It is -31 in Edmonton today and it is predicted that tomorrow or Saturday will be -40 with a wind chill making it feel like -50 degrees celsius. I guarantee you that anyone out in those temperatures is not out for a leisurely walk. They HAVE to be out there to go to work or school
yeah. still havent even seen snow yet here in Vancouver. i think the mountains finally got some at the tops. its nice and sunny outside and actually colder then usual today at 10c. was supposed to snow today, but thats not happening
@@BarkerVancityI'm in Langley . We got two small Snow falls,one before Christmas and one just a couple days ago. They both melted right away. . This last fall came with rain,mostly slush lol .
Finally have snow in West Kelowna. Got a tiny bit last month, now as of a few days ago, it's staying on the ground. My neighbourhood is currently -16°, feels like -21. @@BarkerVancity
Newfoundland has the most colourful names in Canada. Examples:Joe Batt's Arm. Blow Me Down, Come By Chance, Witless Bay., Heart's Delight, Heart's Content. Heart's Desire, Jerry's Nose, Tickle Cove,. Push Through, and many more.
Also, dear Mert: if your Scottish ancestors could survive here (and many of them being our “founding fathers), then you can too. We have a wonderful and beautiful country!
Except most of the early Scots came from the Orkneys and other parts of the Highlands. Made great Hudson Bay clerks and managers because they could handle the isolation.
When I was a young teenager, I used to bowl. 5 pin bowling was my sport. Saturday mornings I would take the bus to and from the bowling alley. This one very cold day, it was around -40 C. After bowling I missed the bus. But the way the route was, I could run about 5 blocks and jump on the same bus as it looped through a residential area. I was about a block away when I saw the bus. Then about a half a block away when it left the bus stop. Now my choice was to wait at a bus stop for a half hour or walk home. I chose to walk home. It was about 2km. I was so cold when I got home, I swore I would never complain that summer was too hot.
For me, the coldest I worked outside in was -55C, in northern Saskatchewan. Worked 2 days in that weather. The worst wind chill I ever experienced was -72F, in Cold Lake, Alberta (a well-named place). I was working outside then, too, and got injured due to the weather.
Holy shit, that's a deadly windchill! Glad you made it out OK, and hope the injuries weren't permanent! (Also, is it only Canada that ever notes windchill in the forecast?)
I think the funny thing about the door sign is the very Canadian….” Please do not be offended…”. Other country’s signs would probably say…..” You must be buzzed in…” and leave it at that.
I went camping with a couple of friends in a Volkswagon van in -42 before wind chill in British Columbia. When I woke up in the morning I couldn't lift my head and I didn't know what was going on until I realized my face had frozen to the floor. They still laugh about it decades later.
Back when I was in the Canadian Forces, we were training down in the US in Florida in January one time. The weather on the base where we were was bizarre to say the least. It got up to +30C during the day, and a good -5C at night, so we would sweat during the day, then our combat uniforms would freeze to the ground as we tried to sleep at night. Good times.
-41C here today. I shovelled my driveway when it was -36C yesterday. Newfoundland has the most amusing town names. Tons of places use the hockey stick payment terminal in drive-thrus.
In the 80's, I lived and worked in the settlement of Norman Wells, NWT. One day in the winter, the temperature went down to around -50C. In the early 80's I was living in Yellowknife, NWT and a buddy and I drove down to Edmonton, Alberta. Coming from Yellowknife, you meet up with the Mackenzie River and the only way across is by the ice road that was opened just a week before we got there.
