Why on Earth are Winters Getting Worse if the Planet is Getting Warmer? | Weathered
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Why do we see so much extreme winter weather even as the climate warms? Veteran climate scientist Judah Cohen describes one theory explaining the connection between changes in the jetstream, polar vortex events, and climate change. These bring blizzards, cold temperatures, and record-breaking snowfall to places that are expected to be warming. Examples are the Texas deep freeze in 2021 and in 2022, the extreme snow in Virginia which stranded drivers on I95 for over 24 hours. Watch to find out how global warming could be the cause of major weather shifts that actually increase snowfall events.
In 2015, Boston was brought to its knees by the worst winter on record, receiving an unprecedented 110 inches of snow. And over the last decade, the American Northeast has seen more than a 200% increase in the frequency of large, disruptive snowstorms. This trend surprised nearly everybody, including many of the top experts, as they had been expecting a warming planet to translate into milder winters. But in many locations, we have seen just the opposite. So what’s going on here?
We traveled to Boston to search for answers about these surprising effects of climate change and their connection to the jet stream, the polar vortex, and a phenomenon known as “arctic amplification.” We also discuss some of the most common risks like hypothermia, frostbite, heart attacks, and traffic accidents that make winter weather, far and away, the deadliest natural hazard of them all.
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Hello from Texas, from the week of February 15, 2021. We don't have power. This aged well.
What happened to "we are the best state in the union"?? What happened to "we hate the feds and want to secede"? Now you guys are begging Biden for help... WTF??
@@moviemania1137 not everyone in Texas thinks like that but go off...
@@moviemania1137 who said that 😭😭 sarah? the girl with a license plate who says sar♥︎h and tex♥︎s who i saw one day?
@@moviemania1137 Yep Texas got a very rude wakeup call.
Vladimir Putin what happened to McDonald’s apple pies? What happened to flip phones? What happened to those ego waffles with the jelly in the middle? Please Mr. Putin use your powers of fascism to bring them back 🙏🏻
My state of Texas missed this series...entirely. Even 10 years ago..
@Incomeking nah I can blame them. Incompetent leaders who think global warming is a hoax
Yeah senators bringing snowballs into Congress to "demonstrate" that climate change "is a hoax." In school we were taught that education was so you could get a higher paying, better job. Clearly Republicans don't believe in that because they sent a long series of crooks and ignorant morons to represent us.
Yeah, that’s very noticeable 🥶
Cursed comment
Wait, I thought you were from Virginia.
DO NOT, put warm water on frost bite when you in out of the cold, start with cool or room temperature and do so very slowly. Putting warm water on frost bitten fingers will feel like boiling water.
I learned this lesson as a kid (many years ago now) when I lived in Winnipeg where walking home from school often involved -30F. It freaking HURTS when you put froozed body parts into warm water. Start with cool water and warm it up slowly.
If someone has been experiencing extreme hypothermia, much of their blood has left their extremities and gone to central areas of the body. If such a person is warmed up too quickly, the blood will rush away from these central regions of the body, including the heart - and this can result in a fatal heart attack. So hypothermia victims should warm up more gradually.
THIS^^^ Putting warm or hot water on frostbite can ruin the nerves in your hands and cause serious issues later on.
@@Whistlewalk Moved to winnipeg a month ago from India, I have never experienced negative temperatures.. 😳
They will spin any data in order to increase taxes.
Do not leave water in your car in preparation for cold weather. Always take it with you. Water expands when it freezes. A water bottle will burst, if it freezes. If you have a garage, and your car is never left out for long, then you can leave water in the car. Do not eat snow or ice, wait for it to melt first.
If you leave food in the car, only leave food that can take freezing, and melting on repeat. Take something that is easy to open with numb fingers, edible as is, and high in calories.
Layers are better than bulky clothing, natural fibers are also warmer than synthetic. If you start to sweat, take layers off. If clothes get wet, they will not insulate.
Keep a reflective blanket in your car, in case you have to turn off heating. Do not just put in on you, surround yourself with it.
I lived in my vehicle, last winter.
All the water bottles I had froze to solid ice.
I always wanted an answer for this question, because even here in Egypt winters has become harsher, especially the last 5 winters. We've even had snow for the first time in a lifetime in New Cairo, a few miles east of the capital.
@Endtimes are upon us Whats teh coming of Christ?
winter are getting colder everywhere exept where i live i'ts raining all day but back in 2010 it was only snow
the weather really changed these 10 last years
I have an answer it's called BS
@Endtimes are upon us erm, don't know if you know this but if you're waiting for Christ's birth you're about 2,000 years too late.😉😄😄😄
GOVERNMENTS HAVE WEATHER MANIPULATING DEVICES. THEY CAN ENHANCE WHATEVER IS PARTIALLY ALREADY THERE. PROBLEM IS THEY CAN'T CONTROL THE WIND
This aged well. Good luck Texas.
Aged well? It came out 2 weeks ago lol
There is no climate change the earth has had wild climate changes for billions of years humans have only been on earth for a smidge of time we are just here in a time where theres some wacky weather
@@glizzygoblin-nl2uh sorry dude, but the poles are shifting.
@@ariesc6103 nah man grow up
@@glizzygoblin-nl2uh it's true that the earth changes all the time. However, there is no denying our actions during the industrial revolution to present times have increased our average global temperatures, leading to the poles heating, creates crazy winds and warmer waters which leads to freakish weather.
I'm watching this while seeing the record heat in the west, and how it is mainly on fire. Trust me, no matter how cold it is in the winter, you're going to have unbearable heat during the summer. You can melt snow for water, but you can't drink dirt.
In Oregon we got the best of both worlds this year. Ice storm in the willamette valley that knocked out power for almost a week in mid february when no one had any real winter storm preparedness, and then summer with a 117 degree weekend in June when no one had AC. Going from wonderfully mild weather to extremes on both sides like its some kind of gross east coast state.
