I'm from Aberdeen , and yea it gets colder than a well diggers big toe............Lowest i have seen was -44 degrees below zero....And that day the wind was around 35 mph....so what it feels like is -91 below zero on the skin !!!!!!!!!!!!
Chicago. One time it was -29 F°, windchill -78 F°. I walked about 4 houses to my friend's house, just so I could say I was outside on the coldest day I ever knew of in that area.
I grew up in southern Minnesota and you get used to low temperatures. You wear more and warmer clothing, your house is better insulated, you keep your car in a garage with an engine block heater. The only thing that gets old is the length of winters. But “snow days” when school is closed because of storms are great! So is ice skating, sledding, skiing etc.
I lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the last 13 years. Family convinced me to move back to New Mexico in the last few months. The thing about cold is you can always add more layers. Heat, on the other hand, you can only strip so far before you get arrested! Many will not believe me, but I miss the cold and snow. There is a silence you get after a heavy snow that is so beautiful. You can stand outside, even in a major metropolitan area and hear nothing moving. I love this silence. Also, the undisturbed snow that shows no footprints or tire tracks is also beautiful.
I miss that so much about the winters here in Portland OR! That deep, profound silence that follows a heavy snow fall is one of my favorite things on earth, and I also love the pink/blue color scheme of winter sunlight and shadow on snow. It snows so very rarely here, and then usually only a little.
There is NOTHING like the absolute beauty of snow-blanketed silence. It's just...it feels like ALL the sharp edges of every sound have been filed off by the soft flakes. I love it.
I lived in Alaska, about 100 miles away from Fairbanks, which averages 5 degrees warmer than where I was. I've seen it so cold that trees literally explode as their sap expands from freezing and the trees can't adapt quickly enough. I've seen it so cold that tires shattered. The rivers and lakes have as much as 15 feet of ice on them. It's beautiful and everything is extremely still while trying to conserve energy. We cancelled school at -50F as the diesel would freeze in the school buses, and we wouldn't have outdoor ice hockey practice if it was -30F.
What's funny is that our 32°F and your 0°C are a tolerable cold temperature for most of the U.S. It is cold but not bone chilling cold. I like how Geography King explains fahrenheit. It is the temperature of how you feel on a scale of 0 to 100. 50°F is a mild, medium feeling temperature, not too hot, not too cold. 100°F is really hot. 0°F is really cold. Then when you go negative 0, it is dangerously cold and over 100 like 101°, 102° is dangerously hot. Both extremes are really uncomfortable. Fahrenheit is a really easy scale if you think about it.
It's a very human scale -- literally! The idea of the scale was that 100 degrees should be the living human body temperature, and 0 degrees the temperature at which a human body would freeze. (Given the poor precision of the instruments available back when the scale was first designed, neither number is quite correct, but that was the idea behind it.) I agree that it's a great scale for weather in particular, as it's at just the right level of granularity to represent how temperatures feel to us as human beings. Celsius is a better scale for nearly everything else, but for weather? Fahrenheit really does such a fantastic job!
Fahrenheit is a great system for temp. measurement. The entire American system of weights and measurements makes so much more sense than the commie metric system. The meter, for example, is based on two lines scratched on top of a bar in some joint in Paris, France called the Platinum Iridium bar. With a name like that you can bet the place is gay as hell. 🤠
@@proudwhitesettler7746We're not trying to deride the metric system. There is no need to be a radical ranter. Its the same as celsius, better for most everything. Else it wouldnt be the standard for science.
I am from Duluth, Minnesota. It is a beautiful place right on the lake. It is all on a hill and full of parks, rivers, and forests in the middle of the city. It also has beautiful architecture and sprawling gilded age mansions. Summer is wonderful and winter is very active with outdoor skating and hockey, alpine and nordic skiing, and people genuinely enjoying winter activities. It can get cold, but we dress for it!
I’d have to say Duluth is the heart of Minnesota. We’re from the Cities but our family is from the Cloquet area. The blue skies in January by the lake are the best.
I love to watch the web cam showing the Great Lakes ships coming into the harbor at Duluth. What gets me, even as a person living in cold Iowa and Wisconsin, is that no matter what the weather, there are people on the walkway, watching the ships come in. A hardy folk!
My ex-wife was born in Superior. For a guy raised in SoCal, well Dairyland WI, was sure a weather and culture shock! Also blew my mind was the extreme temperature changes between Lake Superior to the 1st hill heading south. Like -5 by the lake to -40 just 5 miles away!
I’m so sorry you have awful weather!! I wouldn’t be able to do it…I freeze when it gets below 65. I like 100 degree days better than super cold days. I’m in Texas, and the temps during snowmageddon about killed me a few years ago!!
I'm in SW Wisconsin, right on the edge of "Blizzard Alley"and I have a brother who lives in Fargo, ND. We got a dusting of snow and it's 21F out. This video didn't take into account "wind chill". Wind chill can make the temp feel 5 to 15 degrees colder depending on the wind speed.
My mom was born in 1931 in Duluth, Minnesota, to a first-generation Swedish family. She loved all the great outdoor experiences, especially skiing, and didn't mind the temperature. It was the Great Depression of 1929-1939 that was tough.
I don't live there anymore, but I'm a member of a native American tribe in North Dakota. That -40 degrees is worse because of the wind chill. I remember when we had to go bury my grandpa, and my cousin called to say "Make sure you bring a warm coat. It's -50 at the fargo airport." I live in New Mexico now. They don't sell coats here for that weather lol. It was COLD.
I remember having to buy coats when I went back home. I remember flying into the Omaha airport and it was -9 degrees. Here I am coming from Florida having given away all my winter clothes many years before. I had to buy shoes too because my sandals weren't going to cut it. LOL I am also a registered member of a tribe... Sicangu Lakota from South Dakota. Aho cousin!
You need to understand that the northern states often have 100 degree temperatures in the summer. The spring and fall can be very comfortable. The average includes the coldest days which skews the temperatures. It is not uncommon for many days above 80 degrees from June through August. The only summer issue is severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes.
It seems as if some of these RUclipsrs not from America don’t understand SEASONS. It’s not just cold or hot on any random day. We have hot to warm temps daily for three months during the summer months,then there is Spring for several months then there is Winter for a few months. I’m with you guys I from Pittsburgh,Pa. We definitely have extremely cold winters and hot summers. For instance this summer was torture it was hot almost every day during the summer. Oct and November were unseasonably warmer than usual. We all I think now are in the middle of a freeze in many states in America and technically it’s not winter yet.
I looked up the average temperature for my city (about 48), but there is usually a day or two that we break 100. It's just once winter sets in we generally stay around freezing (or below freezing) for weeks on end. We've also had winter day time lows fall below 0.
@@mbdg6810 It's not the norm? Sure, but it does happen often enough to stick in the mind. If you look at "record temps (dot) in" and pick a northern location you can see a list going back to the late 1800's (at least in my area). Top 10 highest temps for my area in MI all exceed 103. Eight of those 10 records were set in the 1930's (1934 & 36). So it isn't really getting hotter, it's just people talk about it more now.
I'm from MN, and yeah it gets that cold. The thing about this list is that it isn't taking wind chill into account. The town I live in had a record low of -52F but the wind chill was down to -65F.
I grew up in northern Minnesota on the Canadian border. Generally during the winters at that time, we would have about 3 weeks straight in January and/or February where the temperature would not rise above 0°F (-18°C). On the coldest days during these cold spells, the low temp would be below -40°F (-40°C) and the high temperature for the day would not exceed -20°F (-29°C).
Now you have to do which states get the hottest... And which get the most "humidiy" hot Chicago ..again cuz its right on lake Michigan...wind coming in off the great lakes is very strong and very cold....I am halfway in-between St Cloud & MPLS in Minnesota...
Its currently 27F (-4C) where i live in Ohio, with a wind chill of 16F (-9C). Not at all unusual for this time of the year, and maybe its just me, but I don't consider this kind of weather to be super cold. On the flipside, I consider 90F (32C) to be very hot, and hate it when it gets that hot here, even if say, a Floridian would laugh at that kind of weather. It just goes to show how much people can get used to.
I'm from Nebraska originally, & a former Husker football player who is now a RUclipsr has been saying that he’s looking forward to seeing those “Southern Belles” from the SEC having to come up to play Big 10 schools for the CFP in December! I know OSU losing to Michigan for a 4th straight year is hard, but at least they're still (probably) going to make the CFP!
Grand Forks, North Dakota here!🥳The main reason why it's so cold here has a lot to due with geography and weather patterns. During the late Pleistocene, there was a enormous glacier that covered all of Canada and spread into parts of the U.S.. Because glaciers move and are astronomically heavy, it gouged a huge valley down the North Dakota, Minnesota borders. Then when it receded, the resulting meltwater created a huge lake, called Lake Agassiz (Ag-a-see). When this lake also receded, it left behind what is now call The Red River Valley. Since this area was scoured by the glacier, the land is very flat and has hardly any trees, and leaving it mostly prairie, with lots lush grasses, brush, and wildflowers. Due to natural weather patterns, in the winter, the northern polar vortex (a large, rotating air mass over the polar regions of the Earth), can have a strong, contained, circular shape, or a shape that can "weaken", causing the air mass to "spill" out of it's shape and flow down below the polar regions. Of course, this has a wildly varying effect on weather for the whole world, but let's stick to the topic at hand. This polar vortex pushes itself down into North Dakota and because Grand Forks is in a valley, the cold air literally settles into the low laying land because cold air sinks. Because of all these factors, winters are cold, windy, and of course harsh. As one commentor said, you also have to take into account the wind chill factor. For instance, a blizzard with a temperature of -35 C (-31 F)and with a wind speed of 35 kmh (21 mph) has a resulting wind chill factor is around -53 C! Luckily for us, these types of storms are few and far between, but it still gets cold! Be sure to stay warm out there this winter season!❤🔥
Not even mentioning Barrow, Alaska? A city that's 325 miles (523.037 KM) above the arctic circle? The sun set there 2 weeks ago, it won't rise again until Jan 22.
This did not include any city that has less than 75,000 people living in it. Yes, Barrow would crush this list as well as a bunch of other Alaska towns
Barrow is not on the list for two reasons: 1) The town changed its name back to Utqiagvik in 2016, and 2) Utqiagvik is a coastal town, which means both its Summer and Winter temperatures are mitigated by the ocean and are milder than they would be without the ocean effect. Utqiagvik's record low is -56°F (-48.9°C) and its record high is 79°F (26.1°C). The Interior towns and cities of Alaska, including Fairbanks and Delta Junction, have much more extreme temperature ranges.
@ dang. Where I come from originally in northern Minnesota has reached colder temperatures than Utqiagvik. I didn’t realize that it was a coastal town. Obviously it’s still much colder on average than any place in Minnesota or North Dakota.
