Here I am in the middle of Alaska, laughing my head off. Try that Chicago winter x 2 AND never seeing sunlight! Ha! BTW, the leaves are golden and falling already. Fresh snow on the mountains…. it’s coming.
Chicago-metro has 15x the population of Alaska and people have to get to work, on time, every day, in brutal conditions. In contrast, in Alaska, nothing happens. Lastly, there's usually a stretch of 4 to 6 weeks where there's little or no sunlight in Chicago.
Being in the UK, I’m sure Luka can understand, at least to some extent, the lack of light. I know it gets dark around 4pm & the sun comes up around 9am over there. They get much milder temps so I have no sympathy for him🤣
When I was in Syracuse University in a New York February, it snowed 28 consecutive days. When working a lot of overtime in February in Pennsylvania I did not see the sun for the entire month! [But warmer being South of NY]
I've said this before, elsewhere. Chicago winters can be brutal, but only for a few days at a time. We're at a concatenation of weather fronts, so you can have arctic cold from Canada, interspersed with windy snows from the west, and a series of mild days when the wind is from the south. Often, it'll snow heavily and not melt for weeks, other times, the snow will melt in a couple of days. Whatever happens, we have fleets of snow plows and mountains of salt. It takes A LOT to bring the city to a standstill.
Although it doesn't get that cold every winter, it's not unusual for temps in my part of the high plains of Colorado to dip to -35*f. Don't touch the door handle on your car with a bare hand...you'll be stuck!!
I live about 2 hours north of Laurence, and we constantly complain about the weather. In the summer we complain about it being too hot because it can get insanely hot up here, but in the winter it can become crazy cold like what Laurence said. In October and November we tend to complain a bit about how cold it is, but it is also slightly enjoyable because we can have bonfires. Then by January and February our bodies become numb to the cold and we don't notice the difference anymore. Then by April it's cold and rainy all the time. The cold temperatures during April are usually around the temperatures we experienced in October/November, and yet we think it feels like summer even though 6 months prior we were complaining about the same temperatures. People in the north also become professionals "usually" when it comes to driving in the snow or freezing rain. If we got 10 inches of snow or freezing rain, you are basically expected to show up to work, but if they got that in the south, businesses would be closed for a week. A lot of people who aren't used to this type of weather think that it's always cold and miserable in the surrounding states, but when they visit those states in the summer, they tend to be shocked at how beautiful the scenery is, and how warm it can get.
I spent my first 40 years in Minnesota (I'm in Atlanta now), but I absolutely LOVED the winter up there. It isn't the snow that I miss ... it's the cold. I need it to get below freezing to reset my seasonal clock, I guess, and while that will happen here in Atlanta, it doesn't happen often enough, and it just doesn't get cold enough. The coldest I've seen here in ATL is -13C, which is ok, but that's still shorts weather for me...
I live in Colorado and we get temperatures of minus 23 degrees Fahrenheit no windchill, and had one storm that lasted 2 days straight where we had 8-10 feet of snow. We loved it and built tunnels for our daughter to play in on our deck.
One of the standing jokes in Michigan's Upper Peninsula--about 100-150 miles north of Chicago--is, when someone asks what summer is like there, the reply is, "Well, dere's usually a couple of weeks in August where the ice fishing is pretty lousy..."
The stage past the "my nose hurts" part is the "my heartbeat is dictating my posture so I don't die in a few minutes" part. Then there's the "My clothes are a space suit and I am on MFing Mars, Ima die shortly without shelter" part.
I love Chicago. I lived there for four years in the 1970's. I will always remember the -73*F windchill day that I waited for the elevated train in high wind wearing polyester pants. As I stepped on the train my pants broke.
I've had the misfortune of experiencing similar temps with non-stop winds. I think the official temperature was -77F. I stepped outside in jeans and could feel the fabric freezing as I walked. No amount of layers was going to be sufficient to keep warm. Didn't leave the house for two days.
@@tricitymorte1 Back in 1972 I was required to wear polyester pants to work. The pants literally broke at the knees like glass. I had to go back home and change.
@@loganshaw4527 We were expected to be at work on time no different from any other day. When I was a bit late due to my pants breaking, my boss didn't give me grief. Seems he had heard that happening before.
The snow really does add to the holiday. The northeast gets such beautiful autumn and winters. Yeah the snow generally just sucks. But there is a nice little wonder it adds.
Our winter in Minnesota last year was very mild (like a lot of days above freezing) with like 3 snowfalls, and it was one of the saddest winters imo. It was nice not to freeze every time I went outside, but there was basically no snow. I missed waking up on those mornings with freshly fallen snow where everything is quiet and the sun is shining on the frosty trees and everything is just shiny and beautiful. There are plenty of activities to do in the winter (my favorite is snowshoeing), and that's really the trick of getting through winter. You gotta find enjoyment out of it :)
Last winter was unusually mild and not snowy here in Massachusetts as well. From what I’ve heard from early forecasters, this winter will make up for it by being colder and snowier than usual.
Chicago is actually warmer in the winter than the area surrounding it! There’s so many people there that it literally warms up the city via body heat. It’s a really interesting phenomenon.
I grew up in California, but spent 20 years in Madison, Wisconsin - which is northwest of Chicago. To give a little perspective - Chicago is less cold, and generally has slightly shorter winters than Madison, But our Friends from Northern Minnesota referred to Madison as being in the "Banana Belt" - because our snow would melt between Late November and early April. Chicago is chilly - but not really, and has some crummy weather - but it is not considered especially cold.