Yes you can’t drink dirt but you can eat dirt
@@mrduck2020 Well, I think the nutritional value is questionable.
You can melt snow for water, but you can't drink dirt
@@Runco990
Also fast forwarding one year, in my area we normally receive around 32 inches of rain in 7 months. This year, we've gotten nearly 48 inches of rain in just 3 months.
Crazy how it’s all just “let’s discuss how to survive in this dying world,” and not “let’s try to prevent it.” We’ve given up hope in the people with the most power to try to actually fix this.
There's nothing to fix. You're just being lead down a rabbit hole by the very people who profit off the hysteria.
@@ulfrinn8783 ExxonMobil's own documents show that they recognized that humans were causing a global climate catastrophe - so they first learned all about it and what new drilling possibilities it opened up, then funded nefarious groups to cover it up.
Their own documents provide definitive, incontrovertible proof of this, yet here you are in 2021 swallowing their propaganda while the predictions they tried to bury unfold. What a chump.
@@justinddunlap Scientists have failed to produce conclusive evidence, so I doubt an oil company has fared any better.
Justin Dunlap the earth is constantly changing and we couldn’t stop that, no matter what. Sure we could do things to take better care of it. But there’s no stopping climate change.
@@Alexis-pt2cu we absolutely, definitively could have stopped the extremely rapid warming we are currently experiencing - the global climate catastrophe I spoke of. This is akin to a murderer trying to justify his act by saying "he was going to die eventually"
@6:29 Wow, you guys gave a warning to Texas about being unprepared for cold weather almost 2 weeks in advance!
Really!?!? Two whole weeks!!! Wooow!!!!!!
This has been in literature for years (and has been happening in some Middle East regions the last couple of years) but 🤷 you know... politics, bureaucracy, etc etc.
Suspicious 0bservers Space Weather News predicted this two years or so ago.
First, I'm not referring to weather prediction, but power outage! Second, I know this video wasn't predicting anything, I was being sarcastic (jeez!).
Maybe people saw this video 2 weeks before the event they might have planned a trip to Cancun (just to be clear this is again a sarcastic comment!)
@@abe365 People don't like thinking ahead! They think things will ALWAYS remain the same. Being flexible/aware is more important than ever.
As a Canadian, welcome to our world!! Be safe !!
@Thomas Chisholm seriously?
Stop complaining wahhh i live in cold place wahhhh wahhhh
ya'lls equipment and stuff and buildings is prepared and built for it
As an American, mind your own business Canada! Jk
lol You all act like Texas never experienced freezing! Well we've got news for ya! It has many times in past years! Its nothing new!
What you said at the beginning “for the time being” I think is important. What brings big snow storms is not colder air (though it obviously has to be below freezing) but more moisture. As the Earth warms and our oceans do, warmer oceans evaporate more moisture so there is more moisture in the air, warmer air can hold more water vapor. So many locations will see more annual precipitation. The big key is also temperature. Most locations are seeing warming winters, the thing is because many locations have warmed around 5°F in the Northern U.S. in winter, many locations the seasonal mean average temperature for Dec-Feb is still below 32°F. So while it’s warmer, because there is moisture, snow storms can get bigger. Plus extra tropical cyclones such as Nor’easters will get more intense as the oceans warm and there is more energy in the system. The thing is, by 2100, the Midwest and Northeast US should see January mean averages temperatures above freezing overall, so snowfall will decrease after they will initially increase in the next few decades and than fall as the climate continues to warm. So the Eastern US will see less frequency in the # of snowstorms, but when they do happen they will be a lot more intense when a cold air mass does move through. But winter rainstorms will be more common in the future. However in places like Alaska and Canada, their winter mean temperatures will likely remain below freezing even with worse case global warming scenarios by 2100, blizzards in many parts of the globe will get a lot worse in a warmer world. Remember global warming doesn’t mean beach weather in January in the high and mid-latitudes.
As far as extreme cold is a concern, while it’s a true a fast warming arctic weakens the temperature difference of higher and lower latitudes and weakens the jet stream. The Polar Vortex splitting a part in a Sudden Stratospheric Warming event (A sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) is an event in which the polar stratospheric temperature rises by several tens of kelvins (up to increases of about 50 °C (90 °F)) over the course of a few days. The warming is preceded by a slowing then reversal of the westerly winds in the stratospheric polar vortex. SSWs occur about 6 times per decade in the northern hemisphere, and only about once every 20-30 years in the Southern Hemisphere) hasn’t really increased in frequency since records began and because the strastophere is cooling because the greenhouse effect isn’t allowing heat to escape the Troposphere, it’s possible the warming of the troposphere and cooling of the strastophere cancel each other out. But one study (Simon Clark, who has done lots of research on the polar vortex and made videos on this study I’m about to mention) showed the Polar Vortex may stretch more often as Earth warms and the jet stream slows. But even than because earth will be a lot warmer in the future than now, an extreme cold in 2100 will be a lot warmer than an extreme cold event today. According to NOAA and NASA and Berkeley Earth, extreme cold events have dramatically decreased in the past century, extreme heat events have dramatically increased (also heat Records are beating cold ones 2:1 ratio and that ratio is growing), and overall winter temperatures have warmed, far faster than any other season in the Northern Hempishere.
BS
@@perniciouspete4986 elaborate
this is reflective with what im seeing with record snow storms and snow levels out west in the rockies with little, if any snow in the east. east coast skiing was horrible this past year but skiing out west was incredible.
6:00. Also keep in mind that a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, so that's another factor. There's a greater pool of moisture in the atmosphere for storm systems to suck up and concentrate, that's why deluge rain storms are also increasing. Folds within folds of harmonic cumulative complexity.
"it was so cold it didn't melt"
*Canadians* : duh
New Yorkers as well.. 😂😂😂
Norweigans and sweds enter the chat
Colorado says ...hello. Could be HAARP?