The thing about living here in the winter is that if you have let’s say a week where the temperature never gets above 0 Fahrenheit, when it finally does “warm up” a bit to say 20 degrees it feels like heaven!! lol
Hello! as someone who has lived in North Dakota all their life, it's all about the mindset. When I was going through school, I was known as the shorts weather guy. Whenever it was in the double digit negatives (heck no matter the weather... except blizzards), I would wear shorts with my winter jacket. Some of these states could have coldest cities lists as well. Jamestown, Valley City, Minot, Watford City, And Dickinson are all cities in North Dakota that have record lows under 40 and similar average annual lows. I do have to say, it is nice for North Dakota to get some lime light on your videos. Thank you!
Sault Ste. Marie was my college town. Yeah, it's normally really cold and snowy. We used to joke that there were only two seasons: Winter and the Fourth of July. Like any other cold city, life doesn't stop just because it got cold. Obviously, there's a lot of stuff that can't be done in the winter months, but most businesses and activities continue throughout the year. We just add winter sports to the fun activities (Sledding, ice skating, skiing, etc...).
I have lived in Havre, Montana; Bismarck, North Dakota; and now in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It gets cold and in North Dakota really windy. Lots of people do winter activities and enjoy it. The cold only starts to hurt at -10f. There’s no amount of clothing that can prepare you for -50f.
Greetings from St. Paul/Minneapolis. Winters can be as crazy as it seems. Keep in mind that between summer heats of over 38°C and winter cold of -43°C, in °F we have an 150° temperature swing … and that doesn’t take in “feels like” temperatures based either on air temperature + wind speed (winter windchill) or humidity + air temperature (heat index) which can make that swing feel even worse. I can’t speak for others, but the spring/summer/fall in Minnesota are so beautiful that they make you forget how brutally cold it gets. In terms of snow, we’ve had dumps as much as 36” (.91M) of snow fall in less than 12 hours October 31, 1991. There are some who joke that the winters in Minnesota bring us closer together. For body warmth if for no other reason.
Living in Wyoming was hell during winter. There isn't as much snow as some other states, but the *wind* is ridiculous. I wasn't able to leave my townhouse due to the wind chill and snow piling up. It was -30F! The state essentially told us to hunker down because everything is closed and they aren't clearing the streets of snow for a few days. I was in Cheyenne for work so my soft self was crying for sunshine and warmth lol. I got a call from my landlord to drip the faucets so the pipes don't freeze and burst, I was gob smacked. The north is beautiful, but it's not for me 😂
If you grow up in a cold climate you adapt and know what you need to survive. It's also protecting your toes and fingers, but you do get used to it, but once under zero F you feel the pain.
Once it gets into those negative numbers it's all pretty much the same - it hurts to breathe and any exposed skin becomes instantly raw and chapped. If you break a sweat you have to go in immediately or the sweat will freeze and you could get seriously hurt.
I am in Minnesota, and we have a wide range of temperatures, there is 140 degree range throughout the year. Hot and humid in the summer, with high heat index and bitterly cold and windy in the winter, was deathly wind chills. I recall one winter, around new years, the temp rose 60 degree's and it was still below freezing, in a 30 hour period, from -30F to 30F, it felt like a heatwave.
I'm 40 miles away from #8 St. Cloud Minnesota, currently the actual air temp is 5, wind chill (what it feels like) -11. Embarrass Minnesota is the coldest place in the lower 48 states
Yep. Embarass sits down in a low area between some hills and all the coldest air sinks into the hole that the hills created. Average annual temperature of 36.4 degrees F, considerably colder than all but the coldest places in Alaska.
I'm from Michigan, but I grew up in a number of warmer regions while Dad was in the Navy. He retired when I was about 15 and we moved back to Michigan. Mom decided to take me up to Houghton in the Upper Peninsula where she had gone to college. It was late summer and so cold we had to stop at a store and get some sweaters. Everybody else was wearing t-shirts and shorts and we were shivering in the warmest sweaters we could find. Now I wouldn't find it so cold, but back then I thought anything below 50 was wintery.
1988 Great Falls Montana, minus 97 degrees F with the wind chill... I was laying under my buick at 6 am with a torch to thaw my trans fluid so I could get to work
@@sophiacromwell8017great falls and Edmonton both very windy and icy cold storms!! I got married in Citibank and had wedding night at Sheraton in Great Falls back in 1984 in November 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🤣🤣very bundled up😊 thanks Sophie, good memories triggered
My Tribe is from Sault Ste Marie Michigan. The Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. My family, many of them live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan still. Some of the coldest snowiest places on the earth are there. Lake effect snows batter the U.P. every winter.
You should check out Denver, Colorado! It’s not the coldest but it’s the most unpredictable! 100 F one day and 30 F the next with a foot of snow! It happened a year or two ago but still not that uncommon for a place like Denver.
Western Colorado gets just as wierd. I remember one Febuary day that started near -40 and got all the way up to the 50s, before dropping back down. The next day the roads were pure ice. Plus Colorado has 2 cities that have reached -60 twice, Maybell and Taylor Park.
I Just moved from grand forks ND. Winter was brutal cold and always windy. Im actually going to miss it. My first two januarys there the temperature never got above -10°f. Last year's winter was pretty mild and warm with temperatures around 10°f. The season long snow was beautiful and walking on lakes and rivers is really fun. summers were fairly mild. Although there were times the temperature got above 100°f
Here in WV our coldest recorded temp was -37° f (in 1917 ) and -31°f in 2022 , our highest recorded temperature was 112 ° f , and our heat is usually accompanied by humidity of 80% or higher . We have an annual average snowfall of 68 inches , although in the mountains where our ski resorts are snowfall amounts are around 150 inches .
8:34 Just because he didn't check the conversion for inch to meters, the snowfall total in St. Cloud, Minnesota (45 inches) is approximately 1.14 meters, while the snowfall total in Duluth, Minnesota (83.5 inches per year) is about 2.12 meters of snowfall per year. 16:08 Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (120.1 inches) is over 3 meters of snow per year! Both Duluth and Sault Ste. Marie are both located on the shores of Lake Superior, and the "Lake Effect" produces so much moisture in the air that it gets super snowy in these places more than others.
You might not be able to take the Nebraska heat and humidity during the summer. The Midwest is the bread basket because the cold weather gives the weather to kill off bugs while still giving heat and humidity after.
I'm from Nome, Alaska. I live in Fairbanks, Alaska and the coldest I've felt outside was -52°C/-63°F. There was NO wind, and windy days are not typical for Fairbanks. Nome is crazy windy, and snow drifts happen all the time in winter, though.
I lived in Fairbanks for about 10 years in the late 90s and 2000s. Our first winter there we saw -57, no wind. It was brutal but absolutely beautiful. I miss AK!
@@Matriarch50 : I currently live in the Mat-Su Valley, but I also experienced the coldest temperature I've ever experienced in Fairbanks during the late 1990s at -57°F (-49.4°C) when I was working for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. It was probably the same Winter you experienced. It has not been colder than -40°F (-40°C) in the Mat-Su Valley since the 1990s. All the extreme cold is north of the Alaska Range and south of the Brooks Range. It dropped to -68°F (-55.6°C) in Bettles, AK, this past January.
@@AlaskanGlitch The cold days I experienced was Jan or Feb 2017, so sadly not the same winter for my experience. It was also crazy cold Jan or Feb here in 2024, being lower than-45°F. Bettles is quite a few valleys away, same with Matanuska-Susitna Valley.
Fairbanks, Alaska gets as low as negative sixty degrees Fahrenheit nearly every winter. On rare windy winters, wind-chill factor has lowered it as much as negative eighty. Well, at least in the past 30 years I've been in Alaska. In my book, if you don't have icicles forming on your nose-hairs... it's not cold yet.
I'm in Michigan, around -5C or around like 20-25F here right now. Pretty warm for winter actually but it's just getting going. The snow is from the great lakes, look up lake effect snow if you want to see a crazy amount of cloud cover that can last for months.
I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan and about 100 miles from Sault Ste Marie. The temperature would be even colder but the Great Lakes moderate it tremendously. The price for that is a lot of snow. I think the winter keeps us from getting overpopulated, which is what I like.
Andre, I lived in Kalispell, Montana from 1972 to 1979 and it was cold and we had a lot of snow. We had what you call and engine block heater and you would plug that into electricity to help keep it warm so the car would start during those bitter cold days. My grandparents had a cabin on Flathead Lake which was beautiful and we would spend a lot of summers down there. I now live in Colorado and it gets cold below zero, around -20 degrees and we can have a lot of snow. In 1982 we had a major blizzard and my job closed the company down for a whole week because of that blizzard. I can't remember the exact total of snow but I want to say it was around 36 inches.
37 isn't bad in the winter if it isn't windy. I'd still go out to get the mail without putting my coat on. My "it's cold" cutoff in the winter is generally 25, though. I have actually enjoyed being out (dressed for the temperature) on a still 20 degree morning. It just felt so fresh outside, almost invigorating. Otherwise, when we have a cold snap, I do not like to go outside and at times, it does feel like you actually get hit by the wind.
Canadian here. In my experience you have 3 factors in winter 1. Wet cold...layers wont help, it sinks into your bones and after about 30 minutes your kidney and liver start hurting 2. Dry cold...layers will help but be careful, if you start sweating you will freeze, and will dry out the skin very fast and make it crack open 3. Wind chill ...add -50c to all temperatures... -35c feels like -85c (yes this part is an exaggeration but not by much)
Born and raised in Minnesota I'm about an hr drive from Fargo North Dakota. And it gets cold. There has been winters we have had -40°F and -20° windchill. Advised not to travel or go outside unless absolutely necessary! 😉
I’m from Minnesota, where, despite our reputation for harsh winters, most of us actually dislike the cold. People tend to stay here for the beautiful seasons, the strong sense of community, and opportunities in cities like Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Rochester. Sure, our winters can be stunning, but they’re brutally cold. The hassles of switching to winter tires, navigating icy roads, and dealing with traffic make the season more of a challenge than a charm. That said, at least we have snowball fights-spontaneous, fun, and inclusive. It’s a "sport" everyone can join, no matter who you are or where you're from.
I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Winter was fun! Some snow storms had enough wind blown snow that the snow would be as high as the second story of some buildings.. We used to jump off the second story porches into the drifts and then dig our way out!
I come originally from Louisville, Kentucky. It is currently 27 degrees Fahrenheit there right now. It's 48 here in Hawley, Texas. Now you know why I retired in Texas when my hitch with the Air Force was done. 😀
I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska off and on for 19 years. The coldest temp I ever saw was an unofficial -82. The ice fog was horrendous through it too. Keep in mind it gets up in the 70s and 80s in the summer.
It would make sense for North Dakota to be among the coldest US states (except for Alaska, which is much further north). This is because North Dakota is actually the location of the geograhpic center of the North American continent (near a town called Rugby, North Dakota). Places in the middle of a continent tend to have much more extreme temperatures than places on the coast because the ocean makes temperatures milder. Thus the hottest and coldest places are almost always in the middle of large land masses. Fargo, North Dakota, is at around 47 degrees North latitude, which is only as far north as the city of Nantes in France. Nantes has a much milder climate than Fargo due to being on the coast and because the weather pattern called the Jet Stream carries warm air to Europe and makes it milder than other parts of the world at the same latitude.
