You remind me of a story from when I was in college. I went to a small science/engineering oriented school. I was taking a German language class with only a few students. Maybe six or seven. The first time we met after Christmas our instructor asked us what we'd done over break. One student said she'd gone home to Canada (some place very far north, such as Yukon or NT) and that it had been -40 degrees. Our instructor asked if that was F or C, and *every* student in the room answered simultaneously "it's the same".
This is one of the best depiction of canadian winter I've seen. No exaggeration, no drama, it just is what it is. After 7 years living in a country without winter, I can now appreciate how some of those images (like the full winter suit!) can seems completely alien to other people. But for me it just feels cosy and reminds me of home!
I live in New Zealand and the only time we wear clothes like that is when we go skiing. I don’t even know if my ski clothes fit me anywhere because it’s been years since I’ve gone skiing. I usually just put on a denim jacket or a puffer jacket when it’s very cold in winter and that’s enough to keep me warm. It doesn’t usually get below 0°C here and we get like 2cm of snowfall every year. Seeing all this snow in a city is insane to me. I only see snow like this on the ski slopes. Most kids walk home from school here and even in winter they don’t wear much because you don’t need to. Trainers, short socks, knee length skirt/shorts, button up shirt, and a school soft shell jacket or school fleece. That’s all kids wear. They usually don’t even wear trousers or tights in winter. And I think my area is considered cold in New Zealand because ankle length kilts used to be a stable of high school girls’ winter uniform here but schools started getting rid of the kilts which is sad because kilts are awesome. Most schools just have one uniform that you wear in both summer and winter.
As an Albertan, I was little sad you didn’t show your road trip through my province, but then I remember that there’s literally nothing to show here 😂 I really love seeing Canada content!
He actually did show some footage of Medicine Hat at 3:40! It's where I'm from and definitely not a huge city so I wasn't expecting to see home in the video! Super cool!
@@kaydee2976 oh never mind then! He went from driving through BC, to saying he was in Saskatchewan so I just assumed there was no Alberta, but it’s nice to see a smaller city included, even if not directly mentioned 👏 I’d love to go to Medicine Hat one day, too!
@Scooby Doo yeah I would've thought the same thing if I didn't live in Medicine Hat. It's so close to Saskatchewan though It's a nice city but there isn't a lot to do lol. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else though!
I also grew up in Winnipeg and now live in Japan. So nostalgic. Just the sound of that snow block being kicked on the ground brought me right back :-) An unexpected gift. Thank you!
Are you still able to guage the actual temperature by nothing more than the sound that boots make crunching in the snow? You may not realize you have that skill but if you watch a few videos of people walking around in bitterly cold temperatures, I'm confident you will be able to, at the very least, tell when it's below minus 20.
Cherish the cold weather like your brother just said. I've been seeing more and more 0 degree days the past few winters in Ottawa, and I'd take snow over freezing rain anyday
@@LSOP-Im from Toronto and I loved our last 2 winters! I love how the snow is usually packing snow and melts within a week or two enough to see the grass underneath. We also got some nice sunny 10-15 degree days in December and February the past winter which were glorious! This past winter has been so warm that it is the only winter where I didnt seriously consider moving to Florida or Texas.
Living in the southern US (Nashville), I can’t imagine trying to live out day-to-day life in the constant cold of a Canadian winter. I would need so much gear that I don’t own or even know how to use. This video illustrates that in so many ways! I’d love to see Canada one day, but it will have to be a summer tour. Thanks for a great video!
Somehwhat prepared city dwellers have: - a basic shovel for clearing snow, likely an ice scraper - extension cord for any night under -20, 1 or more snow brushes (w/ ice scraper attachment), and something for traction to help your vehicle get unstuck from snow (cardboard, sand) - at least 1 set of clothing made for the coldest weather to cover everything - a parka even if you don't need one
Nahh, spend your money elsewhere. Canada is extremely expensive in the summer and in the winter there is always the constant risk of hypothermia with ridiculous temperatures at -20,-30,-40, coupled with frozen winds and Ice/snow in large quantities. It gets so damn cold the infrastructure can't even handle it, last week there were massive water pipe bursts all over Montreal due to the extreme cold. This place should be transformed into a polar bear reserve called New Siberia or something along those lines. 😁
@@Direblade11 Eh, unless you're into outdoorsy stuff, a parka and clothing made for the coldest weather is overkill for most Canadian cities. Just layer up.
@@RandomPlaceHolderName If you ever want to travel in winter between cities or on cold days where your car can break down, you don't want to risk frostbite/hypothermia. I live in SK though. And while yeah you could maybe call a parka overkill in the city, you want it for "just in case" scenarios like a bigger power-outage at night
The validation for hearing someone say qinzy (however you spell it) is incredible. My dad who is from Michigan taught us how to build them and it was a regular winter activity! Where I grew up in Colorado the snow was to dry to pack so it was one of the few things me could build. I remember how warm they would get and how me and my brother would lay inside and refuse to come out. And no one has ever believed me when I talk about quinzys and thinks my dad made it up!
Hello from Calgary! As someone who loves your videos and loves traveling to Japan. It's great to sit with you while you drive across Canada! That cold snap recently was brutal. Great to see you made it okay!
You're giving us Winnipeggers the proper winter respect. 🤣 The warming huts are just art installations now. And I see most of your filming was done in my area of the city!
Same here! And as a person from Ottawa who has by extension been skating on the Canal many times, I'm pretty sure the holes along the river in Winnipeg were where they test the depth of the ice to verify it's safe to skate on? Especially since it's off to the side where there's snow rather than on the ice where people are skating lol
As a Winnipegger it was a pleasant surprise when you first mentioned you were from here a while back. Another great surprise today seeing streets I've driven by countless times on your channel. Cheers and a happy February!
I came here to see what other people thought of Canada and instead found the fellow Canadians haha. Grew up in Moncton, I remember the snow drifts being as tall as the front doors sometimes.
Aussie here. Spent some years in Scotland before I settled back down in Melbourne. Have always wanted to move to live in Canada (Quebec?) but the missus didn't like the idea of anything south of 0 celsius Lol... i wonder if this video will help me finally sell it!! Any tips welcome :)
@@yeahboi7562 Don't know what part of Australia you're from as I've heard that you can get snow there as well but there's nothing like freshly fallen snow at night when the moon comes out. The nights are bright, you can make out trees, hills, buildings, etc but it looks like everything is covered in sparkling gems. Very beautiful. There's a solitude to the winter as well that's meditative and the crispness to the air is incredibly refreshing and clean. Where you go does matter though. Quebec, Ontario and the Maritime provinces will have the humidity that was discussed in the video which is that damp, bone chilling cold vs the dry cold of the prairies but the prairies tends to get way more snow and wilder swings in temp and weather during the winter. Also like the video says, southern BC coastal areas with it's temperate maritime climate is much warmer overall than anywhere else in Canada (the rest of BC varies wildly with the mountains full of micro-climates).
The essential skill to live in Winnipeg is to know that you have to wear layers of clothes and a good jacket on top of that to survive being outside during Winnipeg winter. Last year was crazy though with the snow combined with the cold.
We live in Southern California and never experience winter like this, at most we wear a light sweater for our winter prep in 56 F weather lol thank you for sharing winter in Canada!! So jealous of that beautiful white snow.
