Northern Wisconsin One winter I went out to shovel snow. It snowed the day before and finally stoped around midnight the next morning we had a polar vortex drop in. -45 F or -42.7 C with wind chill. Went out shoveled for ten minutes went inside to warm up. Repeat for two hours. Not a lot of snow about 4 inches Or 10 cm. ANY exposed skin can get frostbite in a few minutes. I was covered head to toes and still felt that bitter cold.
I once saw a comic that summed up living in the Midwest in Winter: "The air hurts my face. Why do I live where the air hurts my face?" There are two types of Midwesterners- those who have all the good snow gear and know how to bundle up, and those who are wearing shorts out in the snow. There is no in between. Also, anyone will tell you it's the Wind that's the problem. Freezing temps with no wind isn't all that bad, especially if it's sunny. But that wind can suck the warmth right out of you.
not minnesotan but i live in the rockies and yep, the wind is the killer. we had a deep freeze a couple years back (-20 out in the sun) and during the few hours it wasn't windy, it was actually pretty comfortable. then the wind picked up and i spent the rest of the day wondering why i decided working at a barn was what i wanted to do with my life
Agreed. Sub-zero temps are bad enough but when it hits -10 or -15 with a 15 or 20 mile an hour sustained wind, it is completely different. Hi from Kansas.
i moved from georgia to wisconsin and for the first few weeks of winter i thought it was exaggerated but when you start getting those high winds on top of a feels like of -20 the gusts of wind feels like being hit with a brick wall..never felt anything like it
The dust bowl actually affected Washington DC directly. A senator from one of affected states went on a tangent buying time for about 30 minutes until the dust literally hit Washington just outside the senate window. The entire senate was frightened into passing the soil conservation act right that second. It’s the only time the senate and the house unanimously passed a bill like that.
@@yugioht42 That's a fillibuster. Senate protocol is if the guy in charge gives you the floor you have it until you sit down or say you're giving it up. So long as you're stood up and talking you can talk forever and essentially hold the Senate hostage for as long as you can keep talking. Some folks read out entire long books, others just talked about random stuff just to take up time like in this case.
The Rocky Mountain Locust part is so weird and fascinating, because it only took a few years for the species to go from HUGE and terrible swarms to basically gone. It went extinct because even though the adults would fan out into giant swaths and devour crops for miles and miles, there was only a very small area where they would mate and lay eggs, around the headwaters of one or two rivers in the Rockies. Once these areas (which were fertile farmlands themselves because, well, river) were settled and their soil tilled, the farmers dug up millions and millions of egg casings, which would then either dry out in the sun or be snacks for birds. Without even meaning to, the farmers who settled the eastern slope of the Rockies decimated their greatest enemy by simply doing what they always did, turning the soil for planting.
That helped, and so did the bounty the Federal government put on the Rocky Mountain grasshopper. $5 (a lot of money back then) for a bushel basket full of grasshopper HEADS. It would be interesting to know how many grasshopper heads it takes to fill a bushel basket.
It rained tree frogs on me in SC, around 1977. The road was slick with them, driving down the dark highway, late on night. Not a cloud in the sky. Around 1972, we had so much rain in one day that the water table rose and floated the coffins out of the ground d in our little rural cemetery.
One weird thing about a tornado is that it can demolish a house leaving a robe hanging on the back of a door left standing or drive a a piece os straw into a tree.
I had the pleasure of seeing a piece of straw that had been driven through a stop sign after a tornado when I was a kid. Somehow that one sight solidified in my ignorant little mind how dangerous they were. Considering it was the same stop sign I was always shooting with my pellet gun. And never once did a pellet go through it.
An F4 went over a friends house. They lost a few dozen shingles and had a window broken by a bike helmet(just 1 pane tho). Neighbors house was gone to the foundation. Totally makes sense. :/
An EF1 came down next to my best friend's home, split a tree in half, and went back up. My friend only found out due to the wind and hearing the tree fall. He found out what actually happened from a neighbor who witnessed it. Tornados can be rather strange. And he lived in a trailer by the way!😅
An interesting story about "the year without a summer," is that it happened in the UK, too. Several authors (Mary Shelley - Frankenstein; Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron) stayed in a home with the idea to write the best horror story. There was nothing else to do, and too cold to go outside. So they stayed in, partied, and wrote books.
Ooooh, there is an excellent Doctor Who episode centered around that. Or maybe it was another occasion, as there were other people there as well, and it just showed a rain storm.💙
I've experienced sub-freezing temps several times in my life and we just call it snot freezing cold. With the right clothing, you can survive, but the worst part is when you go back inside to a warm place, the heat drives the cold deeper into your bones for a few minutes and it can be painful.
January 1967 in Chicago. HUGE blizzard, 23 inches in 24 hours. 50 MPH wind gusts. 15 ft drifts. The funny thing was that 2 days earlier it was 65 degrees out, temp dropped 31 degrees overnight. That night it started snowing. Google it, the pictures are crazy. People left their cars on the interstates, highways and streets. Plows couldn't clear the streets due to the cars. It took some people a week to find their cars after they were towed. My Dad had to climb out the second story window to dig the front door out.
That just happened here in NH 2014 I think? Snowtober. It was October, too late for heat and too early for snow, was a major heat wave (for October) it was like 85 degrees and the following week we had a blizzard with tons of snow. It cancelled Halloween 😂 Ill never forget that October/storm it was wild even for insane weather New England. And the infamous ice storm of 1998. Will never forget that one either. I still see people wearing their “I survived the ice storm of 98” t shirts. 😂
Browning, MT, had a temperature drop of 100°F, from 44°F to -56°F, in less than 24 hours as a result of a cold front passage on January 23-24, 1916. Browning is in the flat land of eastern Montana.
I was born and raised in North Dakota. I moved to another state when I was young. A few years ago I went back to the family farm to visit for Christmas. On Christmas eve I had to walk to my mother's house to grab something (about a football pitch away from my grandparents house). It was about 1pm, the temp was -22 before wind-chill and about -38 after. In those temps your eyelashes feeze together when you blink and your nostrils freeze together when you breath in. :-)
I grew up in ND, too, and I actually still live here. I can attest that last winter felt wrong with temperatures barely dropping below 32°. Definitely wasn't complaining though 😂😂
I went to college in Minnesota. While there we hit actual -40F. I had to drive to school in the morning and, surprisingly, the car did start, but I thought the windshield was going to crack. My best guess was that I was hearing the window adhesive because it had frozen and become brittle. Quite a freaky experience, though. I let the car "Warm-up" for 15 minutes, drove the 5 miles to school, and the temp gauge was still pegged all the way cold. Slick-50 was the brand new product at the time, and although I wouldn't use it today, I really think that was the only lubrication in the engine for most of the drive.
I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We have had winters where it never got above zero F for several weeks. I remember one winter in the 80s when it was below zero for almost three weeks straight. I worked for a large company with over 1000 people in my plant. Many people went out to the parking lot to start their cars and let them run for fifteen minutes on their lunch hour. At quitting time the company hired a tow truck to cruise around the parking lots and provide jump starts for anyone whose battery died from the cold. When I would start my drive home my car felt bumpy because the tires were flattened on the bottoms--not until road friction warmed up the air in the tires would they get round again. As for me, my usual outer clothes were a full length down coat, down-lined boots, down mittens, a wooly hat and a wooly scarf. I also had extra outerwear in the car, a couple of blankets, and a stash of granola bars and chocolate in case I got stranded. Also a shovel and kitty litter to put under the tires if I got stuck on some ice.
@@JigsawSaysHellowhere I live it hit -50 and it was brutal, I met some people who came up to Minnesota from California to visit family right before the temperature dropped and I feel they had the roughest time.
Grew up in North Dakota and my coldest day was minus 42 with wind chill of minus 90 and had to walk to school. So you dress in layers and keep a thin layer of air between the layers of clothing. Tuck trousers into top of snow boots. Wear knit cap tied down with scarf then put up the hood. Zip up coat over layers of sweaters and tuck gloves into sleeves. Last is a scarf or towel around face, but guaranteed your nose will freeze shut anyway before the door is closed. Walk carefully over ice and frozen snow because if you fall you probably can't get up with all those clothes on.
Maine hit -50 f in spots. at that point it just feels cold. you stop feeling a major difference around -10, but it also feels like your bones are cold. the saying "cold to the bone" does actually have truth. with it being cold like that it takes a lot longer to warm up, because of how dramatic it is.
I was here in North Alabama in the 2011 tornado outbreak. The storms tracked almost all the way across the state east to west. The power was out for a week and the damage was incredible. There were brand new houses that were scrubbed off their foundations with just the closet under the stairs (where the family was hiding) being the only thing left standing. It was unnerving to say the least.
I took Arctic Survival near Fairbanks Alaska. It was -22 F below zero. I felt bad for the 2 females having to use the restroom. We slept in a very large snow dome made with a parachute, branches and snow. A 8 hour chemical light wouldn’t work, but a 30 minute one lasted all night.
I was stationed in Anchorage Alaska from 1988 to 1992. In 1989 we went to the "field." It was an exercise just north of Fairbanks, Alaska. We had temperature in the -40 degree Fahrenheit. That is the same Temperature in Celsius. With windchill factor, it felt like -60 F. We had to leave our vehicles running and the fuel and oil became like jelly. We could not expose any skin to the weather or it would freeze. I was inside the tent, taking a pee into a bucket and it was freezing upon impact. We took a canteen cup of boiling coffee, walked outside and tossed into the air. It became like a brown, frozen mist. It is to this day the coldest I have ever seen.