The warning sign is Canadian because it is so polite in nature. The paper straws really suck, and I don't mean in the good way! As for cold weather sir, layers! Always layers and start with long johns, get the red ones if you can and make sure the butt flaps works!👍😂🍁
I lived in the high eastern Arctic of Baffin Island, Canada for a few years. I've hunted caribou with the local Inuit to get meat for the village. The caribou wintered over 200 miles away, so it was about a 10 day excursion to kill and dress about 30 caribou. The caribou of that region were called Perryland, the size of large goats and dressed out at about 65 pounds. Hence the reason for so many killed. My first trip in February the temps hovered at around -62F the whole trip. We lived in snow houses and dressed in traditional garb, (caribou mukluks, pants, parka and mitts. All made by the local women. We were toasty warm the whole time except when we travelled by Skidoo there and back. (400 Miles) The travel was chillier because we travelled an average of 25-30 mph, so the wind on our faces was bitter. Frost bite was common.
The clothing is made with raw caribou skins. So unless you kept it in a freezer during the warmer months, it would rot. Normally, a new set of clothing would be made every year,@wedmak9524
Actually had a similar sign in an apartment building lived in previously. Actually if I knew for sure the person coming up also lived in the building I would hold the door. If not I wouldn't.
-53.4°C. I worked for NORAD for half the '80s, monitoring radar 24/7 north of the Arctic Circle, scanning the skies for Soviet bombers coming over the North Pole. My duties included weather observation, which I was trained for. Serious stuff: if I signed my name to a weather report and it was wrong, and caused a crash, I'd go to jail.
@@cassieo4337 : Indeed. -53.4°C is very darn cool! 😂 And in my initial post I had failed to note that the winds were averaging 60 knots that day (approximately 70 mph, 110 km/hr). The resultant wind chill was way beyond what our wind chill charts showed. It wasn't until a couple of decades later I ran the actual calculation. With the wind, the effective temperature that day was approximately -90°C, -130°F. I didn't stay outdoors very long that day reading thermometers. 🙄
I'd be like holdup, why do the weather men on TV get no punishment for getting the weather wrong almost every damn day!!!! lol Though jail ain't so bad anyway.
From Medicine Hat, Alberta and our temperature is -26*C today. Finally winter has come, as western Canada has been experiencing drought conditions for the past 10 years. Mind you we only have about 4-6 cm of snow, hoping we get a real Prairie winter with at least 1-2.5 m of snow. Cheers!
The Watson Lake Signpost forest was started during WW2, the Americans wanted a land route to Alaska for supplying Alaska out of range of the Japanese Navy. Watson Lake was a base camp in the middle, one of the American Soldiers put up a sign of his home town, it has vastly grown since then, mostly Summer tourists headed for Alaska. I believe there is over 90k of signs now. You might want to a video on the building of the Alcan highway.
Your thoughts on holding the door are truly a Canadian thing and that why the sign is funny to us here because it’s so against our culture to be impolite and close the door on someone even for security lol😂
I have waited in my car in the parking lot until other people have entered the building if I don't know them. That way, I know they have the code to enter the building, so they must belong there. I don't want to be in the uncomfortable position of entering the building and having to shut the door in their faces!
A lot of ppl in other countries don’t get the “windchill factor “. The temperature on the thermometer doesn’t take into account the wind and how that feels on the skin. So a -10 with wind can feel like -18 on exposed skin. Lick your finger then blow on it and you’ll get the idea
The windchill make a huge difference. I can easily go outside to pelt when it is -30 without windchill with just a t-shirt, but need whole winter set for -10 + windshill.
The sign post forest in the Yukon was started in 1942 by an injured soldier who was assigned light duty. He erected a post and a sign to acknowledge his home town in the US. From then on people from all over the world have posted signs, license plates, street signs etc. When they run out of space, the town erects more posts.I think there are now over 90,000 signs situated on a couple acres of land.
I lived and worked at CFS Alert ( Canadian Forces Station ) North Pole. Coldest day I saw was - 53 Fahrenheit ( I am old school ). We are called " the people beyond the land of the people " which is Iqaluit. Alert is on the very top of planet, there is no place else to go, but over. We have Arctic wolves everywhere very sociable, BUT you never touch them they are wild animals, then we have the Polar Bears which are extremely unsociable. 🇨🇦
btw, not all Canada is cold. i live in Vancouver its 10c out and bright and sunny, and i havent even seen a drop of snow yet once this winter. the mountians just got some at the peaks last week. ski hills are not all open yet. yeah, no way id live in the prairies or any farther north. honestly a weird year, even in the mornings there is hardly any frost. get ready for some forest fires next year America, we had one of the driest winters ever and theres goanna be massive droughts this summer.
