 90-ish% humidity. Think sauna. Their venue had no cover, no trees; it was just out in the hot sun. I was MELTING under my thick minister's robe. And I could see "grandma" dying of heat in the front row. So I cut out a few non-important parts so the guests could go somewhere and get cooled off. I had to peel my robe off and get it dry cleaned. It's one thing brides don't think about. Summer wedding! Yay! Strapless dresses! Yay! But what about the poor guys in tuxedos or suits, and the minister in a robe? I tell all my couples, if possible, to visit their venue one year (give or take a day) ahead of time. You'll see where the sun is, maybe where you can go in if it rains, how hot or cold the weather could be that week...
As a former string quartet member, I played my share of outdoor weddings. Very few were better than tolerable experiences, and we ended up writing acceptable temperature ranges and requirements for shade devices (e.g., canopies) into our agreement form - not just for our comfort, but mostly for the safety of our instruments! Wood instruments with special varnish do NOT like temperature and humidity swings.
Dad had to do a wedding on horseback in the 80s during a day so gusty that he could barely be heard.
@@jayt9608 Oh my!! That would be a difficult service to give. Memorable, though!
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I believe he said that he would never do it again. Lol
Yep I'm from Georgia but I'm vacationing in Cali right now, and I can say dry heat is way better than high humidity. It's been 100° everyday I've been here, but it feels like nothing compared to 90° heat when you can't sweat due to humidity that you can swim in.
Martha and the Vandellas were a Motown band. In1963 they recorded a song called Heatwave about falling in love.
As soon as Laurence mentioned it, it started playing in my head.
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Heat in North America gets serious, as does cold. This is why AC is prevalent, and why many municipalities have designated heating and cooling centers - for people who need an emergency place to drop by and cool off/warm up. There are temperatures on both ends of this scale that end up very dangerous if unprepared.
I knew heatwaves were different in Germany and America when I noticed him basically wearing a long sleeve turtle neck with no A/C. Because it would never happen in America we'd die with how hot it gets here.
I wear long sleeved clothes all the time, but a turtleneck would be nearly too much.
I see a little lady riding her bicycle by my house every day in pants, long sleeves, a vest and a big hat. I'm in Texas and it's been over 100 with high humidity every day for at least a month. Seeing her makes me sweat more, but she seems just fine. My AC is out and I just want to die...LOL
@@amberhines3979I wonder how thin the clothing is. Hopefully she's getting some airflow in there lol. My guess is she's protecting herself from the sun.
@@amberhines3979 I often wear full-coverage clothes in summer; if you wear loose-fitting clothes made of lightweight materials like cotton or silk, it's quite comfortable. I figure that I can be just hot, or I can be hot and sunburned. And btw, the big hat makes total sense. I've been known to walk around on a hot day carrying a big umbrella; when it's really hot, it makes sense to create your own person shady spot everywhere you go. Give it a try; you might like it. (fyi I recommend big long full skirts and a loosely belted tunic top with sandals and either hat or umbrella. very shady and breezy!) Good luck--stay cool!
Same
I was in Romania and England in 2003, during Europe’s worst heatwave in 500 years. It got up to 112f-44c. Everyone was freaking out, but it honesty didn’t feel that bad. It was like a normal summer in Texas. The worst heat I’ve ever experienced is in the southeast United States. The high humidity mixed with temperatures around 40c is unbearable!
The dustbowl was a period of draught made worse by nonsustainable farming practices.
yes.. however don't forget that it was the hottest decade in recorded history in the US.
What he said with the addition of the middle bit of the country where most land was farms basically dried up and blew away. No rain, no crops, just miserable heat, dead vegetation, and dust storms. For years. A fair percentage of Oklahoma's and Kansas's populations just left.
Thankfully we've totally learned our lesson from the experience and we no longer grow super thirsty crops like almond trees in draught prone areas, nor do we permit private industries to capture, bottle and sell the water from extremely over-taxed water sources like the Colorado River... Oh, wait, scratch that; reverse it. We are absolutely driving straight for the same cliff as global temperatures rise and weather patterns continue to drastically change.
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You can not forget the grasshopper plague. It might be questioned if America has ever seen such a thing since.
@@themightybuzzard3088 my family homesteaded in northeast Montana. Great grandpa owned a little general store. He got stuck with peoples bad credit on goods from the store. He finally paid off his debt in about 1960. The local banker said if one person with his debt load didn’t pay the bank would have defaulted. Dad was born in 54’. He remembered finding food in cupboards, shotguns, and clothes in the closets in the abandoned farms
2 weeks ago one person died from heat complications at Death Valley (51C-123f). 2 of his buddies were flown to LV for emergency treatment. It has been about 38-42c nearly every day, lately.
At some point they will announce no more rescues because it’s a risk to the first responders. They did this last summer.
in fact they were driven. The helicopters were grounded because of the heat.
I remember the story. They later had heat Advisories in my area all the way in the east
That is Death Valley. It is named that for a reason.
That's just called summer, yo. We do this for 3-5 months straight every year
Back in the 80s when I was a young 20-something, I lived in Phoenix and rode my bike everywhere. The heat didn't really start to affect me till it climbed up to 110-115 degrees. Nowadays, I might get to the end of the driveway on my bike but the paramedics would be hauling me back. And I don't live in the desert anymore. 🌵
@@cynthiaalver "But it's a dry heat." Lol. My girlfriend followed me barefoot on the cement on one of those 106°F days in Phoenix. Second degree burns on the bottom of her feet.
Sadly, we also have people who leave pets or children in cars, usually by accident. It does not have a happy ending, unless someone notices.
@krisspringer1568 And the trouble with this dry heat: you don't feel as bad as you would in a humid heat. So you can get used to the heat after a bit, only to suddenly out of nowhere, your body locks up and you collapse. Gotta think about water consumption all the time. Those electrolit drinks are a life saver for me.
@@krisspringer1568There was just an article talking about the dangers of hot pavement. One man passed out and was burned so badly he lost his leg. Another man slipped and fell in his backyard and landed on the hot rocks and got severe burns. I just had foot surgery and the first thing I did in preparation was get my work gloves because I live upstairs and my hands weren't going to survive the slow climb up using the metal railings.