Winter is really that crazy and sometimes crazier. It's not uncommon for those places in Minnesota to stay below 0° F for all of January at least. You learn how to bundle up in layers. You learn cold safety. We also used lots of disposable hand and foot warmers. Kids are required to have snow suits, snow boots, gloves and hats for school and sometimes recess is indoors on super cold days.
I live in Minnesota and yes it gets really cold here. When we get into the minus degrees and have high winds it adds a wind chill factor, so the real temp outside feels many degrees lower then the reported temp on any exposed flesh. We always bundle up to stay warm and protected from both temp and wind chill.
When I was growing up, my grandparents lived just outside Sault Ste Marie, in Brimley. I never visited them in the winter - too cold! - but in the summer, it was lovely. Chicago gets a lot of wind, so it can feel cold (the "wind chill effect"), but the actual ambient temperature stays relatively warm, due to the city's proximity to Lake Michigan, which rarely freezes over.
I just looked that up as a matter of fact and according to Chicago's channel 9 it has never completely frozen over. Their records go back to the 1800's. The most it freezes is about 90%.
Yo Kalispell MT!! My hometown and state. Last year my daughter was born in Kalispell and it was -29°F. The windows were iced inside and out. The automatic doors to the hospital were literally frozen shut. It can definitely get cold. I lived in Fairbanks Alaska for some time too, working at a recycling yard. I remember 2017 I was working in -48°F, it was -62°F with windchill. Man I miss those days.
A cool possible video for you: University of North Dakota (UND) has a huge aviation program. It is located in Grand Forks one of the cities in this video. People come from all over the states to get educated as well as several other countries. Air China, All Nippon Airways, and Korean Air are from China, Japan, and South Korea respectively. These are some of their bigger contracts. I love your videos. They cover a fun range of topics, and it is nice seeing someone so positive about the USA from another country.
Andre, I was born & raised in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, and now I live in Minnesota. Yes, it's brutal cold, made worse when the wind blows or when the arctic winds come down from Canada. My brothers & I used to create caves in the huge snow drifts that we spent hours in. Personally speaking, when the temperature gets down to -20F or colder, it all feels the same to me. I used to work overnights at a restaurant as a waitress, and walked the mile or so to work every time. That's how I got frostbite on my legs! The temperature was around -41F and I didn't wear enough layers on my legs because I thought I was around -20F. The beauty of the area more than makes up for the horrible winters & occasional tornados in the summer.
I live in Williston, North Dakota. The bad part is the wind chill. We get a -60F wind chill at least once almost every year. Those are the days we all just decide it’s better to stay home… because the car probably won’t even start.
We also have at least one day every year where the ambient temperature is below -30. Btw, I love the content! But I really want to see you make biscuits and gravy and give it a go. It’ll kickstart a food adventure for you that you won’t regret!
I live between Fargo and Grand Forks North Dakota but on the Minnesota side. Has been between 10 and -10 last couple weeks already here. Winters are long and the wind in the Valley here is the worst part imo. To live here you need to embrace the weather. Ice fishing , snowmobiling are our go to. The the summer is still super nice so don't be scared away from a visit up north some day!
My mother was born in Bismark, North Dakota. Grandfather was a farmer. Years later (thankfully) he came out to California and loved it so much he move his family here and went to work painting Train Engines for Southern Pacific Railroad. Thank you, Grandpa. 🥶
I'm in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. We're in Hardiness Zone 6B but our town is in a tiny 7A bubble. The worst part of winter here is that the weather can be so inconsistent. You can go from mild, spring-like weather to intense, pain-inducing cold in such a short time, and then back again to mild. My cousin has visited her son in Minnesota often in winter. According to her, Minnesota can get colder temperature than we do here(SWO is mild compared to a lot of the rest of Canada) but it feels milder because Minnesota is drier and sunnier than here in winter. That's just a personal opinion but still valid.
Born and raised, Duluth, Minnesotan here. This list seems to be a little decieving and is going based off average annual tempurature for its ranking. While it is true that Duluth has a lower annual temp, that reason is due to the lake. Lake Superior holds a relativly constant tempurature of 40F (4.44C) which acts as a buffer for us to certain extent, keeping us cooler in the summer and actually a bit warmer in the winter. Yes, it does get extremely cold here at times but there are places that hit higher extremes like International Falls, Minnesota which has a record of -55F (-48.3C) or Embarrass, Mn which has the state record of -60F (-51.1C). But they also get a bit hotter on average in the summer which throws off the average data and doesnt show them accuratly as to how cold they get. In the winter people do spend most of their time indoors. Our homes are heavily insulated and our utilies mostly buried to withstand the tempurature. You definatly use the heat in your vehicle more than the A/C and usually will start your vehicle about 20-30 mins before you have to leave so it has a chance to get warm and defrost. Being prepared for the cold just becomes second nature after a while. Getting caught out in the elements when at the extremes is absolutly a death sentence in a short amount of time if you are not prepared. Heavy Winter attire is a must even for short exposures such as getting out of your vehicle to go into a store when we are at the extremes. You can throw pots of boiling water in the air and watch it freeze before it hits the ground (there are videos of people doing this). If you are outside with no jacket, winter attire, and no way to start a fire at the extremes that we see on average in a year (id say a -20F(-28.8C) - -30F(-34.4C) day is bound to happen atleast once a year) you would probably be dead in less than 30 mins esspecially if there was wind chill. However those extremes dont happen all the time and most days in the winter are still cold but with proper attire you can definatly enjoy outdoor activities during the cold months. Downhill Sking, Cross Country Sking, Sleding, Ice Fishing, Snowmobiling, Snow shoeing, Snow/Ice Sculptures, Sliegh Rides, Sled Dog racing just to start listing a few things that can only happen in a cold climate such as ours. Ice fishing in an Ice Castle (basically an insulated camper you park on top of the ice of a lake and fish through the floor) is something I think every fisherman should try atleast once in thier life. So yeah even though we get cold here we do make it work for us and take advange of the unique opportunities that it gives us for entertainment.
You do have people from these cities. My sister lives in St Cloud, and I went to college in Duluth . I live in Minnesota between Fargo and Duluth. A couple of years ago we had snow on the ground from early October to late April. Six months in a winter wonderland left me wondering. But I love it here. Its so beautiful.
Andre just a heads up for how you can easily convert F to C: subtract by 30, divide by 2. So 70F - 30 = 40/2 = 20C. It's not completely precise(70F = 21.1C) as the actual constants are 32 and 1.8 respectively, but dividing random numbers by 1.8 is difficult. So as long as you don't need to be precise, the -30, /2 formula is super easy and gets you to within about 1 degree of the actual temperature. For bonus points, just do the opposite to convert C to F. Multiply (C) by 2, then add 30🤓👍
Clarksville New Hampshire, my hometown gets down to about -40°f every winter up until 8 years ago where we started to struggle to reach -25°f during the coldest time of the year. As for your place down in Portugal, well 48°f above zero is considered shorts and T-shirt weather to us in Clarksville New Hampshire. The lowest temperature in Clarksville New Hampshire that I have personally ever lived through was -60°f. The wind-chill factor was -80.
Alaska actually has the record for coldest temperature: -80°F/-62°C. The -70 record at Rogers Pass MT is the coldest for the contiguous (or as you call it mainland) U.S.
I grew up very close to Grand Forks, but on the Minnesota side of the border. When I was in high school (secondary school), you were considered a nerd if you wore a hat. I was already a nerd, so I wore a hat in cold temperatures. One difference between Grand Forks and Duluth is that the latter stays cooler during the summer due to occasional winds from the cool (relative to nearby land) Lake Superior, but doesn't get quite as cold during winter. Sault Ste. Marie is at the other end of Lake Superior and because during winter the lake is warm compared to nearby land, it creates a supply of water vapor that regularly condenses when it reaches land, hence snow.
All I can say about winters in Michigan is we have 50 degrees F in January and -20F in February. One year our first snowfall was Christmas Eve, got 10-12 inches. By New Years, no snow and 50F temperatures. One winter, never got above 0F. It usually hung out around -15 to -30 F. When it got around 0, people were going out in short sleeves.
Our coldest areas are not our snowiest. To learn why (plus why we get most of the planet’s tornadoes and many other interesting elements of our weather) - you should react to “Climate in the US - Why’s It Like That?” By Geography King. I attended university in upstate New York (Colgate University) In my freshman year (1st year) we had 186 and 3/4s inches {over 474.3 cm} of snow due to lake effect snow. We would jump out of our 4th story dorm room window onto a snowbank instead of taking the stairs. We would put female classmates on our shoulders as we walked to our classes across campus so they could tell us which building we were near (so they could see over the snowbanks). No other year had quite so much snow but it always had plenty. As for cold, we definitely had nights with wind chills taking it to -30s and lower.
Colgate in Hamilton isn't even the coldest or snowiest part of the state. Buffalo, Syracuse, Tug Hill North of Rome, and Utica all get on average over 100 inches of snow a year. Hamilton averages around 80. However even that much is crazy for most people. One of my cousins from Virginia was working up here and couldn't believe it snowed in late October. Also yeah Lake effect snow is its own beast too. It's so wet heavy and sticks to everything. Great for snowmen though. I think the coldest I've been out in is -35F in Potsdam NY. Also Potsdam is where I encountered snow in the month of May. I learned my lesson on leaving all my warm clothes at home after Easter. Didn't make that mistake again.
@ indeed - my freshman year was the snowiest on record there just due to a combo of unique temps and wind direction. As you know, even 8-10 miles any direction you can be outside the lake effect band.
@@mikecarew8329 Lake effect can be really weird in its banding. I work about 10 miles west of where I live, and I might have a foot or more in my driveway, but only a few inches at work. For our non imperial unit friends a foot is roughly 30 cm, and an inch is roughly 2.5 cm.
Old saying in New England - it has to warm up to snow - wh is true you need moisture in the air. But your statement exvluding snowiest from coldest is incorrect. I lived for 5 yrs on the Canadian border in Vt's Northeast Kingdom. Never knew the town I was living in was the coldest in Vt ( -31 not unusual) AND it averages 9 ft of snow a year.
@@eshea3621 That not just a think in New England. In Central NY we will say the same thing. A few years back we had over a month of below 0 days in a row and we all got excited that it was snowing because it was like a heat wave. It had to warm up 20 - 30 to be able to snow.
Here in NJ the worst I've seen is 107 in the summer with a heat index of 118 and -15 in the winter with a windchill of -35. I'm going to be working on my snowblower and getting my window fan ready to go in to replace my portable AC. Back in 2012 we had a blizzard in November that dumped 18 plus inches of snow - 2 weeks after hurricane sandy came through. Took power out for 8 days. That's why I'll never fully rely on electrical. Always have a backup.
I'm in Eastern Washington State... The coldest I've experienced is -20°F... I'd much rather have the cold than the Tornadoes and Hurricanes other parts have...