I was born in Fargo, North Dakota and moved to Montana in 1982 when I was 13 years old from Minot, North Dakota. I've been in Montana ever since. When you have experienced winters up here your whole life it's something you become used to. For me it doesn't matter if it's 100 Fahrenheit or -30 Fahrenheit I still wear shorts on a daily basis. If I was gonna go somewhere where I would be spending several hours in below zero temperatures I would wear pants but I generally will just wear shorts, a sweatshirt, a beanie and my regular shoes. We had 2 days this winter where the temperature hit -58 degrees and was -70 degrees with the windchill, and I still delivered my rural mail route. On those 2 days I didn't wear shorts though just in case I had some car trouble and got stranded.
I remember a few years back, here in Northwest Ohio, we had a Polar Vortex, and the coldest was about -40°F or colder during one particular night. It broke my starter for my car when I tried to start it.
North-central Indiana, it was like that here, too. Sure glad my boss at the time had us all stay home that day, but the day before and the day after were fair game. -20F with windchill, and still had to do our shifts. Packages weren't going to deliver themselves after all. Warming up after an eight hour shift in that was probably one of the most painful things I've ever experienced. Damn near lost some fingers and toes, I wasn't ready for that mess at all.
@TheMikeHunt I remember that! We got to -50 with wind chill here in Iowa that night. I had to work the late shift and I was seriously worried about being able to get home. Thankfully my car did start and I made it.
@@roaaoife8186 Yeah, I checked my memories on FB and I think it said -55° or something. Yeah, my car was toast lol. The snow was solid too, cause before the coldsnap hit, the snow was starting to melt. That vortex made the snow turn to solid ice. It was terrible.
Yeah, Michigan got that too. They warned that diesel cars just don't work then, apparently diesel at -40 gets the consistency of vaseline. They just said "stay inside don't go outside"
Back in college, I was walking to class in -5 F. Wind chill in the -20s . I was well bundled and wasn’t cold but my eyes felt like they were actually freezing!!
there's this thing folks used to do for fun. Freezing weather. get a pot of hot water. throw the water straight up in the air, and it comes down snow. fun for kids to watch.
We had a bitter cold spell during the nineties in Grand Rapids, Michigan that lasted a few weeks. We came close to setting a new record low temperature during that time. Daytime highs were in the single digits for several days. Cars were reluctant to start and had to be warmed up for a few minutes before driving them. The coldest night got down to -21 Fahrenheit. Frostbite and hypothermia were very real dangers. Exposed skin could become frost bitten within minutes. We also had to be very careful when letting the dogs outside.
Hi Adam, my name is Adam too! So basically, stepping outside with normal clothing on when it’s -20°F is the same feeling as having tattoo needles covering every single square inch of your body at the same time. That numbing, buzzing, stinging pain….but everywhere. I’d know because I’m covered in tattoos like you 😂
Got my first experience with -20(live in Kansas, grew up in Virginia and used to live in TX) this past winter. It's a different kind of cold, especially when it's that cold and has that classic Plains wind on top of it.
@@HistoryNerd808 I grew up in Virginia near Fredericksburg and now live in Texas. Back in 2021 here we had a low of 6°F which is probably around the same lowest temperature I ever experienced living in Virginia for 23 years
@@AJafterhourz I think the lowest I experienced in Virginia was one day we were visiting Arlington(lived in VB) and it got down to about 14. Coldest in Texas was definitely SNOVID, think where I was in NE TX, we got to about 2 or 3 with wind chills in the -4 or -5 range.
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I camped on a mountain at a ski resort in Colorado for 2 months in the 90's. It was crazy cold. The key is good clothing and gear. Example: you need an extra long sleeping bag. you put your ice covered boots in a waterproof bag and put it in your sleeping bag so you can get them on in the morning. You need warm when wet clothing like wool or synthetics, down, gortex, fleece, double socks, gloves with liners etc. also, if in snow in mountains you need super good full coverage dark sunglasses or your gonna go blind. right gear, stay hydraded, with enough calories, and it's fine.
Geologists, archeologists and other sciences have been finding out that floods on one side of the planet lead to droughts on the other side and have destroyed civilizations. These collapses from climate change occur for several reasons. Some climate changes happen due to our planet going through cycles, like changes in Earth's orbit from nearly circular to elliptical, and the magnetic reversal of the poles, and others. The more we learn, the more we find that there is to learn. Great reaction!
0:44 ok, I’m from Chicago, I lived through many cold spells the worst I ever experienced was a few years back, it was during an attic blast, when I woke up that day my pet dog had to go out at 4 am so I let him out and when I did I checked my weather station it said it was ** wind chill ** -75*F or ( -59.4 * C ) and it was the lowest temperature I ever seen, it was so cold my dog refused to go out when I woke up again at 7 am it warmed to about ** wind chill **-31 *F or (-35 * C ) my door hinges were frozen shut and i couldn’t open the door, that day it felt like being pinched a billion times in one spot, and then any exposed skin was being burned like sunburn but instead of hot it was cold very cold…..
As a Floridian I literally cannot comprehend this level of cold, coldest I’ve ever been in was 13 degrees at Lake Tahoe, me personally I feel like everything below 25 degrees feels the same but I’m sure once the weather goes below zero it’s a completely different feeling.
I've lived in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York my whole life. The coldest actual air temperature I can remember (not wind-chill) was about -20 degrees Fahrenheit (about -29 Celsius). Within about 30 seconds, your nose starts freezing and nose hairs start turning to icicles. Your breath makes a small cloud and evaporates instantly. Within about 5 minutes, your fingers and toes start freezing and ears start turning red. In about 10 minutes, your lips start turning blue and freezing. And all that is if you've got modestly-warm clothing on too!
Minnesota Native here. I remember the winter of 2019 had some wild days. One of them included freezing rain over night with freezing temperatures the next morning. Needless to say people were ICE SKATING on the STREET until about noon.
Every winter it gets below -10 where I live. I've been in -35. Yes, it's cold. You walk very fast to get where you need to be. Yes, your eyelashes freeze, and you get icicles in your mustache from exhaling thru your nose.
Last year, the "feels like" temperatures got down to 40 below. It's so cold that it burns, if that makes any sense. It literally takes your breath away. It feels like you're turning into ice. Even if you're outside for just a minute or two.
Yes, there are a few videos of the Carr fire tornado, not sure why they didn't show them... What's crazy is my sister lived in Redding CA at the time, working there. I had went to visit her almost exactly a year before that fire happened.. got to see the beauty of northern California and the places I visited up in smoke just a year later.. my sister had to evacuate since it got close to Redding but thankfully was stopped from getting into town. She ultimately decided she was sick of the risk of fires, missed having seasons (we're from Minnesota) and is finally back here in MN. So thankful to the firefighters who worked so diligently to keep towns safe.
So sorry your sister had to evacuate. I was in Redding the day the Carr fire started. My parents, luckily, live on the other side of I-5, and only delt with all of the smoke. My step-brother and his husband had to evacuate from the Paradise (Camp) fire and stay with our parents in Redding while both fires were happening. What was scary for me was all of the fires during COVID, and the Apocalyptic skies we had in the South Bay.
You can tell the temp is below 0 F because when you breath, it feels like needles are pricking the front of your brain. Back in 2019 there was a big cold front, and in Chicago it got to a windchill of −52F or −47C. That's so cold, if you take a boiling pot of water and throw it up in the air, the water freezes before it hits the ground.
Anything below 0° F is Hell. If it's cold enough, any wind at all will feel like literal whips on any exposed skin (especially the face). Layers are key. If it's ever that cold, wear several layers of jumpers, and make sure you're not facing the wind if you can help it. The coldest I've ever experienced was -39° F (Just about the same in Celsius)
Sorry, but I'm from Michigan - 0 F is not great, but ok as long as there is no or extremely little wind. Any wind chill below sub-zero F or worse than -18 C is what is brutal. Michigan use to get 0 F several times every winter, sometimes whole weeks where the temps never got above 5 F (-15 C). When that is common you prep for it. Just in 2024 (Jan 6-8) Detroit had 42 hours straight of sub-zero temps. Of course you have me beat with -39, the worse I got was -21 in 1984 and -20 in 1994. Windchill in 1984 was -40 and in 1994 it was -30. It was a f**king b***h to get the car started both years.
I'll never forget when it rained frogs in florida..so many years ago but me and my brother still talked and laughed about it right up to the day he passed away
The coldest I've ever been I was -30ºf (-34ºc). Was working that night and the only heat in the building was from the carpet drying ovens in the building. The coldest wind chills I ever was in was -83ºF (-64ºc). We were having a bad week as we were working our 3rd major derailment of the week that night. You could only be outside for 5 to 15 minutes before you had to go in and warm up. We finally just refused to go outside anymore until it warmed up to less below freezing and the wind went down.
In December 1983 in my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana the Red River froze solid. The Red runs between Shreveport and Bossier City. Many people walked across it because it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I lived in Wisconsin a couple decades ago. We hit -27F degrees. 3 layers of clothes and I still had the cold wind blowing it. I was only able to stay outside to collect fired wood for about 5 minutes. before I became extremely cold. The houses furnace couldn't keep up with heating the house. We all slept in front of the fireplace to keep warm.