It’s hard for me to accept the fact that more people die from extreme heat than exposure to cold temperatures. I suppose it’s because hot temperatures don’t feel as threatening to ones safety as cold temperatures do and so people don’t take corrective measures in a timely manner.
@@patriciafeehan7732no, those would be winter temperatures in Vermont, not in August. I live close to the Vermont border, in Massachusetts, and it is the same here.
I grew up 120 miles south of Chicago in a town called Rantoul..and there is a lot of very flat farmland..I remember many winters where the temperature frequently dropped to minus -30F with a windchill factor of minus -50F and even -70F below because of the unblocked wind...this was back in the late 70s and early 80s....don't know what its like now..i live in Arizona now..go figure..one extreme to another.
Here in michigan we sunrise is hour and a half after new york but we are in the same time zone. Result is our kids go to school in the dark for almost the entire school year. In december your in school for almost 2 hours before the sun rises.
I am from New York and now I live in Florida. I miss the cold so much. I love walking in snowstorms and the cold air. The coldest temperature I ever lived through is about -50 F with the windchill and -25 F without it.
I've lived in three of the top 10 coldest states. Maybe it's because my ancestors are mostly from Scandinavia and Canada that draw me to those kind of places.
I live in southwestern NY. Have my whole life. You get so used to the winters here that it's not uncommon to do your weekly shopping while the sky is dumping feet of snow. It's just another day.
Also, LITP does have a video on the 5 coldest states titled "5 states with way colder winters than Britain" if you do want to look into just how bad it can get in this country.
He is not joking about the cold. We love our winters in The Mid Atlantic and New England too. Snow! A fire going…the smell of a fire going it is cold! People in New England get ready for Ski and Snowboarding Season.
Am going through a brutal summer now, esp with no a/c since end of July. 2nd time it's happened, new a/c (2 months old), different brand, same problem. UGH.....I wish for winterish, FL. 😯
I live in the northern part of NY. I grew up in the lake effect snow area of the state but moved to the Adirondack Park. Winters are different in some ways. I don't remember Halloween where we didn't have long johns under our costumes or a winter coat. We used to joke we had two seasons winter then three months of summer. Autumn seemed to start September first and end two weeks later. It wasn't super cold most of the time but we got dumped on by snow. Now in the park the mountains kind of insulate us from all that snow. We get super cold temps in January and February (often negative 10 or more f) but winter seems to be on its way out mid March. Autumn actually feels longer here and well "spring" is mud season it still shows up by mid April most years. Winter in the forest is a mix of magical and drudgery. Trees frosted and the snow casting tiny glittering rainbows is beautiful. Or night time snowmobile rides on frozen lakes and forest trails. But then there is the heating, driving those slick windy roads , constantly moving snow, cleaning up salt and snowmelt off your floors, the layers of clothes and extra supplies you keep in the car in case you break down. Sometimes your car is not starting or the doors freeze shut, waiting forever for the windshield to defrost. Life slows down in the winter.
my first time in a cold winter place i thought super cold air had its own smell. i mentioned this to someone that grew up there and he said "you're smelling the Kraft plant. sometimes the wind blows from that direction" 🙂
I live in Chicago, and the coldest I remember (with counting in wind chill) was -42 degrees F. I did try to get to work, but didn't even make it around the corner to get to the bus stop before I decided, "Oh, hell no." Which was good, because my company sent out an email 5 minutes after I got back to the apartment that they weren't going to open up because of the weather. I spent the rest of the day under a pile of covers....
Drive 90 miles north of Chicago to Milwaukee Wisconsin and it already is getting colder with more snow ,keep going north 120 miles to Green Bay and it is even worse, etc etc. LOL
The christmas before last christmas on christmas eve here in buffalo NY we lost power for 2 days. No christmas joy just a freezing house. We do have a gas stove so that helped.
Let me give you an idea of cold weather. I live in Southern New England. My city is at the same latitude as Rome, Italy. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the city is -12 F [-25 C]. When I was in high school unless the temperature was below 20 F [-7 C], we were expected to go outdoors for Phys. Ed. classes. Not all Northern cities get a lot of snow. Last winter, I think we got less than 1 foot total [30 cm]. However, that is not always true. Some winters can be VERY bad. In the Winter of 2014-2015, Boston got a total of 110 inches [over 9 feet or 2.8 meters] of snow. My city got 65 inches [over 5 feet or 1.7 meters]. And remember, my city is more than 500 miles [800 K] further South than the UK.
As someone who has lived in Chicago for decades, I don't think Laurance has ever experienced a really cold winter, when the temps have gotten down to -15 to -25F (-26 to -32 C). A lot of years, we don't have snow at Christmas. -1 or -2C seems rather mild for a winters day.
I live north of Lost in the Pond in the metro area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I love the winters here. I've grown up here so I'm used to it plus I love the cold. Summer is my least favorite time of year. Not looking forward to the 88 and 90F weather coming on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Way too hot for me.