I'm from Minnesota; I later lived in South Dakota for a few years, and St. Cloud MN for over a decade when I attended and graduated with my bachelor's degree from St. Cloud State University in 2017. Yes, it's freaking cold there in the winter. It is undisputably beautiful there, but what I don't miss though is shoveling snow, now that I live in south eastern Tennessee, moving here in June of 2020.
I was stationed at Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota and the coldest it got with the wind chill figured in was -60° F. I actually broke off part of my moustache and had to shave the other side to match. It's actually illegal to drive by a broken down car without checking on them because the population is so low, by the time another car passes they could freeze to death.
I am from Pierre South Dakota (Also lived in or around both of the bigger cities on the east and west side of the state) so come from the cold but also grew up in Las Vegas Nevada where summer time temps would hit 120 F. Current live in coastal South Texas where humidity brings the temperature index constantly 115 F+ in the summer. Keep putting out amazing videos, love seeing your views on life here in the U.S. as it fun to hear about how Europeans see things. Have a friend from Northern Norway that came to Texas for a visit and was blown away by all of our school buses because she had only seen them in movies.
I’m from Fargo, ND and I’ve lived or visited all these cities at least a few times. Yeah, it’s cold, but when you grow up here you can tolerate it well. I don’t really even wear a winter jacket until it’s around -20c. Until then a sweatshirt is just fine. If you come in the spring you will see girls sunbathing in bikinis when it’s -10c and snow all around them. Maybe we’re just built different.
I grew up in Minnesota and now live in Wisconsin about 40 miles from Minneapolis. It is cold here about half of the year and does get to -40 degrees sometimes in the winter. I wouldn't recommend you come here in the winter months but if you came came in the summer I think you would love the weather, the culture, the beauty and the lakes. The Duluth area is very beautiful.
For context, refrigerators are generally kept at 40 F; ready freezers (like the little freezer in the top of your refrigerator) generally aim for 0 F; and deep freeze (the kind you put frozen meat in if you want to keep it for months and months) is supposed to be -20 F. The remarkable thing about Fairbanks is that (counting suburbs) it has a population of over 70 thousand people, which is unusually large for a city in such a cold place. It's easy to find places that are colder than Fairbanks, but there are relatively few cities as _large_ as Fairbanks, that are that cold. (Yakutsk is maybe the best example. Arkhangelsk probably qualifies as well. Not sure if Yellowknife is large enough to compete with Fairbanks; it's more than cold enough.)
A lot of the cities on that list have around that, or more. Duluth,Mn = 87,000, Grand Forks, ND = 73,000, Fargo has 340,000. There are quite a few medium size cities like these in northern climates.
When I was 7 years old, we moved from San Jose, California to Pocatello, Idaho. We had record cold temps that winter. I walked to school at -26 F which was about the high temp for a few days. We had weeks of -20 F temps. I saw my first kid freeze his tongue to the pole on a chain link fence. Teacher got it off by pouring hot salt water down the pole. The water didn't make it to the ground. It happened at recess. We went outside for recess even though it was -15 F or colder. This was 1972 or '73.
Fellow Montanan here in the Northern Plains. It gets pretty cold here (outside of Alaska). One of the coldest days that I ever experienced was in February 2014, where it reached -22 F with windchill at -50 F. I was layered up to walk about a half-mile to my school, but forgot to layer up under my jeans. And that was the first time I felt my legs go numb from the wind chill in my life, and this was in high school (and our schools never had snows days until after I graduated). My most recent coldest morning was almost a year ago when it reached -27 F, and while working my night shift at my job, we took our breaks and lunch breaks to start up and warm our cars to keep them from getting too cold or they be harder to start up if left off the whole night.
It's Currently 31° F, where I live in Pennsylvania with a low of 26° for the night and snow alerts. 46° is still Cold, but it's also 15 - 20° warmer than PA in December.
I leave Alaska's +/-50° below 0° winters, as a "Snow Bird", to bask in Phoenix, Ari- zona's balmy winters: like 80°F today!😎 Even tho' summers up to 123°F here! 🤬
I live in West Central Minnesota. Which is one hour and 15 minutes west of St. Cloud, Minnesota and 3 hours east of Aberdeen North Dakota. Yep, cold here in the winter!
That’s why you come to visit the Northern States in our summer. The average they are using is our summer and winter temperatures added, then divided on the amount of days. Places are nice in our summer.
That storm affected more than Texas... but the difference was that Texas's power grid failed... I'm originally from Texas and I lived there for 40 years. I love Texas. But I was very grateful to live in Oklahoma during that freak storm. I think my smaller town here did a planned blackout for about 2 hours for ½ the town (just happened to be MY ½!!!) But I was mostly ok because I have a gas kitchen stove and my house is pretty small. My sister in the Dallas area had no power/no heat for a week!!! Their house is 100% electric!
@ a great part of the problem was Abbott not making the power companies upgrade their grids. I’ve never lived in Texas, but that is one state I’d avoid like the plague.
@@annepryor9169you and me both. I've had 2 of my relatives and their families move to Texas and they both moved out of there within a year. No thanks.
Yes, the bitter cold is brutal to areas that are not prepared for it. Texas was so bad because your power companies did not invest the resources to have your grid be able to withstand those temps. many people died so the power company could save a few dollars on insulation and winter appropriate materials. The areas that failed the worst only experienced temps of -2F and the systems began to fail. Imagine if it hit the record low of -23F which is bound to happen eventually.
As a trucker from Tennessee. The coldest I’ve seen was when I was delivering to a restaurant in Saint Paul Minnesota. It was in -30’s. 😂😂😂 I remember getting a to go cup of Mello Yellow. Taking a sip and setting it on a box inside my trailer while I took a load inside the restaurant with my dolly. Dropped that stack of boxes inside, came back to the trailer and that cup of Mello Yellow was already frozen over. I was done unloading within 30 minutes and hat cup was completely frozen before I was done.
Yup, I used to live in Grand Rapids, too. I also lived right on the Lake, south of Grand Haven, and we used to watch the storms move in and dump on us so hard.
If you compare Temps in west Michigan to Wisconsin or Minnesota, the lake gives us a buffer as it tends to warm up the air as it crosses. Of course, that warm up is what causes the lake effect snow, so better temps vs increased snow.... hard to say if the lake curses us or not in the winter.
@@Crittergirl81 I think of it as a blessing, but I'm far enough inland that I don't get as much lake effect. Used to work for a small company right off of Gull Lake and occasionally had to shovel. Even when it was just an inch or so it felt like heart attack snow.
Where I went to college in Washington, it got down to -17 Fahrenheit (-27 Celsius). We decided to go into our friends dorm while they were in class, take apart their furniture and set it back up on the balcony outside where there was about 5 inches of snow. Low temperatures are a good time to do fun and weird stuff.
The worse trick my mom ever played on me... was taking a girl born and raised in Long Beach CA, and moving her to the Midwest. Her planned destination was Indiana, but while visiting her sister that live on a farm north of Charles City, IA... on April fools day, there was a blizzard. Because of snow drifts blocking all exits on the ground floor, we had to go out the windows on the 2nd floor and dig out the door and a path to the barn, just to milk the cows. It was 3 days before snow plows finally reach a road near enough to the farm house, that we could make it into town. Mom decided we needed to enroll in school, so she bought a house in Charles City, and that's where I lived for preteens and teen years, I've never have felt warm again lol
I live in Southern California for a reason. It never gets cold, and it rarely gets above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. They call San Diego America's finest City for a reason.
I'm from Aberdeen , and yea it gets colder than a well diggers big toe............Lowest i have seen was -44 degrees below zero....And that day the wind was around 35 mph....so what it feels like is -91 below zero on the skin !!!!!!!!!!!!
You Canucks are crazy. No chance, I would live up there.
Never been in that cold before. Worst for me was -15 with a windchill of -35. I went for a 3 mile walk in it in the snow.
The tri-state area of NE, IA, SD got to -40f ... maybe it's the same day that happened for you. I hope you faired well during the time.
Chicago. One time it was -29 F°, windchill -78 F°. I walked about 4 houses to my friend's house, just so I could say I was outside on the coldest day I ever knew of in that area.
I grew up in southern Minnesota and you get used to low temperatures. You wear more and warmer clothing, your house is better insulated, you keep your car in a garage with an engine block heater. The only thing that gets old is the length of winters. But “snow days” when school is closed because of storms are great! So is ice skating, sledding, skiing etc.
I lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the last 13 years. Family convinced me to move back to New Mexico in the last few months. The thing about cold is you can always add more layers. Heat, on the other hand, you can only strip so far before you get arrested! Many will not believe me, but I miss the cold and snow. There is a silence you get after a heavy snow that is so beautiful. You can stand outside, even in a major metropolitan area and hear nothing moving. I love this silence. Also, the undisturbed snow that shows no footprints or tire tracks is also beautiful.
I love that silence from the snow, too! There is science to it, I looked it up and it seems that snow absorbs sound.
Where in NM do you live? I live north of Santa Fe at 6500', and we get snow. Not as much as you did, granted.
I miss that so much about the winters here in Portland OR! That deep, profound silence that follows a heavy snow fall is one of my favorite things on earth, and I also love the pink/blue color scheme of winter sunlight and shadow on snow. It snows so very rarely here, and then usually only a little.
There is NOTHING like the absolute beauty of snow-blanketed silence. It's just...it feels like ALL the sharp edges of every sound have been filed off by the soft flakes. I love it.
That’s why I say I will ALWAYS prefer extreme cold to extreme heat!
I lived in Alaska, about 100 miles away from Fairbanks, which averages 5 degrees warmer than where I was. I've seen it so cold that trees literally explode as their sap expands from freezing and the trees can't adapt quickly enough. I've seen it so cold that tires shattered. The rivers and lakes have as much as 15 feet of ice on them. It's beautiful and everything is extremely still while trying to conserve energy. We cancelled school at -50F as the diesel would freeze in the school buses, and we wouldn't have outdoor ice hockey practice if it was -30F.
"Square tires"!😅
yeah we had the bus thing down in wisconsin. i learned diesel turns to gel in the cold.
Did you live in Delta Junction? I spent 10 years in Anchorage and was stationed at JBER. We did lots of training near Delta Junction, brutal weather.
@@vanessakedgar-py5of Yes, definitely, square tires is for real. We even experienced that in New England too!
I have seen the trees explode but if you hear it with out seeing it is weird.
What's funny is that our 32°F and your 0°C are a tolerable cold temperature for most of the U.S. It is cold but not bone chilling cold. I like how Geography King explains fahrenheit. It is the temperature of how you feel on a scale of 0 to 100. 50°F is a mild, medium feeling temperature, not too hot, not too cold. 100°F is really hot. 0°F is really cold. Then when you go negative 0, it is dangerously cold and over 100 like 101°, 102° is dangerously hot. Both extremes are really uncomfortable. Fahrenheit is a really easy scale if you think about it.
It's a very human scale -- literally! The idea of the scale was that 100 degrees should be the living human body temperature, and 0 degrees the temperature at which a human body would freeze. (Given the poor precision of the instruments available back when the scale was first designed, neither number is quite correct, but that was the idea behind it.)
