British Guy Reacts to Climate in the U.S. - Why's It Like That?
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Simple explanation: North America is a BIG continent.
It is a seven hour flight from Miami to Seattle. For the British to understand that distance, it is a five hour flight from London to Tel Aviv. It is a seven hour flight from London to Toronto. America is not a TINY nation one can drive across in a single day like the UK. Tel Aviv does NOT have the same climate as London anymore than Miami does with Seattle...
From the north to the south different climates, even in the summer here in the north it can get up to 100 degrees F!
Continental North America has 6 different time zones. While they are generally located in somewhat the same areas in the US & Canada, they differ slightly by province & state which can make things interesting for travelers & tourists & those who like to visit their neighbours in the next state or province.
@@masterseems8005 The time zones have nothing to do with the variety of environments.
Size and location location location
I seen this video before and it's a really good choice, it's very accurate. I live in the upper Midwest and we have some of the most insane temperature swings that you could imagine. Just three months ago we had temperatures dropping to nearly -30F and this last weekend we hit 99F.
Where are you in the upper Midwest? You almost wound like your in Minnesota.
@@kjsalomonsen9299 He's not in North Eastern Minnesota. The last few years (at least on the East side of the State) we have seen -40F from the Twin Cities North to Lake Superior.
Wind chill not included.
@@douglascampbell9809 I grew up outside of Fergus Falls. I can remember -50 not including the wind chill. I now live in Central Northern Washington State and I don't own a winter coat. MN is a great state to be from. LOL
I live in Michigan and a few weeks ago I had to use both my heat and my air conditioning within 3 days. 39 low one day and 88 as a high the other not to mention humid.
If you live in american you risk you home geting shread dy nasty storms and then they will say it your own risk to reduild here after sandy they said to people they cant build no more because the floods and huricanes will rip your home fast here in sayrville ther is no homes in this place because of sandy
Something to keep in mind, even though the weather is perfect in Southern California, there are earthquakes. So really there is no perfect place here 😅
Also wildfires and mudslides, which are driven by the weather (drought, Santa Ana winds, el niño.) So it's not all perfect.
Yup. Earthquakes, drought, and wildfires.
Right!! I moved from CA to Montana and discovered Montana has earthquakes, too.
The only earthquake to hit Florida was on the night of August 31, 1886. It was actually the shock from the major quake that hit Charleston, South Carolina, estimated at a 7.0 or X- extreme. It was felt as far away as Boston, Bermuda, Havana, Milwaukee, and New Orleans - almost the entire eastern half of the US.
Otherwise, Florida doesn't do earthquakes. Hurricanes, yes, but you know when they're coming!
Southern California isn't meant to be livable ..if you dig a bit you'll find out they source all their water from really far away stealing from natural farm areas.
I'm originally from California, and he skimmed over some details.
He mentioned the high humidity in San Francisco, and how it keeps the place pleasant through the summer. True enough, sort of, although there are some really cold days even in summer. But in the winter, it's just as humid, but *cold.* And the high humidity makes the cold feel a lot colder than the thermometer might indicate; it penetrates straight to your bones and freezes you from the inside, or at least that's what it feels like. A 19th century American writer named Mark Twain once said that the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Take that and multiply it by ten during the actual winter.
And because the Coastal Range is very close to the coast, that temperature moderating effect doesn't cover much of California at all. Santa Cruz, on the coast a bit south of SF, is often chilly even in summer, but if you go over the hills to San Jose (the Silicon Valley area) it's probably around 90 and might well be over 100. Sacramento gets some wind off the water, but is pretty hot in summer. The Central Valley is sweltering in summer.
Even the coast near LA isn't always "nice." In late summer, the Santa Ana winds blow hot off the desert, whipping through the gaps in the mountains. They suck all the moisture out of the coastal areas and heat them up to the 90s. The Santa Anas are one of the main reason southern California gets so many wildfires at that time of year. And depending on where you live -- like in Long Beach, a bit up the coast from LA, where I lived for a while -- if there are fires inland, the Santa Anas carry all that ash with them, along with the heat, and you're breathing smoke for a week or more. Major yuck.
Oh, and southern California might not get as much rain as other places, but it definitely does rain there, and sometimes pretty hard. When I lived in Long Beach, I used to say that whoever designed the storm drain system was obviously some idiot from out of state who believed the saying that it never rains in southern California, because every time we got a huge rainstorm -- which happened at least six or ten times a year -- the storm sewers would flood and there'd be rushing rivers along either side of the major streets, wider than I could jump over them, even when I was younger, even with a running start. It was impossible to cross the street without getting soaked most of the way to your knees, because the storm sewers were pitifully inadequate.
California weather is actually pretty complex, and he'd have had to do a whole video about it to do is justice.