Think it gets hotter in Australia ,I'm in AZ yeah it can be110°F 115°F in the summer. I have fond memories going to dairy queen to get a large frozen drink then driving home in peace 120 ° F is hot for sure
134 degrees Fahrenheit equals 56.667 Celsius
That’s hot but we used to live in the Mojave desert and 29 palms on the Marine Corps base, and I remember three days after giving birth to my first child, and having to stay in the hospital three days because of a C-section, We left the hospital and I nearly collapsed out front from pain in the heat and it was on August 28, 1989. I did not get a blood transfusion and when we get home I checked the weather and it was 130° outside and zero humidity and it felt like a sauna and it always did but I had been inside for three days and just had a baby, so of course I was about to drop from the heat just being out for five minutes
People in Europe are surprised by the heat of American summers. It is important to know that almost every business home and apartment in the hot areas have air conditioning.
Most of the southwest is uninhabitable without AC.
@@josephdonais4778 and the southeast as well.
@@davidwelty9763 People have been all over the SE for thousands of years. One can survive the SE w/o AC, not so in many parts of the SW.
Makes sense it was invented in the US after all. Specifically Florida
Yes. I live in the SOUTH. Born 1964. All of my life I have had A/C in my home and any car I have been in. I knew many people who did not have that. I don't think we were rich, I just think it was priority for my parents! Thank God!
I live in the southern US. No, you cannot go outside for even a few minutes, unless you are ok getting soaking wet with a combination of humidity and your own perspiration.
You'll be sweating before you even get to your mailbox!
If you don't use AC in your country and it gets hot but without all the humidity.. you should try a swamp cooler.... basically running water with a large amount of air blowing over it... Works great in the desert.
Grew up with one in southern California. I'd say the swamp cooler was better than nothing but I'll stick with AC thanks.
@@cagal1066 A swamp cooler, or even just a fan, is better than nothing, but yeah, if you have AC as an option, then use it.
Only when the humidity is low, though!
Easy way to test it is tossing a wet rag on your fan. It is too hunid here to help.
In Florida, in the summer something like 99 with 99% humidity which the weathermen said feels like 120 F (48.8889). I used to hike through a state park carrying 30 lbs. of camera equipment and water. It was always awesome to go into AC after that or I'd go to the beach and hop into the water. Ah! The old Florida home before AC have huge windows almost to the floor and almost to the ceiling. They have huge trees over their homes for added shade. I've been in one and it was just about as good as AC.
In Illinois we don't have AC. It has gotten over 100 F (37.7778). We have fans in the windows and keep te rest of the house cooler by keeping the shades down to the fans, drink a lot of fluids, jump into the shower, jump into the car and go to a store with AC, cook outside on the bbq, etc.
As a kid we only had one AC unit in a window. So at night we got in sleeping bags on thhe floor of my parents' room (the room with the AC).
The coldest was probably -10 in Illinois. My high school friend and I played tennis which keeps you warmer. And we went ice skating one night at the outdoor rink. We were fine from skating, but it was cold enough that the car didn't want to work. After a bit, it finally turned over so we could go home.
Death Valley continues to earn its name and reputation, claiming multiple deaths every year.
In the local newspaper a few weeks ago I read that Europeans are especially attracted to this National Park during the summer.
Why? You can die there and never be found.
There's a piece of Death Valley California in South Carolina . It's an actual stone from Death Valley California located in the home stadium of the Clemson Tigers football team . The rock is named Howard's Rock for a past Clemson Tigers head football coach .
@@virginiaoflaherty2983 Because northern Europeans don't get the same sort of heat that we do, so they're both excited by the idea of extreme heat and oblivious to just how very quickly it can kill you. Keeping people who aren't from very dry areas properly hydrated in even non-extreme heat can be a problem, because we're not used to the idea of drinking water even when we feel neither sweaty nor thirsty nor even all that hot.
I once visited Zion National Park with a friend who lived in Utah (and had worked in Zion as an assistant park ranger years before). She was *constantly* having to remind me to drink more water. I associate being sweaty with needing hydration, but in dry air the sweat evaporates so quickly that you never get that clammy feeling that to me, is one of the main reminders to drink more water. It was around 90 degrees, but I didn't feel hot or thirsty at all. If my friend hadn't been there to remind me to keep drinking while we walked, I suspect I could have become badly dehydrated before I even started feeling the first obvious symptoms (like headache).
THIS is why I say that when you visit the US, you have to pay attention to *what time of year* you are visiting any given place. If you visit certain places at certain times of year, you *have* to do your research about weather safety to avoid dying, whether it's "how to survive Death Valley in the summer" or "how to survive North Dakota in the winter."
if you dont already know this story.. its very interesting and sad... "Death Valley Germans"
Not every US home has AC. I lived in Texas until 2003, briefly lived in some other, less-important Confederate States, then moved to Seattle. We arrived during a very warm summer, so after we have exhausted ourselves carrying boxes of books up too many steps. Finally closed the door, went to the thermostat, dialed it down to 65, looked up at the vent, and waited for the blast of blessed cold to hit us. And waited… we were naked, but that was less fun than it sounds, because my naked arms were sticking to my ribs. And it finally dawned on us that Seattle’s idea of a record-breaking summer heat was in the upper 80s.
There was a part of me that still thought with a Texas accent. It remembered going outside at midnight during the summer, and it was above the 80s.
But nobody has talked about whether a wet heat was better than a dry heat. This is a serious discussion topic. The answer is obviously that wet heats are worse. Flew from Texas to (99 degrees, 98% humidity. Landed in Las Vegas. (105 degrees, 34% humidity.) My parents flew in from Newark. When the group of us stepped outside, the ones from Newark groaned at the 105 degree weather, the ones from Texas stepped outside, but smiling. Y’all, sweating WORKED. We could stand outside, and just enjoy the 34% humidity just sucking all my moisture away. Shirts didn’t stick me there. Glorious.
There is a true story on line you might find interesting. Type in German family perish in death valley, California. Family of four visited death valley in the summer. When leaving instead of taking the highway they thought they would take a short cut. Of course the car broke down and they had no supplies. We are a big rugged country. Don't take short cuts unless you know what you're doing.