I'm a midwesterner and I still love winter. Autumn is the best, but Winter is second best. I'm also allergic to all the plants so winter is the only time of year I can exist outside of an allergy medicine haze xD
I don't care where you live in any vaguely northern clime, winter sucks! I hate the cold, the damp, and the dark dreary days. Cold is when your eyes hurt and get stuck together, when it hurts to breathe, when you're face hurts, and when you can't feel your extremities. That's happened to me, and I was dressed for it, too.
I lived in New Jersey for years, and some of the temps during those arctic vortexes were the coldest I have ever felt in my life. It got below 0 Fahrenheit for sure.
Christmas in warm weather areas are pretty cool, Arizona and Florida especially. Ah hell I'll be kind today, even New Mexico, depending where. New Mexico is usually the hell mouth of the United States.
I'm not sure what Laurence is referring to when he states it gets dark earlier in Chicago? Across all the states it gets dark, or sunset is at approximately 5PM during winter, and about 8pm during summer with a few variations of maybe 30 minutes. This all changes as the months roll on of course. The closer we get to summer, and daylight savings, sunsets are later, maybe 6pm in all states, then approximately 8pm to 8:30pm as we set the clock up an hour for daylight savings. With a few exceptions, this should be similar worldwide in counties that use daylight saving times.
When he said “like Minneapolis and Saint Paul the twin cities” is a thing people in Minnesota would use “twin cities” due to the fact that Minneapolis and Saint Paul is right by each other and have a population together about a million or so.
Where I am in the U.S. is about a six~eight hour plane ride to NYC and we have not had snow in years here . Not everywhere in the U.S. has brutal winters . Some snow once a year would be nice but I guess we will get some snow when we are due .
There was one day I was looking up temperatures from different places and discovered that on that day in February (the 17th, I think?) it was colder in Chicago than it was at the North Pole.
Like most things, it’s only in part of the country. I’ve never lived in a more northern latitude than Tangiers, Morocco, so I’ve rarely even seen snow or natural ice. Maybe a few times a decade.
As someone who lives just a few miles outside of Chicago, I can confidently say that -3 degrees Celcius is not cold for winter. I would no joke wear just a hoodie in that weather.
It' snot unusual for us to have temps around -26 C. Growing up in this weather you kind of get used to it. You don't like it but you learn how to deal with it. It sure makes you appreciate the heat. Feb is awesome because we usually get 3 to 5 days with sunshine and 40 degree F.
If -2°c is cold to you imagine where I lived in Colorado, usually having five consecutive days each winter at around -43°c. Not a great temperature for living in a stone house. ;-)
It's crazy how what you're used to determines what you think is extreme. He says minus one, minus two is cold. That's 30.2 F and 28.4 F. Beanie with a hoodie weather. The average high in December where i live is colder than that, and -10 F (-23 C) is not uncommon. Add in wind chill, -40 F is -40 C. There's been a lot of years where i had to use a plasma lighter to light fireworks on New Year's Eve because a normal lighter wouldn't work. Or maybe my fingers wouldn't work lol
Just want to point out Illinois is nowhere close to our coldest state, nor is Chicago, despite being nicknamed the "Windy City" our windiest. This past winter, here in Kansas(also not close to the coldest state), we had a bad winter and it got down to -20°F(-28.9°C) with a 5 or 10 mph constant wind(actually mild for us here) for a wind chill around -30(-36.7C.) If you want to know cold, look at the Northern Plains. Montana and North Dakota often get to around -40 in winter, before even factoring in the wind, and can get way lower. I think ND hit -60(-51 C), again without the wind factor, in that January winter storm that caused the temps I mentioned here.
Ik Massachusetts ain't the coldest state but even then it gets freezing cold. Despite this winter being pretty mild compared to previous years, this year we got multiple nor easters and both days had wind-chills that were -10 or lower The first nor easter wasn't on the coldest day of the year so far but it was still cold enough to get hypothermia in maybe 45 minutes to an hour The wind was around 30 mph or even more and the wind-chills were around -25 On the second nor easter it was spring and absolutely horrible out. Winds of around 45 mph with 6 inches of snow and streets were flooded with 3 inches of water (idk where the water came from cuz it never rained) the wind-chills were around -10 to -15
@@HistoryNerd808 This tiny corner in the state of Illinois has 9.5 million people, about 5x the population of NDakota + Montana. It also has approximately 6x the GDP of both states. In Chicago, everyone has to get to work, every day, often in brutal conditions. Accomplishing this is a difficult task. In Montana, the chief concern is keeping the cows warm. If you're a Cubs' fan, you likely know this.
Look Mate..Winters change from YEAR to YEAR..One year Chicago may hav a BAD Winter, the next somewhat Mild! That's the same for MOST of the US except for the states that are farther North! BTW..Chicago is in ILLINOIS which is NOT a Far Northern State!