They didn't really plan for so much of the watershed being paved over. And rain, being infrequent, picks up a lot of debris, slowing down the already overtaxed system
thank you! i, in southern California, do not personally consider 90's-100's "moderated" or "nice" weather. haha. i was like "BULLSHIT!" so uh yeah, that's california, or parts of it anyway, hot summers and rainy wet winters. and lots of fires...
One of things this short vid didn't mention is the Olympic National Forest in Washington state. Seattle (also in Washington) may not get much rain in the summer, but the ONF is a temperate rain forest only 37 mi. away from Seattle as the crow flies. It is stunningly beautiful! Think Amazon, only cooler. The Hoh Rainforest within the ONF receives 135" of rain on average yearly. The Amazon averages 108".
BTW, extraordinary shot of Seattle's Space Needle above the cloud cover in your vid! (4:59-5:14)
Those ocean temps are no joke. I’m in San Francisco. We have cold summers. On average the temperature here is about 68°F/ 20°C all year. Tourist are always shocked as they expect much warmer weather.
Lol yes. I traveled from NJ to SF one summer and had to buy sweaters at the nearest souvenir store. It was scorching hot in NJ compared to the Bay Area. 😅
Of course there is the famous quote attributed to Mark Twain
“ the coldest winter I ever spent was the summer I spent in San Francisco “. Not quite but close😁.
I used to live in the Monterey Bay area and worked retail. It was always funny to see parents of the sailors coming in to buy sweaters and pants because they thought it would be all south LA weather.
That is super hot
The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco.
I learned this the hard way when I traveled from New Jersey to San Francisco in August a few years ago. It was so cold and windy in San Francisco that I had to buy sweaters and new clothes as soon as I exited the airport. Mind you, it was scorching hot in NJ at the same time. The Northeast summer heat is underrated whereas the California heat is overrated.
LOL, My first day in San Francisco it was a gorgeous day until around 4pm. It got chilly and windy and I stopped into a GAP and bought a jacket. Salesman said I must be from out of town.
@@jacklewis5452 LOL I was wondering why all the residents there were wearing sleeveless shirts. I looked at them like they were crazy while the winds were literally blowing my hair at a 90 degree angle
As someone who grew up in with hot and humid summers in NJ with the AC blasting all night, I can tell you that California heat is real (mostly in Southern California), but Northern California and especially San Francisco is a different beast altogether. For example, at 4 p.m. last Thursday it was 60 degrees in SF, 73 degrees in San Jose just 40 miles south, and 90 degrees where I live 90 miles inland in Sacramento!
"Coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" Mark Twain.
The California heat is not overrated. It has some of the hottest deserts in the country. You were just like 1000 miles away from there.
check out state capitol buildings ranked by this guy, Geography King. He does tons of videos like this
Now where have I seen you before.........
@@bigussmokesus8866 well well well if it aint the man himself
Living in Arizona and always visiting family in California you really got to see how much difference wind and mountains can make
I'm a walking barometer. My migraine headaches intensify with the weather changes in Deep South Texas.
You can thank us for sending you our warm Gulf Stream waters to moderate your climate. Without that, the UK would be a much colder place -- like Denmark.
Yes Thank you U.S.A !
I live on the Big Island of Hawaii, and here we have 44 of the worlds 46 climates! The two missing are a sub-sea level desert (like Death Valley, CA) and a glacier (Ours melted 600 years ago). The reason for this is that there are 3 mountains (one is an active volcano) that affect the trade winds and the moisture. We have arctic tundra, high desert, tropical rain forest and everything in between. The saying here is, "If you don't like the weather, just get into your car and drive 30 minutes!"
Most people think LA is very hot, and it's very annoying
it is hot
@@jacklewis5452 Not compared to the rest of the country
We have Death Valley in California last year 2020 the temp reached 130 degrees Fahrenheit or (54 degrees Celsius) where I live in So Cal it was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit for more than 2 months of hell.
Ridgecrest, CA
Try Baghdad, it's gets that hot, WITH sandstorms
Holy cow!
@@armybeef68 We have sandstorms but hardly anyone lives in those areas.
I’m in Kentucky and I still remember the April 3,1974 tornado in Louisville. It was a F4/F5 tornado. It was horrible
so scary. here in mid atlantic occasional tornadoes, nothing like that. We get a fair amount of hurricanes and flash floods.
California is very different. "I never spent so cold a Winter as a Summer in San Francisco" ~ Samuel Clemmons
I was born and raised in the Upper Midwest. I lived a year in Central America. I remember actually telling a friend that I was homesick for thunderstorms. Daily rain in the summer but no thunderstorms became depressing.
Spent much time in my youth in the Midwest watching thunderstorms roll in over fields from the southwest. I was mesmerized watching those monsters glide over the landscape, counting the seconds between the flash and thunder as they approached, waiting for the inevitable but startling flash and instantaneous boom when the storm finally reached the house.
18:00 my hometown is the snowiest major city in the World due to lake effect snow. He mentions it by name. They average more than 10 feet(3 meters) of snow per year.