@jojofromtx reporting from brooklyn it’s week 3 of this snow shit i’m tired and it just started snowing again the ground is straight off white
@jojofromtx here in Indiana, On average it takes 4 weeks to melt just 4 inches, the average high is 31 degrees and average low is 14 degrees, but in 2019 we went -20 degrees AIR Temperature, the Wind Chill was -60 degrees.
Georgia has no idea what to do with snow, we got little flurries, not enough to do anything. But the schools shut down, roads were empty, and mass panic ensued. Having lived in Utah during my childhood, I thought that was pointless overreaction. But it was hilarious.
The Mid-South in Memphis, TN is the same.
Wait until it hits California..!!
As a tractor-trailer driver I've seen them drive in the rain. Accidents everywhere!!! Imagine snow? It will be a catastrophe! 🤯
If there's no salt, grit etc being applied to roads because they're unprepared, then people SHOULD stay home. I grew up in a city that normally gets a lot of snow. We took photos when we didn't have much!
Global warming is a hoax to steal money from you boa taxation
Thank you , Terra. I find you not only knowledgeable but extremely clear and informative ☺️
I noticed bigger swings lately in the winter in the upper Midwest but overall it seems winters are getting milder and less snowy in my area.
It snowed like twice here in Toronto. Cold grey winter without snow is depressing. The white blanket of snow really brightens up the dark night, and really helps combat my seasonal and daylight savings depression.
Seriously, what is even the point of winter without snow? Just cold dark misery
@@prescriptivereasoning are you taking to me? I guess you don't know what the color white does. Itt reflects light... like a lot... especially compared to a dark green lawn and dark grey pavement. Even house and street lights are reflected. Plus the snow even sparkles which is beautiful.
Get this woman another series. This video was full of good and easy to understand content.
Might like my channel too :) I talk about abrupt climate change nonstop.
The carbon footprint of the mic ruclips.net/video/oMozyspFuBM/видео.html numbers still underestimated...
Why? Doesn't make sense she is the most typical American person
I seriously doubt she wrote the script
Encore!
What an outstanding series. Thank you for the explanations of what this world is experiencing.
I guess the movie, “the day after tomorrow’, was right, except it’s a slower process of the ice age happening
Yes! An ice age is coming. This videos explanation of the polar vortex modulation is inaccurate. It has to do with solar forcing.
Pole shifting, it is natural for the planet to shift and unnatural for human's
Yes poles shifting doesn't happen like in the movie, it is a gradual decay of the magnetic field and a slow flip (everyone's hoping anyway).
@@cdmarshall7448 right now magnetic strength is declining at 1% per year and has been declining faster and faster.
There are several things happening at the same time and we really don't know what is going to happen.
1.we are pumping lots of gases in the atmosphere at ridiculous rates along with other pollutants which increase temperatures
2. Melting ice sheets decrease the salinity of the sea breaking down the gulf stream ,which can decrease temperatures.
3. Earth's magnetic poles are reversing and the magnetic field is weakening.
4.wobbly jet stream.
Really don't know what's going to happen,but things will change for sure
Going in to day 3 of frozen roads here in Mississippi. Never seen it like this. Ever.
Same in Texas. Since Sunday roads have been iced up. News says it should be gone by Saturday morning
10:15 is the pre warning to Texas
I love the phrase "global weirding' because it describes the situation so well! Here in southwest Montana we tend to get some huge mountain snows at times, but this winter is off to a very mild start temp wise. My buddy across the border in Idaho reports all they've really had is rain so far which is not the norm. In Wallace they should have a ton of snow but there isn't much.
And the mountain states rely on mountain snow for water throughout the year. Droughts are going to get worse
@Andy The Informer Just stop. The last 6 years have been the warmest years on record and we are currently in a solar minimum. A grand solar minimum is a natural event. Pumping billions of tons of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere by 7 billion people is not natural.
@ Andy the (mis)informer. Erik the Red was a Norwegian who lived in Iceland and was forced into exile after killing a neighbour. It is believed that Erik was an adventurous person, and he, therefore, explored the western part and finally found a habitable spot in the largely ice covered island. According to the "Saga of Erik the Red", he named the island Greenland hoping that the pleasant name would lure other settlers to the island. To some extent, the trick worked because several vikings from Iceland who were escaping famine managed to establish some settlements in Greenland after a few years...
The carbon footprint of the mic ruclips.net/video/oMozyspFuBM/видео.html numbers still underestimated...
One mild winter means it was a mild winter. Seasonal weather patterns change all the time.
I think it's pretty obvious by now that an amplified jet stream is leading to more extreme weather events, like the recent Pacific Northwest heat wave. The only question is, why is it leading to more high pressure systems parking themselves on the West Coast and more low pressure systems on the East Coast? We even had a name for it in the mid-2010s, the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge." It kept all the rain and snow squeezed up into British Columbia, bypassing California and Oregon, and then blasting down into the midwest. And it just keeps happening every year.
We can and should alter the weather. We are the rulers of earth temporarily. Create massive skyscraper dehumidifiers,no more terrestrial rain and hurricanes.
Here in India, winters have got shorter in durations but are more intense. Summers are getting longer as well as intense. So yes, overall things are more towards hotter climate
I’ve noticed much less snow and cold early in the season but much harsher weather overall and a longer wait for spring. Never could explain it but this really helps shed light on the new weather pattern
No, cooling is air temperature and so if winter is longer, then that is global or for you regional cooling. Rainfall and snowfall is not air temperature, it is water. More or less rain has nothing to do with air temperature which is why we don't use thermometers to measure rainfall.
The US now has tornadoes during winter snow storms.