I agree that it's a great scale for weather in particular, as it's at just the right level of granularity to represent how temperatures feel to us as human beings. Celsius is a better scale for nearly everything else, but for weather? Fahrenheit really does such a fantastic job!
50 is pretty cold
Fahrenheit is a great system for temp. measurement. The entire American system of weights and measurements makes so much more sense than the commie metric system. The meter, for example, is based on two lines scratched on top of a bar in some joint in Paris, France called the Platinum Iridium bar. With a name like that you can bet the place is gay as hell. 🤠
@@proudwhitesettler7746We're not trying to deride the metric system. There is no need to be a radical ranter. Its the same as celsius, better for most everything. Else it wouldnt be the standard for science.
@@Good_Hot_Chocolate One either has a sense of humor or they/he/she/them/it don't. Apparently you don't. Or maybe you haven't yet had your coffee.
A hard packed snow is easier to drive on than the slush that freezes at night and thaws during day.. So consistent cold is better for driving IMO.
Ohio here and I totally agree. Most of our snow is slushy and wet. Just one inch is insanely treacherous.
I am from Duluth, Minnesota. It is a beautiful place right on the lake. It is all on a hill and full of parks, rivers, and forests in the middle of the city. It also has beautiful architecture and sprawling gilded age mansions. Summer is wonderful and winter is very active with outdoor skating and hockey, alpine and nordic skiing, and people genuinely enjoying winter activities. It can get cold, but we dress for it!
I am also from Duluth. Also dont forget Ice fishing. 😀
I’d have to say Duluth is the heart of Minnesota. We’re from the Cities but our family is from the Cloquet area. The blue skies in January by the lake are the best.
I love to watch the web cam showing the Great Lakes ships coming into the harbor at Duluth. What gets me, even as a person living in cold Iowa and Wisconsin, is that no matter what the weather, there are people on the walkway, watching the ships come in. A hardy folk!
I'm a lifelong Minnesotan and Duluth and the North Shore are one of my favorite getaways in summer! Love it!
My ex-wife was born in Superior. For a guy raised in SoCal, well Dairyland WI, was sure a weather and culture shock! Also blew my mind was the extreme temperature changes between Lake Superior to the 1st hill heading south. Like -5 by the lake to -40 just 5 miles away!
-2 F here today ( 2 Dec) .....4 hrs 32 min of daylight today ....have had snow on the ground for over a month. Greetings from Fairbanks Alaska.
Nice. I'm from Wasilla and it's pretty similar here
Been there done that too. Used to walk 1/4 mile to the bus stop for school up on Chena Ridge at -50 & -60. I don't miss that.
@vanessakedgar-py5of call me crazy but if the wind isn't blowing i enjoy that kind of weather
I just moved to Wasilla from Fairbanks this summer. I'm still wearing my shorts, sandals, and a light hoodie until it gets below -10ish.
I’m so sorry you have awful weather!! I wouldn’t be able to do it…I freeze when it gets below 65. I like 100 degree days better than super cold days. I’m in Texas, and the temps during snowmageddon about killed me a few years ago!!
I'm in SW Wisconsin, right on the edge of "Blizzard Alley"and I have a brother who lives in Fargo, ND. We got a dusting of snow and it's 21F out. This video didn't take into account "wind chill". Wind chill can make the temp feel 5 to 15 degrees colder depending on the wind speed.
My mom was born in 1931 in Duluth, Minnesota, to a first-generation Swedish family. She loved all the great outdoor experiences, especially skiing, and didn't mind the temperature. It was the Great Depression of 1929-1939 that was tough.
I don't live there anymore, but I'm a member of a native American tribe in North Dakota. That -40 degrees is worse because of the wind chill. I remember when we had to go bury my grandpa, and my cousin called to say "Make sure you bring a warm coat. It's -50 at the fargo airport." I live in New Mexico now. They don't sell coats here for that weather lol. It was COLD.
I remember having to buy coats when I went back home. I remember flying into the Omaha airport and it was -9 degrees. Here I am coming from Florida having given away all my winter clothes many years before. I had to buy shoes too because my sandals weren't going to cut it. LOL I am also a registered member of a tribe... Sicangu Lakota from South Dakota. Aho cousin!
You need to understand that the northern states often have 100 degree temperatures in the summer. The spring and fall can be very comfortable. The average includes the coldest days which skews the temperatures. It is not uncommon for many days above 80 degrees from June through August. The only summer issue is severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes.
It seems as if some of these RUclipsrs not from America don’t understand SEASONS. It’s not just cold or hot on any random day. We have hot to warm temps daily for three months during the summer months,then there is Spring for several months then there is Winter for a few months. I’m with you guys I from Pittsburgh,Pa. We definitely have extremely cold winters and hot summers. For instance this summer was torture it was hot almost every day during the summer. Oct and November were unseasonably warmer than usual. We all I think now are in the middle of a freeze in many states in America and technically it’s not winter yet.
I looked up the average temperature for my city (about 48), but there is usually a day or two that we break 100. It's just once winter sets in we generally stay around freezing (or below freezing) for weeks on end. We've also had winter day time lows fall below 0.
Yeah, that Average takes in account the lowest temps as well as the highest.
No we don’t. They’ve been getting hotter but 100 is not the norm.
@@mbdg6810 It's not the norm? Sure, but it does happen often enough to stick in the mind. If you look at "record temps (dot) in" and pick a northern location you can see a list going back to the late 1800's (at least in my area). Top 10 highest temps for my area in MI all exceed 103. Eight of those 10 records were set in the 1930's (1934 & 36). So it isn't really getting hotter, it's just people talk about it more now.
I'm from MN, and yeah it gets that cold. The thing about this list is that it isn't taking wind chill into account. The town I live in had a record low of -52F but the wind chill was down to -65F.
Good point.
same. and 10 days later it 30* above zero resulting in a near 100* temperature swing
Yep!
Exactly. People need to start factoring in wind chill when they do this stuff.
I grew up in northern Minnesota on the Canadian border. Generally during the winters at that time, we would have about 3 weeks straight in January and/or February where the temperature would not rise above 0°F (-18°C). On the coldest days during these cold spells, the low temp would be below -40°F (-40°C) and the high temperature for the day would not exceed -20°F (-29°C).
Now you have to do which states get the hottest... And which get the most "humidiy" hot
Chicago ..again cuz its right on lake Michigan...wind coming in off the great lakes is very strong and very cold....I am halfway in-between St Cloud & MPLS in Minnesota...
Its currently 27F (-4C) where i live in Ohio, with a wind chill of 16F (-9C). Not at all unusual for this time of the year, and maybe its just me, but I don't consider this kind of weather to be super cold.
On the flipside, I consider 90F (32C) to be very hot, and hate it when it gets that hot here, even if say, a Floridian would laugh at that kind of weather. It just goes to show how much people can get used to.
I'm from Nebraska originally, & a former Husker football player who is now a RUclipsr has been saying that he’s looking forward to seeing those “Southern Belles” from the SEC having to come up to play Big 10 schools for the CFP in December! I know OSU losing to Michigan for a 4th straight year is hard, but at least they're still (probably) going to make the CFP!
I am from Minnesota. Personally the coldest I have been in is -44° Fahrenheit. The hottest I have been, in Minnesota, is 105°Fahrenheit.
Currently having highs around 80 here 😂
Grand Forks, North Dakota here!🥳The main reason why it's so cold here has a lot to due with geography and weather patterns.
During the late Pleistocene, there was a enormous glacier that covered all of Canada and spread into parts of the U.S.. Because glaciers move and are astronomically heavy, it gouged a huge valley down the North Dakota, Minnesota borders. Then when it receded, the resulting meltwater created a huge lake, called Lake Agassiz (Ag-a-see). When this lake also receded, it left behind what is now call The Red River Valley. Since this area was scoured by the glacier, the land is very flat and has hardly any trees, and leaving it mostly prairie, with lots lush grasses, brush, and wildflowers.
Due to natural weather patterns, in the winter, the northern polar vortex (a large, rotating air mass over the polar regions of the Earth), can have a strong, contained, circular shape, or a shape that can "weaken", causing the air mass to "spill" out of it's shape and flow down below the polar regions. Of course, this has a wildly varying effect on weather for the whole world, but let's stick to the topic at hand. This polar vortex pushes itself down into North Dakota and because Grand Forks is in a valley, the cold air literally settles into the low laying land because cold air sinks.
Because of all these factors, winters are cold, windy, and of course harsh. As one commentor said, you also have to take into account the wind chill factor. For instance, a blizzard with a temperature of -35 C (-31 F)and with a wind speed of 35 kmh (21 mph) has a resulting wind chill factor is around -53 C! Luckily for us, these types of storms are few and far between, but it still gets cold!
Be sure to stay warm out there this winter season!❤🔥
A wind speed of 21 is barely into blizzard category. Those storms with 50mphs winds have a way of getting cold air through cheap parkas.
Not even mentioning Barrow, Alaska? A city that's 325 miles (523.037 KM) above the arctic circle? The sun set there 2 weeks ago, it won't rise again until Jan 22.
It’s probably not large enough to be considered a city.
This did not include any city that has less than 75,000 people living in it. Yes, Barrow would crush this list as well as a bunch of other Alaska towns
Barrow is not on the list for two reasons: 1) The town changed its name back to Utqiagvik in 2016, and 2) Utqiagvik is a coastal town, which means both its Summer and Winter temperatures are mitigated by the ocean and are milder than they would be without the ocean effect. Utqiagvik's record low is -56°F (-48.9°C) and its record high is 79°F (26.1°C). The Interior towns and cities of Alaska, including Fairbanks and Delta Junction, have much more extreme temperature ranges.
@ dang. Where I come from originally in northern Minnesota has reached colder temperatures than Utqiagvik. I didn’t realize that it was a coastal town. Obviously it’s still much colder on average than any place in Minnesota or North Dakota.
Yes, and there's Embarrass, MN which is known as the ice box of the nation with frequently the coldest temps in the nation. Aside from Alaska.
The thing about living here in the winter is that if you have let’s say a week where the temperature never gets above 0 Fahrenheit, when it finally does “warm up” a bit to say 20 degrees it feels like heaven!! lol
Right we joke here in northern mi that 50F is bikini weather lol
😂 exactly! When it hits 20 in January you'll see people in shorts in mn
Hello! as someone who has lived in North Dakota all their life, it's all about the mindset. When I was going through school, I was known as the shorts weather guy. Whenever it was in the double digit negatives (heck no matter the weather... except blizzards), I would wear shorts with my winter jacket.
Some of these states could have coldest cities lists as well. Jamestown, Valley City, Minot, Watford City, And Dickinson are all cities in North Dakota that have record lows under 40 and similar average annual lows. I do have to say, it is nice for North Dakota to get some lime light on your videos.
Thank you!