Ah, good ole lake effect snow!! I grew up just south of Buffalo, NY, and went to college in Rochester, and have been here ever since. I'm guessing you are from Syracuse, since Syracuse almost always wins the prize for the most snowfall each year in the Thruway snowfall competition, which I forgot the official name of. Not sure if you remember just a few years ago, I think it was November 2014, when Buffalo got that huge snow storm, 7ft of snow in just a couple days. There was a clear east-west line of snowfall that could be seen in photos, where there was essentially no snowfall on the northern side of that line, and tons of snow south of it. I drove right into it about 15 minutes from my destination, though it took me closer to an hour from that point to get there. I could barely see a thing. I was stuck in West Seneca with my cousins for over a week until roads opened up again. It was quite an amazing storm.
@@nancynichols6751 I am from Syracuse! Its called the Golden Snowball. Buffalo also gets some nasty storms. Often the reason Syracuse beats Buffalo is because Lake Erie tends to freeze where as Lake Ontario generally doesn't.
@@jeffburdick869 Finally just saw your reply. That's right, the Golden Snowball! Thank you. :-) Agreed about the effects of the lake freezing/not freezing. That makes a big difference. The 7 foot storm I mentioned in my previous post in 2014 was way before the lake would have frozen, and it was all south of the airport too, so never was recorded for the Golden Snowball. I imagine that happens at times with all the cities though. Anyway, blessings to you wherever you are now.
@@nancynichols6751 Yeah, if you go like 30 miles north of Syracuse, places like Parish and Pulaski, they get even more than Syracuse does. I live in Chicago now. People think I'm kidding when I say how much I love Chicago's mild winters...but I'm not at all.
@@jeffburdick869 Yes, and Oswego and Watertown seem to get a lot of snow too, and they aren't part of the competition. All the snow was a blast when I was a kid in the late 50's and 60's, between snow days off from school and snow forts to make. Not so much now though. Rochester has been pretty calm overall for snow in recent years, so I've been happy. I understand you about Chicago. It helps being on the east side of the lake.
I took a class like this as an elective in University, and it was one of my favorites learning this stuff. It also made me wonder why i decided to move from the south to the midwest. lol
Geography King is one of my favorites, would love to see you react to more of his vids. They aren't nascar crashes or trick shots, but they're still fun videos!
Ive spent a few years in San Diego. The ocean is 50 degrees in the summer. It does rain there. One winter there was 6in of water on the freeway (I-5)
Ive seen as much as a a foot on the freeway in 68.
Sea Temp helps Western Europe and particularly the UK A LOT!
@ 18:32 Hmm... as a Midwesterner I'm not sure our summers are any more pleasant and less humid than the east coast. That may be through about the end of June... but once the corn crop is up and starts belching all that moisture into the atmosphere, God damn it gets gross sticky humid around here.
This last winter in Nebraska we got a 3-4 days of -36 Fahrenheit. It was colder here then in Siberia.
I'm in Rochester, NY. Our snow storms are really something when we get them, although the last two winters have been very mellow for snowfall levels. The temps are very cold, however! The wind chills can be below zero for 2 weeks at a time--brutal!
From Poughkeepsie NY, remember when Buffalo, got slammed in the 1970s, when a friend living there told me he couldn't open his front door
A problem for the South is that in some places the soil and groundwater makes it difficult to get a basement
Humidity is horrible hear, walk outside and it's like hitting a brick wall
Agree!
I live in California and he’s right. although our weather is better than almost any other state besides hawaii, our ocean temperature is so much colder than the east coast. it sucks cause our beaches are gorgeous as well, it just sucks to swim in lol
So true. I live in Virginia Beach, VA on the Atlantic Ocean. I visited CA in August thinking the Pacific would be nice and warm but it felt like ice water .
@@robinmills8675 yea too get to warm waters u gotta go to like San Diego or Orange County in August
I would agree if you live in an area that you have coastal breezes this is true, however, beyond the mountain ranges, it can be very very hot during the summer, including places like the central valley and Mojave desert
@@Aiyotiger i live in the central valley and yeah it gets SCORCHING in the summer, we hit 115 last year and so far 109 already this year. but 10/12 months of the year, its beautiful weather
I grew up in Texas. Swimming in the gulf was so relaxing because the heat is so bad
Geography King is a interesting channel, Kyle does a great job
Ohio, walking in in a sauna 24/7, in the summer, there's alot of jokes about how quickly it can change.😀
Michigan is the same, standard saying is if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes
Yeah here in Michigan too! You don’t like the weather? Wait a minute it will change!
@@lisamcbride8921 oh yes, spent my childhood near Hart, MI., still miss it after 40 years being gone.