I'm from a city in Siberia and how winter makes all cities look alike. Piles of snow on the sidewalks, brown snow from the sand and crusts of ice from the snow that melted from the salt. We have about the same climate, dry, with frosts down to -40 degrees Celsius, but mostly from -10 to -25. It is a pity that it was not said whether the snow is exported from the private sector somewhere, to landfills or to snow melters. I love winter, snow and frost. But not when this season lasts for 6-7 months a year. I think being a kid and living in a place where there is a real winter is a real success. I remember as a child waiting for winter to come so I could finally have fun in winter games. Did you find some unusual snowball on the road? Be sure to take it with you. Kicking a small stone of snow up to the house? Always for. As a child, winter did not bother. It always warms my soul when I see children who, like me as a child, enjoy winter to the fullest. Thanks Greg for this video!
Maybe someone else can chime in on where the snow goes. But as far as I know, they just push it and pile it up on site. Annnnnd..... they do have a few locations where they dump now, which you can find at legacy.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/snow/default.stm
It kinda depends on the city, on how they dump snow. Some sadly dont remove the snow from the sidewalks, its usually smaller cities with smaller budgets. Where I live, they bring the snow to zones in parks, if its in a parking lot they pile it in a giant mound, or they bring it outside the city. The first priority is to get the snow off the roads and that means pushing it on the sidewalks. Once they are finally done they would start removing snow pushed onto the sidewalks, but it could take a month or two
Michigander popping in to say, watching the kiddos sledding off of the snowbank at the end of the video reminded me of my core memories as a kid. Dad would carve steps into the bank for me to walk up and sled down. If the driveway was icy, it was like being the pinball in a arcade machine. I remember a few winters that looked like what was portrayed on your video, with it being so cold that the snow just accumulated over the entire season. Its a different story now, moreso freezing rain as the norm the last decade or so.
Michigander here too! I currently live abroad and watching this (and reading your comment) gave me so much nostalgia! Winter has always been my favorite season, all my best memories are of snow. Sad to hear that our winters arent the same anymore
Greg - happy tears seeing the girls, the bros and your parents... for a moment I thought Sherman was Roj!!! brought back many cold memories of my visit in the Winnipeg blizzard brrrrr 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
I come from the north of Sweden, where it gets quite cold and snowy. My brother who lived abroad for a large part of his adult life was suffering a lot more in the winter in Brazil and Ireland. The houses in Sweden are very well isolated and heated, something not as common in a lot of other countries even though the winters are milder.
Yeah the hallway to the kitchen in my dorm in Japan didn't have any glass in the windows, so whatever temperature was outside was inside the kitchen basically. I got pretty used to it, but when my parents came to visit from Sweden they were shocked to find me cooking food in +5 haha.
When I mentioned "plugging in the car" to New Zealand relatives (30 years ago) , they couldn't stop laughing... picturing very, very, very long extention cords.
I grew up and still live in Norway. I remember my winters in the 1hr outskirts from Oslo as cold and dry, but now that I study and live in Oslo, the winters are humid and wet - much worse than from my hometown! You sum it up well in your video; humid winters are much worse than dry winters - even if the temperature is higher versus lower. Sadly, in the city center there is little snow (Oslo), so for proper winter you need to travel to the inlands or skiing mountains (alpine skiing). The closer you are to the sea here, the more of an unstable winter will be brought upon your town.
@@LifeWhereImFrom Well, the very center was full of snow early to mid January this year, because of the temperatures being below -10 celsius. However, now that it's not as cold, the snow can be seen ca 10-15 minutes away from the center, upwards. The center is right by the coastline which offers humid winds. This is also a reason as to why coastal cities such as Haugesund, Stavanger and Bergen have little to zero snow.
Born in Montreal I live in So Cal now I absolutely dislike the cold (an these pictures remind me why)! and would never go back though visiting home in the fall is nice This was a very interesting video Thank you for your hard work
Fellow former Winnipegger here. I've long since loved your channel for the Japan content, and never expected to see a video from you that triggered nostalgia more than anything. I enjoyed it very much! Thanks Greg!
Hi Greg, this was a great video! We are in a small town east of Ottawa and right now it's -25°C with a 'feels like' of -33°C - and we are staying home! When our kids were in school, I remember that they didn't go out for recess if the temperature was lower than -13°C. They also made quinzees when they were younger, with the Scouts, but I didn't see that (my husband went on those outings!), so it was interesting to see exactly how they are made. Thanks for this video, better late than never!
The emergency kit in the trunk is so real for travel in winter, I live in Alberta and frequently drive outside of the major cities. I keep a mini shovel, tow ropes, booster cables, candles, road flares, blankets, extra gloves, and sand/kitty litter minimum on hand. I know it seems over the top but the cold is no joke if you end up solo and stuck.
it's nice to see a video about something so familiar! the sounds when the temperature is below -25C are very distinct. and the troubles of sidewalks being half covered in snow, it's easier to brave the road usually. i live in a city somewhat nearby and have screenshots of the -30's we were getting last february too (as well as the snow... there was snow much, i never want to pick a shovel up again lol) i wish we had those warming huts, anything to break the wind
Cool. I love the powdery snow you get in Winnipeg. We don’t get much snow in Vancouver but when we do, we usually get wet and heavy snow. Slushy and heavy. So hard to drive on even with snow tires.😂
This video was great!!! So interesting to see how somewhere else deals with winter. I don't think I could live there, but wow they just take it in stride!
Winter tip from a fellow Canadian...always crack the front two windows a bit (that's if they're not frozen shut), and the windows will de-fog 5x as fast. The humidity in the air from you're breathing has no place to go, so roll down the front windows 20mm. When driving, roll down the two REAR windows, so you don't get blasted by cold air from the front windows. Welcome to Canada, eh!
It totally depends where you are in Canada. Southern Ontario is a lot warmer than Manitoba. As I watch this, it is 11c on 12 Feb 2023 in Cambridge. Our winters have become so much more mild than when I was a kid. I remember how mesmerizing the snowflakes are in your headlights on the highway. I sort of miss how it used to get that snowy in southern Ontario. Don't miss the -25c, but do miss the snow.
Minus 40 isn't too bad when you have the right gear on, you can feel the heat layer between you. -55 though is something else. Like all the materials don't work anymore and the wind goes through you like a window. So have the regular snow coats but always have that heavier gear they were using on those off chance winter days, and good winter pants
Grew up in Wisconsin. Very similar. It’s not cold unless your nose hairs go “SNIK!” when you breathe in. It’s a dry cold. Germany is more of that wet cold that really chills you. You can also have pink snow when they use beet juice to melt the ice. It’s like a natural antifreeze.
As seen from my home in southwest Saskatchewan I love this. It is a great video. It could have easily been expanded into several more. It well illustrates the terrors of driving on an icy highway with drifting snow. It also illustrates the delights of a sunny winter day with little wind. While it has been relatively warm (-10°C) here since Christmas with little fresh snow, the Feb 22 date that this was recorded reminds me that winter is far from over. I visited Winnipeg last August and attended a baseball game in the riverside stadium. I would love to see a video recording the pleasures of travel in the prairie summer. (Perhaps I should make one myself!)
I'm from Quebec city and today is one of the coldest here -28°C feels like - 42°C. This year we have had decent amount of snow all falling in the last month. And tough it's not always perfect, it seems we have better snow management. Most of the time the snow is either blown away on the side of the road if there is place or moved to a snow depot to comfortably clear the roads and the sidewalks. After a snowstorm, it take a few days and a lot of work (day and night) to clear everything up.