Hey Adam, I go to Vermont every year to teach kids how to ski. Vermont is all the way in the North so the winters are often very cold (especially in February). Last year it was -38°C and it felt like anytime i was outside my face was itching from how much it burned. I'd gladly get burned by a stove than work for 6 hours in that temperature!!
I live in the Kopperl area bro (super small town) and my dad said it melted tires to the pavement, caused sheet metal on houses/barns to sag and bend, killed animals, crops, and even caused heat strokes and exhaustion because AC wasn’t as big of a thing back then. More people had swamp coolers (or evaporative coolers for the more cultured) 😂 . It was the weirdest thing that didn’t last long but is always remembered and talked about. I always liked bringing it up to the old timers when I was younger because they get serious and told crazy stories 😂. I don’t know if they were exaggerating or not but it sounded terrible.
Adam, growing up in America's deep South in the 50's and 60's I lived through more than a few hurricanes. Most were near misses, but some were direct hits. Damage was common, but nothing prepared me for a tornado. I was living in Panama City Florida when a tornado hit part of base housing on Tyndall Air Force Base, where many of my high school friends lived. The first people that I phoned were puzzled by the reports, they had no damage, and hadn't heard anything unusual except the familiar sounds of heavy thunderstorms hitting the area. I drove over to a friend's house and two blocks away, we saw the damage. Houses are built on slabs there, no basements, just everything one story brick post and beam modern style homes. The concrete slabs were polished clean, no houses, just the occasional brick utility room (a windowless storage room built onto open covered parking spaces.) .We were speechless. Even the worst of the debris was blown far away! We had over 40 inches over 12 hours in Houston, with no warning. It started raining at 9 PM and by 9 AM there were big rig trucks floating in the below grade freeways. The sub-levels of high rise buildings were flooded, where the electrical equipment was housed. The incredibly valuable lab animals in the vast Houston Medical Center drowned in their cages in basements. Literally billions of gallons of water were pumped out of the basements of downtown high rise buildings. They were connected underground by tunnels with shops and restaurants. 98 F and 98% humidity made tunnels popular for getting from place to place; all were filled with water. I don't miss the constant flooding in Houston! I've lived in 8 states, nothing compares to Texas weather. I now live in a Mediterranean climate in Oregon, cool wet winters with occasional snow and long dry summers with a few over 100 F days. No crazy weather, no violent thunderstorms, not even truly heavy rain. 2 inches over 7 days is newsworthy. It's lovely.
I'm a 67 year old Oklahoman of Irish descent. I enjoy your videos. I lived here during Erin, it was crazy. Being in the heart of Tornado Alley, they don't bother me, having been through several including a EF4.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we've also experienced similar things (though less extreme) to the "Dark Day". In the past decade or so on the West coast, governments have tried to take control of nature, by both trying to prevent natural burns and preserving the natural refuse that would normally get burned off in smaller natural burns. Like most cases of humanity trying to tame nature, it went the way anyone with enough foresight to see past their nose could tell you, very poorly. Without the smaller fires that have been naturally occurring here forever, and with so much flammable material building up, the entire West coast has been converted into a tinderbox, so when we get any fire that isn't put out on the spot, the entire coast can go up in flames. I remember about 4 years ago, there was so much smoke that I needed to roll up towels to stuff under the doors to keep it out, ran an air purifier 24/7 (that permanently bit the dust from being exposed to too much smoke), and it was pretty dim during the daytime. Not so dark you needed a candle, but that level of dark where you'd be relatively comfortable walking around in it, but where it feels a little too dark to comfortably eat off of a plate. Through the enormous motes of smoke drifting across the state, the Sun looked deep red, even when high in the sky. Lasted about a week or so (might've been two). We've had a few other fires that had similar effects, but not really for as long as that.
Temps that low feel like you're both burning and freezing to death. It's a cold fire, a strong sting as you slowly freeze. Anything below -10°F is too cold for me. We often get down to and.sometimes subzero here in New Mexico. The desert is crazy, it can be 40-50°F in the afternoon and 6°F at night. Without a lot of moisture we don't hold heat. Most people don't know how cold deserts can get because of that.
Adam you can look up videos of people in Alaska going outside in crazy below zero temps and do all kinds of fun experiments like bubbles and throwing boiling water.
Grew up in the Milwaukee area, and we frequently experience -30 to -40 degrees Fahrenheit with the wind chill in January. It's the kind of cold where in a few seconds of stepping outside, your eyes and nose start stinging because the moisture in them begins to freeze. If you go out with wet hair, it is frozen and crunchy in seconds. It hurts to breathe in too deep because the air is so cold in your lungs. My friend found herself without gloves during the 2 minute walk from her car to get into our school, so she poured hot coffee on her hands to avoid frostbite. It's no joke, for sure.
The coldest I've ever experienced was -27F (-33C). The description of the "Air hurts my face" is good. A friend of mine from the south, however, had another description. The boogies in his nose froze while he was taking my kids to the bus stop. This was in the ballpark of -13F, not -27F. There's a level of cold where your joints ache, your skin hurts anywhere the air touches, and a blast of wind will cut through just about any clothing and make your eyes water.
Currently in college, and it got down to about -10 last January. The thing is, here in the Midwest, we’re just used to it. So I still had to walk to class. You learn to adjust. You wear big jackets and good shoes and keep your hands in your pockets. I think it’s the only time I remember that everyone I walked past wasn’t looking at their phone at all. It was too cold to have your hands out, even with gloves on.
The coldest I've been in was in Wisconsin visiting in-laws. It was Thanksgiving, so late November. They already had several feet of snow on the ground. The entire family went out one evening to a small restaurant/pub, and the temperature was 8F/-13C. It hurt to breathe. Your nose and mouth are instantly frozen, not to mention your ears. Never again. At least not voluntarily. (But I'm a southerner, so my body isn't used to those kind of temperatures.)
It gets DANG cold in Indiana, but the trees are glorious. Gotta have ancient (only 200yrs) oaks and maples to be happy. Barefoot footprints in the snow from house to trash cans beside garage. MUCH prefer cold to hot. I'm useless at 90 degrees.
Here is something I heard of years ago: Fish are said to fall from the sky in Yoro, Honduras, a phenomenon known as lluvia de peces or "downpour of fish". This has been happening for over a century, and can occur up to four times a year. The event usually happens in early June, at the beginning of the rainy season.
I had a lot of locusts/grasshoppers this year here in Colorado. They were eating all my plants. Then a skunk moved in and started eating them. I never thought I'd love a skunk so much. And this wasn't even a plague.
-21 last winter here in Denver. It feels like being sandblasted even when the air is still. It takes about a minute, even fully well dressed for the weather, to feel like you've been outside in the snow for hours with no relieving warmth. When you come back inside your skin burns and feels really tight.
I've lived in the state of Minnesota all my life. We're known across the US for snow and cold. When it's more than 25 or 30 below zero it actually hurts to breathe. It feels like ice crystals are forming inside your lungs. We wear a scarf across our mouths and breathe through it to help somewhat. You need to cover every inch of exposed skin because you can develop frostbite very quickly. Usually, once it gets more than 30 below zero, schools are closed so little kids don't have to wait outside for the school bus. Otherwise, we pretty much just bundle up and go about our business.
Im not sure exactly how to explain that level of cold, but to try and make some sort of sense of it, in those kinds of temperatures, if you turn your car off for just 15 mins or so, you will not be able to turn it back on without heating up the block in some way, otherwise you'll ruin the engine. It's so cold that people would wrap thick blankets around the grills of their cars so the cooling system can't cool the engine which could prevent the engine from warming up to a safe operating temperature. So, imagine blocking off the grills on your car, getting rid of your engine's way of cooling itself down, and the engine never over heating because it's just that cold outside.
I got -30 here in IA. The neighbor had to help my husband with the snow with his snow blower. Every summer in August, we have what I call the Crickening. Theres just crickets, grasshoppers and locusts all over my garden.
This exact fire happened again last year as New York experienced darkest day again. A huge forest fire happened in Canada which filled the New York city area with dark smoke for a week. It eventually returned to blue skies but it was acrid yellow for a while.
100 degrees Fahrenheit is Spring for us in Arizona. We are used to well over 110+ on up degrees weather for multiple days, sometimes in a row in one week, and at weeks at a time! LMAO! 😂 it is usually the reason for our brush/electrical fires.
I grew up in eastern Iowa and it gets down into the negative 20s F, but it's the windchill that fucks you. Some days it'll be a -50 or -60 windchill. You can go outside and if you had a sniffle well now you immediately have stabby bogeys in your nose. It's so cold thay we would wear several pairs of socks, pants, and shirts at the same time and still be cold. It's the kind of cold that will definitely kill you if you dont know how to exist within it. I remember vividly falling down in the snow while it was snowstorming and being so cold it started to get confortable, which is a very bad sign. Thankfully, my sisters were with me and helped me up but it stuck with me as the first time i thought i might die. So...yeah the midwest in winter is hell frozen over.