Death Valley is no joke.
A rule of thumb is to never go anywhere in your car in such heat unless you have 2 gal of water per person per day in your car as well as other emergency/survival supplies. Like traveling through the desert in summertime.
It is also recommended that you drive Death Valley at night as the day temperatures can melt the tires on the car.
@@jayt9608Years ago the imprint of the car trunk lid was melted into one of our suitcases while driving across Death Valley.
That was such a tragic story.😢😢
I can assure you your English is better than my German. 😆
At 5:25 you asked what the dustbowl is. You should react to a video that describes one of the great natural disasters in history, including Black Sunday. This was so significant that it forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes forever and the USA government to change policies. It has had a huge influence on many aspects of the USA even today.
the Dust Bowl - was a drought in the 1930s - in the middle of the US
Drought is putting it lightly. It was dust storms that destroyed entire states, all farm land was unusable for decades and many lives lost
@@DesignedInNola I also noticed that the record temperatures in Illinois at least were record highs because the 1930s is often listed on the TV weather was the daily record for heat and it usually was in the low 100F.
Read _The Grapes of Wrath._
Warning... this is long, but some may find it fascinating.
My life has had two major extremes: one in the US and one overseas in Africa.
US: The winter of 1981-1982, we had a bitter cold day in eastern Indiana. (Hagerstown) I don't know the exact date, but it was a Sunday. My family and I left the house for church (we had a garage below our house, so we didn't go outside to get into our car), no one was on the roads. Snow was blowing, and wind was whipping.
When we got to church, we could barely get out of the car, it was so cold. The wind nearly made my tears freeze my eyes shut. Pastor told us the pipes and toilets are all frozen. The church was empty except for us, the pastor's family, and one family that lived right behind the church. We sang a hymn, took up an offering, and headed home. In that short amount of time, Dad could hardly get our car started up because the oil had thickened.
When we finally made it home safely, we found out that the actual temperature was around -35°F (-37°C) and the wind chill was around -85°F (-65°C).
We never leave the house without checking the weather!
Overseas: When I lived in Kenya as a short-term missionary in 1994, I traveled to the northern part of the country for a week to a very small town named Kalacha. We had one day where the thermometer went off the numbered section, but we figured it was around 57°C (134°F). Even the camels the tribesmen used for transportation refused to move in the late afternoon!
It was simply awful but gave me the story of a lifetime.
I live in Utah, at 1700 m/elevation. Temperatures have been 32.2-37.8 for about two months, which is pretty normal, but we've had no measurable rain for nearly 80 days. Monsoon (summer rains) has missed us for almost 10 yrs. Thanks for your videos, Chris.
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. The hottest temperature that I have personally lived thru in Michigan a couple of times is 104 F/ 40 C.
The 1964 reference to heatwave is a popular song "Heatwave" that came out of MoTown records around 1964. Very good calculating celsius from Fahrenheit in your head, you did excellent. Yes 125 degrees F is indeed over 50 degrees C, 51.7 C more precisely. I lived in Montana for a few years at a university, the coldest "cold wave" I experienced there was between -15 to -20 F for an entire week ( -26 to -28.8 degrees celsius) without any wind chill factored in. Temperatures this cold begin to freeze oil and transmission fluid in vehicles. It is so cold your eyeballs begin to hurt from the freezing temperatures nearly immediately stepping outside and it is not safe to be outside for long periods of time. I also experienced the highest temperatures in the eastern plains of Montana at over 110 F (43.3C) it was hot but the air was very dry so it was more tolerable than experiencing even the high 90's F ( 35-37 degrees C ) in the eastern side of the US in places wih high humidity. The air is stifling and sweating does NOT cool you off. Again, well done on your conversions!
Air conditioning and pools are *vital* in the south. There is nothing like collapsing into a nice cold body of water when the temperature is hitting ridiculous levels. When I was growing up, my family moved to a small house out in a rural area...and it did not have good air conditioning. After a few miserable years, we finally got a nice above-ground pool, and we kids practically lived in the thing once summer rolled around. My dad, an AC/Heating repairman, ended up using the pool as the heat sink for a really excellent air conditioner later...which certainly made nights a lot more bearable!
Don’t forget about the splash pads…. You get wet at a splash pad & get an Oklahoma breeze, it can be well over 100F & you’re so happy to be cold, even just for a little bit!!!
great- now i have 'Heat Wave' stuck in my head lol. ❤🔥❤🔥
Summer of 98 a bunch of us went to the Colorado river after graduating, that weekend we watched the thermometer hit 129. I never wanna experience that again
it gets seriously hot down there in the grand canyon
@@rodshoafYes, and people think it's not because it's in the northern part of the state. Within the canyon it gets just as hot as Phoenix.
Making the best of our heat, many people bake cakes, cookies, or breads in their cars. You can also dry herbs and fresh fruits. 😉
I've heard of wrappomg a chicken in foil and tucking it against the exhaust manifold during long road trips. Still underdone while driving from Atlanta to Tuscaloosa? Go on through to Meridian.
The heat is horrible here to the point that I dread summer. There are many days when we regularly hit 100 plus degrees F [ 38 Celsius] and heat advisories are issued every day. I can't imagine what it must be like for people in states like Arizona, Nevada New Mexico, and many others where the temperatures are even higher. I've been to Texas before during the summer and the heat/humidity was so bad that I passed out at the house after a few hours outside.
Since humidity isn't so bad here in AZ, it doesn't always feel as bad. If you drink plenty of water it's okay. But if you neglect water for even a brief amount of time and you are exposed, you can quickly be overcome with heat exhaustion. Happened to me multiple times as a kid playing outside. Not thinking about water. Next thing I know, I'm crawling back to where I came from literally because I can't stand. If you hydrate plenty though, it's fine. I drink this brand of hydration drink called Electrolit, it's the bomb.