Yes it does and did! How ridiculous is it going to get? I was a neighbor of the unexpected tornado. Stay safe. :)
@@crystalbelle2349 I've been in 1 tornado and 2 hurricane. The 1st hurricane I was 16, not watching news or weather and had been on the beach for days. the 2nd hurricane in 2004 I was in Orlando listening to 104 radio telling me the jet stream has never and will never bring a hurricane to Orlando or I would have never been in a hurricane. I made a lot of money working storms since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi. Tornadoes are the most dangerous because they sneak up on you but if you stick around for a hurricane you are playing Russian Roulette. The tornado took down a tree that just missed my house and new Expedition that wasn't insured. I had to get the tree cleared out and fix the power and cable lies pulled off the house. The loud boom of the transformer exploding knocked me off the couch but I was lucky every time. In Orlando we went to a hurricane party and we thought the house was going to implode. I had to move a tree to get my truck out of the drive that night. I should have went to Ga in 2004. Don't ever take a chance when you know a storm is coming, especially a hurricane, and they spin off tornadoes.
Holy 💩. A year or so ago there was a video on RUclips of storm chasers driving through a snowy northern city to chase tornados.
@@christinamann3640 When I did storm damage repairs we were called storm chasers but we waited tell the storm was over. The real "storm chasers are brave souls and maybe a little crazy. A lot of science research can be dangerous and I am sure those people know the safest way to approach a storm, but tornadoes are so unpredictable, I don't know.
What’s funny is where I live, the sun is harsher because of the hole in the ozone layer and the fact that are air has barely any pollution🤣 but that means higher change of melanoma
Salem Oregon -- We had one of the worst ice storms we've ever had 4ish months ago, destroying thousands of power lines and plunging the entire city into a power outage for a week.
Now, we're having one of the worst heat waves on record.
In 1997 my family was driving through Mississippi when there was a freak snowstorm. We're from Wisconsin, so we were used to salted roads, cautious driving, etc. But we ended up in a 12 hour traffic jam from Jackson to Memphis. Multiple semi trucks were turned on their side, like one every few miles. Multiple cars ended up off the road because they tried speeding too fast. It's luck there weren't a ton of actual accidents.
I remember that 😁 I was living in Mississippi and we rode 4 wheelers all night in it . Freaking 2 feet of snow in Mississippi was awesome! We froze our butts off 😆
I remember a snow storm in Florida, I think as far south as Miami around 1977 or 1978. I was in high school. But I was blown away that there was one snow plow for the entire state.
"... no matter where you live" (in the US)
Great video, but would be interesting to also learn more about Europe and Asia
Both were mentioned. However nothing in the southern hemisphere was mentioned, outside of Antarctica, which gets all the news.
Here in the southern Appalachians the summers have been a little cooler, the winters aren't as bad as they were in the 60's....but you can still get up and it be 20 degrees and be in the 60's by the afternoon which is pretty much normal for this area this time of year...
@@SolaceEasy Here in Brazil, every year it gets drier, in 2021 we are experimenting the biggest drought in 111 years
"How to stay safe in big snow event.."
Me, living in Estonia: uh-uh,yeah, uh-uh
Last winter was the warmest in 100 years. (In Estonia)
@@captainglassesmm4008 here in brazil every year it gets drier and drier, in 2021 we are experimenting the biggest drought in 111 years
I love this anchor because they are very down to earth. Explaining something to the point where I can grapple with it
Keep the narrator. She's easy to watch and has a nice voice with good diction. I actually stuck around for the whole video 🤜🤛
NC native here and one flake of snow in the sky we all freak out. The problem is that even if it's snowing it's not unusual for our roads to still be above freezing. It all just instantly becomes black ice. And then everybody slips and slides
Ya and when temps drop to below freezing it affects every thing and everyone!!!
It's interesting, where I live in the United Kingdom, winters have been getting milder over the past 20 years, but elsewhere in Europe it's been getting worse.
Also, since most phones these days don't have removable batteries, I'd suggest people keep a powerbank in their car.
Really the 'winter period' has just shifted to feb/march, for us in south UK at least.. We are lucky to be a small island, nicely covered by the jet stream..Reporters love to say 'UK suffers in -26 Deg C' when it is only that part that is 150km north of Edinburgh in Scotland!! the scots are used to it..
What about the recent floods in the UK, is that common?
@@teethompson7756 a lot is caused by bad water management (I mean in fields, runoff to rivers..) then building on 'flood plains' :O and a large amount of flooding is meting snow...
In coastal areas, high winds and high tides do not help!!
@@bobm4378 brits are lucky asf never get too cold or too hot meanwhile its near 0f in Dallas Texas right now when last summer it was above 110f
@@stereoscopicx5083 110F = about 40F !! :O But it depends on humidity - it is regularly that temp in Egypt, but due to the dryness, it not really noticed..
I think the hottest UK is 30C, but it is the sweating due to high humidity that is awful.. 0F is -20C , it gets that cold in the far north of the UK.
The rest of the year in south england it is normally 0 to 12C, but we are not 'lucky' :( unless it is around 23C in summer..
I’m living in Texas and I just want to say. why do none of the stores here sell road salt. back in maryland you could get bags off salt the same size as bags of dirt for less.
Maryland is a bubble you don’t realize until you leave lol
Two years ago I moved to Western Maryland. I grew up in the Baltimore region, I remember winters being a lot harsher. I'm in the Maryland mountains now, and I think we've only gotten one decent snowstorm a year since I moved here. We're not getting enough freezing days to kill off the bugs. My neighbors are telling me how much milder winters are from years past.
yup, the mid atlantic has had less and less snow while the west has been getting more and more.
I’m watching this while it is snowing now.
Where I live is under severe winter storm warning right now. Even the UPS hub in our town won't be operating tonight!
It's only some parts that have winters getting worse. Because the warming alters the climate. Overall the temperature is warmer but the extremes are more extreme. For example, you won't get snow a place you usually get snow, but suddenly the place you least expect snow would get it. This shows global warming has altered the climate.