I grew up about 5 hrs east of Winnipeg in Nw Ont, we were usually a few degrees cooler than Winnipeg So we expected -28 to -35 in the 70s most winter days with your expected stretch of -40 Moved to Calgary in early 80s balmy 😅.... Chinook in middle of winter went from -12 to +2 in a few hours, spring time😅, than next day it went back to -10 ,was so cold....my body was fooled that it was springtime, winter was over😂 Couple years later took a truck up to yellowknife for a mining company...-40 was already climitazed🥶 Since 1990 live in Kelona BC so mild compared to Calgary
I don’t like Botanical Beach now. Years ago, you had to go through a salal tunnel trail to get to the beach. Now it’s practically paved and the sheer numbers of tourists who disturb the ponds has greatly decreased the variety of species you see in them.
The coldest I've felt was -56c, about -68f, while working in the Canadian north. Very cold indeed. I've driven on the ice roads in northern Manitoba many times.
The "coldest" I've personally experienced from here in southern Quebec is about -40 which we get a couple times a year, usually in early February. I always found funny that it works out the same in Metric and freedom units.
Same; grew up in Southwestern Ontario. -40C/F a few times each winter wasn't unheard of. Currently in Victoria, awaiting a dive to -8C tonight. Lived here nearly a decade and I think that tomorrow just might be the coldest day for me yet.
@@jujube8067 I think he's being funny, and it's a joke back to the 9/11 days from when France didn't wanna join the Afghanistan war against them, they stayed neutral, but we also pulled out when they invaded Iraq I believe as well. Cause that just turned out to be for the oil. But anyways, the U.S. were going to call their French Fries Freedom Fries, well since they are always the most "FREE" country in the world.
The coldest I ever experienced was -47C and I worked outside on the railroad as track maintenance at the time. This was in Ignace, right between Thunder Bay and Kenora.
The hair freezing contest is hosted by a hot springs resort January to March. So it's a draw for tourists during the slow months. Places that have ice roads often don't have alternatives. There are some small towns in northern Manitoba that are swamps in summer and ice in winter. Only way in and out 8 months of the year is by helicopter. Light pillars happen when ground based lights reflect off ice crystals in the air or clouds. Somewhat comparable to rainbows.
The "Town Names In Western Canada" image at the beginning was taken in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Our family farm is about 30 minutes north of that point, on Highway #4 towards Rosetown.
I've experienced minus 45 C but only dashed from my car to the office and back home again lol. Today it's a balmy minus 32 C in Alberta. Love your content.......you are so kind to us.💜
Quebec has a lot of towns and cities named St-This and St-That, having been incredibly Catholic for most of its existence after French Europeans arrived. I don't know who Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! was, but we (famously, locally) have a town named that.
0:20 If you go to Québec, one of the very notable thing is just how many places are named after saints. Its everywhere, from city names, street names, church names, mountains... It just goes on and on. Religion has been in decline for decades in Québec, so it really tells you just how much of a strong hold it used to have on society. Nowadays, it is just an artifact of history. 1:00 Its not unusual to find wildlife in the core of even the most urbanised cities in Canada. Its just a thing. During winter, they come in town because they can't find anything to eat in the wild. Since towns are warmer, snow will melt earlier and expose patches of grass. The evergreens that are often used as a fence between houses also make an attractive meal when nothing else is available. 11:15 Bridges for animal crossings are rather rare. More commonly, what is done is that river bridges are built a bit wider when they get rebuilt. With climate change, that's needed to combat flooding, and it provides a place for animals to cross.