WOW ! I’m so glad to hear you talk about humidity and cold. I’m a Winnipegger and When my son moved to Toronto. I visited him in Feb. It was much colder temperature wise in Winnipeg, but I nearly died in Toronto. I used every spare blanket he had and I could not get warm! The humidity makes all the difference in the world. I have no trouble staying warm in Manitoba, but I don’t know how people can stay warm in Toronto.
Reminds me of makingn snow forts when I was a kid in Toronto. Also used to do snow camping so a lot of the survival tips were good reminders too. Unfortunately it doesn't get as cold anymore so I wonder what kids do today. I really enjoyed all the squeaky snow sounds!
As someone who's moved from Edmonton to Toronto by car on 3 Jan 2010, I can relate to all of this except for driving through a snow storm at night - that's just suicidal! I really hope you had real winter tires fitted to all 4 wheels and didn't go faster than 90-100kph. glad you guys made it!
This is the funniest video. I love your commentary. This is so spot on. The semis are always the first to crash...lol! Where we live we go to the Dr. or the post office and just leave the cars running so it isn't deadly cold when we come back.
I live in the northern U.S. so while not quite as cold as Winnipeg we still get our fair share of winter weather. I've also driven at night in a snowstorm and just like you the truck drivers on the road with me were insane. They would go flying by and kick up a bunch of snow as they did. It was terrifying anytime I saw truck headlights in the rearview mirror coming up behind me.
@@ithecastic bruh we're about to get the second round of near-zero weather for January and February. I can't tell you that's climate change, but an understanding of how carbon dioxide affects how the sun's rays go through/stay in the atmosphere seems like a reasonable explanation for why our coldest seasons are having snow melt.
I lived in Kamloops, BC for 1 year. Coldest ever been with it at -45C. I lived on Vancouver Island, BC for 2 years. It was mostly just a rainy season. I loved how the island had palm trees growing wild on it. Back in Southern Ontario where I'm from back 40 years ago. Snow storms were like a few feet per storm and winter went from November till Aprilish. Now were lucky if we get a foot of snow over time then it melts. I was still mowing the lawn in November and had my AC on. I think so far in my area weve snow shoveled like 6x since the holidays. The rest has been warm days like 6 to 14C, or just snow then melts the next day to grass again. It has been kinda cold snaps at times but nothing happens.
As a a person born in Winnipeg or winterpeg. Driving cars are easier how about taking a public transit in -45 Celsius To work. Layers are the best often to keeping warm. And keeping extra winter gear in the house in case you lose a mitten somewhere it has happened to me.
My experience living in Northern Illinois was I could go outside in a pair of sweats and a hoodie down to temperatures of -18C (-2F.) I once walked outside in a t-shirt and shorts when it was -34C (-30F) and that lasted all of 2 seconds before I turned back around and grabbed my winter coat. Getting the car to start was one thing but the real challenge was getting into the car when it was frozen in ice. Many a commute was also spent holding the door closed because the latch was frozen, it would usually warm up enough when I got to work 30 minutes later.
Wow, those driving videos gave me flashbacks of driving from Chicago to and from Spokane, Washington in February of 2019 to pick up our second dog. Driving I-90 through the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho isn't that different or much further south than the Trans-Canada. We got stuck at one of the mountain passes because there were jackknifed semis on both sides of the highway. Super scary!
Love your videos! They’re so chill yet informative. Really enjoy watching them. Didn’t know about the X channel, but now I’ve got some bingeing to do!!! Thanks for your work☺️🙏🏻
The worst snow was where I am from, St John's Newfoundland. It's horrible, this why I'm loving living in southern Kanagawa and we saw only a few flakes of snow one night.
i grew up in Florida, so i experienced zero snow up until i visited Washington in winter 2020. then i moved there during Fall of the same year and stayed until mid 2022 (now im back in florida, not really by choice though). i loved taking walks around the small city i lived in, even though it was below freezing, and snowing. i soaked in as much snow time as i could, because after 25 years of no snow, i really enjoyed finally being able to experience the newness of it. i dont have a car or license, so i have 0 experience driving on snow or ice, so thats a whole different aspect i'll have to experience later. only watched my roommate drive and deal with cleaning snow off his car. the nearest grocery store was right next to our apartment, so i just walked there whenever i needed food.
As someone who grew up in a tropical country where our definition of COLD is 20 deg C, I couldn't even imagine how people survive and thrive in temperatures such as this! Unbelievable!
Being from Quebec City I can confirm that we have cold days but also warmer ones so snow melt liquid or pass direct from solid form (snow) to vapour, so we have lots of snow but it doesn’t accumulate as much as Winnipeg!!! I didn’t know Winnipeg had so much snow. I knew it was cold but knew nothing about the snow! Also, Costco Chaude chienne! Hihihi, It’s not how it’s translated… you could say chien chaud, but nobody use that word. We just call it hot dog. Actually, Chienne chaude could have a really really different meaning. Not a PG one. 😂 But I do appreciate very very much the effort of translation!! I like feeling included when there’s video about Canada and there’s a bit of french in it. 😊
Sugestion always have at least half a tank of fuel to prevent condensation freezing fuel lines. Also heavy sleeping bag and jumper cables. And few candles to keep warm.
I'm from Atlantic Canada (PEI land of Anne) and it was -28C here with the recent Polar Vortex that's the coldest I've ever seen here. It was actually quite nice before that even about 0C and some green grass up until mid January. I had to laugh at the "How do Canadians survive winter we stay indoors" line. So true.
22:48 - Not sure if it's the same car but since it might be the used "new" car you just bought the battery might be on it's last legs...although it sounds like it's cranking decently enough. If you don't already have one, a portable power pack that can jump start your car is so convenient to have. NOCO for example- small, compact and can give those extra crank amps when it's freezing no problem or if your battery is just plain dead.
That's my youngest brother's car, so a different one. Yeah, my friend Sherman showed a portable power pack in this car essentials tour ruclips.net/video/wk2K2qnC8Iw/видео.html
@@LifeWhereImFrom I was actually cracking up so hard at that car footage because the "if it whirs it starts" coupled with the mid-video flash showing that this car is a 2000s Subaru Impreza, I was having flashbacks 😂 My partner is from Tennessee and he drove his brand "new" 2007 Subaru Impreza alllll the way up to Ottawa to attend university here (where we met 😊)... His car went one whole winter without issue and that was all it could take lmao We got stranded so many places waiting for the engine to heat up or someone to give us a jump when the portable power pack didn't do the trick! Also, if your brother ever has issues with the car not starting in not Winter season, make sure he isn't using the aux power outlet at the front of the centre console-- there's a known issue with it quickly draining the car's battery 😅
Very enjoyable video! I grew up in one of Austria's colder and snowier towns, but have moved to a rather hot city in Asia 10 years ago. Man I miss those winters! Everything I saw was very nostalgic for me. :)
Oh and I recommended ski goggles that can go over glasses for your niece. She seems to don't mind and be used to it but it's not for the cold, it's just to be able to see! It was life changing for me anyway.
Pretty similar in Finland about how we handle snow. Doesn’t get very cold in Helsinki, but it gets very humid so it feels cold! Yucky dirty snow after one or two days in the city bc of sanding and grit.