I've been in -10° before in the early 80s. I was in Wilkes-Barre, PA for a marching band tournament. It was warm on the fiekd because of marching and the lights, but in the stands? It was biting cold. I was so numb, and it was snowing.
in the 90s. -63F in Fairbanks AK. Some winters may get a week or two at -40F and below but that -63 was extreme. Keep heaters on cars plugged in and the seats like sitting on cold concrete, tires get flat spots. Moisture from exhausts leave a thick ice fog. Most winters, we would chuckle at forecasts when the Midwest had similar or colder temperatures because we did not get the bone chilling winds so Fairbanks winters did seem better. Drove across Midwest in winter, outside the wind is absolute misery and exponentially worse as winds increase. So much respect to the Midwesterners who endure those winters each year. Another time in Alaska, late snowfall in early May which lasted good week or so. Quick spring, summer and autumn when early heavy snow hit start of September, trees still had leaves and snow remained for another winter. ☃
When I was a kid in northern Michigan in the early 60s, we had -20 F days regularly. The coldest I remember was -40 F air temp, no idea what the wind chill might've been. It was a bright sunny day, school was cancelled because of the cold, our garage door was frozen shut. We bundled up and went outside to play in the snow.
When I lived near Cincinnati, we had the "polar vortex" bring wind chills of -40F (coincidentally, that equals -40C). I boiled some water, poured it in a mug, then when outside and tossed it in the air. It froze evaporated into a frozen mist in the air, which was pretty cool.
Adam, The coldest I've ever experienced was around 1995 when I went to work in -23F with windchill making it feel like -40F, the wind will go through you, and any blowing snow feels like ice hitting your face. Oh, heard of a cloud inversion which froze elk solid several years back,
Yeah Tambora was one of the strongest volcanic eruptions ever recorded. The shock wave was so intense from the blast it shook windows in Europe. The event was know as the “Year without a Summer”in the Northeast US.
when i lived in Minneapolis MN from 2010 to 2014 we had a period of time where for 50 days at one point in the day it was always under 0F. For 14 of those days, it never went over 0F and if I remember right, it was down to -20F for the normal temperature for the day and then the wind kicked in to bring the wind chill down to -75F for how it felt. I think we had to bundle up in full snow gear just to bring the dog outside to go to the bathroom.... there's a reason I moved back to NY after a few years. I'll take my 100inches of snow a year instead of that. basically, it just sucks and after it hits 0F everything feels the same and its just cold and pain if you go outside
Went to Fairbanks, Alaska to visit my son at Fort Wainwright. It was minus 42. Felt like my nose hairs were burning and my chest was kicked by a horse. Being from Tennessee, I was excited when it started snowing and I said to a clerk, it’s snow out there!! I was given the look like I was alien or something. In another visit, I let there with temps in the 40s and got home to 102. Again strange looks while carrying a winter coat in the heat
The coldest temp I’ve ever experienced (with windchill) was -50 in northern Wisconsin/Minnesota. That was 2017 though. Our winters usually don’t get too bad, but that’s from a homegrown perspective ahaha it just feels like being stabbed by pens to me at this point and I enjoy seeing how long I can make it before pulling out a nice coat.
When I was a kid in Nebraska, it got 10 below for 10 days in a row. Neighbor a couple houses up had a shed for his hunting dogs. He had a heat lamp for them, but they froze to floor. He had to wait until spring to remove them.
I can't even truly begin to describe just how cold those days in 2019 really were, and I had to work outside through much of it. I was always cold, even in the delivery truck, there was just no heat to be had. I had five layers over my core, and I still felt the windchill in my bones. The truck itself suffered a cracked windshield when I turned the heat on, and cold air was just bleeding in from the cargo bay into the cab, even through the interior door. Whenever I faced into the wind, it hurt to breathe. My beard frosted over almost entirely, and I called it quits on those days once my fingers started going numb. I had already lost most of the feeling in my toes, just that tingly sensation when the numbness was settling in. I eventually wore three pairs of socks, all I could fit into my boots, and it still wasn't enough. Insulated underwear didn't really help much either, the windchill would just blast the body heat right off of me. It was the coldest I'd ever been in my life. The only upside was that we got unofficial hazard pay for that week. I never want to do that again.
As a child in southern Quebec we would normally get a 7-10 day stretch between mid-Jan and mid-Feb when the nighttime low would be -40C / -40F and the daytime high would be -20C / -4F. At that temperature snow sounds like styrofoam when you calk on it. If I wanted to go skiing I had to spray a starter aerosol into the exposed carbueretor while my parent turned over the engine and this was after having plugged in the small heater to warm up the engine oil in the bottom of the crank case, for about an hour.
I've been out camping in negative 5. The grass froze into pointy spears that would actually hurt if you ran into them. You could feel your nose hair would freeze and unfreeze with each breath in and out. I had never really understood the term "chilled to the bone" until that camping trip.
Not this summer, but last summer for a few weeks, the Northeastern US was blanketed with smoke from forest fires in Canada. There were days in New York City where the air turned brown. Even where I live in Southeastern New England, the air reeked of wood smoke for days on end. So that story about black rain in 1790 is plausible.
I live near Chicago... that temp was BEFORE wind chills. The coldest wind chills I dealt with was in 1984, when we had minus 80 wind chills. I worked as a nursing assistant during nursing school, and had a private duty nurse north of where I live. It's horrifically painful. Frostbite sets in in a couple of minutes for exposed skin. I have also watched tornadoes go through my back yard while watching from my bedroom (took out 200 year old trees in the neighborhood), and have photos of tornadoes from when I lived in TX- there, summer temps could easily hit 120 per the thermometer on my window that was in the sun (as people were). We also got 25 inches of rain in one week in 2001 or 2002 (one of the last years I lived there). Back here in Illinois, i've also been through the Blizzard of 1979 and 2011. We got 18" of snow in 2011 over 36 hours. We also go the leftover tropical storms from the gulf in both Texas (cause of 25" of rain), and Illinois- though those were more just heavy 'calm' rain (vs thunderstorms). One of the tornadoes in 2011 happened when I was at my oncologist's office- I saw the radar on the tv in the waiting room, and saw the direction of the wind through the window... I knew what was coming, and they put a bunch of us bald, decrepit patients in a hallway, with IV pumps until it was over (it hit north of the office building).
Ok, so imagine being outside in a thunderstorm, but instead of drops of rain, it feels like tiny shards of glass are hitting you in the face. Imagine being so cold you feel hot instead of so hot you feel cold. Next time you're in the shower, just think of the water has tiny pellets of ice😂😂
I live in the Milwaukee area. When got that cold a lot of businesses shut down RUclips could throw hot water in the air and it would turn to snow instantly.
I lived on the shore of Lake Superior. No-one talked about cold until it hit 40 below zero F. We kids went out to play, wrapping our feet, first in plastic bags, then several pairs of socks, then newspapers, before finally wrapping in newspapers before putting on our boots.
Talking about extremes, hurricane Harvey. Dropped 65 inches of rain in my town. Whole towns under water. It was crazy seeing whole neighborhoods emptying the inside of their homes onto the front lawn. Some trash piles were taller than the house.
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Hello from Hemet Ca we are having a Heat Wave right now.
in Hemet it is
111 degrees Fahrenheit. 3PM supposed to go to 113
Northern Wisconsin One winter I went out to shovel snow. It snowed the day before and finally stoped around midnight the next morning we had a polar vortex drop in. -45 F or -42.7 C with wind chill. Went out shoveled for ten minutes went inside to warm up. Repeat for two hours. Not a lot of snow about 4 inches Or 10 cm. ANY exposed skin can get frostbite in a few minutes. I was covered head to toes and still felt that bitter cold.
-80 f to c is -62.2
100 f to c about 38
I once saw a comic that summed up living in the Midwest in Winter:
"The air hurts my face. Why do I live where the air hurts my face?"
There are two types of Midwesterners- those who have all the good snow gear and know how to bundle up, and those who are wearing shorts out in the snow. There is no in between.
Also, anyone will tell you it's the Wind that's the problem. Freezing temps with no wind isn't all that bad, especially if it's sunny. But that wind can suck the warmth right out of you.
Minnesota native...you speak T R U T H
not minnesotan but i live in the rockies and yep, the wind is the killer. we had a deep freeze a couple years back (-20 out in the sun) and during the few hours it wasn't windy, it was actually pretty comfortable. then the wind picked up and i spent the rest of the day wondering why i decided working at a barn was what i wanted to do with my life
Agreed. Sub-zero temps are bad enough but when it hits -10 or -15 with a 15 or 20 mile an hour sustained wind, it is completely different. Hi from Kansas.
Yes, I was a 'shorts in the winter' person. Used to go outside barefoot in the snow to the log pile to bring in wood for the fireplace.
i moved from georgia to wisconsin and for the first few weeks of winter i thought it was exaggerated but when you start getting those high winds on top of a feels like of -20 the gusts of wind feels like being hit with a brick wall..never felt anything like it
The dust bowl actually affected Washington DC directly. A senator from one of affected states went on a tangent buying time for about 30 minutes until the dust literally hit Washington just outside the senate window. The entire senate was frightened into passing the soil conservation act right that second. It’s the only time the senate and the house unanimously passed a bill like that.
Ah yes, the filibuster....not tangent.
@@Bob-jm8kl actually he literally spoke about the most random things buy time. He literally wasted time.
@@yugioht42 That's a fillibuster. Senate protocol is if the guy in charge gives you the floor you have it until you sit down or say you're giving it up. So long as you're stood up and talking you can talk forever and essentially hold the Senate hostage for as long as you can keep talking. Some folks read out entire long books, others just talked about random stuff just to take up time like in this case.