When I grew up, air conditioning was only in large municipal buildings. I REMEMBER the heat in 1954, when I was reaching the age of 3. No one could sleep, we bedded down on our porch and endured the mosquito swarms of those days with such screens as we had. I still remember it, even now in my 70's. I lived in Missouri, another great Midwestern state, where huge numbers of pioneers had crossed the Mississippi River in the 19th century, giving my city the name "The Gateway to the West". Check out the St Louis' Arch Monument to that. 37.7 degrees equals 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When it doesn't get lower than 32 degrees even at night it is nearly insupportable.
live in Tempe, Arizona where the summers are typically between 47.7*C and 48.8*C during the day and 32.2*C and 37.7*C at night. Then our winters are typically around 10*C to 15.5*C during the day and anywhere between -1.1*C and 6.6*C at night.
Pushing 114°F/46°C just now (1520h) in northern California. Good news is that it cools to ~70°F/20°C every night. I've lost count of the number of wildfires (8?, closest one ~20 km NE of here) burning around here.
US temp extremes I've experienced: Low -25°F/-32°C (Massachusetts), High 123°F/50°C (here).
My worst on both ends was the year I worked in Kansas City. 118F and -30F. And yeah, I went to work both days.
Voice of experience: it's no fun when the fire alarm goes off when it is 10F outside. But at least it was sunny.
Those cool nights are lifesavers.
Summer truly becomes unbearable for me when we get 100+ degrees in the day and no less than 80 degrees at night. It's like endless heat with no break.
@@DaNintendude I'll take 115°/15% humidity over 95°/90% humidity anytime
Yes, the Super Soaker, introduced in the late eighties or early nineties, was the first commercially marketed toy water gun that fired enough water to actually get someone wet. We had water guns before, but they were tiny little things designed for indoor use. The squirt of water they fired was just barely enough that if you hit someone in the face with it, they would probably notice, unless they were already sweating. A typical 1980s water pistol's water reservoir held about a quarter cup of water, and that was enough for *many* tiny little squirts, because the reservoir wasn't pressurized at all; the pumping action of your finger pulling the trigger was what forced the water out, and the amount you got, and the range, were limited by that. By modern standards, those water guns were absolutely pathetic, and the Super Soaker was completely revolutionary. Unapologetically an outdoor toy, with a reservoir that held more than a pint, and the air pump system to pressurize the reservoir and allow the water to be forced out when the trigger opens the nozzle, it fired a *far* more substantial stream of water, with *much* longer range, than any previous water gun. It was like being able to squirt someone (briefly) with the garden hose, without needing to lure them to where the garden hose was.
Dust Bowl = The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, most notably the destruction of the natural topsoil by settlers in the region.[1][2] The drought came in three waves: 1934, 1936, and 1939-1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as long as eight years. More: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
The locust/grasshopper plague did nobody any favors either. I saw a picture once of the wind kicking up so much dust that it looked like a thunderstorm was moving in. Worse, there was no way to prevent the dust from getting into everything.
And people who lived during that time were forever changed. My gran was a child during that time, and she hoarded food her whole life. We had cans & cans of (legume) beans. The garage was full of things she wouldn't throw away because she "never knew when [she] would need it."
Growing up in North Dakota, the coldest I remember was minus 44 degrees F with a wind chill of minus 95 degrees.
Yep!! It is biting cold, isn't it?
First question you asked about why Lawrence made a joke referencing a vampire novel:
No worries... There was no hidden meaning or Easter egg in His statement as far as I'm aware.
He just said those first few lines rather dramatically as if he was trying to instill a sense of foreboding similar to what you might read at the start of a horror novel.
For your question about what Lawrence was referring to when he made the joke about a popular Motown song being the wrong kind of heat wave:
The group he mentioned , Martha And The Vandellas, had a very popular song in the 1960's titled, "Heat Wave".
I come from an area of the U.S. with only three seasons: hot, cold, and tornadoes. When living in Germany, I often heard the saying „Es gibt kein schlechtes Wetter, es gibt nur falsche Kleidung", which roughly translates to "There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing". Made me giggle every single time.
In furnace, creek california in 1975 there was an air temperature of 128 degrees fahrenheit, but a ground temperature of 201 degrees fahrenheit
Wow, talk about aptly named.
It's not about the temperature, but rather the humidity. At 100% humidity you cannot survive without air conditioning.
More comments should discuss the humidity. Dry heat is dangerous because you aren't aware of your body's water loss (increasing dehydration), BUT humid heat, like all the states around the Gulf of Mexico experience, is completely F*K*ing MISERABLE! It makes the air feel heavy and it feels more difficult to breathe. It's like swimming through the air. You can leave your air conditioned home at 7:00 a.m. to go to work, and in the 20 ft to the car, break a sweat and soak through your shirt.
I remember the summer of 1980 in Memphis. I was 16 and had just gotten my driver's license. 108 F was the worst day but every day all that damn summer was well over 100 F. Humidity was well over 80%. The money in my wallet was soaked with sweat every day! We DID have central A/C and A/C in our cars. My Mom grew up in Memphis in the 1950's without A/C at all. The only place in those days that had A/C was a movie theater/Cinema. I have no idea how they survived.
The summer of 1980 in Texas was awful too! 69 days over 100F, 29 heat records tied or broken, 3 day consecutive days at 113F. That was a brutal year for the south in the summer.
@@snowylady5 it was a doozy, but absolutely GREAT music 1980!!
Agreed, plus the whole driver's license thing made it for me.
I, too, grew up in Memphis but I left in 1964. At that time I did not know anyone who lived in an air conditioned house but window AC units were hitting the market. People with a little spare change were buying them. When I went downtown in the 1950s only the big stores like Goldsmiths or Lowensteins and the movie houses had AC. Many of the smaller stores did not.
@@BuickDoc Memphis was amazing in the '60's-'80's.
Here in Texas it hits over 100 every day in the summer it feels like…even if its in the 90s, the heat index is insane.
Yup I work outside and you cant drink enough water to compensate when it gets really bad.
Yeah last year was miserable. I laid right between 2 fans with the ac on in as few clothes as possible and was still sweating.
The heat here is something else! Ive been so grateful for the rain and 80s/90s this past week. I dont know why its been so cool, but Im not complainin' or asking too many questions about it!
@@drkgodes1313 no kidding. Only problem is that 2 if my dogs are terrified of anything even resembling a storm and keep trying to crawl up under me at night.
@@toodlescae Im so sorry to hear that. Have you tried storm jackets for them? Usually it will keep them calm during.