As someone from atlantic canada, this is kind of fascinating to me. We get lots of precipitation but our temperature tends to bounce all over the place so its just a rapid storm-thaw cycle. -40 feels as much like a myth to me as the abominable snowman. The dampness on the other hand.. I spent my entire childhood cold lol
I can relate. I was born and raised in Winnipeg, and now retired here. There was a time this past week where the temps were in the -30's with wind chill in the -40's. You just have to come to terms with it. 😀
i live in israel now, but was born and lived for 22 years in the biggest city in sibera, winnipeg snow wise looks exactly the same on the other side of the globe
Here in the Netherlands, surviving winter comfortably is mostly just about wearing enough rain gear. But a few weeks ago we actually had some snow, and it actually remained on the ground for more than a few hours, days even! And we even had some mini snowbanks (about 40cm wide) because there was too much snow on the roads to melt with salt! Very exciting. We're not used to much anymore after our cold spell / pre-global-warming boon in the 1980s
It took me a long time to get here, but I live in a town where if the temp drops to 14 deg C (57F) at night, locals comment on the 'cold night'. We don't have a Winter - just variants of 'dry' and 'wet' - making Winnipeg a novelty I can enjoy vicariously without putting on so much as a t-shirt. Thanks for the video.
Clicked the video right after seeing the title lol I always wonder why my Canadians friends are like polar bears! They could even go outside with flipflops under -10 C! While I was covered like a snowman in this video lol As an Asian born near equator, the whole canada is like an ice age! - Locals can survive by automobiles but international students can only rely on buses... ( there was no metro around the university, but I do like the metro in Toronto. It was huge and warm! )
I rely on buses too most of the time, and the Winnipeg public transit system is...severely lacking (though it is very gradually improving, there's a long way to go before it approaches the much better transit systems of Toronto and Montreal, both of which I absolutely adore...and which, by European standards, are...average at best). I live in the far south end of Winnipeg, and attend school in the far north-west of the city, and my bus commute requires 3 different buses, and usually takes between 60-75 minutes (and note that Winnipeg is not a big city...in a car, this distance is driveable in under 25 minutes, most days). Also, I do find people exaggerate the cold here. It's not that bad. I don't think we've had more 2 or 3 days since this winter began in November when the wind chill dipped to below -50°, and in all cases, it happened at like, 5 or 6 AM (in the afternoons, when days are warmest, the wind chill is almost always above -40°). Every winter, we see maybe 30 to 35 days where during working hours (say 8 AM to 5 PM), the wind chill is sometimes below -30°, with air temperatures between -20 to -25°C (and most of those days are in January and early February). *No, the worst part of the Winnipeg winter is its length.* It's March 20th as I write this. Last night's low was -18°C with a -28° wind chill, and the high temperature today was -8°C with a -14° wind chill, and while this is certainly colder than average for this time of year, it's not _anomalously-cold._ Like, I'm sure ~20% of the time, this is what March 20th looks like. And while the forecast looks pretty good for next weekend (with highs around freezing, which is roughly the average temperature at this time of year) signalling that maybe winter is slowly crawling to an end, it is likely that there will be perceptible snow on the ground for at least another 3 to 4 weeks. Like, I would be SHOCKED if we had no snow cover on Easter (April 9th). Other places in Canada (even places that get legitimate winters, like Ottawa and Montreal) have green grass and flowers growing by then, and here it's a win if there's no April snowstorm around that time. *In fact, last year, there were patches of snow still holding out against the warm-ish weather on **_May 1st,_** because we DID get a large April snowstorm.* It just gets tiresome. We have ~5.5 months of winter and ~3.5 months of summer, but only ~6 weeks of spring and ~8 weeks of fall (which happens to be my absolute favourite season). That's the only issue I have with the climate in my city.
Sherbrooke is rather snowy, but we often get several days of above 0 temperatures during the colder months of the year. The result is that we get wet heavy snow that sometime does not stay on the ground. Almost all of the snow that we have right now fell in just 2 weeks. With theses kinds of temperatures, snow melts then refreezes, then melts again... Unless you direct water away, you are almost guarantied to have ice. 14:15 Montreal also has a rather extensive network of tunnels called RÉSO. There's just about everything you could need, from shops, to office, residential, entertainment and educational faculties. They are directly connected to the metro in many locations which further allows peoples to access islands of connected tunnels further out.
I mean i don't know why I'm surprised at other cities having "skyways" (+15's here in Calgary) but nice to see. Gotta love the flat expanse Saskatchewan standard joke. Agree with your brother on cold = great snow to move given its fluffiness. Versus near zero and "wet" snow which is heavy and thus a pain to shovel. Ah the oversight of thinking I don't plug in the car, only need to do it a few times before you remember to have a extension cord in the car during the winter. As for a survival kit/box in your car i guess it depends on how often you are outside of a city.
The humidity in the winter I have found is more likely to make you sweat when you are moving around in the cold, which can be really dangerous cause once you stop sweating you will freeze and be prone to hypothermia
You remind me of a story from when I was in college. I went to a small science/engineering oriented school. I was taking a German language class with only a few students. Maybe six or seven. The first time we met after Christmas our instructor asked us what we'd done over break. One student said she'd gone home to Canada (some place very far north, such as Yukon or NT) and that it had been -40 degrees. Our instructor asked if that was F or C, and *every* student in the room answered simultaneously "it's the same".
Lol
I went to college in Fairbanks, Alaska. Everyone there knows -40 was the same in F and C.
I never knew until now! I’ve never experienced such temperatures.
This is one of the best depiction of canadian winter I've seen. No exaggeration, no drama, it just is what it is.
After 7 years living in a country without winter, I can now appreciate how some of those images (like the full winter suit!) can seems completely alien to other people. But for me it just feels cosy and reminds me of home!
I live in New Zealand and the only time we wear clothes like that is when we go skiing. I don’t even know if my ski clothes fit me anywhere because it’s been years since I’ve gone skiing. I usually just put on a denim jacket or a puffer jacket when it’s very cold in winter and that’s enough to keep me warm. It doesn’t usually get below 0°C here and we get like 2cm of snowfall every year. Seeing all this snow in a city is insane to me. I only see snow like this on the ski slopes. Most kids walk home from school here and even in winter they don’t wear much because you don’t need to. Trainers, short socks, knee length skirt/shorts, button up shirt, and a school soft shell jacket or school fleece. That’s all kids wear. They usually don’t even wear trousers or tights in winter. And I think my area is considered cold in New Zealand because ankle length kilts used to be a stable of high school girls’ winter uniform here but schools started getting rid of the kilts which is sad because kilts are awesome. Most schools just have one uniform that you wear in both summer and winter.
As an Albertan, I was little sad you didn’t show your road trip through my province, but then I remember that there’s literally nothing to show here 😂 I really love seeing Canada content!
He actually did show some footage of Medicine Hat at 3:40! It's where I'm from and definitely not a huge city so I wasn't expecting to see home in the video! Super cool!
@@kaydee2976 oh never mind then! He went from driving through BC, to saying he was in Saskatchewan so I just assumed there was no Alberta, but it’s nice to see a smaller city included, even if not directly mentioned 👏 I’d love to go to Medicine Hat one day, too!
@Scooby Doo yeah I would've thought the same thing if I didn't live in Medicine Hat. It's so close to Saskatchewan though
It's a nice city but there isn't a lot to do lol. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else though!
I didn't specifically say it, but the night driving were on the roads past Calgary on the way to Medicine Hat.
@@LifeWhereImFrom I thought I recognized those roads.
I also grew up in Winnipeg and now live in Japan. So nostalgic. Just the sound of that snow block being kicked on the ground brought me right back :-) An unexpected gift. Thank you!
Right, that sound brought it all back for me too!
