Shot on a Google Pixel 4 in #Whitehorse, #Yukon, on Jan. 13, 14, 15, and 17, 2020. The temperature was about -40 C/F during most of the video (a little colder/warmer in some parts).
Lived here for over forty years. Minus forty is something of a novelty these days. In the 1970's, January and February would commonly bring weeks of minus forty-five. The ice fog, and the way that the cold air carries sound, makes those cold winter days very special, and very beautiful. It also teaches respect for nature - being dumb at those temperatures has consequences.
Same question It's always been a dream to live in cold place like this....😂🤗 Such places are not leads then heaven who grew up in +45 degrees weather conditions..😂😂
Same question It's always been a dream to live in cold place like this....😂🤗 Such places are not less then heaven for those who grew up in +45 degrees weather conditions..😂😂
I lived my preteen years in Whitehorse from 1975 to 1980. I remember weather like this very well. I used to be a paperboy and delivered the Whitehorse Star. I'm not sure if it is still around, but I used to deliver papers in this kind of weather every winter. At the time, it seemed normal to me. When my parents relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, I went out and got another paper route to earn some money with. It was then that I realized that when I was in Whitehorse, I had the hardest paper route on the planet.
@@30BopLeaveYuLeakinLikeAlFaucet I live in Calgary, it is not always cold in the winter but weather changes a lot and could be drastic. On my perspective, I love cold temperature as long as there is no wind hitting my face. Some people love winter, some people hate it.
zack fair true ik i lot of people who love it i live in ottawa but im still new to canada i come from the desserts so you can imagine how it is for me 😂😂 my skin is just not thick like canadians
From Australia and was in -36 in Ontario in 2008. Snot freezes and feel the moisture in your lungs freeze as you breath in.. Will never forget that experience.
@Les Brown Wouldn't it be easier to simply understand the metric system? In Australia, we have had the metric system since 1975 and in agriculture, all tradesmen and all industries people everyone communicate in metric system.
I can totally understand *people's aversion to going anywhere cold* ---especially as cold as -40! When someone is either not used to it, or has maybe never experienced real cold at all, it can certainly be shocking. Having grown up in a 'cold winter' climate zone, I learned a few things: ~> *What you think of as 'cold' depends totally upon you* ---your body type and how it adapts; your circulation; your perceptions of discomfort, etcetera. ~> *You physically acclimatize to cold.* I forget the specifics from my university days, but there's actually a loose 'rule' for how long it takes the human body to adapt to colder temps---like, such-and-such a temperature for so many hours per day for 'x' number of days. My own experiences bear this out. Every Fall / early Winter when we'd get the first day of -10 Celcius or so, I thought I was gonna freeze to death. Within about a week of steady temps that low, it actually didn't feel _nearly_ as cold as that first couple of days. (Honestly!) ~> *Dressing warmly mitigates virtually all the feeling of being too cold.* People unfamiliar with being outdoors in a cold climate often can't even imagine _*how_ to dress warmly (to the extent necessary). There is outerwear (and underwear) for every cold temperature. You can actually feel toasty and cozy even in -40C weather. Some areas like the face are a bit trickier, but depending on your skin's sensitivity there are even good coverings for that part of you. ~> *There are advantages to living in a 'Winter cold' climate area.* Granted, whether one views differences as advantages or disadvantages depends on your views on life, but a few totally esoteric, random ones off the top of my head might be: *+ Never having to deal with poisonous snakes* / lizards / other tropical or warm climate creatures or insects when going outside (or sometimes even if you stay inside!). *+ Buildings' exteriors stay cleaner.* Huh? Those used to living in hot climates might not even notice it. But I'll never forget the first couple of times I travelled to warm zones (S.California; India) and noticed all the dark streaks, mould and 'dirt' on many buildings. Never had that back home. My theory is that every Winter cold kills any algae(?) and mould that get a foothold in hot climates. *+ The 'freshness' of cold air.* Cold air just feels, and often smells, fresher than hot air. Could be that cold kills off all the bacterial and mould spores that float around _(
@Viktor Ivanov я сравнивал климатические данные, на самом деле, перед тем как написать свой верхний коммент и тоже удивился на этот счет, но в Уайтхорсе средняя влажность по месяцам ниже, чем в моем городе. И норма осадков тоже ниже. А средние температуры по месяцам примерно идентичные. Казалось бы, как так? Уайтхорс расположен в 250-ти км от побережья океана, а так же вокруг него есть довольно большое обилие озер. Но город так же окружен горами со всех сторон и они создают определенный заслон от влажности, видимо. Ну и, в их части света на климат сказываются совершенно другие факторы, поэтому там имеются свои нюансы. А насчет обледенелых ветвей - вы заметили, что из тамошней речки в -40 пар бьет и она не покрыта льдом? Собственно, от этого пара ветки дерева столь заиндевевшие. На вики написано, что у них там четыре гидроэлектростанции работают, видимо вода подогревается за счет каких-то сбросов, не разбираюсь в этом.
@@qadiyrthego-getterfarmer9171 i live in a region of Western Siberia called Ugra or Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. "Ugra is the historical homeland of the Ob-Ugric peoples: Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, and Selkup. They were engaged in hunting, fishing, cattle breeding. After the Turkic peoples pushed them from south to north, these peoples had to apply their skills in more severe conditions. It is at this new location Ugrians began to domesticate deer". I think it's pretty close to Inuit.