Sounds breathtaking
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@Andy The Informer If he's not a scientist that agrees with most scientists I don't want to listen to him
This reminds me of US congress members holding up snow and claiming that global warming is a hoax.
it's just an attempt to raise electric rates
@@iair-conditiontheoutsideai3076 its not an attempt if I think its hot as fuck in my house. It's a successful attempt.
@@iair-conditiontheoutsideai3076 Small thinking.
@@ironwoodnf9128🤔
@Andy The Informer yes they pay scientists to say it is getting warmer so they can raise electric rates and do whatever the f*** they want. People think the world is heating up when the winners are getting colder explain that
Driving in snow can be either fun or terrifying. I'm from Boston and I like to slide and drift but I've had scary situations too. Southern states may not be salted, sanded or even plowed, so the roads can be far more dangerous with even small amounts of snow. My number one advice is buy all season tires for your car. This is mandatory. You could be the best driver in the world and Summer tires will still get you killed in bad conditions. Number two: practice sliding in a big parking lot if you can. Stay far away from the poles and other cars. When you lose traction stay off both pedals and straighten out. Then use gas or brakes lightly so you don't lose traction again. Slamming brakes will always make a slide worse. Keep your front tires pointed in the direction you want to go. Be willing to hit a snowbank or grass instead of a person or another car. Just don't hit a tree. Trees will kill you because they're anchored in place by their roots.
So true. Now it’s getting that VERY BASIC SNOW DRIVING Education into stupid, stupid minds. -(
Reminds me of when I heard there was snow in another state in Australia and I didn’t really think much of it because, it’s just another state, got to work and the truck drivers that supplied the distribution centre were refusing to work because they needed to go through those snowy areas and it wasn’t safe for them. The truck company was trying to reroute them but if anything the alternatives to the snow could be even worse because then you got black ice, so the truck drivers didn’t want to touch that either.
Basically, yeah weird weather people aren’t used too or prepared for can really throw a spanner in the works and remind you how connected things are.
There is also a new rail way being built to combat the increase in online orders and get the increasing flood of post trucks off the road but as much as a new rail of any sort being built in Australia is amazing, you sort of wonder, is it built with weird weather and potential extreme heat and cold in mind. Then again the trucks weren’t exactly coping well with climate change either.
How can my house be on fire if it's still cold inside my freezer?
OMG yes. This! May I quote you?
Totally haha ;)
Good analogy, some idiots who don't know anything about global warming will always say it's not true. Until it's summer and they stay quiet, then winter comes again and they say global warming is fake again.
This is one of the most senseless comments I have seen
@@iair-conditiontheoutsideai3076 Feel called out? Or were you going to post the same but unironically?
Who doesn't like snow? Really? Truck drivers, for one.
or anyone who has to commute. Except I liked it when I used to deliver pizzas because the tips were phat
I drive b train semi in Canada and still love the snow. I often run on the coquihalla (north Americas most dangerous mountain highway)
Its all about following protocols depending on the conditions, big snow storms don't stop trucks, just chain up and drive accordingly.
Lol exactly i hate it..... one of the reasons i stopped trucking besides shitty companies.
Roofers!
@@t.1000. I can't stand chains ⛓️ because my pinky gets cold putting them on
Growing up in Northeast Nebraska, the late 60's through late 80's. We always had two foot of snow from Thanksgiving to spring. A snow storm every week. Now only have one or two storms a year, and they are mild storms. People freak out when six inches fall and 3 days later it all melted.
I Love weather news/shows!!!! ❤️
This was a good one. Thanks!
My heart goes out to the homeless men. Saddening.
Fuck capitalism.
We need homes for all. We need to house people and ban power shutouts during freezing weather
I worked as a receptionist at a homeless shelter.
Most homeless people are homeless because of mental disabilities.
Fix that a healthier society with less stress and people become less mentally ill and therefore homeless.
Plus we all need to raise the bar and be better parents, neighbours etc...leed by example and make this a better place and less people will be homeless.
The system is fucked up. That needs fixing first
You don't care about homeless women?
@@suzanw9314 this. This so much this. And it's not as "socialism" as everyone thinks. ...
It's just caring for those who need it.
It's so hard to have empathy these past few years.
May be safe and fully blessed.
Higher temperatures also increase water evaporation which increases humidity in the atmosphere causing increased rainfall in tropical reagions and maybe snowfall in colder climates.
Yes, yes yes nailed it
@Andy The Informer Seriously? I live in Brazil and temperatures are increasing and precipitation is increasing. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas. Climate change is real and I don't need any mainstream media science to see it happening.
@Andy The Informer that's disproven bs your spilling their,
@Andy The Informer in fact, the so called mainstream media just cite academic research, in short fashion so idiots like you can understand!
@@dementiasorrow he's just stupid
I liked this particular video because the information is good. I hope that anyone who watched this program takes future precautions. Hypothermia messes with your thinking process, and if you or your friends are caught in an extreme whether situation, I hope that you have prepared for such an event.
Great timing for an ad that shows someone going somewhere after the man says “...to not go someplace.” 8:30
This is why we should always use “climate change” instead of “global warming”- the latter just leads to too many bad faith arguments
(Of course, it’s extremely nearsighted to argue that everything’s fine because it’s snowing in Minnesota when California hasn’t had adequate rainfall for 25 years)
yea we should be preparing to adapt to the changing climate not "fixing" it
@@hotaru3336 why not both?
@@hotaru3336 we can do both, but only if people make big changes in their lives. I have no faith in people, so it won’t get fixed. It’ll get worse and then years from now corporations will take advantage as they always have and probably make us pay to breathe... lol
In February 2017, the Oroville reservoir which had been very low, filled up to capacity and the emergency overflow was eroding, so they had to let out 100,000 cubic feet of water per second out of their emergency spillway, which also eroded to keep the dam intact, so your comment about California not having adequate rainfall for 25 years is totally false.
@@robertheitner1534 oh wow, a reservar was too full *once*, so I guess all those years of drought were just our imagination. Also the Sonora is not desert because it has flash floods!