@@LifeWhereImFrom Same with the sound, but I'm from Sweden.
Are you still able to guage the actual temperature by nothing more than the sound that boots make crunching in the snow? You may not realize you have that skill but if you watch a few videos of people walking around in bitterly cold temperatures, I'm confident you will be able to, at the very least, tell when it's below minus 20.
@@mustwereallydothis Maybe a bit, but I at least know it's below -10C if the hairs in my nose starts to freeze XD
@@Narnendil 😆 That is accurate.
Cherish the cold weather like your brother just said. I've been seeing more and more 0 degree days the past few winters in Ottawa, and I'd take snow over freezing rain anyday
Ugh. I moved from Ottawa to Toronto and I miss the cold. Toronto just has an awful November that lasts for 5 months.
@@LSOP-Im from Toronto and I loved our last 2 winters! I love how the snow is usually packing snow and melts within a week or two enough to see the grass underneath. We also got some nice sunny 10-15 degree days in December and February the past winter which were glorious! This past winter has been so warm that it is the only winter where I didnt seriously consider moving to Florida or Texas.
I never knew you were from Winnipeg! That's awesome!
I love the sounds of snow plowing at night. Really soothing.
Living in the southern US (Nashville), I can’t imagine trying to live out day-to-day life in the constant cold of a Canadian winter. I would need so much gear that I don’t own or even know how to use. This video illustrates that in so many ways! I’d love to see Canada one day, but it will have to be a summer tour. Thanks for a great video!
Somehwhat prepared city dwellers have: - a basic shovel for clearing snow, likely an ice scraper
- extension cord for any night under -20, 1 or more snow brushes (w/ ice scraper attachment), and something for traction to help your vehicle get unstuck from snow (cardboard, sand)
- at least 1 set of clothing made for the coldest weather to cover everything
- a parka even if you don't need one
Nahh, spend your money elsewhere. Canada is extremely expensive in the summer and in the winter there is always the constant risk of hypothermia with ridiculous temperatures at -20,-30,-40, coupled with frozen winds and Ice/snow in large quantities. It gets so damn cold the infrastructure can't even handle it, last week there were massive water pipe bursts all over Montreal due to the extreme cold.
This place should be transformed into a polar bear reserve called New Siberia or something along those lines. 😁
As someone from the Canadian prairies, we are nearly as unprepared for southern heat and humidity
@@Direblade11 Eh, unless you're into outdoorsy stuff, a parka and clothing made for the coldest weather is overkill for most Canadian cities. Just layer up.
@@RandomPlaceHolderName If you ever want to travel in winter between cities or on cold days where your car can break down, you don't want to risk frostbite/hypothermia.
I live in SK though. And while yeah you could maybe call a parka overkill in the city, you want it for "just in case" scenarios like a bigger power-outage at night
The validation for hearing someone say qinzy (however you spell it) is incredible. My dad who is from Michigan taught us how to build them and it was a regular winter activity! Where I grew up in Colorado the snow was to dry to pack so it was one of the few things me could build. I remember how warm they would get and how me and my brother would lay inside and refuse to come out. And no one has ever believed me when I talk about quinzys and thinks my dad made it up!
Edmonton here. You did a fine job at showing Canadian winter.
Hello from Calgary! As someone who loves your videos and loves traveling to Japan. It's great to sit with you while you drive across Canada! That cold snap recently was brutal. Great to see you made it okay!
You're giving us Winnipeggers the proper winter respect. 🤣
The warming huts are just art installations now.
And I see most of your filming was done in my area of the city!
Winnipeg is so interesting that the best thing they have going for them is North Dakota.
@@Lee-ic8ln Yeah! I miss Columbia Mall :P
@@rig-a-deelio8465 Don't we all.
I love how many other Canadians are in the comments, it’s almost our whole population here!
And by our whole population you mean 300 people out of 35 million ca c’est pas du tout notre population là là
Born and raised in Ottawa, regularly gets to -25 or -30 several days a year. Love this content, makes me feel all cozy :) Well done and well filmed!
Ottawan gang!
Same here! And as a person from Ottawa who has by extension been skating on the Canal many times, I'm pretty sure the holes along the river in Winnipeg were where they test the depth of the ice to verify it's safe to skate on? Especially since it's off to the side where there's snow rather than on the ice where people are skating lol
@@co_co_chantal Looks like the Rideau canal is closed this whole year....makes me so sad this season. D:
Also born and raised in Ottawa, moved to coastal BC where we don't really get real winter, and this definitely made me nostalgic
As a Winnipegger it was a pleasant surprise when you first mentioned you were from here a while back. Another great surprise today seeing streets I've driven by countless times on your channel. Cheers and a happy February!
I came here to see what other people thought of Canada and instead found the fellow Canadians haha.
Grew up in Moncton, I remember the snow drifts being as tall as the front doors sometimes.
Aussie here. Spent some years in Scotland before I settled back down in Melbourne. Have always wanted to move to live in Canada (Quebec?) but the missus didn't like the idea of anything south of 0 celsius Lol... i wonder if this video will help me finally sell it!!
Any tips welcome :)
@@yeahboi7562 Don't know what part of Australia you're from as I've heard that you can get snow there as well but there's nothing like freshly fallen snow at night when the moon comes out. The nights are bright, you can make out trees, hills, buildings, etc but it looks like everything is covered in sparkling gems. Very beautiful. There's a solitude to the winter as well that's meditative and the crispness to the air is incredibly refreshing and clean.
Where you go does matter though. Quebec, Ontario and the Maritime provinces will have the humidity that was discussed in the video which is that damp, bone chilling cold vs the dry cold of the prairies but the prairies tends to get way more snow and wilder swings in temp and weather during the winter. Also like the video says, southern BC coastal areas with it's temperate maritime climate is much warmer overall than anywhere else in Canada (the rest of BC varies wildly with the mountains full of micro-climates).
The essential skill to live in Winnipeg is to know that you have to wear layers of clothes and a good jacket on top of that to survive being outside during Winnipeg winter. Last year was crazy though with the snow combined with the cold.
Yeah, I should have had a quick section about layers and covering your extremities and face up to combat the wind and dry cold.
Great video. Welcome from Elmwood. I moved here from Vancouver in 94 and love it. Always look forward to your videos.
We live in Southern California and never experience winter like this, at most we wear a light sweater for our winter prep in 56 F weather lol thank you for sharing winter in Canada!! So jealous of that beautiful white snow.
As someone living in Swift (Current) who is from Winnipeg, this video was full of familiar shots. Even that green house house in the back alley!
I'm from a city in Siberia and how winter makes all cities look alike. Piles of snow on the sidewalks, brown snow from the sand and crusts of ice from the snow that melted from the salt. We have about the same climate, dry, with frosts down to -40 degrees Celsius, but mostly from -10 to -25. It is a pity that it was not said whether the snow is exported from the private sector somewhere, to landfills or to snow melters. I love winter, snow and frost. But not when this season lasts for 6-7 months a year. I think being a kid and living in a place where there is a real winter is a real success. I remember as a child waiting for winter to come so I could finally have fun in winter games. Did you find some unusual snowball on the road? Be sure to take it with you. Kicking a small stone of snow up to the house? Always for. As a child, winter did not bother. It always warms my soul when I see children who, like me as a child, enjoy winter to the fullest. Thanks Greg for this video!
