There is also a semi-arid desert where I live in British Columbia. It is in the Southern Okanagan region and parts of the Thompson-Nicola are also semi-arid desert. We have lots of cactus where I live :)
Did you not know about the South Okanagan? An actual desert? I grew up in Oliver: cactus, sagebrush, scorpions, rattlesnakes.... and, 8" of rain a year (under 10" is desert). They even film Western movies there! Osoyoos is nearby, and Okanagan Falls on the other side. Everything south of Penticton is desert.
I know! I was shocked that he never mentioned Osoyoos, (Lytton, Kamloops etc). These places even look like Arizona, plus 40C+ days are really common every year. Including 49.6C for almost a week, in 2021. That broke a heat record, that even Las Vegas has ever seen. Only Phoenix and Death Valley has been hotter in N America than Lytton, BC.
Ya that’s what I was thinking, the area around Osoyoos is a desert, so much so that the town has a Mexican motif, I’m an American and just happened to drive into Osoyoos one night and when I woke up next morning and drove around it was a real eye opener, It looks like Arizona rather than BC. I’ve been in the Lethbridge and Medicine Hat areas, there semi arid but I wasn’t surprised, the Northern Plaines look identical in the US and Canada and you kind expect that, but Osoyoos when driving right out of the lakes area of BC was a shocker
@@harrytpk The whole area around Kelowna is very desert-like, though it does have an abundance of fruit orchards and vineyards, and lots of sunshine, which is a welcome relief to the clouds and drizzle of the coast. Victoria, on Vancouver Island, is also Canada's sunniest city, and has 50% of the rainfall of Vancouver on the mainland. It is in a rain shadow, one of the things that makes it so pleasing.
I live in Kamloops, the other near-desert area in B.C. Some nearby places (e.g. Ashcroft) have dryer microclimates and look and feel like bona fide deserts.
Greetings from Burlington, Ontario. I enjoy your channel. Keep the videos coming. I especially enjoy geography, and our beautiful country has such a diverse geographic landscape.
I see a lot of people complaining about Canada's weather. I moved to Alberta a couple of years ago from the US Midwest and I don't think the weather is all that different. It is colder, yes, but is -30 somehow significantly different from -20? Anyway, I've been to the semi desert regions in Alberta. They look cool and kinda remind me of Utah
So, Canada’s real desert is called the Columbia-Okanagan Plateau Desert. It is bone dry, full of prickly pear cactus, tumbleweed (sagebrush), rattlers, black widows and mule deer. Osoyoos is the premier desert tourist town, and Lake Osoyoos is Canada’s warmest lake. It’s so warm, that it isn’t as refreshing as you would hope, when it’s really scorching hot outside. The temps hit mid 40’sC every summer, multiple times. The world’s smallest actual desert is the Carcross Desert in the Yukon, at one square kilometre. The Athabaska Sand dunes are the northernmost dune system in the world. That sand is there because of grinding of glaciers there during the last ice age. It’s still dry there, but it’s more like prairie dry. They’re like the sand dunes on Lake Michigan and Huron, deceivingly desert like.
FYI, this region is also infamous for doubling as the American west in many many television and movies including Superman, The Last of Us, Ghostbusters (the latest one), Rat Race, Texas Rangers, Brokeback Mountain, amongst others...
The Palliser Triangle (what the area used to be known as out West) is still one of the most sparsely populated and fastest declining regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan despite a large boom in irrigated land recently that helped Wild Rose country become the largest potato growing region of Canada and is projected to still double in size in the next few years. Also booming there? Solar and wind production, at least until Premier Smith axed new renewable permits in a feud with the feds over carbon-free power grids...
Yukon - Carcross Desert - World's Smallest "Desert" It's an odd place, pine trees sticking out of the sand dunes. Snowy mountain ranges every direction. Soft sand between your toes lol Just some sand dunes but still holds the title for some reason