I think snow days off of school died of COVID. All teachers have Zoom accounts now.
So even when kids go back to school, will snow days just be distance learning days?
Unless there's a blackout or no internet because of snow. But these problems are solvable too.
Our kids have had snow days this winter (2021), even though they could have done online. Last week we had more snow than they had seen in 9 years. DH still had to work online though. ;)
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@Leah Lewis I am so sorry. We watched on the news. :(
Party pooper. 😏
they can't tell me if it is going to rain tomorrow or not but they CLAIM that they can predict what the climate will do in 50 years.
We’re going through a “GRAND SOLAR MINIMUM “
Thank you
2018 to 2030
And a complete magnetic pole reversal... Gonna be a fun ride
@@DrunkenJinger
Exactly! Funny how they didn’t include that information.
@@darktruth8013 it's all about having the narrative fit the science instead of science dictating the narrative like it supposed to do. smdh
@@DrunkenJinger
Yep 👍 I’m SMDH too!
When youre from Minnesota and you see folks in the southern states complain about the cold weather...
Supposed to be 39 today!!
Lol! That negative 17 every night for a week got old quick, right? Hi from Minneapolis :-D
You do know southern states rarely get cold weather or snow?
@@chefpepe283 im aware of that. But at the same time we get that every year and we don't complain.
@@Zoovfam Yeah because cities like yours are prepared and built for cold weather. You think southern states are like that?Everything stops to a halt when they get only 10cm snow. A week ago or two 4 million Texans lost power to their home and it left 100 dead.
Does a warming global average temp also increase precipitation? Two factors I'm thinking of: Warm air can hold a lot more moisture, and warmer air increases evaporation rates in the ocean. I could see how a humid mass of air from the ocean hitting part of the polar vortex creates an incredible amount of snow.
Warm air will hold more moisture yes--that's if proximal to a water body-say the ocean or Great Lakes. But the subtropics are hot & dry & feature the highest temps more so than the tropics. These belts are at 30 deg. latitude. Why? Reason is dew point & temp work in opposite directions. The higher the dew point goes, the more of a cap it will keep on temp. When dew points are low, the incline in temp is tremendous. Now in terms of heat stress, I'd prefer the desert because sweat evaporates readily from one's skin. The tropics coupled with high humidity are more of a heat stress because the sweat cannot readily evaporate.
Well, two years later, South Florida would probably say that it's a good possibility.
Super Hurricanes and Super Tornadoes are coming 2024
Something important that wasn't mentioned. If you and your car are stuck in snow, make sure you keep the tailpipe cleared while your car is running. It's a good idea to keep one of your windows cracked open a bit to keep fresh air coming in.
My sister-in-law was stuck there on the Perimeter (Atlanta) for 7 hours. She walked home because it was quicker. She walked to her car the next day. It was still stuck in the same place 7 hours later.
snow storms in texas meanwhile i live in toronto, canada and we just had our first storm in february. we used to be covered in snow in november when i was a kid.
It was so cold my words froze as I spoke them! We’ll probably have to wait for spring to hear what I said!!
I live in michigan and our winters used to be a lot of snow. The winters are not the same here. A lot less snow . It's warm where it used to be cold and cold where it used to be warm. We are surely doing something to the weather. I'm 59 so I have personally experienced the changes. I also remember my science teacher telling us this was going to happen to our weather. Anyone my age must know .
I had family in Cassopolis growing up and they were farming back in the 70's. My Grandparents told us about the delicate balance of our climate.
Pestilence will be likely soon, I fear.
It's also smart to carry an inside-safe propane tent heater and spare propane containers incase you become trapped in your car and it runs out of gas .(see buffalo newyork Dec/22). But make sure you understand the fire danger of these as well as cracking windows to prevent improper ventilation and death.
The quality of your videos have gone up a lot, really informative and entertaining!
I especially appreciate the metric conversions for measurements as in not from the US and imperial is really hard to understand :D
Metric 💕
I AM from the US and still think imperial is hard (read, stupid).
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Watching from Texas as we are digging out from unprecedented winter storm. This is a great video. Our folks here simply were not prepared,.. and many are paying the price.
Next year or in the next five years, what happened to Texas might happen to Florida, if the climate keeps changing.
@@gabrielferrer3205 lol florida has gotten snow chief...... they had a freeze that almost killed their orange juice production when I was younger
It's not unprecedented. Scientists have been warning about this for years.
@@gabrielferrer3205 it snowed in Miami in 1977 .
A very simple answer. As the air warms up it absorbs more moisture, same for the atmosphere, and thus you will have more snow in the winter.
ALGORE'S GLO-BULL WARMING is the answer. and how many scientific, physical science and engineering degrees does ALGORE have ? he is a politician and therefore A LIAR!
So why aren’t there snowstorms in the Bahamas?
@@darko714 GLO-BULL WARMING! ask ALGORE in his 20,000 square foot mansion with a CARBON FOOT PRINT of 30,000,000 people as he flies around the world emitting HOT AIR in his PRIVATE JET and a GAS GUZZLING LIMOUSINE.
Amazing amount of information! My question would be: W about the South pole interaction?
My grandad has been keeping weather records daily since 1963; rainfall, midday temp, high temp and, more recently with electronics, low temp. I recently took his records and used a crude metric (number of days with snowfall in an winter season) to gauge snowfall trends in my area (NW england, UK). Can confirm that i found a steady decrease in number of snow days and a shortening of the snow season up to about 2010. Then it goes up a little, but in a shorter season - shorter but more extreme winters than previous. So far in winter of 2020-2021 we've had 13 days of snow, not seen since 1978, and we can get snow until march so it could well be a record breaker (for my town 😅). I'm curious to see how this changes over time.