Keep in mind that the ocean's moderating effect only goes inland so far in California. Kyle doesn't specify but In LA for example, everyone within 10 miles of the coastal onflow does fine without air conditioning or much heating all year. Further inland & air conditioning takes over quickly & heating bills are higher too. In some area the inflow goes many more mile inland and others it is stopped very quickly by rising terrain. So how far the moderating air goes inland varies wildly. But in some ways the climate in S California really is the nicest in the world. Maybe the Canary Islands? There are oddities on his rainfall map that are shocking to people also. But I talk too much. LOL!!
I'm from Nebraska born and raised. I have experienced everything mentioned on here. Mild climate, super swell humidity with plunging temperatures. We just experienced a tornado warning with sirens last week. At 2pm in the afternoon it was 89°F then right before the sun went to set, the temperature plunged to 37°F. Nothing out of the ordinary for us. What this feels like is being inside an aluminum can with warm ginger ale, then suddenly someone drops the can into artic waters, it cools the air down and they shake the can and open it. Pressure. My ears pop, similar to when a plane ascends quickly. It's a rush. You have to experience it. Just make sure it's not at night. Night tornado warnings are scary because you can't watch the skys. I know I shouldn't go out side to look for the tornado but I can't help myself. I always do even when the sky is green. Yes, it literally turns green. I once heard the freight train noise when a funnel cloud was spotted. At that point, I was in my basement shelter in no time. We experience all weather hot, cold, windy, rainy. My favorite are thunder storms. It's like God is bowling. I love thunder storms.
I live in a caravan and travel around the U.S. Usually, the seasonal weather is my motivation for moving.
I'm presently in western Arizona for the summer. It's hot, but also extremely low humidity.
Often we'll see a big rain storm coming and it may pass overhead without a single drop reaching the ground. It's wild to see the sheets of rain falling from the clouds, yet it all evaporates on the way down.
Enjoyed this video. As a weather geek, I hope you post more weather videos. Keep up the great work.
I love science and I loved your reaction to this video. The ocean currents and temperatures are the driving force behind weather across the globe, but that's to be expected since they cover 2/3 of the Earth's surface.
I remember being blown away when I learned that it wasn't so much the temperatures rising a few degrees that was the problem with Global Warming, but that the warming of the ocean could alter currents which are the root of all our weather. The result? More extremes and less predictability. On the West Coast we already deal with that in a smaller form when we have El Nino or La Nina patterns.
South Florida has perfect weather half the year, and hot & humid the other half of the year, but it's hot & humid isn't as bad as many other parts of the Southeast.
There's a smaller Tornado Alley in Mississippi and Alabama! Without the Atlantic current picking up heat in the Gulf of Mexico and then going by the UK, the UK would be very much like Finland or Norway!!
Great content and your reactions made my day. More like this please!
The Geography is so diverse in the United States. We have deserts out west, jungle like environments in the pacific north west, snowy tundras in Alaska, Islands, and much more.
I'm in the desert SW and we are now experiencing a drought and our annual monsoons at the same time. This makes for crazy flash flooding and hail storms. 😟
Lol, being from Oklahoma, until I spent time in the desert of Arizona, I never knew that they had a monsoon season & freezing at night.😳 Living in a tent, it was definitely an interesting time while I was there😳😕😳🤣
I grew up on the beaches of Southern California, and whenever I hear someone talk about the sunny beaches I always think, "Ya, but wait til you hit the water, lol".
Reason everyone says it rains a lot in Seattle (it does Oct.-May) is that we get virtually no snow all winter other than in the foothills of the mountains. The tradeoff for grey skies and rain is that if the temperature ever dips into the 20's it is usually on a very clear sunny day.
The temps in California vary greatly depending on location. He mentioned San Francisco, my area, and it can be quite cold as it's far north of those Southern Cal beaches and it sucks in the fog. Look to pictures of the Golden Gate bridge and you'll see half of them show a heavy fog rolling in. Remember California is 770 miles (1,240 km) long.
@Beesley, what's even more mental about how a mountain range affects moisture, is not only does it "squeeze" the moisture out of the air on the windward side as the air rises and dumps rain, but once that now dry air moves down the eastern slope and becomes heated by the land, it actually causes the air to become even drier, which has a desiccating effect: dry air that's been heated sucks up any available moisture that may have been present in the land, and this is what produces the desert climates on the eastern side of the mountains. Think of how dry you get when running centralised heat in the winter in your home without a humidifier...cold dry air in your home gets heated which makes it even drier. Same thing happens, yet on a grander scale.
Inland California can be extremely warm in the summers. I live in the Sacramento area, and in July and August, we can have temperatures in the 100s and 110s.
yeah here in Sacramento it hit 105 a few days ago and that was in MAY
Yes, I lived in Modesto in the 1980s, very different than Michigan where I lived as a kid. I actually learned to like it in California.
My dad was a U.S. Air Force meteorologist for 36 years (active duty and DoD civilian). He would have loved this video and your reaction.