Maybe someone else can chime in on where the snow goes. But as far as I know, they just push it and pile it up on site. Annnnnd..... they do have a few locations where they dump now, which you can find at legacy.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/snow/default.stm
It kinda depends on the city, on how they dump snow. Some sadly dont remove the snow from the sidewalks, its usually smaller cities with smaller budgets. Where I live, they bring the snow to zones in parks, if its in a parking lot they pile it in a giant mound, or they bring it outside the city. The first priority is to get the snow off the roads and that means pushing it on the sidewalks. Once they are finally done they would start removing snow pushed onto the sidewalks, but it could take a month or two
This is well documented. You never fail to immerse us with what you have to offer on this channel.
Michigander popping in to say, watching the kiddos sledding off of the snowbank at the end of the video reminded me of my core memories as a kid. Dad would carve steps into the bank for me to walk up and sled down. If the driveway was icy, it was like being the pinball in a arcade machine. I remember a few winters that looked like what was portrayed on your video, with it being so cold that the snow just accumulated over the entire season. Its a different story now, moreso freezing rain as the norm the last decade or so.
Michigander here too! I currently live abroad and watching this (and reading your comment) gave me so much nostalgia! Winter has always been my favorite season, all my best memories are of snow. Sad to hear that our winters arent the same anymore
Love your Japanese videos! Never knew you're a fellow Winnipegger! Could have sworn I saw you downtown here last summer
Could have been. I was there for my brother's wedding!
This was such a fun video to watch! I'm from Minnesota, so winters are generally pretty rough. I loved the skybridges part for whatever reason too!
You'll find sky bridges in downtown places in central WI too
Surprising to see a video about Canada, but a welcomed one as a fellow canadian!
Greg - happy tears seeing the girls, the bros and your parents... for a moment I thought Sherman was Roj!!! brought back many cold memories of my visit in the Winnipeg blizzard brrrrr 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
I come from the north of Sweden, where it gets quite cold and snowy. My brother who lived abroad for a large part of his adult life was suffering a lot more in the winter in Brazil and Ireland. The houses in Sweden are very well isolated and heated, something not as common in a lot of other countries even though the winters are milder.
Yeah the hallway to the kitchen in my dorm in Japan didn't have any glass in the windows, so whatever temperature was outside was inside the kitchen basically. I got pretty used to it, but when my parents came to visit from Sweden they were shocked to find me cooking food in +5 haha.
When I mentioned "plugging in the car" to New Zealand relatives (30 years ago) , they couldn't stop laughing...
picturing very, very, very long extention cords.
my dad's whole family is from Winnipeg, and i cannot tell you how happy and nostalgic it makes me to see footage of it in a YT vid 😊
I grew up and still live in Norway. I remember my winters in the 1hr outskirts from Oslo as cold and dry, but now that I study and live in Oslo, the winters are humid and wet - much worse than from my hometown! You sum it up well in your video; humid winters are much worse than dry winters - even if the temperature is higher versus lower. Sadly, in the city center there is little snow (Oslo), so for proper winter you need to travel to the inlands or skiing mountains (alpine skiing). The closer you are to the sea here, the more of an unstable winter will be brought upon your town.
Interesting. I wouldn't have thought Oslo would get little snow.
@@LifeWhereImFrom Well, the very center was full of snow early to mid January this year, because of the temperatures being below -10 celsius. However, now that it's not as cold, the snow can be seen ca 10-15 minutes away from the center, upwards. The center is right by the coastline which offers humid winds. This is also a reason as to why coastal cities such as Haugesund, Stavanger and Bergen have little to zero snow.
That dark, snowy drive is a whole lot of NOPE for me 😮
This. It's like asking to die or something.
Also, the point about the humidity in Toronto never crossed my mind! Guess it makes sense that it feels a lot colder here because of that
Hello from Saskatoon Saskatchewan 👋🏻🌾💛💚. This video hits all the right spots. 🤣🤣 Very honest view on our Canadian prairies winter 🥶🧊❄️☃️
Born in Montreal I live in So Cal now I absolutely dislike the cold (an these pictures remind me why)! and would never go back though visiting home in the fall is nice This was a very interesting video Thank you for your hard work
Fellow former Winnipegger here. I've long since loved your channel for the Japan content, and never expected to see a video from you that triggered nostalgia more than anything. I enjoyed it very much! Thanks Greg!
Like always Greg, you did a wonderful job videoing and educating. Thank you.
Sending warm hugs from Calgary ^_^ We finally have chinook right now.
We Canadians are really built differently ^_^
Hi Greg, this was a great video! We are in a small town east of Ottawa and right now it's -25°C with a 'feels like' of -33°C - and we are staying home! When our kids were in school, I remember that they didn't go out for recess if the temperature was lower than -13°C. They also made quinzees when they were younger, with the Scouts, but I didn't see that (my husband went on those outings!), so it was interesting to see exactly how they are made. Thanks for this video, better late than never!
The emergency kit in the trunk is so real for travel in winter, I live in Alberta and frequently drive outside of the major cities. I keep a mini shovel, tow ropes, booster cables, candles, road flares, blankets, extra gloves, and sand/kitty litter minimum on hand. I know it seems over the top but the cold is no joke if you end up solo and stuck.
Your videos are delight. Thanks for uploading.
it's nice to see a video about something so familiar! the sounds when the temperature is below -25C are very distinct. and the troubles of sidewalks being half covered in snow, it's easier to brave the road usually. i live in a city somewhat nearby and have screenshots of the -30's we were getting last february too (as well as the snow... there was snow much, i never want to pick a shovel up again lol) i wish we had those warming huts, anything to break the wind
Thanks for showing a "true" Canadian winter and all the shenanigans! Nice video!
Despite being a Canadian who lives in these conditions, Im still watching this video
Cool. I love the powdery snow you get in Winnipeg. We don’t get much snow in Vancouver but when we do, we usually get wet and heavy snow. Slushy and heavy. So hard to drive on even with snow tires.😂
This video was great!!! So interesting to see how somewhere else deals with winter. I don't think I could live there, but wow they just take it in stride!
Winter tip from a fellow Canadian...always crack the front two windows a bit (that's if they're not frozen shut), and the windows will de-fog 5x as fast. The humidity in the air from you're breathing has no place to go, so roll down the front windows 20mm. When driving, roll down the two REAR windows, so you don't get blasted by cold air from the front windows. Welcome to Canada, eh!
It totally depends where you are in Canada. Southern Ontario is a lot warmer than Manitoba. As I watch this, it is 11c on 12 Feb 2023 in Cambridge. Our winters have become so much more mild than when I was a kid. I remember how mesmerizing the snowflakes are in your headlights on the highway. I sort of miss how it used to get that snowy in southern Ontario. Don't miss the -25c, but do miss the snow.
Minus 40 isn't too bad when you have the right gear on, you can feel the heat layer between you. -55 though is something else. Like all the materials don't work anymore and the wind goes through you like a window. So have the regular snow coats but always have that heavier gear they were using on those off chance winter days, and good winter pants
Grew up in Wisconsin. Very similar. It’s not cold unless your nose hairs go “SNIK!” when you breathe in. It’s a dry cold. Germany is more of that wet cold that really chills you. You can also have pink snow when they use beet juice to melt the ice. It’s like a natural antifreeze.
I'm a Winnipegger. Winter 2022 was the worst for way too much snow. I cried at one point because I couldn't deal with one more day of shoveling.😫
As seen from my home in southwest Saskatchewan I love this. It is a great video. It could have easily been expanded into several more. It well illustrates the terrors of driving on an icy highway with drifting snow. It also illustrates the delights of a sunny winter day with little wind.