Edit: for context and climate change deniers. The main issue with my data is that a snow day doesn't really measure the weather. It could snow 6 inches deep and get counted as 1 snow day, or have a sleet shower and get counted as 1 snow day. Anecdotally i can say that the recorded inches of snow in his records appears to decline over the decades, but many days the depth of snow or equivalent rain depth were not recorded, so i couldn't use that. As an example, this year, the now 15 snow days have resulted in no more than 2 inches of snow cover at any moment. In the 60s to 80s we got deep snow and one year had the post delivered through the upstairs window. So snow days is intruiging, but not the whole story. I'd also be interested to look at his temperature records. Monthly averages etc for the period.
We've been living southern UK for 12 years, moved from south east Africa. I'm definitely not looking forward to the day that the jet stream moves south of England!
In 2018 the Northern half of the uk got snow in April 1st.
Congratulations on relying on actual data and not hyperbole to advance your argument. Climate is cyclical, but chaotic. We've gone through decades of warming; the trend now appears to be for cooling. But will this be enough to accurately predict what's coming next? No.
@@fredrahm5495 i think the problem is that we've broken the system. While usually it is cyclical, all these more extreme winters at temperate latitudes are what global warming produces. The effects regionally don't always trend with the overall picture globally which is why we have people denying the reality of climate change.
The fact that sea level, temperature and co2 as global measurements are constantly exceeding our worse predictions is enough to validate the underlying premises. The fact that we can now predict regiinal deviations away from that global average is simply further testament to ithe models, not a basis for saying things are cyclical.
@Andy The Informer you gotta be kidding. That's all well known to be conspiracy nonsense
Search "potholer54 Are we headed for a grand solar minimum" you have to understand the science to know how ridiculous those claims are wrt climate change.
WOW! I love this channel. It's fun you're in Atlanta as I was going to mention our SNOWPOCALYPSE!!! I heard some horror stories, but I was totally good for that. My and the cat had everything ready as I had seen the weather coming. I tried telling folks, but they were all "Nah, it's cool right?"
Thanks for this video, I can share/link this whenever anyone says why does snow even happen anymore. Here in Georgia, we've had a pretty cold, but dry winter. I think it was two? three? years ago I started calling winter our "Monsoon season." We just had pretty warm days (for winter) and just a metric ton of rain. I have a hypothesis it's because of our friends El Nino and La Nina.
The carbon footprint of the mic ruclips.net/video/oMozyspFuBM/видео.html numbers still underestimated...
You forgot 3 of the most important that you should have in your winter survival kit
1. Candles and matches/lighter
2. A jacket or hoodie or a sweeter
3. Kitty litter (AND ND MORE THAN ONE BAG OF IT) or sand.... has a double benefit if you place them over the rear wheel wells it adds weight for tracion and it adds grip if you need it
I watched this a week before the snow storm in Texas
Don't know where PBS keeps finding great presenters and hosts, but keep it up!
Omg I just realized you posted this on February 1st, before Texas this past week.
I live in northern Minnesota, where we used to have some of the coldest weather because of the lake effect. -40F before windchill wasn't unusual. In the 90s, there was always snow on the ground before Halloween and it would stick around into May, and it even snowed in June once. Last year, 2020, we didn't see a flake of snow until December and it melted away in March.
Same is happening in Michigan. In the early 2000s we had to shovel trenches in our backyard for our Shiba Inu to go to the bathroom. Now there's not even enough snow to support snow removal jobs.
Okay. That is a very short time to keep records. If warmer air holds more moisture does that equate to more rain? If it does where will it rain? Obviously we done know.
Texas here as well...
This is why it pays to be prepared and have at the very least the minimum!
If you fail to prepare, you are planning to fail and you have no one to blame but yourself if you are not prepped!
I remember going to city council meetings in 2007 and listening to the true believers on the council happily announcing how we no longer needed road salt. 2007-8 was the coldest winter in several years and none of their political careers survived
It's affecting the southern continent, too; my folks in Patagonia got the first snow they ever saw in Neuquén as spring begun there (fall here in the US.)
I thought it was common for Patagonia to have snow
No in Patagonia its a summer time and the fall is about to begin.
@@barackobama9552 Patagonia they have snow but not now because its summer outhere.
@@Ahuntsicspotter Yes, but they said it snowed in early spring, which seems pretty normal to me
@@barackobama9552 In april 2018 we got a freezing rain.
Since Buffalo's blizzard, the temperature has been above average with lots of rain. The last few winters in Western New York have been much warmer than normal.
It was a very mild Winter, in Northern Illinois. For the second year in a row, I didn't have to use my snow blower to clear off a foot of snow. I only had two to three inches, at most, at a time (easy to clear off with a snow shovel)
I can remember when Winter meant that there were 10 days when we would get a foot of snow. This year, we've had three days in mid May where at was 90 degrees. I can live with that.
Agreed. I'll take warmer and hopefully drier winters. We have real winters in the northern Midwest of the United States and blizzards suck.
Currently, in Eastern Canada: We are having one of the if not THE mildest winter EVER! The temperatures, which had been warmer and warmer every year this decade, are very tolerable and the amount of snow fall has been lesser as it often falls as rain instead. Nothing is normal about this and it's gonna get worse.
Hello from Western Canada. Pretty much identical here as well.
Western Europe is much the same. Where I grew up in France we used to have a solid month of persistent snow and sub-zero temperatures every winter. Nowadays, snowfalls last for a couple days at most and melt very quickly because the temperature barely ever dips under 0 anymore.
And what about the summers ? Droughts that get worse every year. They used to be freak events. Now they are an expected occurrence, and they get worse every year. There are big holes in the forests because some tree species are dying en masse. It pains me to see the land of my childhood bear such scars...
I’m in eastern Ontario right now and it’s cold as ever in the valley. Very jealous 😭
That footage of the old homeless man down on his knees in the snow holding the sign as people are working like he’s not even there is so heartbreakingly poignant that I just cried for a good 10 minutes. If I’m honest, I’m still choking back tears as I type this. The humanitarian catastrophe that’s unfolding in the US as a result of the pandemic needs to be in the spotlight, too.