Lol, hearing people complain about winters is always funny to me because I grew up in North Dakota... We would routinely have way below zero (F, not C) as our high temps; and we'd occasionally have wind chills of -80 for extended periods; mother nature will actually kill you in ND if you have something like a car breakdown, or just go outside and suddenly there's so much snow you can't see and can't find your way back to a warm place and freeze to death... Going outside in the morning routinely results in ICE forming insde of your skull the first time you inhale, because it is JUST THAT FUCKING COLD... You can search RUclips for people who didn't come from ND but went there when the Bakken oil field was going crazy; there are a lot of videos of people showing videos of splashing boiling water over a balcony and it turning to snow before it reached the ground... On the plus side, you can piss on people who are assholes door locks and then they have to break your frozen piss off before they can open their doors... (I didn't say that out loud, did I?) Bottom line up front; ND, summer is three months, spring and fall a frew weeks each; as a child I routinely trick or treated at Halloween in knee deep snow. The thing is I can say this stuff over and over, but this is one of those things that you REALLY CAN'T GET until you have felt it, because WORDS LITERALLY CANNOT CONVEY THE HIDEOUS FEELING OF HOW COLD -40 ACTUAL WITH A STRONG WIND OUT OF THE NORTH (WITH NO TREES OR ANYTHING TO SLOW IT DOWN) OUT OF THE ARCTIC BRINGING THE WIND CHILL TO -80 feels. This is one of those you cannot comprehend how bad it is unless you have actually been there while it was happening, because words are not capable of conveying the level of horror your body feels at these temperatures. And yeah, Chicago has cold and gets snow... Pikers compared to ND.
Isn’t minus 2 degrees Celsius actually 30 degrees Fahrenheit? That’s more like late fall temperatures in many places in the US. Winter is more like 10 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit and occasionally single digits or colder. Honestly once it gets to 25 degrees or colder, it doesn’t feel colder than 25 degrees. Maybe that’s because any exposed skin goes numb and the rest is really bundled up under many layers.
The false spring is killer. Have 20s or teens/single, brutal cold for effing ever then have mid 50s low 60s for a few days then it drops again. All farenheit.
You realize, of course, that Illinois is not one of the coldest states, by a wide margin. I mean, ok, it's not Arizona or Florida. It does have winter. But Illinois winters are not remarkable, compared to other states that have winter. Which is more than half of them. Personally, winter is my favorite time of year, especially in terms of the weather. I hate being hot, and I love snow, especially dry powdery snow that you get when it's colder. It could be twenty below for three months solid, I would not complain.
Lost in the Pond takes 9 minutes to say three interesting things. I get that he gets more money if talks nonsense but I'm not doing it anymore. His charm is definitely waning, at least for me. In addition, he lacks a lot of the wonderful footage and just puts his own face on more than I like.
Wimps!! I spent a winter at McMurdo Station, Antarctica where the sun doesn't come up AT ALL for 3 months and the typical temperature is -40F (oddly, also -40C). Yeah, @susanapplegate9758 could maybe handle it, but not the rest of you who think -3C is cold.
I'm a Highlander and not young, so I recall some very cold winters in the past but oddly looking up the 'official' coldest temperature now disagrees with my actual experience. One winter about 37 years ago it got down to -30C in the Cairngorm mountains (as broadcast on local radio at the time) and was -24C in the town of Inverness (where I lived at that time). It was common for us in the Highlands, to have antifreeze in our cars rated to -18C, so lots of people, including me had burst hoses in our cars from that. According to modern records, the coldest temp in the UK was −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F), though it was in the Highlands, it was much further North; which is odd as there should be records from that winter but they seem to be gone now.
Lawrence and the lost in the pond videos have become so complex it is hard to really find out any real information. His humor waters down the content of the videos. He has gone off the rails. It is cold in Chicago but after watching this video I still do not have a good understanding of how many months you need to be prepared for. I did not enjoy this video and the last ones he has put out.
Here I am in the middle of Alaska, laughing my head off. Try that Chicago winter x 2 AND never seeing sunlight! Ha! BTW, the leaves are golden and falling already. Fresh snow on the mountains…. it’s coming.
Be careful of the Night King and his army up there. Winter is coming
Chicago-metro has 15x the population of Alaska and people have to get to work, on time, every day, in brutal conditions. In contrast, in Alaska, nothing happens. Lastly, there's usually a stretch of 4 to 6 weeks where there's little or no sunlight in Chicago.
Being in the UK, I’m sure Luka can understand, at least to some extent, the lack of light. I know it gets dark around 4pm & the sun comes up around 9am over there. They get much milder temps so I have no sympathy for him🤣
It's August though
@@TheSkyGuy77 Yep…50 ish degrees, harvesting all I can from my garden…snow on the peaks and low 40s in my house.
I lived in Anchorage Alaska for two years. It has two seasons, Winter and July 9th.
When I was in Syracuse University in a New York February, it snowed 28 consecutive days.
When working a lot of overtime in February in Pennsylvania I did not see the sun for the entire month! [But warmer being South of NY]
I've said this before, elsewhere. Chicago winters can be brutal, but only for a few days at a time. We're at a concatenation of weather fronts, so you can have arctic cold from Canada, interspersed with windy snows from the west, and a series of mild days when the wind is from the south. Often, it'll snow heavily and not melt for weeks, other times, the snow will melt in a couple of days. Whatever happens, we have fleets of snow plows and mountains of salt. It takes A LOT to bring the city to a standstill.
Although it doesn't get that cold every winter, it's not unusual for temps in my part of the high plains of Colorado to dip to -35*f. Don't touch the door handle on your car with a bare hand...you'll be stuck!!
Make sure to brake any ice on door you have before trying to open the car door.