Sault Ste. Marie was my college town. Yeah, it's normally really cold and snowy. We used to joke that there were only two seasons: Winter and the Fourth of July. Like any other cold city, life doesn't stop just because it got cold. Obviously, there's a lot of stuff that can't be done in the winter months, but most businesses and activities continue throughout the year. We just add winter sports to the fun activities (Sledding, ice skating, skiing, etc...).
I have lived in Havre, Montana; Bismarck, North Dakota; and now in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It gets cold and in North Dakota really windy. Lots of people do winter activities and enjoy it. The cold only starts to hurt at -10f. There’s no amount of clothing that can prepare you for -50f.
Greetings from St. Paul/Minneapolis. Winters can be as crazy as it seems. Keep in mind that between summer heats of over 38°C and winter cold of -43°C, in °F we have an 150° temperature swing … and that doesn’t take in “feels like” temperatures based either on air temperature + wind speed (winter windchill) or humidity + air temperature (heat index) which can make that swing feel even worse.
I can’t speak for others, but the spring/summer/fall in Minnesota are so beautiful that they make you forget how brutally cold it gets.
In terms of snow, we’ve had dumps as much as 36” (.91M) of snow fall in less than 12 hours October 31, 1991.
There are some who joke that the winters in Minnesota bring us closer together. For body warmth if for no other reason.
Living in Wyoming was hell during winter. There isn't as much snow as some other states, but the *wind* is ridiculous. I wasn't able to leave my townhouse due to the wind chill and snow piling up. It was -30F! The state essentially told us to hunker down because everything is closed and they aren't clearing the streets of snow for a few days. I was in Cheyenne for work so my soft self was crying for sunshine and warmth lol. I got a call from my landlord to drip the faucets so the pipes don't freeze and burst, I was gob smacked. The north is beautiful, but it's not for me 😂
If you grow up in a cold climate you adapt and know what you need to survive.
It's also protecting your toes and fingers, but you do get used to it, but once under zero F you feel the pain.
It took me about 2 years to adapt. No big deal. It's 30 degrees out there and I haven't bothered to shut my window yet.
Once it gets into those negative numbers it's all pretty much the same - it hurts to breathe and any exposed skin becomes instantly raw and chapped. If you break a sweat you have to go in immediately or the sweat will freeze and you could get seriously hurt.
I am in Minnesota, and we have a wide range of temperatures, there is 140 degree range throughout the year. Hot and humid in the summer, with high heat index and bitterly cold and windy in the winter, was deathly wind chills. I recall one winter, around new years, the temp rose 60 degree's and it was still below freezing, in a 30 hour period, from -30F to 30F, it felt like a heatwave.
I'm 40 miles away from #8 St. Cloud Minnesota, currently the actual air temp is 5, wind chill (what it feels like) -11. Embarrass Minnesota is the coldest place in the lower 48 states
Yep. Embarass sits down in a low area between some hills and all the coldest air sinks into the hole that the hills created. Average annual temperature of 36.4 degrees F, considerably colder than all but the coldest places in Alaska.
I'm from Michigan, but I grew up in a number of warmer regions while Dad was in the Navy. He retired when I was about 15 and we moved back to Michigan. Mom decided to take me up to Houghton in the Upper Peninsula where she had gone to college. It was late summer and so cold we had to stop at a store and get some sweaters. Everybody else was wearing t-shirts and shorts and we were shivering in the warmest sweaters we could find. Now I wouldn't find it so cold, but back then I thought anything below 50 was wintery.
1988 Great Falls Montana, minus 97 degrees F with the wind chill... I was laying under my buick at 6 am with a torch to thaw my trans fluid so I could get to work
I would love to see his face when he tries to “convert” the WINDCHILL TEMPS & then realizes what that might feel like!!! LOL!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh man! I just told him about blizzards in Alberta and Montana with the 50 mile and hour winds😂🤣🤣🥶🥶@@sophiacromwell8017
@@sophiacromwell8017great falls and Edmonton both very windy and icy cold storms!! I got married in Citibank and had wedding night at Sheraton in Great Falls back in 1984 in November 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🤣🤣very bundled up😊 thanks Sophie, good memories triggered
That's Cutbank Mt😂
My Tribe is from Sault Ste Marie Michigan. The Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. My family, many of them live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan still. Some of the coldest snowiest places on the earth are there. Lake effect snows batter the U.P. every winter.
I wouldn’t trade it for anyplace else, as far as I am concerned get rid of the bridge!😂
@ they will use the ferry like before
You should check out Denver, Colorado! It’s not the coldest but it’s the most unpredictable! 100 F one day and 30 F the next with a foot of snow! It happened a year or two ago but still not that uncommon for a place like Denver.
Western Colorado gets just as wierd. I remember one Febuary day that started near -40 and got all the way up to the 50s, before dropping back down. The next day the roads were pure ice.
Plus Colorado has 2 cities that have reached -60 twice, Maybell and Taylor Park.
I Just moved from grand forks ND. Winter was brutal cold and always windy. Im actually going to miss it. My first two januarys there the temperature never got above -10°f. Last year's winter was pretty mild and warm with temperatures around 10°f. The season long snow was beautiful and walking on lakes and rivers is really fun. summers were fairly mild. Although there were times the temperature got above 100°f
Here in WV our coldest recorded temp was -37° f (in 1917 ) and -31°f in 2022 , our highest recorded temperature was 112 ° f , and our heat is usually accompanied by humidity of 80% or higher . We have an annual average snowfall of 68 inches , although in the mountains where our ski resorts are snowfall amounts are around 150 inches .
8:34 Just because he didn't check the conversion for inch to meters, the snowfall total in St. Cloud, Minnesota (45 inches) is approximately 1.14 meters, while the snowfall total in Duluth, Minnesota (83.5 inches per year) is about 2.12 meters of snowfall per year.
16:08 Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (120.1 inches) is over 3 meters of snow per year! Both Duluth and Sault Ste. Marie are both located on the shores of Lake Superior, and the "Lake Effect" produces so much moisture in the air that it gets super snowy in these places more than others.
In North Dakota, the -46 for example isn’t as bad as it sounds, it’s worse. The wind makes it worse because wind chill can make -46 feel like -70.
You might not be able to take the Nebraska heat and humidity during the summer. The Midwest is the bread basket because the cold weather gives the weather to kill off bugs while still giving heat and humidity after.
Minnesota didn't have a cold winter last year. When we got up there, the lake was overrun by weeds (mirrfoil?)
I'm from Nome, Alaska. I live in Fairbanks, Alaska and the coldest I've felt outside was -52°C/-63°F.
There was NO wind, and windy days are not typical for Fairbanks.
Nome is crazy windy, and snow drifts happen all the time in winter, though.
I went to UAF, but grew up in south central.
I lived in Fairbanks for about 10 years in the late 90s and 2000s. Our first winter there we saw -57, no wind. It was brutal but absolutely beautiful. I miss AK!
@@Matriarch50 : I currently live in the Mat-Su Valley, but I also experienced the coldest temperature I've ever experienced in Fairbanks during the late 1990s at -57°F (-49.4°C) when I was working for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. It was probably the same Winter you experienced.
It has not been colder than -40°F (-40°C) in the Mat-Su Valley since the 1990s. All the extreme cold is north of the Alaska Range and south of the Brooks Range. It dropped to -68°F (-55.6°C) in Bettles, AK, this past January.
@@AlaskanGlitch The cold days I experienced was Jan or Feb 2017, so sadly not the same winter for my experience. It was also crazy cold Jan or Feb here in 2024, being lower than-45°F. Bettles is quite a few valleys away, same with Matanuska-Susitna Valley.
Fairbanks, Alaska gets as low as negative sixty degrees Fahrenheit nearly every winter. On rare windy winters, wind-chill factor has lowered it as much as negative eighty.
Well, at least in the past 30 years I've been in Alaska.
In my book, if you don't have icicles forming on your nose-hairs... it's not cold yet.
Humidity is a big factor too. 20*F (-7c) on the Washington coast was way colder than 0*F(-18c) in the dry eastern side of the state.
I'm in Michigan, around -5C or around like 20-25F here right now. Pretty warm for winter actually but it's just getting going. The snow is from the great lakes, look up lake effect snow if you want to see a crazy amount of cloud cover that can last for months.
I live 2.5 hours North of Duluth, MN. Duluth, MN is a nice warm place to visit in the winter.
North of Duluth ? Thunder Bay ?
The winter low temperatures near the Great Lakes are surprisingly balmy.
I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan and about 100 miles from Sault Ste Marie. The temperature would be even colder but the Great Lakes moderate it tremendously. The price for that is a lot of snow. I think the winter keeps us from getting overpopulated, which is what I like.
I thought Boston had it bad, but some of these are just insane. We get a ton of snow but its pretty mild temperature wise compared to these cities.
Being near the water helps manage the temps. In my experience, the more “land locked” a state is, the more bitter the cold.
Andre, I lived in Kalispell, Montana from 1972 to 1979 and it was cold and we had a lot of snow. We had what you call and engine block heater and you would plug that into electricity to help keep it warm so the car would start during those bitter cold days. My grandparents had a cabin on Flathead Lake which was beautiful and we would spend a lot of summers down there. I now live in Colorado and it gets cold below zero, around -20 degrees and we can have a lot of snow. In 1982 we had a major blizzard and my job closed the company down for a whole week because of that blizzard. I can't remember the exact total of snow but I want to say it was around 36 inches.
Below 37 its weird how cold feels. It really doesn not feel like regular cold. If feels like it burns.
37 isn't bad in the winter if it isn't windy. I'd still go out to get the mail without putting my coat on. My "it's cold" cutoff in the winter is generally 25, though. I have actually enjoyed being out (dressed for the temperature) on a still 20 degree morning. It just felt so fresh outside, almost invigorating. Otherwise, when we have a cold snap, I do not like to go outside and at times, it does feel like you actually get hit by the wind.
37? That's not even cold, it's at 7 or below that it burns, especially below zero.
37 is a warm winter's day.
@@rtyria75 is a warm winters day
@@HBC42375 is a nice summer day!
Canadian here. In my experience you have 3 factors in winter
1. Wet cold...layers wont help, it sinks into your bones and after about 30 minutes your kidney and liver start hurting
2. Dry cold...layers will help but be careful, if you start sweating you will freeze, and will dry out the skin very fast and make it crack open
3. Wind chill ...add -50c to all temperatures... -35c feels like -85c (yes this part is an exaggeration but not by much)
Born and raised in Minnesota I'm about an hr drive from Fargo North Dakota. And it gets cold. There has been winters we have had -40°F and -20° windchill. Advised not to travel or go outside unless absolutely necessary! 😉
I’m from Minnesota, where, despite our reputation for harsh winters, most of us actually dislike the cold. People tend to stay here for the beautiful seasons, the strong sense of community, and opportunities in cities like Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Rochester.
Sure, our winters can be stunning, but they’re brutally cold. The hassles of switching to winter tires, navigating icy roads, and dealing with traffic make the season more of a challenge than a charm.
That said, at least we have snowball fights-spontaneous, fun, and inclusive. It’s a "sport" everyone can join, no matter who you are or where you're from.
