The red dresses on the road side are to remind people of missing indigenous woman. The best part of winter is there are no or fewer tourists. You can dress for -30C modern clothing is amazing and enjoy being outdoors, when it is +30C you can't do much except sweat and try to find some shade.
Far northern countries and locations have 24 hours of sun in the Summer and 24 hours of Night in the Winter. This is why there's the phrase of "midnight sun."
Cold is like heat. Humid heat feels smothering, damp cold seeps into your bones. Dry heat is just hot. Dry cold is just cold. And yes, there are places far north where they have periods where the sun doesn't set, and periods where the sun never rises. In between they have daily sunsets and sunrises.
Hey there OJB. I don't live in the arctic, but have experienced a -38°C morning in Northern New Brunswick (my home Province). It was so dry, and with absolutely no wind, I could actually open my jacket, because it really didn't feel cold, if you can believe it! The farther you get away from any humidity causing sources (oceans, big lakes, large rivers, etc), the more the humidity drops, and as this video said, the colder it gets, and the lower the humidity is, the less snow you'll see fall. It's a misconception that the weather in the far north (arctic areas) is always in a full on blizzard. The farther south you go, the more snow you'll get, because the humidity starts to increase. In the high latitudes, in the summer there's 24 hours of sun, and in winter, 24 hours of darkness. Yup, it really happens! In the northern latitudes that have the best views of the Northern Lights, there are no big cities, so a level 1 Aurora would be easily seen. Not much light pollution there. Ah, the joys of living in Canada!!! Cheers from 🇨🇦.
7:35 that's sort of a forced perspective photo. It probably is a bit chilly and high altitude, but you can see the leaves on the trees off to the right are orange, and nothing below halfway up the mountain is frozen, so it's probably just September/October, and just starting to cool down for the year. Fall weather. He'll be fine.
The house acts as a windbreak, so the snow is slowed down and accumulates a short distance to the lee of the house. Not much of it falls right next to the house because it doesn't slow down instantly, and there's also a roof over the porch. Often there will be a snow fence a dozen metres upwind of a road to make the snow accumulate there instead of drifting onto the road itself.
I worked in Thompson, Manitoba, in January one year. In the 2 weeks there, the coldest was -48 C, with a wind chill of -52 C. The warmest was -28 one day. The dark all the time is very hard to get used to, my body did not like it. Trying to do construction at those temps is hard, stuff breaks or freezes.
Canadian winter does suck. I'm sitting here in a shed in Nova Scotia warming my hands on a food dehydrator so I can smoke and still watch youtube videos at the same time without having to retreat back inside. And this is a warm province. At least the sun was out until 5pm today.
It's because the sun is up enough all night during the summer months so the lights plus we swam in Churchill during the summer plus you have block heaters for your car you don't leave them running
most places in Northern Ontario you pug your car in at night or if it will be parked for a while. my college had plugs for most parking spots. when you plug it in it keeps the oil warm
24-hour daylight and 24-hour night are very real things for vast areas of Canada's north. The sun just makes a little circle in the southern sky throughout the 24-hour period. Picture yourself on the north pole of a globe... no matter what time of day it is, you're facing the sun in June as long as you're within the 23° of latitude that the Earth tilts. It's cute your interest in a garbage bin. 🤣 The northern lights in the arctic can't be described with words. Most people who see a glimmer of them on the horizon in populated Canada think they're beautiful but don't understand why tens of thousands of international tourists head to Yellowknife every year just to watch them. But if you do, they're amazing. Picture the sky lit up and pulsing with the most intense, beautiful light you've ever seen. Not a spot on the horizon... they're everywhere that you can look, filling the entire sky. On a good night, you can hear them buzzing like the sky is short circuiting. It's a bit rare to get the pinks, blues, oranges, etc. Usually they're shades of green. I'd describe it as a religious experience and one of the most beautiful things on Earth you could ever go see. The downside is that because the sun is out all night in the summer, you really only see the auroras in autumn and winter when the temperatures are usually -35°C or colder. I'd say that they're out 80% of the nights; usually the only reason they're hard to see is because of clouds. But it's very worth it if you're thinking of vacationing. Dwarfs things like the grand canyon in scope and beauty.
You really need to visit Canada in the different seasons and in different locations so you have experiential knowledge of the seasons in different places. It's never the same in videos.
Dyde. The difference between a humid -20C and a dry one is the SAME as the difference between a +30C with humidity and one without. When it's dry, it's comfy with the right clothes on, when it's humid, it's BAD, no matter what you wear. That makes ALL of the difference in the world. And they meant it when they said they HATE winter, but since they live in Canada (like me) they can't escape it (unless they live in BC, then it's SAD and depressing in wintertime, cold without snow is NOT fun)... If you HAVE to endure something, might as well find the MOST COMFORTABLE place where it's cold.