I live about 2 hours north of Laurence, and we constantly complain about the weather. In the summer we complain about it being too hot because it can get insanely hot up here, but in the winter it can become crazy cold like what Laurence said. In October and November we tend to complain a bit about how cold it is, but it is also slightly enjoyable because we can have bonfires. Then by January and February our bodies become numb to the cold and we don't notice the difference anymore. Then by April it's cold and rainy all the time. The cold temperatures during April are usually around the temperatures we experienced in October/November, and yet we think it feels like summer even though 6 months prior we were complaining about the same temperatures. People in the north also become professionals "usually" when it comes to driving in the snow or freezing rain. If we got 10 inches of snow or freezing rain, you are basically expected to show up to work, but if they got that in the south, businesses would be closed for a week. A lot of people who aren't used to this type of weather think that it's always cold and miserable in the surrounding states, but when they visit those states in the summer, they tend to be shocked at how beautiful the scenery is, and how warm it can get.
Dec 21 has became my favorite day of the year lately just because after that the days begin to gradually get longer again
I spent my first 40 years in Minnesota (I'm in Atlanta now), but I absolutely LOVED the winter up there. It isn't the snow that I miss ... it's the cold. I need it to get below freezing to reset my seasonal clock, I guess, and while that will happen here in Atlanta, it doesn't happen often enough, and it just doesn't get cold enough. The coldest I've seen here in ATL is -13C, which is ok, but that's still shorts weather for me...
Funny how opposite people can be. Being born, and raised in sunny California, I can't stand the cold, I HATE IT! 😅
I live in Colorado and we get temperatures of minus 23 degrees Fahrenheit no windchill, and had one storm that lasted 2 days straight where we had 8-10 feet of snow. We loved it and built tunnels for our daughter to play in on our deck.
One of the standing jokes in Michigan's Upper Peninsula--about 100-150 miles north of Chicago--is, when someone asks what summer is like there, the reply is, "Well, dere's usually a couple of weeks in August where the ice fishing is pretty lousy..."
The stage past the "my nose hurts" part is the "my heartbeat is dictating my posture so I don't die in a few minutes" part. Then there's the "My clothes are a space suit and I am on MFing Mars, Ima die shortly without shelter" part.
😂😂😂😂
I love Chicago. I lived there for four years in the 1970's. I will always remember the -73*F windchill day that I waited for the elevated train in high wind wearing polyester pants. As I stepped on the train my pants broke.
Wow I am surprised the train was still running.
I've had the misfortune of experiencing similar temps with non-stop winds. I think the official temperature was -77F. I stepped outside in jeans and could feel the fabric freezing as I walked. No amount of layers was going to be sufficient to keep warm. Didn't leave the house for two days.
@@tricitymorte1 Back in 1972 I was required to wear polyester pants to work. The pants literally broke at the knees like glass. I had to go back home and change.
@@loganshaw4527 We were expected to be at work on time no different from any other day. When I was a bit late due to my pants breaking, my boss didn't give me grief. Seems he had heard that happening before.
In September, atleast in my area, we get days in the 30's. It's still late summer/early autumn and we get days that almost have the chance to snow
The snow really does add to the holiday. The northeast gets such beautiful autumn and winters. Yeah the snow generally just sucks. But there is a nice little wonder it adds.
Our winter in Minnesota last year was very mild (like a lot of days above freezing) with like 3 snowfalls, and it was one of the saddest winters imo. It was nice not to freeze every time I went outside, but there was basically no snow. I missed waking up on those mornings with freshly fallen snow where everything is quiet and the sun is shining on the frosty trees and everything is just shiny and beautiful. There are plenty of activities to do in the winter (my favorite is snowshoeing), and that's really the trick of getting through winter. You gotta find enjoyment out of it :)
Last winter was unusually mild and not snowy here in Massachusetts as well. From what I’ve heard from early forecasters, this winter will make up for it by being colder and snowier than usual.
@@LindaAntonia1 I'm ready for it!
Chicago is actually warmer in the winter than the area surrounding it! There’s so many people there that it literally warms up the city via body heat. It’s a really interesting phenomenon.
I grew up in California, but spent 20 years in Madison, Wisconsin - which is northwest of Chicago.
To give a little perspective - Chicago is less cold, and generally has slightly shorter winters than Madison,
But our Friends from Northern Minnesota referred to Madison as being in the "Banana Belt" -
because our snow would melt between Late November and early April.
Chicago is chilly - but not really, and has some crummy weather - but it is not considered especially cold.
I love winter!
It’s hard for me to accept the fact that more people die from extreme heat than exposure to cold temperatures. I suppose it’s because hot temperatures don’t feel as threatening to ones safety as cold temperatures do and so people don’t take corrective measures in a timely manner.
When I attended university in Vermont, there were days when the high temperature did not reach 0 F (minus 17.8 C). That's without the windchill.
@@JPMadden
During July and August? You must be mad! Those hot afternoons and cool moonlight.
@@patriciafeehan7732no, those would be winter temperatures in Vermont, not in August. I live close to the Vermont border, in Massachusetts, and it is the same here.
All is good in the US until the low temperature is (minus 45 C) that is with the windchill.
I grew up 120 miles south of Chicago in a town called Rantoul..and there is a lot of very flat farmland..I remember many winters where the temperature frequently dropped to minus -30F with a windchill factor of minus -50F and even -70F below because of the unblocked wind...this was back in the late 70s and early 80s....don't know what its like now..i live in Arizona now..go figure..one extreme to another.
Here in michigan we sunrise is hour and a half after new york but we are in the same time zone. Result is our kids go to school in the dark for almost the entire school year. In december your in school for almost 2 hours before the sun rises.