Kyle talks about Washington State once, you cross the Cascade Mountains the climate changes. Our rain comes in the fall but in winter we get snow not a lot generally but enough to enjoy if you live close to the foothills you can go X-country skiing. The summer gets a little toasty averages about 100F however, the Southeastern part of our State is mostly desert so there's very little humidity. And, no Mosquitos. I grew up in rural Minnesota need I say more. Winter temp in Minnesota is -18F snow average is 4 feet but it's the wind chill that gets you everytime. We'd get this wind called an Alberta Clipper happened only in the winter. In the summer average temp was 85F but the humidity would be about 65%. I remember getting into bed at night and the sheets would be damp. I didn't have A/C. I lived 27 years in MN and 30 years in WA and in WA I don't own a winter coat, I can sit in the shade without getting eaten alive by Mosquitos...there is a God.
I liked this! I learned a lot and it answered a lot of questions I’ve pondered before.
A green sky and no birds chirping is scary! I grew up In Oklahoma.
Several different places in the US have the running joke "if you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes". Growing up in Minnesota, I once experienced a foot of snow on April 1, then 95 F (35 C) a week later, then (lighter) snow again a week after that. His description of the massive temperature swings around severe storms is totally accurate; the worst storm I ever experienced was a day where the temperature had been about 95 F in the daytime, but was probably in the low 40s (around 5 C) moments before the storm hit. Wasn't a tornado, but was instead a strong line of thunderstorms known as a derecho, producing wind gusts to >100 mph.
Sacramento is hot as a desert in August. Once the rain stops it is hot and dry.
I'm from southeast Alabama so I've experienced that unbearable heat and mugginess. With summer approaching especially I am reminded of how glad I am to not live there now.
I recall I briefly lived in Mobile (southwest Alabama) in a house with crap insulation. Getting a cold soda there meant leaving a huge puddle of water anywhere you set it.
where I live (in the middle of North Carolina) most all of our snow gets dumped on the opposite side of the mountains so we usually just end up getting ice or freezing rain. One thing we usually know is that if the warm moist air from the gulf and the cold dry air from Canada are going to meet over top of us in the winter then look out because that is usually when we get dumped on since it isn't having to come over the mountains to reach us.
I live in northern Vermont. Every winter it gets to -40F. Sometimes it even gets to -50F. Our summers get up to almost 100F. Many times my daughter would go trick or treating wearing snow boots, a ski jacket and snow pants. We also get a crazy amount of snow.
I live in Southern California and let me tell you, the weather is beautiful if you live within 15 miles of the coast. Aside from that tiny area, summers range from the mid 90s into the triple digits so no, southern California does not all have beautiful weather
I had a friend that lived in Alaska. In Valdez they had 637 inches of snow one year but it’s not that cold.
In Glen Allen, in the interior, it would be -40 degrees but not much snow. It’s not just cold you need the moisture. Sometimes it’s actually too cold to snow, it’s too dry.
Another fellow I knew would move from the upper coast of Maine to Vermont for the winter. He said on the coast there wasn’t much snow but there was the coldest, dampest, most bone chillingly penetrating wind he had ever felt.
He’d rather deal with snow and at least be able to cross country ski.
The rain shadow (desert area) in the West, extends in a north-south corridor through the interior of California, north through the Oregon interior, the Washington interior, to the Canadian (British Columbia) interior. All dry and desert - shocking to see dry desert areas, even up in Canada. Beautiful scenery.
And this is why I moved to Seattle! Perfect weather!
Another thing about North Dakota being (relatively) less snowy: there is such a thing as "too cold to snow". Cold air holds less water. The really heavy snowstorms in Minnesota were usually in November or early December, before the deep freeze of late January/early February really sets in.
I live in Iowa and we get all 4 seasons, wouldn't have it any other way. About 3 months of each.
Hello Bees. 😋😋😋Just want you to know that I never miss a video of yours but I'm back to work and have a little less free time. You really helped me get through the isolation and boredom of the pandemic. Thank you for that bro, and I'm still loving every video that you drop. I've seen this video before but Kyle is such a good teacher, its definitely worth another watch. Keep up the good work with these entertaining and upbeat videos. On to 20K...👍👍👍👍👍
Rich in Seattle.
I’ve lived in England, North Carolina, Louisiana, Michigan and now Colorado. Spent three years in Houston. I’ve had every climate and I prefer the dryness of Colorado. The snow can be a pain but it’s so beautiful.
This was a great video. He was very right. I am a weather geek and have lived in many regions of the country and I can attest to the regional differences. On July 11, 1990, Denver had a huge hailstorm and the weather people explained so well how the Rockies affect and create weather. I have a book they put out but I was trying to find a video and I can't find one. The Rockies in Colorado are wide and take up the western half of the state (west to east) with a north/south orientation. You can see the thunderstorms building over the mountains most summer days. The Front Range on the east side gets the brunt of the weather letting loose (depending on where the moisture started forming). That hailstorm was a prime example. Another phenomenon is Upslope, where the moisture comes up from the gulf or from the southwest, past us and curls back around as it goes north and dumps tons of snow. It hits the mountains and can't go any further, so the west side of Denver metro gets the worst. It is like a "lake affect" snow of sorts. If a storm setting up in the four corners area, then the mountains there will get dumped on. It is very interesting how the mountains create and affect the weather patterns.