OJB - hard to believe but 100% true that the humidity makes it feel 500x colder so if you hate the cold I understand moving to where it's dry with lower temps. The other day it was -2 but windy and BRUTAL but the next day it was -11 and was crisp and not a drop of wind and not cold AT ALL. It's not about the temperature.. when the temp is fairly high but 10 degrees of windchill added on, it's frigid in your bones (as the person in the video said) but if it's minus double digits and only a few degrees less with windchill it's not cold. It's hard to explain as even people here sometimes get fooled by the hype (ie newscasters saying how frigid it will be based on the number) I can TOTALLY see how someone can be outside with short pants in the very dry temps. (As someone who does not live in the North I've been bundled up & FREEZING in -2 but can step outside with a coat over a robe in -11 and not be cold.)
Its rare, but sometimes the northern lights are very visible. Here is a video taken from Vancouver last June th-cam.com/video/pOCmV0b8ulA/w-d-xo.html It was a warm weekend night (high 20's), many of the downtown clubs and pubs cleared out early so people could head to the beaches to watch.
I've seen the northern lights a lot and im not that far north. Just had to drive out of the city to see them without the light pollution. I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which is considered to be in central Saskatchewan. Just need the right conditions.
40 minutes north of Vancouver we need bear proof bins or we would be inundated and living amongst the bears. There are so many in our area that bear attacks are more common here compared to most other areas, although common sense usually prevents this from happening. Eg. Keep your dog on a leash while walking in the woods.
Snow drifts like sand forms dunes. The northern lights are due to the interaction between the earth's magnetic field and charged particles from the sun. There is an 11 year cycle max to min to max where the intensity of the aurora waxes and wanes.
As a child in Montreal we used to make forts in the accumulated snow banks, several entrances and tunnels throughout. It was great
I'm in Southern Ontario, and we did the same thing!
Lost a friend that way when I was a kid. It caved in on him.
a friend of my mothers died doing that . they came to clear the bank away while he was in it. that was on the island.
The red dresses on the road side are to remind people of missing indigenous woman. The best part of winter is there are no or fewer tourists. You can dress for -30C modern clothing is amazing and enjoy being outdoors, when it is +30C you can't do much except sweat and try to find some shade.
Far northern countries and locations have 24 hours of sun in the Summer and 24 hours of Night in the Winter. This is why there's the phrase of "midnight sun."
Cold is like heat. Humid heat feels smothering, damp cold seeps into your bones. Dry heat is just hot. Dry cold is just cold. And yes, there are places far north where they have periods where the sun doesn't set, and periods where the sun never rises. In between they have daily sunsets and sunrises.
I was coming here to say exactly this! 😊
I lived in Inuvik NWT for a couple of years, and yes through the winter you can see the Norther Lights
We can see them here in mid Alberta
The Artic is actually a desert zone
Hey there OJB. I don't live in the arctic, but have experienced a -38°C morning in Northern New Brunswick (my home Province). It was so dry, and with absolutely no wind, I could actually open my jacket, because it really didn't feel cold, if you can believe it! The farther you get away from any humidity causing sources (oceans, big lakes, large rivers, etc), the more the humidity drops, and as this video said, the colder it gets, and the lower the humidity is, the less snow you'll see fall. It's a misconception that the weather in the far north (arctic areas) is always in a full on blizzard. The farther south you go, the more snow you'll get, because the humidity starts to increase. In the high latitudes, in the summer there's 24 hours of sun, and in winter, 24 hours of darkness. Yup, it really happens! In the northern latitudes that have the best views of the Northern Lights, there are no big cities, so a level 1 Aurora would be easily seen. Not much light pollution there. Ah, the joys of living in Canada!!! Cheers from 🇨🇦.
Land of the midnight sun is called that for a reason.
7:35 that's sort of a forced perspective photo. It probably is a bit chilly and high altitude, but you can see the leaves on the trees off to the right are orange, and nothing below halfway up the mountain is frozen, so it's probably just September/October, and just starting to cool down for the year. Fall weather. He'll be fine.
You can see the norther lights occasonally in the upper states as well
The house acts as a windbreak, so the snow is slowed down and accumulates a short distance to the lee of the house. Not much of it falls right next to the house because it doesn't slow down instantly, and there's also a roof over the porch.
Often there will be a snow fence a dozen metres upwind of a road to make the snow accumulate there instead of drifting onto the road itself.
Also we build our homes to withstand the winters
I worked in Thompson, Manitoba, in January one year. In the 2 weeks there, the coldest was -48 C, with a wind chill of -52 C. The warmest was -28 one day. The dark all the time is very hard to get used to, my body did not like it. Trying to do construction at those temps is hard, stuff breaks or freezes.
Canadian winter does suck. I'm sitting here in a shed in Nova Scotia warming my hands on a food dehydrator so I can smoke and still watch youtube videos at the same time without having to retreat back inside. And this is a warm province. At least the sun was out until 5pm today.
In Alert , you get 2 months sun and dark, 4months dark, 2months sun and dark \, 4 months daylight
The garbage bin doesn't "go" anywhere. It's completely above ground. It's emptied by opening a locked panel.