Im on Ohio if its not raining here its snowing 😂 lake effect.
I am from New York and now I live in Florida. I miss the cold so much. I love walking in snowstorms and the cold air. The coldest temperature I ever lived through is about -50 F with the windchill and -25 F without it.
I've lived in three of the top 10 coldest states. Maybe it's because my ancestors are mostly from Scandinavia and Canada that draw me to those kind of places.
ACTUALLY winters ARE VERY mild COMPARE TO 30 YEARS AGO
On the plus side, to compensate, Chicago is the most fun US city in the Summer when everyone is out appreciating that it isn't Winter.
I live in southwestern NY. Have my whole life. You get so used to the winters here that it's not uncommon to do your weekly shopping while the sky is dumping feet of snow. It's just another day.
Also, LITP does have a video on the 5 coldest states titled "5 states with way colder winters than Britain" if you do want to look into just how bad it can get in this country.
He is not joking about the cold. We love our winters in The Mid Atlantic and New England too. Snow! A fire going…the smell of a fire going it is cold! People in New England get ready for Ski and Snowboarding Season.
I live 40 miles West of Chicago and I can confirm 😂😂 it gets COLD and snowy but the snow is beautiful!
I live in central Pennsylvania the trees are changing drastically for fall at least a month ahead of "normal" CRUD.........
Great video. I enjoy the humour. I enjoy all of your videos actually.
It's crazy that both the winter and summer in the US is brutal. I much prefer winter though.
Am going through a brutal summer now, esp with no a/c since end of July. 2nd time it's happened, new a/c (2 months old), different brand, same problem. UGH.....I wish for winterish, FL. 😯
I live in the northern part of NY. I grew up in the lake effect snow area of the state but moved to the Adirondack Park. Winters are different in some ways. I don't remember Halloween where we didn't have long johns under our costumes or a winter coat. We used to joke we had two seasons winter then three months of summer. Autumn seemed to start September first and end two weeks later. It wasn't super cold most of the time but we got dumped on by snow. Now in the park the mountains kind of insulate us from all that snow. We get super cold temps in January and February (often negative 10 or more f) but winter seems to be on its way out mid March. Autumn actually feels longer here and well "spring" is mud season it still shows up by mid April most years. Winter in the forest is a mix of magical and drudgery. Trees frosted and the snow casting tiny glittering rainbows is beautiful. Or night time snowmobile rides on frozen lakes and forest trails. But then there is the heating, driving those slick windy roads , constantly moving snow, cleaning up salt and snowmelt off your floors, the layers of clothes and extra supplies you keep in the car in case you break down. Sometimes your car is not starting or the doors freeze shut, waiting forever for the windshield to defrost. Life slows down in the winter.
my first time in a cold winter place i thought super cold air had its own smell. i mentioned this to someone that grew up there and he said "you're smelling the Kraft plant. sometimes the wind blows from that direction" 🙂
I live in Chicago, and the coldest I remember (with counting in wind chill) was -42 degrees F. I did try to get to work, but didn't even make it around the corner to get to the bus stop before I decided, "Oh, hell no." Which was good, because my company sent out an email 5 minutes after I got back to the apartment that they weren't going to open up because of the weather. I spent the rest of the day under a pile of covers....
Drive 90 miles north of Chicago to Milwaukee Wisconsin and it already is getting colder with more snow ,keep going north 120 miles to Green Bay and it is even worse, etc etc. LOL
Chicago in the autumn is perfection, though.
The christmas before last christmas on christmas eve here in buffalo NY we lost power for 2 days. No christmas joy just a freezing house. We do have a gas stove so that helped.
Not only does Lawrence do a passable American accent, it's a Chicago accent!
Let me give you an idea of cold weather. I live in Southern New England. My city is at the same latitude as Rome, Italy. The coldest temperature ever recorded in the city is -12 F [-25 C]. When I was in high school unless the temperature was below 20 F [-7 C], we were expected to go outdoors for Phys. Ed. classes.
Not all Northern cities get a lot of snow. Last winter, I think we got less than 1 foot total [30 cm]. However, that is not always true. Some winters can be VERY bad. In the Winter of 2014-2015, Boston got a total of 110 inches [over 9 feet or 2.8 meters] of snow. My city got 65 inches [over 5 feet or 1.7 meters]. And remember, my city is more than 500 miles [800 K] further South than the UK.
Im not an Alaskan, but moved above Chicago where it usually is -15 Fahrenheit for weeks if not months at a time
I live in Pennsylvania and in 2022 before Christmas, it got to -2°F (-18.9°C) and I did NOT want to step foot out of my house 😂
As someone who has lived in Chicago for decades, I don't think Laurance has ever experienced a really cold winter, when the temps have gotten down to -15 to -25F (-26 to -32 C). A lot of years, we don't have snow at Christmas. -1 or -2C seems rather mild for a winters day.
I live north of Lost in the Pond in the metro area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I love the winters here.
I've grown up here so I'm used to it plus I love the cold. Summer is my least favorite time of year.
Not looking forward to the 88 and 90F weather coming on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Way too hot for me.
I'm a midwesterner and I still love winter. Autumn is the best, but Winter is second best. I'm also allergic to all the plants so winter is the only time of year I can exist outside of an allergy medicine haze xD
Same.