Now you see why we need Air Conditioning....we can literally die without it. So please defend us to those you may know that say negative things about us using it ...😂
The hottest temperature I've experienced was about 46 c in Phoenix, Arizona. The lowest was about -34 c, here in northern Illinois. In the summer of 1988 I moved from eastern Pennsylvania to northern Illinois. All that way, the crops in the fields were dead as far as the eye could see. It was a very sad thing to see. Plus the drive was miserable since my vehicle had no air conditioning. At rest stops people were joking about how little they were urinating because they were sweating so heavily. It took a consistent, intentional effort to try and stay hydrated.
its been over 110°F/43°C for weeks now here in Southwest Arizona....I've seen it get to over 120°F/48°C-130°F/54°C here for weeks as well sometimes with hot wind & some humidity....one mistake Europeans tend to make is most of us Americans keep the air conditioning between 75°F/23°C-85°F/29°C....Needles, California is where my parents grew up & I still have family there....Death Valley is a famous place that tourists go to take a picture of their official thermometer....you can legitimately cook food on the ground or in your vehicle from the heat
We deal with both hot summers and cold winters in Indiana. The coldest it's ever been here in history was -36 F (-38 C) and the hottest was 116°F 46°C
Chris, that 134°Fahrenheit in Death Valley converts to 56.66°Celsius.
Since you asked:
The hottest weather I've experienced was 44.44°C (112°F) when I was still a child and my family was driving through the northern reaches of the American Desert Basin in a vehicle which did not have air conditioning. (As an aside, neither had our home, not a single room: my father was firmly of the opinion that it's better to harden off to the heat, stay well hydrated, and enjoy the benefits of a healthy sweat.)
The next hottest was in 1988, when the temperature where I live (Ohio) *only* reached 104°F or 40°C. In other parts of this country it was much, much worse.
Thanks for your videos, Chris!
most of us have air conditioners
Thank God!
Or wet walls aka evaporative coolers in the more arid climes.
I have 2!!!! Murica!!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
They're good things to have until the power goes out. To any Europeans; try to get at least one window unit and keep it handy...just in case...
2:44 - "Wait a second..."
***drags fan over***
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Comedy timing, I'm still laughing
Now imagine 100-110 F in Texas. You are in High School. You got a summer job working on a roofing crew, on an asphalt roof, no shade, hammering shingles all day. Or maybe you know a rancher, and you get a summer job out in the hay fields, throwing hay bails onto a trailer. And while you are out there, you know that this isn’t going to be the toughest part of your summer, because full-pads, “two-a-days” football practice is in late August. This was how thousands and thousands of kids like me grew up in Texas.
Love the videos man, keep it up!
Thank you :)
There is a reason I live in Northern North Carolina west of I-95. Here, Southern VA, and the foothills of both states have the best weather period. It goes up to 100 about every five years. I've lived here for 44 years and only once did the temp go down to -5F.
I live in Upstate South Carolina close to the I85 and I26 junction five miles from the SC/ NC border . Asheville NC s a 90 minute drive from my home . I've driven along I26 past Asheville into Eastern Tennesse . That area is beautiful beyond imagination.
My wife is from the Oregon coast, which enjoys mild temperatures year-round. She tells me that in her youth, it rarely got cold enough to snow and that summer temperatures rarely exceeded 20-25C.
But now, heat waves and ice storms happen there frequently. We live in Atlanta, which is hot and humid, and many of her friends and family have asked our advice about home air conditioning. She has also told me that car air conditioning was rare back home and that people relied on "450" cooling -- four windows down and 50 MPH.
The dust in the dust bowl kills millions of farm animals. Sometimes even people if you get caught in that sh-t unprepared...
Footnote: the population of the US has increased dramatically in the past 60 years. Reason: Air Conditioning
No kidding
Actually it's the Sunbelt states who's dramatic population increase is because of air-conditioning.
My brother calls AC "the spawn of satan", lol. He much rather have it warm. He normally keeps his AC set to 90, when I moved in with him a long time ago he let me put it at 80 and that was pushing it. 70 is much better.
“when the frost is on the pumpkin that’s the time for peter dunkin’” Winter cold snaps cause smaller bumps in birthrates typically
@@Zankaroo Is he a reptile?
@@Zankaroo Your brother is clearly some kind of skinwalker
Yeah they call it death valley for a reason. People occasionally go there unaware of how uninhabitable it is. They die.
A heat wave in the USA, is defined as 3 or more consecutive days of 90 degrees or hotter.
That doesn't make sense. Because practically all of July and August would be considered a heat wave in most of Texas. Laredo, TX, had 3 consecutive days in February in triple digits one year.
@@paigeharrison3909 My guess a heatwave is based on so many degrees over however many days for an area's average temp for that time of year, or something like that. My brain is gone at the moment, otherwise I'd give a more coherent response.
14:40 - The highest temp I've been in was 1995, living in Coachella Valley, California, and it got to 126°F/52°C. When I lived out there, during the summer we basically became nocturnal. You couldn't do anything outdoors in that heat, so shopping for groceries, walking pets, anything that required being out of an air conditioned environment for more than 10 minutes was done before sunrise or long after sunset. We quickly learned, you NEED to drink even if you don't feel hot. Humidity makes you feel your sweat, and although that feels miserable, it reminds you "Hey! It's hot!" In dry heat, your sweat evaporates instantly. Although people say that's a better heat, it's really not. It means you're dehydrating, and you don't even realize it. You don't FEEL as hot, because you don't feel sticky and sweaty, but that's when it is deadly. By the time you feel sweaty and hot, it means your inner body temperature is boiling, your organs can start to shut down, and you are mere minutes from death. Or as we'd say, "If you feel thirsty, it's already too late." I got heat stroke twice living in California, and it messes you up for life. Now, whenever it gets over 100°, I get physically ill, my gut shuts down, everything starts to shut down... it's like my body says "Oooooh no, I remember THIS type of heat. We're protesting!!!"
The coldest I've even been in, luckily I don't remember. I was very young, and my parents took me to Michigan for Christmas to meet my grandparents. From the family stories, a blizzard reared up, and it got down to -30°F/-35°C. My parents were left with a choice: go back to their hotel where there's a bed but miss spending time with family, or stay in my grandparents' house with all of their kids plus a baby and no guest bed, just a couch and the floor. So they stayed with my grandparents, and I was the lucky one since I could sleep in my baby carrier, which apparently I loved.