Oh this was normal before the pandemic in murica.
You have a good heart. God bless you.
Just as bad in Canada.
I'm afraid that efforts to fight climate change will, because of their economy-slowing effects, compound that humanitarian catastrophe.
Love this series but I need to make a correction. You stated that “extreme cold is by far, the leading cause of weather related deaths in the US.” In fact, it is extreme heat that is the biggest killer. According to NOAA, over the 30 year period 1988-2017, NOAA classified an average of 134 deaths per year as being heat related, and just 30 per year as cold related- a more than a factor of four difference.
702 frozen Texans cannot be wrong. Did those frozen dead Texans skew the statistics?
Winters in the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s even in early 60’s had much more snow. The Great Lakes had unbelievably worse winters at the turn of the century. Read diaries and journals of settlers who had to tunnel from their homes to a barn as the snow was higher than windows and doors.
In my own lifetime I have seen common snow banks higher than a person throughout winter and in later years ski resorts in the same area closed due to lack of snow. In the late 40’s early 50’s we were coming out of a mini ice age. Weather patterns change. Egypt used to be a swamp. However, glaciers are melting faster since cell phones.
TL;DR: more snow does not equal more cold.
Enjoy your 2 inches of snow in Atlanta and be thankful you're not in the western Pacific where our islands are slowly disappearing due to rising sea levels. Plus, we're now seeing typhoons with 200mph winds as the new normal.
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That because of all the political hot air in that area!!
Maybe move?
@@steverayney4912 Haha, no shortage of that around those parts, they make even Vancouver, BC look almost sane, and that is saying something.
Um, get this, continent subsides at a set rate,cand rises in others, common knowledge in geography/geology world, it has to be tracked due to gps system accuracy, but you go with that I guess, even though sea levels are local phenomena based on basin depth changes, tidal influences, continent subsidence, and more, the science isn't really looked at with the blanket statement, sea level rise. Yup.
Was here for the 2014 ice storm in atlanta. Craziest day of my life. Walked miles in the night trying to get home. Got saved by a dude in f150. Was crazy as hell man
Me living in tropic.
The rain season shifted. In the 80s n 90s, rainy season was usually around december. Now it shifted to feb-march.
Also, shorter rainy days with more extreme rain. Extreme rain also happen more often, albeit with shorter period.
Also, when its hot, well....its hotter than what I remembered in then 80s n 90s.
Just an FYI, the 2014 Icepocalypse in Atlanta brought more than 2.6 inches of snow. It also brought 1" of solid ice on all of the roadways, especially side streets. I know, because I couldn't get out of my hilly neighborhood, my sister couldn't get into our neighborhood and there were many many cars trapped in and outside of our neighborhood.
So learn how to deal with Snow! Good luck 🇨🇦
@@laurie113 Haha! There is no amount of snow you can get used to when you live in an area with steep hills. Also, as the name implies, it was called Icepicalypse for a reason. 1 or more inches of solid ice will keep everyone from getting anywhere, hills or not.
Paying more taxes to the Government won't change the weather
Scary times, indeed.
Be Prepared
Here in southeast NC spring started 2/15 I was mowing grass before the end of February.
8:16 "a spare cell phone battery"..
Well, you'll also need a heat gun, some plectrums, maybe a few small screwdrivers, some glue, tweezers, suction cup, and a power outlet for the glue gun, which if you have, you can just use to charge your old battery anyway.
Or a portable battery pack to charge your phone
@@peterdang9475 Of course, but then I wouldn't have been able to make that scrappy comment above..
I don't get it. Why would you need any of those tools to change a cell phone battery? You just take off the back, take out the depleted battery and put in the charged one. It takes 0 tools. Well, maybe something thin to help pry off the back, though your own nails should be enough usually.
@@davidbodor1762 It depends on the model of phone. Old phones you could just pop off the back, but most modern phones have the back glued on.
climate vs weather debate I have been having with people.
This is quite good... I've been following the climate for 40 years or more, since I was a kid.... and this is easily explained!
Thanks, this video made me feel much better about winter during global warming,
Several ice ages in the last million years with mini ice ages in between. They last few thousand years of warm climate have been an anomaly. We are just experiencing the cyclical nature of this planet.
I know right. People have gotten so dumb they don't realize earth has cycles beyond what humans have witnessed.
@@mattg7952 you do realize we can tell historical cycles from ice and geology. We also can tell that this isn't standard cycling it's been dramatically accelerated and changed.
@꧁༺ƈօռȶɛ༻꧂ dude they already are telling us about massive flooding and displacement of people coming in the next 50 years. You think they wouldn't tell us of a different kind of disaster?
@꧁༺ƈօռȶɛ༻꧂ too many moving parts man. There's tons of well equipped amateur astronomers out there. They might notice much later than large observatories but there's still hundreds of thousands of eyes on the sky every night.
Blocking the Sun for two weeks straight. Geoengineering
Clouds???
Big surprise, the largest greenhouse gas by volume is water vapor......thus “clouds”.
Please give us a update midway through this winter cheers
I live in Michigan. In the early 2000s we had to dig trenches through the snow for our Shiba Inu to go outside. Now there's not even enough snow to be employed as a snow plow driver in the winter. Not even enough snow to build a snow fort. Still gets cold though.
The winters up here in Canada, we're noticing insane fluxes of extreme cold to mild temps back and forth during the winter seasons. The summers there is a lot of rain and very extreme hot days. Last year we had some wicked thunderstorms as well, I'm just curious what this year is like since we got some -50°C temps.
its not 100 today in south carolina
Ford driver: take your foot off the break.
Thank you for the video
I live in the American Southeast, and our winters rarely have snow now. We once received a few feet of snow a year where I live, now we're lucky to get a dusting.