I don't care where you live in any vaguely northern clime, winter sucks! I hate the cold, the damp, and the dark dreary days. Cold is when your eyes hurt and get stuck together, when it hurts to breathe, when you're face hurts, and when you can't feel your extremities. That's happened to me, and I was dressed for it, too.
I lived in New Jersey for years, and some of the temps during those arctic vortexes were the coldest I have ever felt in my life. It got below 0 Fahrenheit for sure.
Coldest temperature recorded in Chicago: On Jan. 20, 1985, it was -27 F or -32.7 C.
Christmas in warm weather areas are pretty cool, Arizona and Florida especially. Ah hell I'll be kind today, even New Mexico, depending where. New Mexico is usually the hell mouth of the United States.
I'm not sure what Laurence is referring to when he states it gets dark earlier in Chicago? Across all the states it gets dark, or sunset is at approximately 5PM during winter, and about 8pm during summer with a few variations of maybe 30 minutes. This all changes as the months roll on of course. The closer we get to summer, and daylight savings, sunsets are later, maybe 6pm in all states, then approximately 8pm to 8:30pm as we set the clock up an hour for daylight savings. With a few exceptions, this should be similar worldwide in counties that use daylight saving times.
I live in North Dakota. Winter consists of one word. Cold. COLD. 😅
When he said “like Minneapolis and Saint Paul the twin cities” is a thing people in Minnesota would use “twin cities” due to the fact that Minneapolis and Saint Paul is right by each other and have a population together about a million or so.
Where I am in the U.S. is about a six~eight hour plane ride to NYC and we have not had snow in years here . Not everywhere in the U.S. has brutal winters . Some snow once a year would be nice but I guess we will get some snow when we are due .
There was one day I was looking up temperatures from different places and discovered that on that day in February (the 17th, I think?) it was colder in Chicago than it was at the North Pole.
If you think that's bad. Imagine Canada near the artic. They only have 30 days of warm weather lol
Yes, but almost no one lives there.
By the time you get to January and February it seems like its never going to end
Like most things, it’s only in part of the country. I’ve never lived in a more northern latitude than Tangiers, Morocco, so I’ve rarely even seen snow or natural ice. Maybe a few times a decade.
As someone who lives just a few miles outside of Chicago, I can confidently say that -3 degrees Celcius is not cold for winter. I would no joke wear just a hoodie in that weather.
It' snot unusual for us to have temps around -26 C. Growing up in this weather you kind of get used to it. You don't like it but you learn how to deal with it. It sure makes you appreciate the heat. Feb is awesome because we usually get 3 to 5 days with sunshine and 40 degree F.
2017 my city got almost 6 feet of snow on Christmas day ( I live in Pennsylvania) haven't seen much since then, hoping for a white Christmas this year
My friends in Finland WANT the temp to be UNDER 0 Celsius in winter
If -2°c is cold to you imagine where I lived in Colorado, usually having five consecutive days each winter at around -43°c. Not a great temperature for living in a stone house. ;-)
Winters in North America suck
It's crazy how what you're used to determines what you think is extreme. He says minus one, minus two is cold. That's 30.2 F and 28.4 F. Beanie with a hoodie weather. The average high in December where i live is colder than that, and -10 F (-23 C) is not uncommon. Add in wind chill, -40 F is -40 C. There's been a lot of years where i had to use a plasma lighter to light fireworks on New Year's Eve because a normal lighter wouldn't work. Or maybe my fingers wouldn't work lol
Just want to point out Illinois is nowhere close to our coldest state, nor is Chicago, despite being nicknamed the "Windy City" our windiest. This past winter, here in Kansas(also not close to the coldest state), we had a bad winter and it got down to -20°F(-28.9°C) with a 5 or 10 mph constant wind(actually mild for us here) for a wind chill around -30(-36.7C.)
If you want to know cold, look at the Northern Plains. Montana and North Dakota often get to around -40 in winter, before even factoring in the wind, and can get way lower. I think ND hit -60(-51 C), again without the wind factor, in that January winter storm that caused the temps I mentioned here.
It's the coldest metro-city in the US where more than 9 million people live.
@@cygnusx-3217A sample size of 3. Good job.
Ik Massachusetts ain't the coldest state but even then it gets freezing cold.
Despite this winter being pretty mild compared to previous years, this year we got multiple nor easters and both days had wind-chills that were -10 or lower
The first nor easter wasn't on the coldest day of the year so far but it was still cold enough to get hypothermia in maybe 45 minutes to an hour
The wind was around 30 mph or even more and the wind-chills were around -25
On the second nor easter it was spring and absolutely horrible out. Winds of around 45 mph with 6 inches of snow and streets were flooded with 3 inches of water (idk where the water came from cuz it never rained) the wind-chills were around -10 to -15
@@HistoryNerd808 This tiny corner in the state of Illinois has 9.5 million people, about 5x the population of NDakota + Montana.
It also has approximately 6x the GDP of both states.
In Chicago, everyone has to get to work, every day, often in brutal conditions. Accomplishing this is a difficult task.
In Montana, the chief concern is keeping the cows warm.
If you're a Cubs' fan, you likely know this.
Look Mate..Winters change from YEAR to YEAR..One year Chicago may hav a BAD Winter, the next somewhat Mild! That's the same for MOST of the US except for the states that are farther North! BTW..Chicago is in ILLINOIS which is NOT a Far Northern State!