While it has been relatively warm (-10°C) here since Christmas with little fresh snow, the Feb 22 date that this was recorded reminds me that winter is far from over.
I visited Winnipeg last August and attended a baseball game in the riverside stadium. I would love to see a video recording the pleasures of travel in the prairie summer. (Perhaps I should make one myself!)
I'm from Quebec city and today is one of the coldest here -28°C feels like - 42°C. This year we have had decent amount of snow all falling in the last month. And tough it's not always perfect, it seems we have better snow management. Most of the time the snow is either blown away on the side of the road if there is place or moved to a snow depot to comfortably clear the roads and the sidewalks. After a snowstorm, it take a few days and a lot of work (day and night) to clear everything up.
WOW ! I’m so glad to hear you talk about humidity and cold. I’m a Winnipegger and When my son moved to Toronto. I visited him in Feb. It was much colder temperature wise in Winnipeg, but I nearly died in Toronto. I used every spare blanket he had and I could not get warm! The humidity makes all the difference in the world. I have no trouble staying warm in Manitoba, but I don’t know how people can stay warm in Toronto.
Applies in BC too. 10-13 degrees feels like -1 with bone chilling cold
Reminds me of makingn snow forts when I was a kid in Toronto. Also used to do snow camping so a lot of the survival tips were good reminders too. Unfortunately it doesn't get as cold anymore so I wonder what kids do today. I really enjoyed all the squeaky snow sounds!
As someone who's moved from Edmonton to Toronto by car on 3 Jan 2010, I can relate to all of this except for driving through a snow storm at night - that's just suicidal! I really hope you had real winter tires fitted to all 4 wheels and didn't go faster than 90-100kph.
glad you guys made it!
This is the funniest video. I love your commentary. This is so spot on. The semis are always the first to crash...lol! Where we live we go to the Dr. or the post office and just leave the cars running so it isn't deadly cold when we come back.
I live in the northern U.S. so while not quite as cold as Winnipeg we still get our fair share of winter weather. I've also driven at night in a snowstorm and just like you the truck drivers on the road with me were insane. They would go flying by and kick up a bunch of snow as they did. It was terrifying anytime I saw truck headlights in the rearview mirror coming up behind me.
I've lived in Saskatchewan my whole life. We get -30, -35 every winter. We have survived here just as people survive in places that are +40.
In recent years Regina got a couple +40 days in summer too lol
I have a friend who runs a guesthouse in Japan that loves to tell people about how our weather has such a huge variance. -40 all the way to +40!
@@ithecastic bruh we're about to get the second round of near-zero weather for January and February.
I can't tell you that's climate change, but an understanding of how carbon dioxide affects how the sun's rays go through/stay in the atmosphere seems like a reasonable explanation for why our coldest seasons are having snow melt.
I lived in Kamloops, BC for 1 year. Coldest ever been with it at -45C. I lived on Vancouver Island, BC for 2 years. It was mostly just a rainy season. I loved how the island had palm trees growing wild on it. Back in Southern Ontario where I'm from back 40 years ago. Snow storms were like a few feet per storm and winter went from November till Aprilish. Now were lucky if we get a foot of snow over time then it melts. I was still mowing the lawn in November and had my AC on. I think so far in my area weve snow shoveled like 6x since the holidays. The rest has been warm days like 6 to 14C, or just snow then melts the next day to grass again. It has been kinda cold snaps at times but nothing happens.
As a a person born in Winnipeg or winterpeg. Driving cars are easier how about taking a public transit in -45 Celsius To work. Layers are the best often to keeping warm. And keeping extra winter gear in the house in case you lose a mitten somewhere it has happened to me.
My experience living in Northern Illinois was I could go outside in a pair of sweats and a hoodie down to temperatures of -18C (-2F.) I once walked outside in a t-shirt and shorts when it was -34C (-30F) and that lasted all of 2 seconds before I turned back around and grabbed my winter coat. Getting the car to start was one thing but the real challenge was getting into the car when it was frozen in ice. Many a commute was also spent holding the door closed because the latch was frozen, it would usually warm up enough when I got to work 30 minutes later.
I forgot about holding the door closed!! 😂
Wow, those driving videos gave me flashbacks of driving from Chicago to and from Spokane, Washington in February of 2019 to pick up our second dog. Driving I-90 through the Dakotas, Montana, and Idaho isn't that different or much further south than the Trans-Canada. We got stuck at one of the mountain passes because there were jackknifed semis on both sides of the highway. Super scary!
23:48 I've lived in Winnipeg all my life, and right at this point, I can hear how cold it is.
Love your videos! They’re so chill yet informative. Really enjoy watching them. Didn’t know about the X channel, but now I’ve got some bingeing to do!!!
Thanks for your work☺️🙏🏻
The worst snow was where I am from, St John's Newfoundland. It's horrible, this why I'm loving living in southern Kanagawa and we saw only a few flakes of snow one night.
'Keeping your freight secure...' Yeah, right :D
i grew up in Florida, so i experienced zero snow up until i visited Washington in winter 2020. then i moved there during Fall of the same year and stayed until mid 2022 (now im back in florida, not really by choice though). i loved taking walks around the small city i lived in, even though it was below freezing, and snowing. i soaked in as much snow time as i could, because after 25 years of no snow, i really enjoyed finally being able to experience the newness of it. i dont have a car or license, so i have 0 experience driving on snow or ice, so thats a whole different aspect i'll have to experience later. only watched my roommate drive and deal with cleaning snow off his car. the nearest grocery store was right next to our apartment, so i just walked there whenever i needed food.
Driving on snow is not a problem at all. Driving on ice is.
As someone who grew up in a tropical country where our definition of COLD is 20 deg C, I couldn't even imagine how people survive and thrive in temperatures such as this! Unbelievable!
As someone from a tropical country that went to Canada during winter, the cold isn't as bad as you think until around -5C.
+1 same, from Thailand where 25C is already our premium "winter"
Being from Quebec City I can confirm that we have cold days but also warmer ones so snow melt liquid or pass direct from solid form (snow) to vapour, so we have lots of snow but it doesn’t accumulate as much as Winnipeg!!! I didn’t know Winnipeg had so much snow. I knew it was cold but knew nothing about the snow!
Also, Costco Chaude chienne! Hihihi, It’s not how it’s translated… you could say chien chaud, but nobody use that word. We just call it hot dog. Actually, Chienne chaude could have a really really different meaning. Not a PG one. 😂 But I do appreciate very very much the effort of translation!! I like feeling included when there’s video about Canada and there’s a bit of french in it. 😊
Sugestion always have at least half a tank of fuel to prevent condensation freezing fuel lines. Also heavy sleeping bag and jumper cables. And few candles to keep warm.
It’s nice to go home :) you’re lucky to have bros that you seem close with
It was nice to see my route home from work featured in your video!
I'm from Atlantic Canada (PEI land of Anne) and it was -28C here with the recent Polar Vortex that's the coldest I've ever seen here. It was actually quite nice before that even about 0C and some green grass up until mid January. I had to laugh at the "How do Canadians survive winter we stay indoors" line. So true.
I miss winter, and I keep watching this video to get me through the summer.
22:48 - Not sure if it's the same car but since it might be the used "new" car you just bought the battery might be on it's last legs...although it sounds like it's cranking decently enough.
If you don't already have one, a portable power pack that can jump start your car is so convenient to have. NOCO for example- small, compact and can give those extra crank amps when it's freezing no problem or if your battery is just plain dead.