The coldest temp I've ever experienced was in a Montreal winter, 1989/90. Every time I breathed in, my nose hairs froze together. They'd click each time I breathed out and broke the ice with my breath. I had to stop wearing earrings too because they froze my ears. Dude, did you just say you're afraid to be in "minus degrees"?! LOL! -5c ain't nuthin'!
There's a woman in Prince George BC who knits toques (woolen hats) and, each winter, places them on a statue of 20 people holding hands. They are there for anyone who needs one. She's been doing this for the last 12 or so years.
Ya know what they say... "its not the heat, its the humidity."..? Well, its the same with the cold.. a damp cold sets into your bones and is very hard to shake; -10°c by the great lakes is worse then a dry, sunny -20°c elsewhere in Canada. I've lived in both environments and prefer cold and dry, thanks! 😉
I've often gone on -25C walks when I lived in Montreal. -30C is about my limit though. I've been in -47C and you really have to plan so you're only outside for a few minutes at a time. Don't get locked out! ADVICE: layering. Invest in a quality base layer that goes on like underwear. They're usually very thin and light Merino wool are best although some synthetic ones work well.
New Years in Quebec mountains! I'm looking at the stars while tobogganing at 1 am and it's -40c. The stars have depth when the air is that cold and clear.
The cake dispenser is a product of The Cake Boss which is a show from the USA that we can see here in Canada. The bakery is in Hoboken New Jersey. We have one of the machines in Hamilton Ontario in a shopping mall.
YES, there are interesting/curious names ALL across Canada and especially the east coast - Dildo, Come by chance, Saint -Louis(prn Louey(fr))- du- Ha!Ha!, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and on and on they go! The Canadian thing about the door sign was that people HAD to be told to STOP doing,as it's such a Canadian reflex to hold doors for others!
It was -52C with the wind chill where I am right now in Alberta! Yesterday it was -33C ambient and I went for a run, got home and my sweaty clothes were frozen together!
I’m on PEI so our weather is more temperate than other provinces. At -20 we don’t send kids outside for recess. It happens here a few days but not often.
Coldest I've ever walked outside is -42C. We are dealing with a polar vortex right now. -39C this evening in Edmonton Alberta. It hurts to breathe outside.
I worked at a sawmill in northern Manitoba, Canada in the 90's one day it was -47 and our propane heaters stopped working because it was below the boiling point of propane (froze up).
I cannot speak for Eastern Canada, but a lot of the names of the towns/villages in Western/Central Canada have Indigenous roots. What is the coldest I ever temperature I ever walked in? I used to drive a team of Percherons (hay sled) to feed cattle on a ranch in northern British Columbia, from 7 to 5 with an hour break for lunch, every day. The coldest temperature I ever worked in during that job was -65F/-54C. It was cold but one adapts.
Coldest day I can remember was 2005. It was -60 with the windchill and I tried to walk to 7-11 which was 3 blocks away. I got to the end of the block and turned around.
The most easterly point that you can drive to in Canada is a town called Meat Cove, on Cape Breton Island. One of the most unique places I have ever been.
Had to go to Whitehorse, Yukon one year for a few days and it was -40° C. The locals like to say "it's a dry cold" which can feel less cold than a damp cold. Seemed just cold to me.
It is currently -31.0°C here in Veteran, Alberta. Our overnight low is predicted at -36°C, going to a "High" tomorrow of -34°C. Tomorrow's overnight low is predicted to be about -45°C. The coldest I've worked in was -48°C, hauling oil rig parts.
I gotta tell the classic Flin Flon joke. Sitting in a restaurant, one guy says to the other, "There's only two kinds of people come from Flin Flon. Hookers and hockey players!" Guy at the back says, "Hey, my wife comes from Flin Flon." The reply, "What position does she play?"
Coldest temperature I have walked in was -47 Celsius. Without a proper jacket and many layers you are screwed. Frost bite can happen in 30 seconds to any exposed skin.