Lol, hearing people complain about winters is always funny to me because I grew up in North Dakota... We would routinely have way below zero (F, not C) as our high temps; and we'd occasionally have wind chills of -80 for extended periods; mother nature will actually kill you in ND if you have something like a car breakdown, or just go outside and suddenly there's so much snow you can't see and can't find your way back to a warm place and freeze to death... Going outside in the morning routinely results in ICE forming insde of your skull the first time you inhale, because it is JUST THAT FUCKING COLD... You can search RUclips for people who didn't come from ND but went there when the Bakken oil field was going crazy; there are a lot of videos of people showing videos of splashing boiling water over a balcony and it turning to snow before it reached the ground... On the plus side, you can piss on people who are assholes door locks and then they have to break your frozen piss off before they can open their doors... (I didn't say that out loud, did I?) Bottom line up front; ND, summer is three months, spring and fall a frew weeks each; as a child I routinely trick or treated at Halloween in knee deep snow. The thing is I can say this stuff over and over, but this is one of those things that you REALLY CAN'T GET until you have felt it, because WORDS LITERALLY CANNOT CONVEY THE HIDEOUS FEELING OF HOW COLD -40 ACTUAL WITH A STRONG WIND OUT OF THE NORTH (WITH NO TREES OR ANYTHING TO SLOW IT DOWN) OUT OF THE ARCTIC BRINGING THE WIND CHILL TO -80 feels. This is one of those you cannot comprehend how bad it is unless you have actually been there while it was happening, because words are not capable of conveying the level of horror your body feels at these temperatures. And yeah, Chicago has cold and gets snow... Pikers compared to ND.
Here in Western Mas of two ships. Winer or winter as we call it. is cold. -2 C is hot day . Big problem is people slip and fall. ouch.
Isn’t minus 2 degrees Celsius actually 30 degrees Fahrenheit? That’s more like late fall temperatures in many places in the US. Winter is more like 10 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit and occasionally single digits or colder. Honestly once it gets to 25 degrees or colder, it doesn’t feel colder than 25 degrees. Maybe that’s because any exposed skin goes numb and the rest is really bundled up under many layers.
i think saruman used to live in the sears tower but then it changed its name and he left...or died..or something..
The false spring is killer. Have 20s or teens/single, brutal cold for effing ever then have mid 50s low 60s for a few days then it drops again. All farenheit.
Especially with places in the low middle or high south where moisture/humidity is high. Where it can be 20 degrees F but feel like 5F
On the flipside be 80 but feel 95 in summer
I think one of the lowest I have experienced is -20 or roundabouts.
You realize, of course, that Illinois is not one of the coldest states, by a wide margin. I mean, ok, it's not Arizona or Florida. It does have winter. But Illinois winters are not remarkable, compared to other states that have winter. Which is more than half of them.
Personally, winter is my favorite time of year, especially in terms of the weather. I hate being hot, and I love snow, especially dry powdery snow that you get when it's colder. It could be twenty below for three months solid, I would not complain.
And other parts of the US don’t really have a winter most years.
Lost in the Pond takes 9 minutes to say three interesting things. I get that he gets more money if talks nonsense but I'm not doing it anymore. His charm is definitely waning, at least for me. In addition, he lacks a lot of the wonderful footage and just puts his own face on more than I like.
Minus 1, minus 2? lol.
You had absolutely NO reaction to Laurence acting like a weatherman with NO British accent ! Seriously ?!!
Lol -3 c isn't cold
YES YOU ARE EXAGERATTING ,,,BUT THEN AGAIN YOURE british!
Have you ever been to America 🇺🇸????😊
He has not and he needs to, if only to find out that it doesn't snow every day anywhere in the US.
@@rridderbusch518 bullshit!
@@rridderbusch518 he’s not his father what ‘s that got to do with anything? Einstein!!! Don’t give a cop out answer junior!
Wimps!! I spent a winter at McMurdo Station, Antarctica where the sun doesn't come up AT ALL for 3 months and the typical temperature is -40F (oddly, also -40C).
Yeah, @susanapplegate9758 could maybe handle it, but not the rest of you who think -3C is cold.
I'm a Highlander and not young, so I recall some very cold winters in the past but oddly looking up the 'official' coldest temperature now disagrees with my actual experience. One winter about 37 years ago it got down to -30C in the Cairngorm mountains (as broadcast on local radio at the time) and was -24C in the town of Inverness (where I lived at that time). It was common for us in the Highlands, to have antifreeze in our cars rated to -18C, so lots of people, including me had burst hoses in our cars from that.
According to modern records, the coldest temp in the UK was −27.2 °C (−17.0 °F), though it was in the Highlands, it was much further North; which is odd as there should be records from that winter but they seem to be gone now.
@dacrosber In this case, definitely cooler.
@dacrosber Glad somebody here got it. 👏
This is why I live in the South...
Lawrence exaggerates EVERYTHING for click bait
way too much bs in this story
Lawrence and the lost in the pond videos have become so complex it is hard to really find out any real information. His humor waters down the content of the videos. He has gone off the rails. It is cold in Chicago but after watching this video I still do not have a good understanding of how many months you need to be prepared for. I did not enjoy this video and the last ones he has put out.
Not in the south.
To be fair, he is from England which has really mild winters. So even Southern Winters can seem cold.