That's my youngest brother's car, so a different one. Yeah, my friend Sherman showed a portable power pack in this car essentials tour ruclips.net/video/wk2K2qnC8Iw/видео.html
@@LifeWhereImFrom I was actually cracking up so hard at that car footage because the "if it whirs it starts" coupled with the mid-video flash showing that this car is a 2000s Subaru Impreza, I was having flashbacks 😂 My partner is from Tennessee and he drove his brand "new" 2007 Subaru Impreza alllll the way up to Ottawa to attend university here (where we met 😊)... His car went one whole winter without issue and that was all it could take lmao We got stranded so many places waiting for the engine to heat up or someone to give us a jump when the portable power pack didn't do the trick! Also, if your brother ever has issues with the car not starting in not Winter season, make sure he isn't using the aux power outlet at the front of the centre console-- there's a known issue with it quickly draining the car's battery 😅
What a coincidence, I’ve been subscribed to you for a long time and never knew you grew up in Winnipeg! I currently live there
Very enjoyable video! I grew up in one of Austria's colder and snowier towns, but have moved to a rather hot city in Asia 10 years ago. Man I miss those winters! Everything I saw was very nostalgic for me. :)
Oh and I recommended ski goggles that can go over glasses for your niece. She seems to don't mind and be used to it but it's not for the cold, it's just to be able to see! It was life changing for me anyway.
Pretty similar in Finland about how we handle snow. Doesn’t get very cold in Helsinki, but it gets very humid so it feels cold! Yucky dirty snow after one or two days in the city bc of sanding and grit.
As someone from atlantic canada, this is kind of fascinating to me. We get lots of precipitation but our temperature tends to bounce all over the place so its just a rapid storm-thaw cycle. -40 feels as much like a myth to me as the abominable snowman. The dampness on the other hand.. I spent my entire childhood cold lol
honestly, winter in Canada has such variety.. you could do a winter video for each province
Your family is precious!
I can relate. I was born and raised in Winnipeg, and now retired here. There was a time this past week where the temps were in the -30's with wind chill in the -40's. You just have to come to terms with it. 😀
this is so fun to watch as a winnipeger
Loving with a meter of snow would probably be a hassle for me, but I have say that it makes the landscape look beautiful.
i live in israel now, but was born and lived for 22 years in the biggest city in sibera, winnipeg snow wise looks exactly the same on the other side of the globe
Here in the Netherlands, surviving winter comfortably is mostly just about wearing enough rain gear. But a few weeks ago we actually had some snow, and it actually remained on the ground for more than a few hours, days even! And we even had some mini snowbanks (about 40cm wide) because there was too much snow on the roads to melt with salt! Very exciting. We're not used to much anymore after our cold spell / pre-global-warming boon in the 1980s
There is nothing better than a sunny day slightly above freezing in the middle of winter. Feels like springtime
It took me a long time to get here, but I live in a town where if the temp drops to 14 deg C (57F) at night, locals comment on the 'cold night'. We don't have a Winter - just variants of 'dry' and 'wet' - making Winnipeg a novelty I can enjoy vicariously without putting on so much as a t-shirt. Thanks for the video.
Clicked the video right after seeing the title lol
I always wonder why my Canadians friends are like polar bears! They could even go outside with flipflops under -10 C! While I was covered like a snowman in this video lol
As an Asian born near equator, the whole canada is like an ice age!
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Locals can survive by automobiles but international students can only rely on buses...
( there was no metro around the university, but I do like the metro in Toronto. It was huge and warm! )
I rely on buses too most of the time, and the Winnipeg public transit system is...severely lacking (though it is very gradually improving, there's a long way to go before it approaches the much better transit systems of Toronto and Montreal, both of which I absolutely adore...and which, by European standards, are...average at best). I live in the far south end of Winnipeg, and attend school in the far north-west of the city, and my bus commute requires 3 different buses, and usually takes between 60-75 minutes (and note that Winnipeg is not a big city...in a car, this distance is driveable in under 25 minutes, most days).
Also, I do find people exaggerate the cold here. It's not that bad. I don't think we've had more 2 or 3 days since this winter began in November when the wind chill dipped to below -50°, and in all cases, it happened at like, 5 or 6 AM (in the afternoons, when days are warmest, the wind chill is almost always above -40°). Every winter, we see maybe 30 to 35 days where during working hours (say 8 AM to 5 PM), the wind chill is sometimes below -30°, with air temperatures between -20 to -25°C (and most of those days are in January and early February). *No, the worst part of the Winnipeg winter is its length.* It's March 20th as I write this. Last night's low was -18°C with a -28° wind chill, and the high temperature today was -8°C with a -14° wind chill, and while this is certainly colder than average for this time of year, it's not _anomalously-cold._ Like, I'm sure ~20% of the time, this is what March 20th looks like. And while the forecast looks pretty good for next weekend (with highs around freezing, which is roughly the average temperature at this time of year) signalling that maybe winter is slowly crawling to an end, it is likely that there will be perceptible snow on the ground for at least another 3 to 4 weeks. Like, I would be SHOCKED if we had no snow cover on Easter (April 9th). Other places in Canada (even places that get legitimate winters, like Ottawa and Montreal) have green grass and flowers growing by then, and here it's a win if there's no April snowstorm around that time. *In fact, last year, there were patches of snow still holding out against the warm-ish weather on **_May 1st,_** because we DID get a large April snowstorm.*
It just gets tiresome. We have ~5.5 months of winter and ~3.5 months of summer, but only ~6 weeks of spring and ~8 weeks of fall (which happens to be my absolute favourite season). That's the only issue I have with the climate in my city.
I’ll take those cold, Arctic days with beaming sun over the near-zero, wet, overcast days in Toronto any day.
Thanks for this. I lived one year near lake of the woods. People would leave their cars running when they went into Walmart.
Don't miss the Winters in Winnipeg but the sundogs sure were beautiful ;)
Sherbrooke is rather snowy, but we often get several days of above 0 temperatures during the colder months of the year. The result is that we get wet heavy snow that sometime does not stay on the ground. Almost all of the snow that we have right now fell in just 2 weeks. With theses kinds of temperatures, snow melts then refreezes, then melts again... Unless you direct water away, you are almost guarantied to have ice.
14:15 Montreal also has a rather extensive network of tunnels called RÉSO. There's just about everything you could need, from shops, to office, residential, entertainment and educational faculties. They are directly connected to the metro in many locations which further allows peoples to access islands of connected tunnels further out.
I enjoyed Montreal last time I was there about 20 years ago. Will have to check out RÉSO next time I get a chance to visit.
We learn something new every day! Thanks for teaching me the one thing for today, Greg! (40=40)
I am so happy the metric system is standard there
I mean i don't know why I'm surprised at other cities having "skyways" (+15's here in Calgary) but nice to see. Gotta love the flat expanse Saskatchewan standard joke. Agree with your brother on cold = great snow to move given its fluffiness. Versus near zero and "wet" snow which is heavy and thus a pain to shovel. Ah the oversight of thinking I don't plug in the car, only need to do it a few times before you remember to have a extension cord in the car during the winter. As for a survival kit/box in your car i guess it depends on how often you are outside of a city.
Thanks! Never have I ever came across an exclusive Japan transportation vid & I've watched MANY Japan based channels.
The humidity in the winter I have found is more likely to make you sweat when you are moving around in the cold, which can be really dangerous cause once you stop sweating you will freeze and be prone to hypothermia