The coldest I remember being in was living in Southern Washington 2017-2019, and it got to -5°F/-20.5°C. What's worse, I was working on a farm, which meant I couldn't stay inside all nice and warm. I had to go out there into the snow, bust up the ice from the duck ponds, feed the animals, make sure the barn had extra hay for warmth, check that no animals froze to death, look for eggs (the chickens rarely laid in winter but we still had to check), and do a perimeter sweep to make sure wild animals hadn't broken any fencing trying to get in for a winter snack. That sucked!
Although I still prefer cold to heat. You can always put on more layers of clothes. You can only strip off so much.
Hi Chris! 👋 I'm from north Georgia near Atlanta. When I was stationed over at Twentynine Palms, California in the US Marine Corps in 1998-99, the temperatures of that Summer of 1998 were....daytime: 140-150°F (60-66°C), nighttime: 90-110°F ( 32-43°C). No joke. All fans were completely useless & we didn't have working AC in the barracks. We survived on just drinking more water than we sweated. And after around 3-6 months of drinking that much water (safely, of course), it begins to cool your internal organs like a nice cooling film around each of them in your body. It should be noted that Twentynine Palms 🌴 and that whole surrounding area of Joshua Tree and a little north around Death Valley is a dry heat, not humid. Anyway, I still never hear or see these numbers reported anywhere for historical highs. Yet, I lived them.
It's 38° C outside my house in Colorado right now. When I was a kid, I hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon on a day that reached 50° C. Back then, only businesses had AC, but in the 1990's AC started becoming a standard in new home construction. Almost half of the homes here were built after 1990, and having AC added to homes built in the 1960's-1980's is common. The majority of homes are heated with a forced air furnace fed with natural gas, so it's relatively simple to add an AC evaporator to the main duct, and a condenser on a pad outside. A quick search shows that a local AC install is going for about $5,000 these days. While I grew up without AC, I can't imagine living without it now, it's a nice 23° C in my house right now. It's not so bad to sit outside in the shade if you're wearing shorts and sandals, but I feel for the construction workers in jeans, boots, and helmets out there sweating in the sun.
The dust bowl was when bad tilling practices on farms met with horrible drought and heat and then also high winds creating CRAZY dust storms, think tornadoes full of dirt and rocks and walls of brown and grey hell like you see after building demolition or volcanic eruption. It had people in the Midwest literally fleeing their homes.
I live in Upstate NY, so quite North of the United States, which means we're a little colder than most of the country. Temperatures where I am are usually in the range of -40 (winter) to 40 degrees C (summer).
By the way, the Death Valley temperature record has been broken twice since this video released, also by Death Valley, both times.
The first time I felt 115° was crazy, cuz it was windy. And once it goes above 106° or so, that wind does nothing. It just felt like a hair drier set on its hottest setting was blowing on you. I vowed to never take the trash out during a heatwave again. That being said -20° was absolutely painful. I handled outside better but it hurt my face as if all my bones had migraines
The highest temp I have ever experienced was in Alabama with like 110f(43.33c) but with like 99 percent humidity which makes that feel like 130f(54c). I have felt 110f also in Kentucky/Tennessee but with less humidity. In Alabama (I have only lived here 5 years) the lowest temps I think we have had and only for a few days was like 15f (-9c) one year we did have sub-freezing temps for a couple of weeks one year it was kind of a freak thing though. Lots of people across several states had burst pipes because this part of the us is not used to sustained cold like that. In kentucky/Tennessee the coldest I believe I experienced was -15f (-26c) and we had temps like that consistently for over a month and a half. It was so dangerously cold that they kept having to cancel school. The pipes in the schools burst and everything. They also didn’t want the kids standing outside waiting for the school bus in those temps. I’ve also been through a couple severe ice storms that stayed in the negatives for weeks and shut down whole states. Around 2003 or 2004 there was a big ice storm in Kentucky where 3 or 4 inches of ice coated everything. Which took out power brought down trees blocked roads, people were trapped in there homes with no power or communication because the roads were completely blocked and this went on for a couple of weeks. The governor declared a state of emergency and a lot of people died. There was another ice storm in Fayetteville North Carolina in the late 90s that was almost just as bad. Personally I like the heat waves more than the prolonged deep cold. If I have a refrigerator that works and a fan I can and will find a way to keep cool. But keeping warm in cold you are not prepared for is much much more difficult to do. Btw you can make your fan work better to keep you cool when it’s really hot if you cut a hole in a cooler fill the cooler with ice and point force direct the air from the fan through the hole in the cooler across the ice and out the other side. It works best in a small room and will absolutely cool the room down to more tolerable temps. It will unfortunately also raise the humidity in the room so only do it if your desperate because you could end up making your room moldy
I live in oklahoma, where the dust bowl happened.
It was a long period of time (years) where there was no rain, causing crops to die. Over time wind storms would come in (normal in the tornado areas like oklahoma), but with no plantation to keep the dirt/sand/dust on the ground, it would cause sandstorms that covered the entire state. During this time, lots of people moved west or east, but some people stayed.
a direct quote from wikipedia;
The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, most notably the destruction of the natural topsoil by settlers in the region.[1][2] The drought came in three waves: 1934, 1936, and 1939-1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as long as eight years.[3]
I was in Arizona that day in 2016. We had just moved back to America after around 5 years in Europe (2.5 in Germany and 2.5 in Britain). It was the first day we got back when it hit 125 F. We had to leave our truck in storage while in Europe so when we got back it was old and not well looked after, that combined with the heat caused us to break down, by some miracle it started back up 5 minutes later and just barely got us to our Grandparents house. If it didn't start back up it would have been serious trouble, we were pretty young, I was 14, sister was 12, and my brother was 4, that heat probably could have killed us if we didn't have water. If you ever travel in the US make sure you have water and reliable phone service, and yes bring water even when traveling in cold places, you won't realize you're dehydrated in the cold but you sweat when you have layers.