There’s a small window in the fall when Southern California becomes a literal hellscape. When the Santa Ana winds come, usually in September or October, it brings temperatures above 100F (38C) and winds that gust up to 40mph (64kph). The worst part is the massive drop in humidity; it becomes so dry that your lips become a cracked and bloody mess that no amounts of chapstick can remedy. This is also when the wildfires pick up, so in addition to the wind and heat you get a sky choked with ash and smoke that clings to your clothes like you just went to a bonfire. God forbid you have asthma, because it is actually dangerous to go outdoors. Granted, it’s usually only a couple or few weeks of the year, but it is absolute hell.
im from buffalo and dude that lake effect snow is no joke. within a 5 or so hour timeframe, you can get a snowstorm so deep that you cant get out of your house. fun fact too: all our doors here open inward because you cant open your door outward when theres 8 ft of snow on the other side of it. also, for that same reason, people can die in their cars. they pull over hoping the snow storm will pass and then just freeze, starve, or suffocate while trapped. often the snow is deeper than a car is tall, so nobody ever knew a car was there to help the person out.
I'm from Tennessee and its absolutely beautiful here. With our rolling hills and massive forests, from an airplane it looks like a green ocean. With little city "islands".
We're considered Southeast, but because we get some wind coming from the West amd down the Mississippi River from Canada, we don't quite have the extreme heat and humidity of Georgia, Alabama, Florida, etc. And we don't have the frigid winters - usually maybe 2 or 3 snows.
However, with all that said, we have had some pretty extreme ranges - from -17f to 107f above. And over the past 20 years or so, we've had several tornadoes - averaging at least a couple big ones every year.
And our soil is perfect. You can accidentally drop seeds and pretty much anything will grow.
Coming from Birmingham, AL where we just had a massive thunderstorm the same night you posted this that flooded a bunch of roads
The southeast has fairly nice weather apart from the tornadoes, hurricanes, and the heat of summer but spring, fall and winter are fairly nice just rainy
I would love to move a little more north to get some of that coolness. sown here in Georgia avg temps lately are 80+ with at least a 60 degree dewpoint aka you melt the second you get out of your ac filled vehical/house.
I live just north of Buffalo NY. and the lake-effect snows are pretty heavy, but not near as cold and miserable as Nebraska in winter.
I live in a small town in the Midwest. I can tell you that our weather is way jacked up. Very hot in the summer 90's to 100's Fahrenheit in the summer. 0 to 30's Fahrenheit in the winter. Sometimes its about 60 for a few days or weeks then its down about 20 or 30 degrees for a few more days or weeks. Tornadoes are a big thing here. My town has 2000 people in it and its very common for the town to blow the Tornado siren. You get a text from the US weather service then they blow the siren. Happens so often that most people go outside and look at the storm before they ever head to shelter. We can get lots of rain during the spring which causes flooding. Since I live next to the Mississippi River flooding is an issue here. I've personally noticed major flooding happens every 10 to 15 years.
Very cool video. 👍👍 I do like the bit more scientific angle of it. Very well done. Also glad you had a good trip.
My American daughter lives in Newcastle…winter is nothing but wind and rain. Does my head in when I visit.
Living in North Carolina, we get some scary storms, and tornadoes. Back in the 80s I remember a thunderstorm, that was so bad, it lasted for 3 hours before we got a drop of rain. About a year ago my wife and i were at the gas station, and lighting hit the street light, didnt get any gas that day
Fun fact, the ocean current that makes water on the east coast so warm is also largely responsible for Britain not being colder that it otherwise could be. That same current curves away from the east coast of the US and heads straight for you.
The most snow I remember in west Virginia was in 1994 when we had about 4ft of snow over 3 days or so. National guard was called out to plow roads with military vehicles. One hummer slid over hill and had to be pulled up by a six wheel tractor grater.
Kentucky was hit pretty hard in Jan 1994. What made it so bad for us, is the night before, it just laid down the black ice. Then what was predicted to be 4 inches of snow turned into 14 inches. THEN, the temperature was like -10/-20 for a week. No school, no nothing. We were stuck at home.
There's a lot of extreme weather everywhere in the US. And even though California has nice weather it also has earthquakes, wildfires, and drought. I live in Ohio and weather-wise it's a pretty good medium. We don't have as extreme weather swings as some other states, but enough variety to have all 4 seasons. Our winters usually don't go below the 10's F and at least where I live in NE Ohio we don't go much above 90's F. Even the snow belt here isn't that bad compared to Buffalo and like places and all you have to do is go a slight bit more south from the very top of the NE section of Ohio to get out of the snow belt. We have enough hills in the eastern part of the state to mostly safe from tornadoes. So it's not that bad.