-25C, but recently parts of canada are having temperatures as low as -45 to -46C this last week. It's supposed to be heading back to the usual, 0C and above soon.
Coldest, used to play hockey outside as a kid, -35 below often In high-school( mining community in NW Ontario, mine had houses 100 miles away, we stayed in during school week leave Monday morning co.e back Friday after school( 2 hr trip)late 70s Anyways it was -45 and windy, was dying to go sledding( snow mobile) got dressed very warm full ski suit helmet viser,face mask...trying to get machine started , went back in getting layers underneath , got machine started drove about 8 feet turned around and parked machine, with snow suit and at least 3 layers underneath, two sets of gloves....wind was like a knife.......found out later it was with windchill colder than -75
As I write this Edmonton, Alberta is -28 with a -36 Windchill. Yesterday was -33 with a -40 Windchill. The world doesn't stop at these temperatures. We carry on as normal. lol
In Saskatoon it's going to be -50 on Friday with Windchill. And yes the Moose did break through the window at an Elementary school near the river. It was early in the morning, they say it was because he saw his reflection and got spooked. My friend is a teacher at that school.
I’ve never played hockey in my life but for some reason have a hockey stick in my cellar. I’m an immigrant so I didn’t grow up playing. I honestly think it just came with the house. Very Canadian! 🏒
Windchill was -31 here this past weekend it's been much colder further north. As a pedestrian, I once crossed the TC Hwy at a stoplight alongside a Mallard duck. I still haven't figured out how the duck chose the crosswalk for crossing. 😅 He only made it half way before the lights changed, but all cars waited.
Mert, I work outdoors, until we hit -45C with or without the windchill we still work steady. Below -45 we are 20 mins outside 10 mins inside (truck, building, shelter) then back out to work.
My coldest temp that I had to work in was a windchill of -87 in Thompson Manitoba. Had to drive in ice fog from Ponton to Thompson. Was terrified my truck was gonna freeze up as there was no traffic at 1am 😮
-52 degrees.Working in the bush in northern BC. It was 4km each way to layout a forestry road (another 2km surveyed) with wind gusts around 50-60kmh. My partner broke his snowshoe halfway through the day and had to fix it using some plastic ribbon and a stick. Couldnt start a fire at lunch and decided just to keep moving. When we got back to the truck we had to dethaw our balaclava face masks before we could take them off as they were froze to our beards.
Tonight in Alberta, Canada, it is -36C....right now. My dear neighbour shoveled my driveway this morning. What a great guy!! School was even canceled today because of the cold. That photo of Justin Trudeau jogging is just a photo op. He gets booed anywhere he goes these days. He keeps increasing the taxes on our heating bills. Yet we love Canada, in spite of him.
Canada in many parts It use to be the normal to leave your house unlocked..Car unlocked ...UPS would leave packages inside the door instead of the rain/snow ..Car doors when locked sometimes freeze And its a 50/50 chance the other one is frozen too While outside of Winnipeg I noticed coffee shops with cars running for 20+mins while people had coffee (it was -50c outside) Some places offer a plug in outlet for your car's oil heater plug...keeps your engine oil warm so it will start... Last week i sat at a bar playing porketta bingo...You win 1lb of pork And a few buns with mustard ..perfect with a pint..Only dont call "Bingo" Or they get to throw you out.. In Northern Ontario ..Ice tires with studs is common and legal ...Only in the northern half..Which this year no one really needed them
Not sure if you would describe it as "interseting" on the same level as 'Medicine Hat', 'Moosejaw', or 'Yellowknife', but a friend from Ontario drove me home (Québec) a couple years ago, and was blown away at the number of Saints. The majority (by a wide margin) of towns and districts in the Province of Québec are named after Saints. It is certainly more common than anywhere I have ever visited elsewhere. Every few miles you are going to run into a "Saint" or a "Sainte".