Snow blowsxin a direction and drifts where it hits something that breaks its flow, and continues past where nothing stops it
It's because the sun is up enough all night during the summer months so the lights plus we swam in Churchill during the summer plus you have block heaters for your car you don't leave them running
Happy New Year from Kitchener ON Canada
Forgot to mention that in the summer, there is not enough night to have them as you get the midnight sun
They still happen, you just can't see them. 😉
most places in Northern Ontario you pug your car in at night or if it will be parked for a while. my college had plugs for most parking spots. when you plug it in it keeps the oil warm
Happy New Year from Alberta there neighbour.
Above the arctic circ,e you do get 24 hour daylight. Conversely you get 24 hours darkness in the winter as well.
24-hour daylight and 24-hour night are very real things for vast areas of Canada's north. The sun just makes a little circle in the southern sky throughout the 24-hour period. Picture yourself on the north pole of a globe... no matter what time of day it is, you're facing the sun in June as long as you're within the 23° of latitude that the Earth tilts. It's cute your interest in a garbage bin. 🤣 The northern lights in the arctic can't be described with words. Most people who see a glimmer of them on the horizon in populated Canada think they're beautiful but don't understand why tens of thousands of international tourists head to Yellowknife every year just to watch them. But if you do, they're amazing. Picture the sky lit up and pulsing with the most intense, beautiful light you've ever seen. Not a spot on the horizon... they're everywhere that you can look, filling the entire sky. On a good night, you can hear them buzzing like the sky is short circuiting. It's a bit rare to get the pinks, blues, oranges, etc. Usually they're shades of green. I'd describe it as a religious experience and one of the most beautiful things on Earth you could ever go see. The downside is that because the sun is out all night in the summer, you really only see the auroras in autumn and winter when the temperatures are usually -35°C or colder. I'd say that they're out 80% of the nights; usually the only reason they're hard to see is because of clouds. But it's very worth it if you're thinking of vacationing. Dwarfs things like the grand canyon in scope and beauty.
You really need to visit Canada in the different seasons and in different locations so you have experiential knowledge of the seasons in different places. It's never the same in videos.
Dyde. The difference between a humid -20C and a dry one is the SAME as the difference between a +30C with humidity and one without.
When it's dry, it's comfy with the right clothes on, when it's humid, it's BAD, no matter what you wear.
That makes ALL of the difference in the world.
And they meant it when they said they HATE winter, but since they live in Canada (like me) they can't escape it (unless they live in BC, then it's SAD and depressing in wintertime, cold without snow is NOT fun)...
If you HAVE to endure something, might as well find the MOST COMFORTABLE place where it's cold.
OJB - hard to believe but 100% true that the humidity makes it feel 500x colder so if you hate the cold I understand moving to where it's dry with lower temps. The other day it was -2 but windy and BRUTAL but the next day it was -11 and was crisp and not a drop of wind and not cold AT ALL. It's not about the temperature.. when the temp is fairly high but 10 degrees of windchill added on, it's frigid in your bones (as the person in the video said) but if it's minus double digits and only a few degrees less with windchill it's not cold. It's hard to explain as even people here sometimes get fooled by the hype (ie newscasters saying how frigid it will be based on the number) I can TOTALLY see how someone can be outside with short pants in the very dry temps. (As someone who does not live in the North I've been bundled up & FREEZING in -2 but can step outside with a coat over a robe in -11 and not be cold.)
Its rare, but sometimes the northern lights are very visible. Here is a video taken from Vancouver last June th-cam.com/video/pOCmV0b8ulA/w-d-xo.html
It was a warm weekend night (high 20's), many of the downtown clubs and pubs cleared out early so people could head to the beaches to watch.
Blowing snow drifts into corridors and along obstructions, creating areas of very deep snow. It's not that deep everywhere.
You should watch the 7 Wonders of Manitoba: Churchill - show's ife of a town on Hudsons Bay - quite onteresting
Whoops I meant "interesting not onteresting
I've seen the northern lights a lot and im not that far north. Just had to drive out of the city to see them without the light pollution. I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which is considered to be in central Saskatchewan. Just need the right conditions.
40 minutes north of Vancouver we need bear proof bins or we would be inundated and living amongst the bears. There are so many in our area that bear attacks are more common here compared to most other areas, although common sense usually prevents this from happening. Eg. Keep your dog on a leash while walking in the woods.
Snow drifts like sand forms dunes. The northern lights are due to the interaction between the earth's magnetic field and charged particles from the sun. There is an 11 year cycle max to min to max where the intensity of the aurora waxes and wanes.
Very few places require chains.
Some areas there is flyin only
The aurora is consistant
I lived in the north west territory's yes 24 sun.
We see the northern lights almost everynightQ
You seem to mock everyone. Even sarcastic. Very un-Canadian. 🇨🇦🙏 Juss sayin
You seem to mock everyone. Even sarcastic. Very un-Canadian. 🇨🇦🙏 Juss sayin
Oh Pam, ....take a chill pill, calm down, and give the guy a break !😂😅😊