Moral of the story, as always, no one cares until it effects them personally.
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I'm in Iowa. The best way to explain the cold is this. When you breath through your nose, the moisture in your nose freezes.
I think Quimby Iowa was at -47F once.
A few years ago in dubuque, Ia we had -60 temps with the wind chill.
Ah yes, that fresh frozen feeling in your nostrils. A happy memory forever!
Our Iowa winters can be awful. A sunny day in Jan. that is 5 degrees F with no wind is a nice day.
Burning through your nose burns because it freezes then you have ice in your nostrils right on the skin basically
The Rocky Mountain Locust part is so weird and fascinating, because it only took a few years for the species to go from HUGE and terrible swarms to basically gone.
It went extinct because even though the adults would fan out into giant swaths and devour crops for miles and miles, there was only a very small area where they would mate and lay eggs, around the headwaters of one or two rivers in the Rockies. Once these areas (which were fertile farmlands themselves because, well, river) were settled and their soil tilled, the farmers dug up millions and millions of egg casings, which would then either dry out in the sun or be snacks for birds.
Without even meaning to, the farmers who settled the eastern slope of the Rockies decimated their greatest enemy by simply doing what they always did, turning the soil for planting.
That helped, and so did the bounty the Federal government put on the Rocky Mountain grasshopper. $5 (a lot of money back then) for a bushel basket full of grasshopper HEADS. It would be interesting to know how many grasshopper heads it takes to fill a bushel basket.
@@wildmouse5888 You're right, I forgot about that. I bet it was a crazy time to be alive and foraging. Shit could be difficult in unenvisioned ways.
We had a brief shower of tadpoles, once, in North Carolina. Grandpa didn't seem to think it was a big deal... Grandpas back then were like that.
I imagine mine still is, rest his grumpy soul.
It rained tree frogs on me in SC, around 1977. The road was slick with them, driving down the dark highway, late on night. Not a cloud in the sky.
Around 1972, we had so much rain in one day that the water table rose and floated the coffins out of the ground d in our little rural cemetery.
One weird thing about a tornado is that it can demolish a house leaving a robe hanging on the back of a door left standing or drive a a piece os straw into a tree.
I had the pleasure of seeing a piece of straw that had been driven through a stop sign after a tornado when I was a kid. Somehow that one sight solidified in my ignorant little mind how dangerous they were. Considering it was the same stop sign I was always shooting with my pellet gun. And never once did a pellet go through it.
In the air force we called the dreaded assignment to ND, Wynot Minot. Never Went.
An F4 went over a friends house. They lost a few dozen shingles and had a window broken by a bike helmet(just 1 pane tho). Neighbors house was gone to the foundation. Totally makes sense. :/
@@ScottHildebrand-by5kk 😒
An EF1 came down next to my best friend's home, split a tree in half, and went back up. My friend only found out due to the wind and hearing the tree fall. He found out what actually happened from a neighbor who witnessed it. Tornados can be rather strange. And he lived in a trailer by the way!😅
An interesting story about "the year without a summer," is that it happened in the UK, too. Several authors (Mary Shelley - Frankenstein; Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron) stayed in a home with the idea to write the best horror story. There was nothing else to do, and too cold to go outside. So they stayed in, partied, and wrote books.
Ooooh, there is an excellent Doctor Who episode centered around that. Or maybe it was another occasion, as there were other people there as well, and it just showed a rain storm.💙
That was caused by a volcano in Indonesia.
I've experienced sub-freezing temps several times in my life and we just call it snot freezing cold. With the right clothing, you can survive, but the worst part is when you go back inside to a warm place, the heat drives the cold deeper into your bones for a few minutes and it can be painful.
January 1967 in Chicago. HUGE blizzard, 23 inches in 24 hours. 50 MPH wind gusts. 15 ft drifts. The funny thing was that 2 days earlier it was 65 degrees out, temp dropped 31 degrees overnight. That night it started snowing. Google it, the pictures are crazy. People left their cars on the interstates, highways and streets. Plows couldn't clear the streets due to the cars. It took some people a week to find their cars after they were towed. My Dad had to climb out the second story window to dig the front door out.
That one hit Michigan, too. Two weeks off school 🎉🎉. And the year I graduated 😊
In central New Hampshire we got five feet of snow that week. The weight broke an outbuilding that had just been repaired - the wood split.
That just happened here in NH 2014 I think? Snowtober. It was October, too late for heat and too early for snow, was a major heat wave (for October) it was like 85 degrees and the following week we had a blizzard with tons of snow. It cancelled Halloween 😂 Ill never forget that October/storm it was wild even for insane weather New England.
And the infamous ice storm of 1998. Will never forget that one either. I still see people wearing their “I survived the ice storm of 98” t shirts. 😂
Browning, MT, had a temperature drop of 100°F, from 44°F to -56°F, in less than 24 hours as a result of a cold front passage on January 23-24, 1916.
Browning is in the flat land of eastern Montana.
I was a kid when it happened. SO MUCH SNOW to play in! Best time ever!
I was born and raised in North Dakota. I moved to another state when I was young.
A few years ago I went back to the family farm to visit for Christmas.
On Christmas eve I had to walk to my mother's house to grab something (about a football pitch away from my grandparents house).
It was about 1pm, the temp was -22 before wind-chill and about -38 after.
In those temps your eyelashes feeze together when you blink and your nostrils freeze together when you breath in.
:-)
I grew up in wisconsin. Thought i knew cold weather. Moved to north dakota for 7 years during the oil boom. Learned a whole new level cold and windy
Our local County commissioner in ND spent most of his adult life in Alaska. He said winters were longer there but more intense in ND
I grew up in ND, too, and I actually still live here. I can attest that last winter felt wrong with temperatures barely dropping below 32°. Definitely wasn't complaining though 😂😂
I went to college in Minnesota. While there we hit actual -40F. I had to drive to school in the morning and, surprisingly, the car did start, but I thought the windshield was going to crack. My best guess was that I was hearing the window adhesive because it had frozen and become brittle. Quite a freaky experience, though. I let the car "Warm-up" for 15 minutes, drove the 5 miles to school, and the temp gauge was still pegged all the way cold. Slick-50 was the brand new product at the time, and although I wouldn't use it today, I really think that was the only lubrication in the engine for most of the drive.
My cousin told me a handful of winters ago, it hit -52C in Minnesota
I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We have had winters where it never got above zero F for several weeks. I remember one winter in the 80s when it was below zero for almost three weeks straight. I worked for a large company with over 1000 people in my plant. Many people went out to the parking lot to start their cars and let them run for fifteen minutes on their lunch hour. At quitting time the company hired a tow truck to cruise around the parking lots and provide jump starts for anyone whose battery died from the cold. When I would start my drive home my car felt bumpy because the tires were flattened on the bottoms--not until road friction warmed up the air in the tires would they get round again. As for me, my usual outer clothes were a full length down coat, down-lined boots, down mittens, a wooly hat and a wooly scarf. I also had extra outerwear in the car, a couple of blankets, and a stash of granola bars and chocolate in case I got stranded. Also a shovel and kitty litter to put under the tires if I got stuck on some ice.
@@JigsawSaysHellowhere I live it hit -50 and it was brutal, I met some people who came up to Minnesota from California to visit family right before the temperature dropped and I feel they had the roughest time.
Grew up in North Dakota and my coldest day was minus 42 with wind chill of minus 90 and had to walk to school. So you dress in layers and keep a thin layer of air between the layers of clothing. Tuck trousers into top of snow boots. Wear knit cap tied down with scarf then put up the hood. Zip up coat over layers of sweaters and tuck gloves into sleeves. Last is a scarf or towel around face, but guaranteed your nose will freeze shut anyway before the door is closed. Walk carefully over ice and frozen snow because if you fall you probably can't get up with all those clothes on.
Maine hit -50 f in spots. at that point it just feels cold. you stop feeling a major difference around -10, but it also feels like your bones are cold. the saying "cold to the bone" does actually have truth. with it being cold like that it takes a lot longer to warm up, because of how dramatic it is.
I remember that day. It was-35 at my house. I do NOT miss that nonsense!
I was here in North Alabama in the 2011 tornado outbreak. The storms tracked almost all the way across the state east to west. The power was out for a week and the damage was incredible. There were brand new houses that were scrubbed off their foundations with just the closet under the stairs (where the family was hiding) being the only thing left standing. It was unnerving to say the least.
I took Arctic Survival near Fairbanks Alaska. It was -22 F below zero. I felt bad for the 2 females having to use the restroom. We slept in a very large snow dome made with a parachute, branches and snow. A 8 hour chemical light wouldn’t work, but a 30 minute one lasted all night.
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I was stationed in Anchorage Alaska from 1988 to 1992. In 1989 we went to the "field." It was an exercise just north of Fairbanks, Alaska. We had temperature in the -40 degree Fahrenheit. That is the same Temperature in Celsius. With windchill factor, it felt like -60 F. We had to leave our vehicles running and the fuel and oil became like jelly. We could not expose any skin to the weather or it would freeze. I was inside the tent, taking a pee into a bucket and it was freezing upon impact. We took a canteen cup of boiling coffee, walked outside and tossed into the air. It became like a brown, frozen mist. It is to this day the coldest I have ever seen.