I disagree about the temperatures I'm from Cleveland and I'm curious if you're taking into account wind chill cause the temperature could say 10° but the wind chill which is usually what I look like can make it feel anywhere from -10 to like -20°
@@castlecorn593 When you say "Cleveland" do you mean the actual city (not just the area)? Because that is probably why. On the coast of Lake Erie you're going to get the worst wind chill and the brunt of the cold weather. I live closer to Akron in the suburbs. Just by going inland a bit (even staying in the snowbelt) the weather is usually not super cold. Sure we get the occasional cold day like we have sprinkled through these last couple weeks, but on AVERAGE we don't get very close to zero. And by "we" I mean the North East Ohio area as a whole. Yes the coast (Cleveland itself) will have more extremes than the rest.
First week of November 1996 Cleveland got 6 feet of snow due to lake effect snow. Don't happen that bad that often, but it does.
This winter in Nebraska in the middle of tornado alley was horribly cold. Some nights down to -39F air temp in February. 4 months later we're upper 90F and probably some 100s soon. One year May 2nd we had 6 inches of snow and 10 days later it was 108F. Our average temps are very much from extremes either way more than time spent near those averages. Rarely average weirdly enough. Much of summer our dewpoints are in the mid-80s. It's dumb it gets that hot here after dealing with as cold as winter gets. Cornbelt really cranks up the dewpoint given much of any rain that season.
Rochester NY here. Lake effect snow sucks. Thanks for sharing!
6:55 Mt. Washington in New Hampshire: Am I a joke to you?
You can actually see a wall of clouds rushing across the water toward the land. The thing that makes it brutal is that is can dump so much so quickly and if you get those raging winds going at the same time it just blows everything sideways and you cannot see anything. One morning you are cutting your grass and mulching up the last of the fall leaves and by lunch you are knee high in snow.
I love living in georgia. Yes its hot and humid in the summer and cold and rainy in the winter. If its a clear night the temp can swing by 50 to 60 degrees f. 10-15 c. We get great breezes, snow, lots of rain and a few dry days too. We have mountains, beaches, rivers, lakes, springs, swamps, and a rainforest all in one state. Can't beat that.
The reason Ireland & the UK are as warm as they are (they're actually pretty warm for how north they are) is the same reason we here in Seattle have such a balmy and warm climate year round, even though Seattle is situated farther north than the northernmost point in Maine: ocean currents bringing warmth from the sub tropics in the current. Tons of snow in Maine and further south from Maine, but barely any snow in Seattle. It never gets more than maybe a foot or so of snow and only once in winter. There may be 1 or 2 more snowfalls that stick, where the snow accumulates rather than immediately melt.
Also, Seattle and Baltimore are very similar cities. They have a lot of greenspace, they sit on the edge of a large bay fed by an ocean (Seattle on Puget Sound, Baltimore on Chesapeake Bay), the cities are of comparable size, comparable population. But Baltimore on the East Coast is much farther south and surrounded by flat terrain hundreds of miles back. Seattle on the West Coast is much further north and between 2 north/south running mountain chains (the Olympics and the Cascades), which together creates something called a 'rain shadow'. The 2 mountain ranges block winds, which keeps the climate fairly stable year round, and forces rain-laden clouds to climb then chill then dump their rain. So in spite of being on the Sound, Seattle has very low humidity, while flat-land Baltimore perched on the Chesapeake is hit with winds, hard rains, and high humidity. It's warmer in winter in Seattle than in Baltimore and it's cooler in summer in Seattle than in Baltimore. I regularly wore parkas in Baltimore, but I only wear unlined jackets in Seattle.
As a resident of Minnesota I can confirm what he said, it gets cold in winter with a fair amount of snow; though nothing like Buffalo in New York and in summer it can be quite warm, though states in the Deep South easily beat us.
An interesting fact on our weather is that the record for largest change in temperature in a day is 72 degrees Fahrenheit.
Trust me you fell the humidity in San Francisco. Mark Twain said something to the effect of "the coldest winter i ever saw was a summer in San Francisco".