The lowest temperature I can specifically remember was -16F in Central Virginia in January of 1985. Our well pump froze, leaving us without water for about 4 days, and the ground was hard as a rock. (I must mention that we sometimes have 80F for Christmas and roses leafing out in January.) It was extraordinarily cold the whole month, but that was the worst day. It coincided with the second Reagan inauguration, and the normal Inaugural parade and outdoor events were canceled (Washington DC is just 100 miles north of where I lived at the time, and is generally colder and snowier in winter than we were, because of the Blue Ridge Mountains east of us).
The highest I can recall was ~120F in Northern Virginia in the mid-1960s. There were only 2 houses in our neighborhood with AC (and my family's wasn't one of them). The streets were utterly deserted because none of us kids were allowed to go out in the heat. No, we had to stay inside in the heat. My recollection is that it lasted one or possibly two weeks.
BTW, if you wonder how people coped with the heat before AC, in the Southwest they built houses out of adobe that could be 18-36" thick--worked like a charm. Here in the Southeast, they built houses with ceilings up to 3 times the normal height, and had ceiling fans that were moved by the rising heat (no electricity required), and had transoms over every door in the house to maintain circulation even when the doors were closed.
The Dust Bowl was a catastrophic dust storm caused when drought dried out the soil and killed the vegetation so that when high winds came along they carried the soil up into the air like an African ghibli, that lasted for years. Dust spread all over the continent, and for those living in the center of it, the dust got everywhere. There was no keeping it out of the house, the kitchen, the pantry, the food, the beds... People who might otherwise have survived it committed suicide, driven mad by the inescapable hot dust. The farming practices of the time put conditions into place so that, when the drought hit, there was nothing holding the soil in place.
Jesse Owen enjoyed his time in Germany believe it or not. He could enter any business, drink from any fountain and was warmly accepted by the German populace. Unlike his time here in America. That was from his own mouth.
"Into him" LOL! For what it's worth, while my German is pretty good now, my first month living in Germany I kept saying "excuses" instead of "Excuse me" when exiting trains, etc. I'd say German is fairly challenging too 😂
I did a report on Death Valley in 6th grade for our biome sections. Wasn't able to visit until I was in my 20s. We arrived after 10 pm and were swimming and in the desert until well after 12 am. It was still over 100. While swimming at the pool the coolest thing was the bats who would dive to grab bugs off the water. By the time we left at 11 am the next morning it was back over 100. Because it's dry heat it's a lot easier to deal with than high humimidity. I'm generally, even now having resided in the PNW for over most my life, comfortable in 120 F in the desert with shade.
On the other hand I was living in Vancouver, WA in 2021 when the heatwave hit the Portland area and that was miserable. I took my two days off to pack up my pet rats and drive 10 hours to Sacramento, where my cousin lived, and buy a window AC unit. I think it hit 116F with humidity. I would have survived but my apartment was a 3rd floor built in the 70s thing and my rats would not have survived. Other people in the rat groups I was in lost rats to that heat wave. I had decided that since I was going to have to keep my pets in my car for 14 hours those days I may as well combine it with a trip for a window AC unit and see my cousin. Similar amount of time in the car and I make sure this isn't a problem in the future. I use it every summer now as long as there's not smoke from wildfires. With some newer health issues that cause temperature regulation issues it's been a life saver.
Phoenix Arizona hit 110 F for more 54 times last year and that's not exactly unusual. Anything under triple digits is considered cool for summer here
I remember driving through Yellowstone in the early '90s and you could still see the effects of the fire. They just let it burn itself out which caused considerable controversy.
Pacific Northwestern USA here.
The last few summers have had memorable heat waves. We hit 115°F (46.111111°C) thrice over the past two years. It was destructive to people, gardens, wildlife flora and fauna, and even technology.
Stay safe. Drink water.
I currently live in Alabama and we get temps above 100 every year. Basically we have had high 90s/ 100+ all of July. Add humidity to that and it feels like 120+ and sticky when you go outside. This litterally happens every summer. This video focuses on heat waves which is abnormal temperature spikes. It ignores the temps we live with typically especially in any southern state. That’s why air conditioning in the south is mandatory. In the north during the winter the government will help you if your heat goes out because if you don’t have heat in the winter there you will likely die. But they don’t care about your air conditioning typically because it doesn’t get dangerously hot in the summer months long enough to be an issue typically. In the south it’s the opposite. Air conditioning is a must! Especially in the summer months like July and August. And again if your ac goes out you can likely find assistance to get some type of ac. This assistance is normally reserved for people with small children or the elderly because ac is so expensive but in the event of a heat wave here they will try and come up with solutions for everyone because it does kill.
In answer to The Dust Bowl. Farmers settled in the southern midwest plains areas, and began farming the land, plowing up the natural prairie grass and planting crops and grazing cattle. They over grazed the grasses and didn't rotate crops, thereby leaching the ground. There was a drought, and the overworked soil became dry and yet loose to being overworked, in effect, no longer soil but dust. Those areas of the country are also prone to a lot of wind, the dry dirt was then picked up by the wind and created massive dust storms that lasted days at a time. The land was unworkable, dust got inside the houses, in the food, everywhere, like a sand storm. Between 1930 and 1940 over 40,000 people, destitute because they could no longer farm, lost everything (in the midst of a depression) and became a migrant force, moving out of the effected areas that spanned several states. There are vids on it, you should do a reaction
The Dust Bowl a documentary by Ken Burns 4 hours. Very thorough.
About the Dust bowl. It was an abnormal weather event in the 30s where farmers in the middle of the US had over-farmed the plains and the wind created huge dust storms that would cover houses in dust and became a real hazard for a few years.
I remember doing an install and training in Blythe (CA) where it was 117 F (47.2 C). I was in the motel room trying to stay cool and at 11 PM (23:00) I thought, "well, it must have cooled down. I'll take a dip in the pool." I opened the door and was smacked in the face by a wall of 105 F (40.5 C) air. Nope, no pool for me. 117 F in the desert isn't really that bad (stay hydrated) but normally temperatures drop significantly at night. Boy howdy, they didn't for that trip and that was what made it unbearable without A/C.