*chuckles* i live in Fairbanks Alaska and the key to moving in the winter is layering the clothes..lol
I grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Winter was fun! Some snow storms had enough wind blown snow that the snow would be as high as the second story of some buildings.. We used to jump off the second story porches into the drifts and then dig our way out!
I come originally from Louisville, Kentucky. It is currently 27 degrees Fahrenheit there right now. It's 48 here in Hawley, Texas. Now you know why I retired in Texas when my hitch with the Air Force was done. 😀
I’m in central Indiana and looking for a place to retire, too!! LOL!! I’m done with the bitter cold!! 🥶
I hope you’re loving Texas!!
I had to look up Hawley. You're quite a ways away from me. I'm east of Dallas. It's 42 right now.
Same when I retired from the Army I never wanted cold again. Retired in N.E. Alabama. Can't say I miss it at all the cold that is.
I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska off and on for 19 years. The coldest temp I ever saw was an unofficial -82. The ice fog was horrendous through it too. Keep in mind it gets up in the 70s and 80s in the summer.
It would make sense for North Dakota to be among the coldest US states (except for Alaska, which is much further north). This is because North Dakota is actually the location of the geograhpic center of the North American continent (near a town called Rugby, North Dakota). Places in the middle of a continent tend to have much more extreme temperatures than places on the coast because the ocean makes temperatures milder. Thus the hottest and coldest places are almost always in the middle of large land masses. Fargo, North Dakota, is at around 47 degrees North latitude, which is only as far north as the city of Nantes in France. Nantes has a much milder climate than Fargo due to being on the coast and because the weather pattern called the Jet Stream carries warm air to Europe and makes it milder than other parts of the world at the same latitude.
Winter is really that crazy and sometimes crazier. It's not uncommon for those places in Minnesota to stay below 0° F for all of January at least. You learn how to bundle up in layers. You learn cold safety. We also used lots of disposable hand and foot warmers. Kids are required to have snow suits, snow boots, gloves and hats for school and sometimes recess is indoors on super cold days.
From Fairbanks, it was just -32°F over this Thanksgiving weekend. But we get used to it.
I live in Minnesota and yes it gets really cold here. When we get into the minus degrees and have high winds it adds a wind chill factor, so the real temp outside feels many degrees lower then the reported temp on any exposed flesh. We always bundle up to stay warm and protected from both temp and wind chill.
When I was growing up, my grandparents lived just outside Sault Ste Marie, in Brimley. I never visited them in the winter - too cold! - but in the summer, it was lovely. Chicago gets a lot of wind, so it can feel cold (the "wind chill effect"), but the actual ambient temperature stays relatively warm, due to the city's proximity to Lake Michigan, which rarely freezes over.
I just looked that up as a matter of fact and according to Chicago's channel 9 it has never completely frozen over. Their records go back to the 1800's. The most it freezes is about 90%.
Yo Kalispell MT!! My hometown and state. Last year my daughter was born in Kalispell and it was -29°F. The windows were iced inside and out. The automatic doors to the hospital were literally frozen shut. It can definitely get cold.
I lived in Fairbanks Alaska for some time too, working at a recycling yard. I remember 2017 I was working in -48°F, it was -62°F with windchill. Man I miss those days.
A cool possible video for you:
University of North Dakota (UND) has a huge aviation program. It is located in Grand Forks one of the cities in this video. People come from all over the states to get educated as well as several other countries. Air China, All Nippon Airways, and Korean Air are from China, Japan, and South Korea respectively. These are some of their bigger contracts.
I love your videos. They cover a fun range of topics, and it is nice seeing someone so positive about the USA from another country.
Andre, I was born & raised in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, and now I live in Minnesota. Yes, it's brutal cold, made worse when the wind blows or when the arctic winds come down from Canada. My brothers & I used to create caves in the huge snow drifts that we spent hours in. Personally speaking, when the temperature gets down to -20F or colder, it all feels the same to me. I used to work overnights at a restaurant as a waitress, and walked the mile or so to work every time. That's how I got frostbite on my legs! The temperature was around -41F and I didn't wear enough layers on my legs because I thought I was around -20F. The beauty of the area more than makes up for the horrible winters & occasional tornados in the summer.
I live in Williston, North Dakota. The bad part is the wind chill. We get a -60F wind chill at least once almost every year. Those are the days we all just decide it’s better to stay home… because the car probably won’t even start.
We also have at least one day every year where the ambient temperature is below -30. Btw, I love the content! But I really want to see you make biscuits and gravy and give it a go. It’ll kickstart a food adventure for you that you won’t regret!
I live between Fargo and Grand Forks North Dakota but on the Minnesota side. Has been between 10 and -10 last couple weeks already here. Winters are long and the wind in the Valley here is the worst part imo. To live here you need to embrace the weather. Ice fishing , snowmobiling are our go to. The the summer is still super nice so don't be scared away from a visit up north some day!
My town in upstate NY had 5 feet of snow fall in the past two days.
Spent a lot of time in Fort Drum(I'm sure you know, but for others) which is in upstate NY it really is FREEZING in the winter.
Meanwhile, I'm downstate on Staten Island and we barely get snow, unless a nor'easter sets up perfectly off the coast then we'll get a blizzard.
My hometown in NW PA got that “beautiful” Lake Effect snow, too!!! 😂😂😂😂
You don't need to be too cold to have heavy snow accumulation. Even at temperatures near 40 degrees F (well above freezing) can see snow.
thats crazy
3:13 I can definitely agree. But then again I am fortunate enough to call Montana home.❤😊
My mother was born in Bismark, North Dakota. Grandfather was a farmer. Years later (thankfully) he came out to California and loved it so much he move his family here and went to work painting Train Engines for Southern Pacific Railroad. Thank you, Grandpa. 🥶
I'm in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. We're in Hardiness Zone 6B but our town is in a tiny 7A bubble. The worst part of winter here is that the weather can be so inconsistent. You can go from mild, spring-like weather to intense, pain-inducing cold in such a short time, and then back again to mild.
My cousin has visited her son in Minnesota often in winter. According to her, Minnesota can get colder temperature than we do here(SWO is mild compared to a lot of the rest of Canada) but it feels milder because Minnesota is drier and sunnier than here in winter. That's just a personal opinion but still valid.
Born and raised, Duluth, Minnesotan here. This list seems to be a little decieving and is going based off average annual tempurature for its ranking. While it is true that Duluth has a lower annual temp, that reason is due to the lake. Lake Superior holds a relativly constant tempurature of 40F (4.44C) which acts as a buffer for us to certain extent, keeping us cooler in the summer and actually a bit warmer in the winter. Yes, it does get extremely cold here at times but there are places that hit higher extremes like International Falls, Minnesota which has a record of -55F (-48.3C) or Embarrass, Mn which has the state record of -60F (-51.1C). But they also get a bit hotter on average in the summer which throws off the average data and doesnt show them accuratly as to how cold they get. In the winter people do spend most of their time indoors. Our homes are heavily insulated and our utilies mostly buried to withstand the tempurature. You definatly use the heat in your vehicle more than the A/C and usually will start your vehicle about 20-30 mins before you have to leave so it has a chance to get warm and defrost. Being prepared for the cold just becomes second nature after a while. Getting caught out in the elements when at the extremes is absolutly a death sentence in a short amount of time if you are not prepared. Heavy Winter attire is a must even for short exposures such as getting out of your vehicle to go into a store when we are at the extremes. You can throw pots of boiling water in the air and watch it freeze before it hits the ground (there are videos of people doing this). If you are outside with no jacket, winter attire, and no way to start a fire at the extremes that we see on average in a year (id say a -20F(-28.8C) - -30F(-34.4C) day is bound to happen atleast once a year) you would probably be dead in less than 30 mins esspecially if there was wind chill. However those extremes dont happen all the time and most days in the winter are still cold but with proper attire you can definatly enjoy outdoor activities during the cold months. Downhill Sking, Cross Country Sking, Sleding, Ice Fishing, Snowmobiling, Snow shoeing, Snow/Ice Sculptures, Sliegh Rides, Sled Dog racing just to start listing a few things that can only happen in a cold climate such as ours. Ice fishing in an Ice Castle (basically an insulated camper you park on top of the ice of a lake and fish through the floor) is something I think every fisherman should try atleast once in thier life. So yeah even though we get cold here we do make it work for us and take advange of the unique opportunities that it gives us for entertainment.
You do have people from these cities. My sister lives in St Cloud, and I went to college in Duluth . I live in Minnesota between Fargo and Duluth. A couple of years ago we had snow on the ground from early October to late April. Six months in a winter wonderland left me wondering. But I love it here. Its so beautiful.
Andre just a heads up for how you can easily convert F to C: subtract by 30, divide by 2.
So 70F - 30 = 40/2 = 20C. It's not completely precise(70F = 21.1C) as the actual constants are 32 and 1.8 respectively, but dividing random numbers by 1.8 is difficult. So as long as you don't need to be precise, the -30, /2 formula is super easy and gets you to within about 1 degree of the actual temperature.
For bonus points, just do the opposite to convert C to F. Multiply (C) by 2, then add 30🤓👍
Clarksville New Hampshire, my hometown gets down to about -40°f every winter up until 8 years ago where we started to struggle to reach -25°f during the coldest time of the year. As for your place down in Portugal, well 48°f above zero is considered shorts and T-shirt weather to us in Clarksville New Hampshire. The lowest temperature in Clarksville New Hampshire that I have personally ever lived through was -60°f. The wind-chill factor was -80.
Alaska actually has the record for coldest temperature: -80°F/-62°C. The -70 record at Rogers Pass MT is the coldest for the contiguous (or as you call it mainland) U.S.
I grew up very close to Grand Forks, but on the Minnesota side of the border. When I was in high school (secondary school), you were considered a nerd if you wore a hat. I was already a nerd, so I wore a hat in cold temperatures. One difference between Grand Forks and Duluth is that the latter stays cooler during the summer due to occasional winds from the cool (relative to nearby land) Lake Superior, but doesn't get quite as cold during winter. Sault Ste. Marie is at the other end of Lake Superior and because during winter the lake is warm compared to nearby land, it creates a supply of water vapor that regularly condenses when it reaches land, hence snow.
A lot of babies are born between August and November in these places for a reason. Best way to "Keep warm" is cuddled up skin to skin... LOL
All I can say about winters in Michigan is we have 50 degrees F in January and -20F in February. One year our first snowfall was Christmas Eve, got 10-12 inches. By New Years, no snow and 50F temperatures. One winter, never got above 0F. It usually hung out around -15 to -30 F. When it got around 0, people were going out in short sleeves.
Our coldest areas are not our snowiest. To learn why (plus why we get most of the planet’s tornadoes and many other interesting elements of our weather) - you should react to “Climate in the US - Why’s It Like That?” By Geography King.
I attended university in upstate New York (Colgate University) In my freshman year (1st year) we had 186 and 3/4s inches {over 474.3 cm} of snow due to lake effect snow. We would jump out of our 4th story dorm room window onto a snowbank instead of taking the stairs. We would put female classmates on our shoulders as we walked to our classes across campus so they could tell us which building we were near (so they could see over the snowbanks). No other year had quite so much snow but it always had plenty. As for cold, we definitely had nights with wind chills taking it to -30s and lower.