Mark Twain said it best, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco"
As a native Floridian, I haven't ventured far across the U.S. IT IS BIG. I'm an hour from Disney in Orlando, but that drive can take upwards of 5 hours. There are no back roads that make the drive to southwest Orlando any easier. Just 80 miles. As NYC is a melting pot of many COUNTRIES, Florida is a melting pot of many Americans. Natives do laugh at those not used to some Florida things. "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute because it's going to change." We feel as though we have 2 seasons - Hurricane Season, which is officially June1 to Nov 30, but we may have Tropical Storms in May and December....often. - Tourist Season (Snowbirds) is typically November through March. I think that explains the reason that Florida and Michigan have the highest auto insurance rates. Alligator mating season is also April 1 through June 30. They don't read calendars, though. We DO stop for animals crossing the roadway. Turtles, we will carry across the road, but some are snapping turtles, so if you do want to help a turtle, hold more toward the back of the shell and away from your body. Ducks and other flocks of birds want to cross roadways, too. Sometimes we spread our arms to look bigger and "herd" them a little faster across the road. Geese....are mean and may fight back. Geese are the ones that look like BIG ducks. Alligators need to cross roads because we've put so many in their territory. We do not help them. The beaches are beautiful and we know we are blessed to have so many miles of sandy beaches. The east coast, Atlantic coast, has a harder packed sand and bigger waves. I'll brag a bit about the west coast, Gulf of Mexico side, having beaches in the top ranks every year. The sand is soft, the water is calmer, and the water is warmer. Sometimes so warm that we get algae blooms and close the beaches for health reasons. *A good thing to check on before you head this way* Something nice about the Gulf Coast is that the temperature of the air and water are still warm during the winter "Snowbird" months! Floridians are typically friendly. We allow others to cut in line ahead of us. This is very common at grocery stores. Or, at least at Publix. Publix is a great company. Based in Florida. And this is our preferred grocery store over all. If you have fewer items to purchase, it is common for someone to let you check out before them. Kindness does NOT apply to all Florida drivers. We live here. We work here. We have a destination. Time in the car is time we could be doing something else. We do get irritated easily by drivers in our way. I'll apologize for that in advance. On multi-lane roads, just move to the right and allow them to pass. They may even wave as a thank you! We ARE big on manners here, though Florida is not The South. We joke that we have to drive north to reach The South. So, The South that DOES exist in Florida is more along the borders with Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. And through the interior of the state. Agriculture is a BIG product of Florida. We've lost most of our citrus groves to freezes, invasive bugs and diseases. Cattle is still a big industry. While Florida owes most of its economy to tourism (thank you, everyone! I love it here, too), we also have big corporations based in our larger cities. While you will find a wide variety of accents around the U.S., you'll also find a wide variety of people from around the world! Orlando is the hot spot with the theme parks and outlet malls.
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I grew up in Washington State on the west coast. It rains there in the summer. Not all summer, but you can expect rain at some point, or several points in the summer.
He is not talking about climate, he is talking about weather.
Being born and raised here in Phoenix, Arizona USA it’s extremely hot it being a dry desert. Throughout the summer when rain storms decide to show up it is a celebrated experience with news helicopters in the air to record the approaching storms usually the storms are so small the rain doesn’t make it to all areas of the city of Phoenix. But hey it’s all good now that we have recreational marijuana.
I used to live in the West side of the Sierras, was quite damp in the Winter, and very hot in the Summer. Now I live on the East side of the Cascades, quite dry all year, quite cold in the Winter.
Live on the western side of Washington state and honestly I can't complain about the weather other than how often it changes.
One day it'll be 65° the next it's 80°
Beesley, just an interesting note about your comment that if you post in the evening, we'll be able to watch it in the afternoon. I don't know if you know this, but we have 6 time zones here, so we can be anywhere between 6 hours behind you on the East Coast to 11 behind in Hawaii and Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Big spread! : )
The variety in California is astounding. For instance, the LA area is one of the few places where you can surf in the morning, then drive up into the mountains, and snow ski in the evening.
Survival tip for Tornado Alley. If the sky turns green get into the cellar. Also keep in mind that God Hates Mobile Homes.
When he talks about Tornado Alley, i'm 50 and live in Illinois. As far back as i can remember we was always considered in Tornado Alley. So when they say its moving east its not. Some have just changed what they consider Tornado Alley over the last decade or so for "other" reasons.
funny where I live in Maryland its right between a warm body of water (chesapeake bay) and mountains (appalachians) if a storm comes from the west, the mountains kill it off before it gets here, but if a storm comes from the south we get, floods, hurricanes, a foot of snow, tornadoes. its so changeable - yesterday it was 0 C and snowing.tomorrow it will be 15 C. The weather west of the highway outside my kitchen window is very different from the weather east of the highway because the water moderates the temperature. sometimes 5 miles west gets 6 inches of snow and 5 miles east gets rain.
Not even summer yet in Arkansas but it's already reaching into the 90s but with the amount of moisture in the air it feels like it's about 110. Can't wait for July and August when it's going to be 100 but feeling like 120 😂
I got stuck in a tornado back in 2012 in the middle midwest. Was the leap day tornado. Was not expected but southern illinois is crazy with its temps. It was an ef4 tornado with winds of 185mph. Killed 9 people anc changed lives forever. I cannot explain how wind that fast feels on your exposed skin. But it changes the way you feel.
"Not as humid in the midwest"
*laughs in Michigan lake effect dewpoint*
Here in chicago it gets really cold and the wind can be brutal with the cold. That’s why it was named the Windy City. It’s always some kind of wind blowing.