The Dust Bowl was a period during the Great Depression in the U.S. Great Plains. Historically, this was the period about 50 years after the introduction of the steel plow that allowed the breaking of the prairie grass root systems and turning the soil for crops. This was very rich soil that had been built up and held in place by the prairie grass for thousands of years. The mid-1930's had a great drought meaning there were few crops growing and this was exacerbated by a heat wave that dried out the topsoil. Then huge wind storms blew up and scoured the land creating vast dost storms that stripped the top soil from millions of hectares of fertile land. The dust storms were so bad that if one did not tie a rope from the house to the barn one could easily loose one's bearings and be unable to find shelter, much like a blizzard white out.
After the dust bowl farms were almost forced to go to chemical fertilizers because the rich top soil of the great plains had been lost. This happening during the economic crisis of the Great Depression meant thousand lost their farms to the banks and caused huge migrations toward the coasts.
The Dust Bowl was a long period of drought in the central part of the US, particularly in Oklahoma. The drought itself was bad enough, but due to decades of poor farming techniques, the topsoil was absolutely destroyed, leading to the dust being easily picked up by the winds that blow through the areas. This created terrible dust storms that were awful for the people who lived there. My grandparents lived through it (Northeast Oklahoma) and they told me stories about how it was impossible to go outside at times, and the dust was everywhere, often waking up caked in the dust that made its way into homes during the night. The dust was so bad that even the food they ate was inundated with it; they could feel the particles whenever they would chew. When you paired the complete destruction of the farmlands with the fact that it happened during the height of The Great Depression, many families were devastated by this event.
As for extreme temps, I've experienced 125 F (52 C) in California and once, when I was working as a security guard near the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, I had to spend a night in my car at -28 F (-33 C) but with wind chill it was -40 (which incidentally is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius). Yes, it was one of the most miserable experiences I've ever had.
Here in Phoenix we're having a record heat wave right now. Saturday the 28th of September the temperature here reached 47°C. This has been known to happen the first week of September, but it had never happened near the end of September before.
The Dust bowl was due to the lack of water out just east of the Rockies...farming practices were horrible. I remember a dust issue when I was a kid in the 50s where dust blew from the west as far as Kentucky. Someone dug deep enough and found trapped glacial water, the Ogallala Aquifer was found. Unfortunately, that is drying up now.
Wisconsin - my most severe temperatures came 8 months apart. I worked outside as a carpenter, and no, the jobs didn't shut down. We had the choice to go home, but no work meant no pay, and I have a family. In February, it was -45F, about -43C, with wind chills at -65F, about -54C. The following August I was building a green house with a co-worker from Austria. He didn't stick around for the 108F (42C) temperature or the heat index of 115F, (46C). I don't miss working outside.
I've lived in Tucson, Arizona for over 11 years now and the way you survive the triple digit heat is by doing your errands etc either early morning or once the sun sets...and central ac or ac in your car is an absolute necessity! Lol!
Needles California: i'm from SoCal, and whenever we drove to Arkansas to visit relatives, we always left home at 2am in the morning to make sure we got past Needles by sunrise.
Our car was old, had no air conditioning, and we DID NOT WANT the car to overheat, especially in an era before cell-phones. Needles California is very much a town in the middle of nowhere.
The dust can be from ground level to 20,000 plus feet sometimes interfering with air travel..
It does get pretty hot. In the town i grew up in, it would routinely get into the 100’s (37C+) in the summers with a max temp of 114F (45.5C) during one hot summer. You cope with AC and iced beverages. You stay inside and hope that if you have to go somewhere the car you’re in also has AC. During the summers pools are also very popular, as are sprinklers and the like.
People have to be careful with sprinklers, though. You can cook the roots of the grass if the temperatures are high enough over a sustained period. I saw that happen a number of times in Kansas. People started watering their yards at night to keep from killing the grass.
Connecticut here. The coldest temperature I've experienced here was -10F and the hottest was 100F. When I lived in New York it was slightly hotter at 102F.
When I was 8, my family camped in Death Valley, during Christmas break. It was in the 80's.
I live at the northern most part of California's North Valley. Last week, when you recorded this video, we were going through temps of 112-115. Thankfully, it's only around 105 now. The funny thing is that not far away on the north coast, summer temps are around 60-65
5:37 The Dust Bowl was the colloquial name for a period of extended drought that gripped the great plains and deep south through much of the 1920's and 1930's. High winds, high air pressure, and a lack of precipitation turned large chunks of the nation's farmland into a barren wasteland. Food supplies were thumped and the entire middle third of the country was basically rendered not only destitute, but almost uninhabitable.
The film "The Grapes of Wrath" takes place during this era.
“A few days over 40C” sounds like an amazing summer. We get 2+ months of it. If you don’t have air conditioning you could literally die. There were a few when it was over 43 for about a week and a half last year.
I live currently in Minnesota, but originally came from California. I have never seen more extreme weather except in Minnesota. When we first moved here within the first couple years, we encountered snow so deep at the easiest way to create a snow fort was to take a snow, shovel and dig sideways. You didn’t need to build up anything. The snow was over 8 feet where I lived.
when you had to pull out of your driveway, you had to be extra careful because you had no idea if there was a car coming one way or the other. People driving down the road near driveways also had to be careful. This happened for two years and then since then the snow has been much more mild .
In fact, we barely get a dusting of snow these days. Which is very weird.
The highest temperature I have experienced was in California when I was a child in the 1950s. It was 110 F. We didn’t have air conditioning or even fans. Come to think of it, I saw 120 F in the CA desert. The coldest was a few years ago in Oregon high desert at 4 degrees F. I loved that. I also love snow and wind storms. Very exciting.
At the house I currently live at in Central TX, the lowest it has measured in the last 10 years was 9F in a severe winter storm, the highest temp has been 107F in a heat wave. Our homes are built for it, well insulated with good heating and air conditioning.
The coldest winter I've ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. That is an old old joke that is absolutely true.
I've lived about 55 years around 40 km from San Francisco.
I live and grew up in Texas. 1980 was an extremely hot summer. In Dallas we had 45 days of 100+ degrees farinheight in a row. The high temperature was 113. In Wichita Falls it was 116. You get real tired of it quick.
6:59 You should check out what the snow is like in Northern Japan! I got snowed in for three days once! (this is slovakyaa btw)
hey :)