I was born in Fargo, North Dakota and moved to Montana in 1982 when I was 13 years old from Minot, North Dakota. I've been in Montana ever since. When you have experienced winters up here your whole life it's something you become used to. For me it doesn't matter if it's 100 Fahrenheit or -30 Fahrenheit I still wear shorts on a daily basis. If I was gonna go somewhere where I would be spending several hours in below zero temperatures I would wear pants but I generally will just wear shorts, a sweatshirt, a beanie and my regular shoes. We had 2 days this winter where the temperature hit -58 degrees and was -70 degrees with the windchill, and I still delivered my rural mail route. On those 2 days I didn't wear shorts though just in case I had some car trouble and got stranded.
I remember a few years back, here in Northwest Ohio, we had a Polar Vortex, and the coldest was about -40°F or colder during one particular night. It broke my starter for my car when I tried to start it.
Yep and this was just after our apartments burned down out here in Holland and me and the wife were living in a hotel at the time. Rough shit.
North-central Indiana, it was like that here, too. Sure glad my boss at the time had us all stay home that day, but the day before and the day after were fair game. -20F with windchill, and still had to do our shifts. Packages weren't going to deliver themselves after all. Warming up after an eight hour shift in that was probably one of the most painful things I've ever experienced. Damn near lost some fingers and toes, I wasn't ready for that mess at all.
@TheMikeHunt I remember that! We got to -50 with wind chill here in Iowa that night. I had to work the late shift and I was seriously worried about being able to get home. Thankfully my car did start and I made it.
@@roaaoife8186 Yeah, I checked my memories on FB and I think it said -55° or something. Yeah, my car was toast lol. The snow was solid too, cause before the coldsnap hit, the snow was starting to melt. That vortex made the snow turn to solid ice. It was terrible.
Yeah, Michigan got that too. They warned that diesel cars just don't work then, apparently diesel at -40 gets the consistency of vaseline. They just said "stay inside don't go outside"
Back in college, I was walking to class in -5 F. Wind chill in the -20s . I was well bundled and wasn’t cold but my eyes felt like they were actually freezing!!
there's this thing folks used to do for fun. Freezing weather. get a pot of hot water. throw the water straight up in the air, and it comes down snow. fun for kids to watch.
We had a bitter cold spell during the nineties in Grand Rapids, Michigan that lasted a few weeks. We came close to setting a new record low temperature during that time. Daytime highs were in the single digits for several days. Cars were reluctant to start and had to be warmed up for a few minutes before driving them. The coldest night got down to -21 Fahrenheit. Frostbite and hypothermia were very real dangers. Exposed skin could become frost bitten within minutes. We also had to be very careful when letting the dogs outside.
Hi Adam, my name is Adam too!
So basically, stepping outside with normal clothing on when it’s -20°F is the same feeling as having tattoo needles covering every single square inch of your body at the same time. That numbing, buzzing, stinging pain….but everywhere. I’d know because I’m covered in tattoos like you 😂
When cold manages to instantly feel like a burn, that's winter up north here. Hibernation should be an option.
Got my first experience with -20(live in Kansas, grew up in Virginia and used to live in TX) this past winter. It's a different kind of cold, especially when it's that cold and has that classic Plains wind on top of it.
under 0F is needles agreed
@@HistoryNerd808 I grew up in Virginia near Fredericksburg and now live in Texas. Back in 2021 here we had a low of 6°F which is probably around the same lowest temperature I ever experienced living in Virginia for 23 years
@@AJafterhourz I think the lowest I experienced in Virginia was one day we were visiting Arlington(lived in VB) and it got down to about 14. Coldest in Texas was definitely SNOVID, think where I was in NE TX, we got to about 2 or 3 with wind chills in the -4 or -5 range.
I camped on a mountain at a ski resort in Colorado for 2 months in the 90's. It was crazy cold. The key is good clothing and gear. Example: you need an extra long sleeping bag. you put your ice covered boots in a waterproof bag and put it in your sleeping bag so you can get them on in the morning. You need warm when wet clothing like wool or synthetics, down, gortex, fleece, double socks, gloves with liners etc. also, if in snow in mountains you need super good full coverage dark sunglasses or your gonna go blind. right gear, stay hydraded, with enough calories, and it's fine.
Geologists, archeologists and other sciences have been finding out that floods on one side of the planet lead to droughts on the other side and have destroyed civilizations. These collapses from climate change occur for several reasons. Some climate changes happen due to our planet going through cycles, like changes in Earth's orbit from nearly circular to elliptical, and the magnetic reversal of the poles, and others. The more we learn, the more we find that there is to learn. Great reaction!
0:44 ok, I’m from Chicago, I lived through many cold spells the worst I ever experienced was a few years back, it was during an attic blast, when I woke up that day my pet dog had to go out at 4 am so I let him out and when I did I checked my weather station it said it was ** wind chill ** -75*F or ( -59.4 * C ) and it was the lowest temperature I ever seen, it was so cold my dog refused to go out when I woke up again at 7 am it warmed to about ** wind chill **-31 *F or (-35 * C ) my door hinges were frozen shut and i couldn’t open the door, that day it felt like being pinched a billion times in one spot, and then any exposed skin was being burned like sunburn but instead of hot it was cold very cold…..
I know, right?!? It sucked so bad!
As a Floridian I literally cannot comprehend this level of cold, coldest I’ve ever been in was 13 degrees at Lake Tahoe, me personally I feel like everything below 25 degrees feels the same but I’m sure once the weather goes below zero it’s a completely different feeling.
I live in Colorado. -22 was the coldest I have ever experienced. It feels like little bees stinging your hand and your face. Its awful!
You must be in the warm part of colorado 😅
@aubinmaestas7923, Southeast Colorado.
Imagine your nose dripping and instantly freezing. That's how cold it is, Adam. That's how cold it is... *stares off into the aether*
I've lived in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York my whole life. The coldest actual air temperature I can remember (not wind-chill) was about -20 degrees Fahrenheit (about -29 Celsius). Within about 30 seconds, your nose starts freezing and nose hairs start turning to icicles. Your breath makes a small cloud and evaporates instantly. Within about 5 minutes, your fingers and toes start freezing and ears start turning red. In about 10 minutes, your lips start turning blue and freezing. And all that is if you've got modestly-warm clothing on too!
Minnesota Native here. I remember the winter of 2019 had some wild days. One of them included freezing rain over night with freezing temperatures the next morning. Needless to say people were ICE SKATING on the STREET until about noon.
-20F your car barely starts (or doesn't), your heat runs constantly and your nose hairs freeze instantly.
Every winter it gets below -10 where I live. I've been in -35. Yes, it's cold. You walk very fast to get where you need to be. Yes, your eyelashes freeze, and you get icicles in your mustache from exhaling thru your nose.
right 😆 and sometimes an hair in your nose freezes and when you move your face it gets ripped off, that hurts lol
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Hunting in -30°F is pretty harsh but worth it
At that temperature, the deer walk up and ask you to put them out of their misery.
Last year, the "feels like" temperatures got down to 40 below. It's so cold that it burns, if that makes any sense. It literally takes your breath away. It feels like you're turning into ice. Even if you're outside for just a minute or two.
Yes, there are a few videos of the Carr fire tornado, not sure why they didn't show them... What's crazy is my sister lived in Redding CA at the time, working there. I had went to visit her almost exactly a year before that fire happened.. got to see the beauty of northern California and the places I visited up in smoke just a year later.. my sister had to evacuate since it got close to Redding but thankfully was stopped from getting into town. She ultimately decided she was sick of the risk of fires, missed having seasons (we're from Minnesota) and is finally back here in MN. So thankful to the firefighters who worked so diligently to keep towns safe.
Canberaa 2003 also
So sorry your sister had to evacuate. I was in Redding the day the Carr fire started. My parents, luckily, live on the other side of I-5, and only delt with all of the smoke. My step-brother and his husband had to evacuate from the Paradise (Camp) fire and stay with our parents in Redding while both fires were happening. What was scary for me was all of the fires during COVID, and the Apocalyptic skies we had in the South Bay.
The coldest I've experienced was -65F with wind chill in northern Montana on a frigid December day.
You can tell the temp is below 0 F because when you breath, it feels like needles are pricking the front of your brain. Back in 2019 there was a big cold front, and in Chicago it got to a windchill of −52F or −47C. That's so cold, if you take a boiling pot of water and throw it up in the air, the water freezes before it hits the ground.
It's been as cold as -39F here where I live in Minnesota (-39.44C).
Anything below 0° F is Hell. If it's cold enough, any wind at all will feel like literal whips on any exposed skin (especially the face). Layers are key. If it's ever that cold, wear several layers of jumpers, and make sure you're not facing the wind if you can help it. The coldest I've ever experienced was -39° F (Just about the same in Celsius)
Sorry, but I'm from Michigan - 0 F is not great, but ok as long as there is no or extremely little wind. Any wind chill below sub-zero F or worse than -18 C is what is brutal. Michigan use to get 0 F several times every winter, sometimes whole weeks where the temps never got above 5 F (-15 C). When that is common you prep for it. Just in 2024 (Jan 6-8) Detroit had 42 hours straight of sub-zero temps. Of course you have me beat with -39, the worse I got was -21 in 1984 and -20 in 1994. Windchill in 1984 was -40 and in 1994 it was -30. It was a f**king b***h to get the car started both years.