Colgate in Hamilton isn't even the coldest or snowiest part of the state. Buffalo, Syracuse, Tug Hill North of Rome, and Utica all get on average over 100 inches of snow a year. Hamilton averages around 80. However even that much is crazy for most people. One of my cousins from Virginia was working up here and couldn't believe it snowed in late October. Also yeah Lake effect snow is its own beast too. It's so wet heavy and sticks to everything. Great for snowmen though.
I think the coldest I've been out in is -35F in Potsdam NY. Also Potsdam is where I encountered snow in the month of May. I learned my lesson on leaving all my warm clothes at home after Easter. Didn't make that mistake again.
@ indeed - my freshman year was the snowiest on record there just due to a combo of unique temps and wind direction. As you know, even 8-10 miles any direction you can be outside the lake effect band.
@@mikecarew8329 Lake effect can be really weird in its banding. I work about 10 miles west of where I live, and I might have a foot or more in my driveway, but only a few inches at work. For our non imperial unit friends a foot is roughly 30 cm, and an inch is roughly 2.5 cm.
Old saying in New England - it has to warm up to snow - wh is true you need moisture in the air.
But your statement exvluding snowiest from coldest is incorrect. I lived for 5 yrs on the Canadian border in Vt's Northeast Kingdom. Never knew the town I was living in was the coldest in Vt ( -31 not unusual) AND it averages 9 ft of snow a year.
@@eshea3621 That not just a think in New England. In Central NY we will say the same thing. A few years back we had over a month of below 0 days in a row and we all got excited that it was snowing because it was like a heat wave. It had to warm up 20 - 30 to be able to snow.
Here in NJ the worst I've seen is 107 in the summer with a heat index of 118 and -15 in the winter with a windchill of -35. I'm going to be working on my snowblower and getting my window fan ready to go in to replace my portable AC. Back in 2012 we had a blizzard in November that dumped 18 plus inches of snow - 2 weeks after hurricane sandy came through. Took power out for 8 days. That's why I'll never fully rely on electrical. Always have a backup.
I'm in Eastern Washington State...
The coldest I've experienced is -20°F...
I'd much rather have the cold than the Tornadoes and Hurricanes other parts have...
I'm from Minnesota; I later lived in South Dakota for a few years, and St. Cloud MN for over a decade when I attended and graduated with my bachelor's degree from St. Cloud State University in 2017. Yes, it's freaking cold there in the winter. It is undisputably beautiful there, but what I don't miss though is shoveling snow, now that I live in south eastern Tennessee, moving here in June of 2020.
I saw a souvenir t-shirt for sale in a shop in Grand Fork, ND years ago. It read, "50 degrees below zero keeps the riff-raff out!" 🥶😂
I was stationed at Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota and the coldest it got with the wind chill figured in was -60° F. I actually broke off part of my moustache and had to shave the other side to match. It's actually illegal to drive by a broken down car without checking on them because the population is so low, by the time another car passes they could freeze to death.
I'm from Fairbanks 😂 it was -30° f (-36.66° c) on Thanksgiving 😂
I am from Pierre South Dakota (Also lived in or around both of the bigger cities on the east and west side of the state) so come from the cold but also grew up in Las Vegas Nevada where summer time temps would hit 120 F. Current live in coastal South Texas where humidity brings the temperature index constantly 115 F+ in the summer. Keep putting out amazing videos, love seeing your views on life here in the U.S. as it fun to hear about how Europeans see things. Have a friend from Northern Norway that came to Texas for a visit and was blown away by all of our school buses because she had only seen them in movies.
I’m from Fargo, ND and I’ve lived or visited all these cities at least a few times. Yeah, it’s cold, but when you grow up here you can tolerate it well. I don’t really even wear a winter jacket until it’s around -20c. Until then a sweatshirt is just fine. If you come in the spring you will see girls sunbathing in bikinis when it’s -10c and snow all around them. Maybe we’re just built different.
I grew up in Minnesota and now live in Wisconsin about 40 miles from Minneapolis. It is cold here about half of the year and does get to -40 degrees sometimes in the winter. I wouldn't recommend you come here in the winter months but if you came came in the summer I think you would love the weather, the culture, the beauty and the lakes. The Duluth area is very beautiful.
Sound advice!
For context, refrigerators are generally kept at 40 F; ready freezers (like the little freezer in the top of your refrigerator) generally aim for 0 F; and deep freeze (the kind you put frozen meat in if you want to keep it for months and months) is supposed to be -20 F.
The remarkable thing about Fairbanks is that (counting suburbs) it has a population of over 70 thousand people, which is unusually large for a city in such a cold place. It's easy to find places that are colder than Fairbanks, but there are relatively few cities as _large_ as Fairbanks, that are that cold. (Yakutsk is maybe the best example. Arkhangelsk probably qualifies as well. Not sure if Yellowknife is large enough to compete with Fairbanks; it's more than cold enough.)
A lot of the cities on that list have around that, or more. Duluth,Mn = 87,000, Grand Forks, ND = 73,000, Fargo has 340,000. There are quite a few medium size cities like these in northern climates.
@@TheMattericksen Duluth and Grand Forks and Fargo aren't even vaguely in the same category as Fairbanks, in terms of cold.
When I was 7 years old, we moved from San Jose, California to Pocatello, Idaho. We had record cold temps that winter. I walked to school at -26 F which was about the high temp for a few days. We had weeks of -20 F temps. I saw my first kid freeze his tongue to the pole on a chain link fence. Teacher got it off by pouring hot salt water down the pole. The water didn't make it to the ground. It happened at recess. We went outside for recess even though it was -15 F or colder. This was 1972 or '73.
I live in Texas, I hate cold weather.
Fellow Montanan here in the Northern Plains. It gets pretty cold here (outside of Alaska).
One of the coldest days that I ever experienced was in February 2014, where it reached -22 F with windchill at -50 F. I was layered up to walk about a half-mile to my school, but forgot to layer up under my jeans. And that was the first time I felt my legs go numb from the wind chill in my life, and this was in high school (and our schools never had snows days until after I graduated).
My most recent coldest morning was almost a year ago when it reached -27 F, and while working my night shift at my job, we took our breaks and lunch breaks to start up and warm our cars to keep them from getting too cold or they be harder to start up if left off the whole night.
Your freezer couldn't get anywhere near that cold!!
I'm from Fargo ND and it does get that cold, its even colder if you include Windchill.
It's Currently 31° F, where I live in Pennsylvania with a low of 26° for the night and snow alerts. 46° is still Cold, but it's also 15 - 20° warmer than PA in December.
I'm in South Dakota we're in single digit temps I think its 8 degrees now
I also live in the North of the States and our temps are even colder than St.Clould Mn by about 15 - 25 degtrees
I leave Alaska's +/-50° below 0° winters,
as a "Snow Bird", to bask in Phoenix, Ari- zona's balmy winters: like 80°F today!😎
Even tho' summers up to 123°F here! 🤬
I live in West Central Minnesota. Which is one hour and 15 minutes west of St. Cloud, Minnesota and 3 hours east of Aberdeen North Dakota. Yep, cold here in the winter!
We are fairly close, I'm near Itasca State Park
Snow plows are as important as fire trucks in most of these places. :)
That’s why you come to visit the Northern States in our summer. The average they are using is our summer and winter temperatures added, then divided on the amount of days. Places are nice in our summer.
Texas had a horrible winter storm a few years ago. Power went out and many people died.
That storm affected more than Texas... but the difference was that Texas's power grid failed...
I'm originally from Texas and I lived there for 40 years. I love Texas. But I was very grateful to live in Oklahoma during that freak storm. I think my smaller town here did a planned blackout for about 2 hours for ½ the town (just happened to be MY ½!!!) But I was mostly ok because I have a gas kitchen stove and my house is pretty small.
My sister in the Dallas area had no power/no heat for a week!!! Their house is 100% electric!
@ a great part of the problem was Abbott not making the power companies upgrade their grids. I’ve never lived in Texas, but that is one state I’d avoid like the plague.
@@annepryor9169you and me both. I've had 2 of my relatives and their families move to Texas and they both moved out of there within a year. No thanks.
Yes, the bitter cold is brutal to areas that are not prepared for it. Texas was so bad because your power companies did not invest the resources to have your grid be able to withstand those temps. many people died so the power company could save a few dollars on insulation and winter appropriate materials. The areas that failed the worst only experienced temps of -2F and the systems began to fail. Imagine if it hit the record low of -23F which is bound to happen eventually.
As a trucker from Tennessee. The coldest I’ve seen was when I was delivering to a restaurant in Saint Paul Minnesota. It was in -30’s. 😂😂😂 I remember getting a to go cup of Mello Yellow. Taking a sip and setting it on a box inside my trailer while I took a load inside the restaurant with my dolly. Dropped that stack of boxes inside, came back to the trailer and that cup of Mello Yellow was already frozen over. I was done unloading within 30 minutes and hat cup was completely frozen before I was done.
i live in grand rapids michigan. Lake michigan is a blessing in the summer but a curse in the winter!!
Yup, I used to live in Grand Rapids, too. I also lived right on the Lake, south of Grand Haven, and we used to watch the storms move in and dump on us so hard.
Here in GR too. 22 degrees. Record snow Friday. Instant winter, Pure michigan. 😅
@@kelsijodryer6348 this friday???
If you compare Temps in west Michigan to Wisconsin or Minnesota, the lake gives us a buffer as it tends to warm up the air as it crosses. Of course, that warm up is what causes the lake effect snow, so better temps vs increased snow.... hard to say if the lake curses us or not in the winter.
@@Crittergirl81 I think of it as a blessing, but I'm far enough inland that I don't get as much lake effect. Used to work for a small company right off of Gull Lake and occasionally had to shovel. Even when it was just an inch or so it felt like heart attack snow.
Where I went to college in Washington, it got down to -17 Fahrenheit (-27 Celsius). We decided to go into our friends dorm while they were in class, take apart their furniture and set it back up on the balcony outside where there was about 5 inches of snow. Low temperatures are a good time to do fun and weird stuff.
Currently -13.8 °c ( 7°f ) here in nw iowa.
The worse trick my mom ever played on me... was taking a girl born and raised in Long Beach CA, and moving her to the Midwest. Her planned destination was Indiana, but while visiting her sister that live on a farm north of Charles City, IA... on April fools day, there was a blizzard. Because of snow drifts blocking all exits on the ground floor, we had to go out the windows on the 2nd floor and dig out the door and a path to the barn, just to milk the cows. It was 3 days before snow plows finally reach a road near enough to the farm house, that we could make it into town. Mom decided we needed to enroll in school, so she bought a house in Charles City, and that's where I lived for preteens and teen years, I've never have felt warm again lol
I live in Southern California for a reason. It never gets cold, and it rarely gets above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
They call San Diego America's finest City for a reason.