Sioux Falls, South dakota. We had 3 tornadoes hit our town just recently. Was pretty cool to watch
I remember the -23F(-30C) day in Chicago. We had to keep going out to start our cars every couple hours to make sure the batteries wouldnt die.
I live in Michigan, bro! Our winters can get brutally cold, especially during a polar vortex
I'll never forget when it rained frogs in florida..so many years ago but me and my brother still talked and laughed about it right up to the day he passed away
The coldest I've ever been I was -30ºf (-34ºc). Was working that night and the only heat in the building was from the carpet drying ovens in the building.
The coldest wind chills I ever was in was -83ºF (-64ºc). We were having a bad week as we were working our 3rd major derailment of the week that night. You could only be outside for 5 to 15 minutes before you had to go in and warm up. We finally just refused to go outside anymore until it warmed up to less below freezing and the wind went down.
lowest i think ive been in north MN is -42-43-ish. happens semi rarely, but has potential every winter here for a couple days
In December 1983 in my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana the Red River froze solid. The Red runs between Shreveport and Bossier City. Many people walked across it because it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I lived in Wisconsin a couple decades ago. We hit -27F degrees. 3 layers of clothes and I still had the cold wind blowing it. I was only able to stay outside to collect fired wood for about 5 minutes. before I became extremely cold. The houses furnace couldn't keep up with heating the house. We all slept in front of the fireplace to keep warm.
The coldest I've ever experienced was -25. I couldn't find my keys in my purse because I couldn't feel my fingers.
We had a cold snap like 2 years ago in denver, Colorado and it got to -22. Was a beautiful sunny day with packed snow on the ground
Hey Adam, I go to Vermont every year to teach kids how to ski. Vermont is all the way in the North so the winters are often very cold (especially in February). Last year it was -38°C and it felt like anytime i was outside my face was itching from how much it burned. I'd gladly get burned by a stove than work for 6 hours in that temperature!!
I live in the Kopperl area bro (super small town) and my dad said it melted tires to the pavement, caused sheet metal on houses/barns to sag and bend, killed animals, crops, and even caused heat strokes and exhaustion because AC wasn’t as big of a thing back then. More people had swamp coolers (or evaporative coolers for the more cultured) 😂 . It was the weirdest thing that didn’t last long but is always remembered and talked about. I always liked bringing it up to the old timers when I was younger because they get serious and told crazy stories 😂. I don’t know if they were exaggerating or not but it sounded terrible.
Adam, growing up in America's deep South in the 50's and 60's I lived through more than a few hurricanes. Most were near misses, but some were direct hits. Damage was common, but nothing prepared me for a tornado. I was living in Panama City Florida when a tornado hit part of base housing on Tyndall Air Force Base, where many of my high school friends lived. The first people that I phoned were puzzled by the reports, they had no damage, and hadn't heard anything unusual except the familiar sounds of heavy thunderstorms hitting the area.
I drove over to a friend's house and two blocks away, we saw the damage. Houses are built on slabs there, no basements, just everything one story brick post and beam modern style homes. The concrete slabs were polished clean, no houses, just the occasional brick utility room (a windowless storage room built onto open covered parking spaces.) .We were speechless. Even the worst of the debris was blown far away!
We had over 40 inches over 12 hours in Houston, with no warning. It started raining at 9 PM and by 9 AM there were big rig trucks floating in the below grade freeways. The sub-levels of high rise buildings were flooded, where the electrical equipment was housed. The incredibly valuable lab animals in the vast Houston Medical Center drowned in their cages in basements. Literally billions of gallons of water were pumped out of the basements of downtown high rise buildings. They were connected underground by tunnels with shops and restaurants. 98 F and 98% humidity made tunnels popular for getting from place to place; all were filled with water. I don't miss the constant flooding in Houston! I've lived in 8 states, nothing compares to Texas weather.
I now live in a Mediterranean climate in Oregon, cool wet winters with occasional snow and long dry summers with a few over 100 F days. No crazy weather, no violent thunderstorms, not even truly heavy rain. 2 inches over 7 days is newsworthy. It's lovely.
I'm a 67 year old Oklahoman of Irish descent. I enjoy your videos. I lived here during Erin, it was crazy. Being in the heart of Tornado Alley, they don't bother me, having been through several including a EF4.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we've also experienced similar things (though less extreme) to the "Dark Day". In the past decade or so on the West coast, governments have tried to take control of nature, by both trying to prevent natural burns and preserving the natural refuse that would normally get burned off in smaller natural burns. Like most cases of humanity trying to tame nature, it went the way anyone with enough foresight to see past their nose could tell you, very poorly. Without the smaller fires that have been naturally occurring here forever, and with so much flammable material building up, the entire West coast has been converted into a tinderbox, so when we get any fire that isn't put out on the spot, the entire coast can go up in flames. I remember about 4 years ago, there was so much smoke that I needed to roll up towels to stuff under the doors to keep it out, ran an air purifier 24/7 (that permanently bit the dust from being exposed to too much smoke), and it was pretty dim during the daytime. Not so dark you needed a candle, but that level of dark where you'd be relatively comfortable walking around in it, but where it feels a little too dark to comfortably eat off of a plate. Through the enormous motes of smoke drifting across the state, the Sun looked deep red, even when high in the sky. Lasted about a week or so (might've been two).
We've had a few other fires that had similar effects, but not really for as long as that.
It was 80+ degrees that week too!
Temps that low feel like you're both burning and freezing to death. It's a cold fire, a strong sting as you slowly freeze. Anything below -10°F is too cold for me.
We often get down to and.sometimes subzero here in New Mexico. The desert is crazy, it can be 40-50°F in the afternoon and 6°F at night. Without a lot of moisture we don't hold heat. Most people don't know how cold deserts can get because of that.
Adam you can look up videos of people in Alaska going outside in crazy below zero temps and do all kinds of fun experiments like bubbles and throwing boiling water.
Grew up in the Milwaukee area, and we frequently experience -30 to -40 degrees Fahrenheit with the wind chill in January. It's the kind of cold where in a few seconds of stepping outside, your eyes and nose start stinging because the moisture in them begins to freeze. If you go out with wet hair, it is frozen and crunchy in seconds. It hurts to breathe in too deep because the air is so cold in your lungs. My friend found herself without gloves during the 2 minute walk from her car to get into our school, so she poured hot coffee on her hands to avoid frostbite. It's no joke, for sure.
The coldest I've ever experienced was -27F (-33C). The description of the "Air hurts my face" is good. A friend of mine from the south, however, had another description. The boogies in his nose froze while he was taking my kids to the bus stop. This was in the ballpark of -13F, not -27F. There's a level of cold where your joints ache, your skin hurts anywhere the air touches, and a blast of wind will cut through just about any clothing and make your eyes water.
Currently in college, and it got down to about -10 last January. The thing is, here in the Midwest, we’re just used to it. So I still had to walk to class. You learn to adjust. You wear big jackets and good shoes and keep your hands in your pockets. I think it’s the only time I remember that everyone I walked past wasn’t looking at their phone at all. It was too cold to have your hands out, even with gloves on.
The coldest I've been in was in Wisconsin visiting in-laws. It was Thanksgiving, so late November. They already had several feet of snow on the ground. The entire family went out one evening to a small restaurant/pub, and the temperature was 8F/-13C. It hurt to breathe. Your nose and mouth are instantly frozen, not to mention your ears. Never again. At least not voluntarily. (But I'm a southerner, so my body isn't used to those kind of temperatures.)
It gets DANG cold in Indiana, but the trees are glorious. Gotta have ancient (only 200yrs) oaks and maples to be happy. Barefoot footprints in the snow from house to trash cans beside garage. MUCH prefer cold to hot. I'm useless at 90 degrees.
Here is something I heard of years ago:
Fish are said to fall from the sky in Yoro, Honduras, a phenomenon known as lluvia de peces or "downpour of fish". This has been happening for over a century, and can occur up to four times a year. The event usually happens in early June, at the beginning of the rainy season.
I had a lot of locusts/grasshoppers this year here in Colorado. They were eating all my plants.
Then a skunk moved in and started eating them. I never thought I'd love a skunk so much. And this wasn't even a plague.
-21 last winter here in Denver. It feels like being sandblasted even when the air is still. It takes about a minute, even fully well dressed for the weather, to feel like you've been outside in the snow for hours with no relieving warmth. When you come back inside your skin burns and feels really tight.
I've lived in the state of Minnesota all my life. We're known across the US for snow and cold. When it's more than 25 or 30 below zero it actually hurts to breathe. It feels like ice crystals are forming inside your lungs. We wear a scarf across our mouths and breathe through it to help somewhat. You need to cover every inch of exposed skin because you can develop frostbite very quickly. Usually, once it gets more than 30 below zero, schools are closed so little kids don't have to wait outside for the school bus. Otherwise, we pretty much just bundle up and go about our business.
Im not sure exactly how to explain that level of cold, but to try and make some sort of sense of it, in those kinds of temperatures, if you turn your car off for just 15 mins or so, you will not be able to turn it back on without heating up the block in some way, otherwise you'll ruin the engine. It's so cold that people would wrap thick blankets around the grills of their cars so the cooling system can't cool the engine which could prevent the engine from warming up to a safe operating temperature. So, imagine blocking off the grills on your car, getting rid of your engine's way of cooling itself down, and the engine never over heating because it's just that cold outside.
I got -30 here in IA. The neighbor had to help my husband with the snow with his snow blower. Every summer in August, we have what I call the Crickening. Theres just crickets, grasshoppers and locusts all over my garden.
This exact fire happened again last year as New York experienced darkest day again. A huge forest fire happened in Canada which filled the New York city area with dark smoke for a week. It eventually returned to blue skies but it was acrid yellow for a while.
100 degrees Fahrenheit is Spring for us in Arizona. We are used to well over 110+ on up degrees weather for multiple days, sometimes in a row in one week, and at weeks at a time! LMAO! 😂 it is usually the reason for our brush/electrical fires.
I grew up in eastern Iowa and it gets down into the negative 20s F, but it's the windchill that fucks you. Some days it'll be a -50 or -60 windchill. You can go outside and if you had a sniffle well now you immediately have stabby bogeys in your nose. It's so cold thay we would wear several pairs of socks, pants, and shirts at the same time and still be cold. It's the kind of cold that will definitely kill you if you dont know how to exist within it. I remember vividly falling down in the snow while it was snowstorming and being so cold it started to get confortable, which is a very bad sign. Thankfully, my sisters were with me and helped me up but it stuck with me as the first time i thought i might die. So...yeah the midwest in winter is hell frozen over.
2:15 12.5 trillion!? 😮😮😮 That's Armageddon God stuff.
I've been in -10° before in the early 80s. I was in Wilkes-Barre, PA for a marching band tournament. It was warm on the fiekd because of marching and the lights, but in the stands? It was biting cold. I was so numb, and it was snowing.
Look up Yellowstone Supervolcano. Enjoy.
If/when it goes, it's lights out for a few decades or more.
in the 90s. -63F in Fairbanks AK. Some winters may get a week or two at -40F and below but that -63 was extreme. Keep heaters on cars plugged in and the seats like sitting on cold concrete, tires get flat spots. Moisture from exhausts leave a thick ice fog. Most winters, we would chuckle at forecasts when the Midwest had similar or colder temperatures because we did not get the bone chilling winds so Fairbanks winters did seem better. Drove across Midwest in winter, outside the wind is absolute misery and exponentially worse as winds increase. So much respect to the Midwesterners who endure those winters each year.
Another time in Alaska, late snowfall in early May which lasted good week or so. Quick spring, summer and autumn when early heavy snow hit start of September, trees still had leaves and snow remained for another winter. ☃
Last year, in DFW I dealt with -17 F*with a wind chill of -2 F* for about 3 to 4 days.
When I was a kid in northern Michigan in the early 60s, we had -20 F days regularly. The coldest I remember was -40 F air temp, no idea what the wind chill might've been. It was a bright sunny day, school was cancelled because of the cold, our garage door was frozen shut. We bundled up and went outside to play in the snow.
When I lived near Cincinnati, we had the "polar vortex" bring wind chills of -40F (coincidentally, that equals -40C). I boiled some water, poured it in a mug, then when outside and tossed it in the air. It froze evaporated into a frozen mist in the air, which was pretty cool.
Adam,
The coldest I've ever experienced was around 1995 when I went to work in -23F with windchill making it feel like -40F, the wind will go through you, and any blowing snow feels like ice hitting your face. Oh, heard of a cloud inversion which froze elk solid several years back,
Yeah Tambora was one of the strongest volcanic eruptions ever recorded. The shock wave was so intense from the blast it shook windows in Europe.
The event was know as the “Year without a Summer”in the Northeast US.
That cold feels like a smack in the face over and over, you get ice in your nose when you breath in. Plus you need to beware of skin damage.
when i lived in Minneapolis MN from 2010 to 2014 we had a period of time where for 50 days at one point in the day it was always under 0F. For 14 of those days, it never went over 0F and if I remember right, it was down to -20F for the normal temperature for the day and then the wind kicked in to bring the wind chill down to -75F for how it felt. I think we had to bundle up in full snow gear just to bring the dog outside to go to the bathroom.... there's a reason I moved back to NY after a few years. I'll take my 100inches of snow a year instead of that. basically, it just sucks and after it hits 0F everything feels the same and its just cold and pain if you go outside
Damned 12 billion locust where sounds like a weapon of some sort
Went to Fairbanks, Alaska to visit my son at Fort Wainwright. It was minus 42. Felt like my nose hairs were burning and my chest was kicked by a horse. Being from Tennessee, I was excited when it started snowing and I said to a clerk, it’s snow out there!! I was given the look like I was alien or something. In another visit, I let there with temps in the 40s and got home to 102. Again strange looks while carrying a winter coat in the heat
Adam, I watch your channel cuz I know you will make me laugh a few times at least. Thank you youngster.
The coldest temp I’ve ever experienced (with windchill) was -50 in northern Wisconsin/Minnesota. That was 2017 though. Our winters usually don’t get too bad, but that’s from a homegrown perspective ahaha it just feels like being stabbed by pens to me at this point and I enjoy seeing how long I can make it before pulling out a nice coat.
January gives us that arctic air breeze (polar vortex)…you step outside and you get a nosebleed 😅
When I was a kid in Nebraska, it got 10 below for 10 days in a row. Neighbor a couple houses up had a shed for his hunting dogs. He had a heat lamp for them, but they froze to floor.
He had to wait until spring to remove them.
I can't even truly begin to describe just how cold those days in 2019 really were, and I had to work outside through much of it. I was always cold, even in the delivery truck, there was just no heat to be had. I had five layers over my core, and I still felt the windchill in my bones. The truck itself suffered a cracked windshield when I turned the heat on, and cold air was just bleeding in from the cargo bay into the cab, even through the interior door. Whenever I faced into the wind, it hurt to breathe. My beard frosted over almost entirely, and I called it quits on those days once my fingers started going numb. I had already lost most of the feeling in my toes, just that tingly sensation when the numbness was settling in. I eventually wore three pairs of socks, all I could fit into my boots, and it still wasn't enough. Insulated underwear didn't really help much either, the windchill would just blast the body heat right off of me. It was the coldest I'd ever been in my life. The only upside was that we got unofficial hazard pay for that week. I never want to do that again.
As a child in southern Quebec we would normally get a 7-10 day stretch between mid-Jan and mid-Feb when the nighttime low would be -40C / -40F and the daytime high would be -20C / -4F. At that temperature snow sounds like styrofoam when you calk on it. If I wanted to go skiing I had to spray a starter aerosol into the exposed carbueretor while my parent turned over the engine and this was after having plugged in the small heater to warm up the engine oil in the bottom of the crank case, for about an hour.
I've been out camping in negative 5. The grass froze into pointy spears that would actually hurt if you ran into them. You could feel your nose hair would freeze and unfreeze with each breath in and out. I had never really understood the term "chilled to the bone" until that camping trip.
Not this summer, but last summer for a few weeks, the Northeastern US was blanketed with smoke from forest fires in Canada. There were days in New York City where the air turned brown. Even where I live in Southeastern New England, the air reeked of wood smoke for days on end. So that story about black rain in 1790 is plausible.
I live near Chicago... that temp was BEFORE wind chills. The coldest wind chills I dealt with was in 1984, when we had minus 80 wind chills. I worked as a nursing assistant during nursing school, and had a private duty nurse north of where I live. It's horrifically painful. Frostbite sets in in a couple of minutes for exposed skin. I have also watched tornadoes go through my back yard while watching from my bedroom (took out 200 year old trees in the neighborhood), and have photos of tornadoes from when I lived in TX- there, summer temps could easily hit 120 per the thermometer on my window that was in the sun (as people were). We also got 25 inches of rain in one week in 2001 or 2002 (one of the last years I lived there). Back here in Illinois, i've also been through the Blizzard of 1979 and 2011. We got 18" of snow in 2011 over 36 hours. We also go the leftover tropical storms from the gulf in both Texas (cause of 25" of rain), and Illinois- though those were more just heavy 'calm' rain (vs thunderstorms). One of the tornadoes in 2011 happened when I was at my oncologist's office- I saw the radar on the tv in the waiting room, and saw the direction of the wind through the window... I knew what was coming, and they put a bunch of us bald, decrepit patients in a hallway, with IV pumps until it was over (it hit north of the office building).
It gets so cold here in Michigan sometimes....so cold that it actually hurts your chest to breathe. 🥶
Ok, so imagine being outside in a thunderstorm, but instead of drops of rain, it feels like tiny shards of glass are hitting you in the face. Imagine being so cold you feel hot instead of so hot you feel cold. Next time you're in the shower, just think of the water has tiny pellets of ice😂😂
I live in the Milwaukee area. When got that cold a lot of businesses shut down RUclips could throw hot water in the air and it would turn to snow instantly.
I lived on the shore of Lake Superior. No-one talked about cold until it hit 40 below zero F.
We kids went out to play, wrapping our feet, first in plastic bags, then several pairs of socks, then newspapers, before finally wrapping in newspapers before putting on our boots.
If you were to calculate from freezing to -80 that is the equivalent of 112 degrees or 44.44 Celsius
Talking about extremes, hurricane Harvey. Dropped 65 inches of rain in my town. Whole towns under water. It was crazy seeing whole neighborhoods emptying the inside of their homes onto the front lawn. Some trash piles were taller than the house.
The air is so cold it hurts your face.