@Виктор Самсонов мои родители примерно в это же время приехали покорять север из теплой БАССР. Тоже рассказывают, что раньше зимы были значительно суровее. Морозы в -40 регулярно случаются и по сей день, конечно, но они уже не столь продолжительны, на пару дней. Это общемировая тенденция. Про Уайтхорс в комментах старожил один пишет, что и у них раньше такие морозы, как на видео, длились неделями. У нас по всей планете температура постепенно растет с конца девятнадцатого века. Это связано и с естественным процессом выхода из ледникового периода, и с деятельностью людей. Парниковые газы, сжигание углеводородов, вот это вот всё. Посмотрим, что тут будет еще через пару десятков лет.
@Виктор Самсонов в поздние советские времена Сибирь считалась растущей и многообещающей, но вот теперь такого не скажешь, увы. Не так уж и плохо, что вы тут только отслужили, а жить не остались=)
@oooodin I live in Finland where 99% of people are white, but I'm moving to Houston in the future which is one of the most diverse cities in the world. I'm not excited about the heat, but I'm looking forward to meeting people from all ethnicities and cultures. My boyfriend is brown too. In the end there is only one race, and that is human race. Focusing on the pigment of anyone's skin is the dumbest thing ever. I can't even call it childish, because racist babies and children don't exist, racism is always taught.
I'm from Windsor, Ontario which is the most southern area in mainland Canada (we're south of parts of Michigan). I have a friend who is from Whitehorse who goes to university with me down here and he says that he'd rather deal with their -40 with relatively low humidity over our -20 with 40-50% humidity because the humidity makes the air sting when it hits you. I've always found that interesting.
I am from the United States of America. Where I live, I have a hard enough time with 0 degrees, let alone -40 degrees. Those people must be used to it. I got frostbite in -22 degrees when I was only 19 years old. I know that I be in trouble with -40 degrees. Great video 👍 and scenery. Thank you for posting this.
when I'm walking around the desert in the Middle East, its normal for me. I'm sure its the same over there in Yukon, when you guys walk around in the middle of snow.
As a kid,I grew up in south central Alaska on a homestead( back before statehood). Cold was not a stranger. Trees would explode, nose hairs froze, frost lungs from over exertion, steps squeeked in the snow. Moved to Michigan's Upper Penninsula & about froze!! We were not prepared for the snow totals but, the biggest thing was the WIND!! There was cold there too but, those damm winter winds sweeping in off Lake Superior were another world. Constant blizzards, humongous snow drifts, constant snowfall & the constant winds would create a world not seen outside siberia.
Finland represent! The coldest I've experienced was -35 while in the Army doing my national service. The cold is no joke. I was super exhausted and slept like a log every night after a full day outside, even when it was just shooting range or something not so physical, your body consumes so much energy by just shivering. :D
In my younger days I rode a bike in -15C just for the fun of it, but not longer than for an hour at a time or so. A good cap covering the ears, thick gloves and a warm scarf or similar around the neck were most important, more than a good jacket, because the physical effort produces enough "waste energy" to keep most of the body warm. The biggest problem was with my glasses becoming foggy from my breath. When there is no wind, the air is dry and the sun is shining on the snow-covered landscape it is very pleasant to take a walk even at -20C. Finland has an interesting climate - while it can get as cold as -40C in winter, especially in the north, during summer temperatures often rise above +30C (when I visited Helsinki in July several years ago it was +32C and about +28C in Oulu). This amplitude must be a challenge to construct bridges, pipelines, railways and roads that can handle it. Of course there are other regions in the northern hemisphere with similar temperature characteristics - inland parts of Canada, Siberia, parts of Kazakhstan to name a few.
Lived there over 40 years ago and still think about the place a lot. I see that Murdoch's is still there and even has the same old sign. Hougen's has moved across the street and doesn't appear to be the ''big'' department store it used to be. Many fond memories and have always wanted to go back but living a little far away for that now especially with all the covid restrictions. Thanks for the video although I do remember quite a few days that were a lot colder when we huddle up in the Yukon Inn or the Klondike Inn and drink beer and laugh about it.
well, of course there is always a flow under the ice cover, but rivers do freeze and u can stand on this ice, even in Moscow (quite a warm place for Russia) rivers freeze fully (covered fully with ice) and people stand there and set markets. in my region huge rivers ( 4km width) freeze fully and trucks ride on them with no problems
@Les Brown of course they do!! Even in London the Thames River used to freeze every winter in the 1800s. It’s quite uncommon now due to the climate change but rivers do freeze in most Nordic countries. The bottom may be running, but the top can quite easily be completely frozen.
@Les Brown i dont know what ''tim horton'' is ....but then, someone wrote tim horton is a coffee house in canada..how does someone holding a tim horton coffee cup makes someone look canadian?
brown buter because it’s freezing ass cold outside, and that Canuck is just walking along with his Tim Horton coffee like it’s the middle of summer. That’s why it’s so Canadian lol.
Living in a place that never sees snow and whose lowest temperature along the year are around 7 ⁰C on the coldest winter nights, I must say: too beautiful, but too hard to bear. Walking carefully to avoid falls, cleaning the car and waiting a lot to get the engine hot (mine takes it in 7 minutes) and driving very slowly, winter tires, all-wheel drive as a must... I respect. Greetings from Brazil.
Born and lived there as an adult Beautiful!! Also lived in Winnipeg. Difference is That at those temperatures in Whitehorse there is no wind Smoke goes up like an arrow. In Ywg it howls. That makes it much colder. Portage and Main is very very chilly place Main at Waterfront is beautiful in any season
Living near the equator I would probably die in that place. But I have to say that the place and the atmosphere are stunningly beautiful. Greetings from Ecuador, South America.
Sometimes when it's this cold out and a very, very clear day with no wind you can just see smoke from chimneys going straight up and up and up and up into the sky.
I've been reading a book series that takes place in the Yukon wilderness but it frequently mentions places like Whitehorse and Dawson City, so I've been looking up these places out of sheer curiosity and idk I find it fascinating.
I did a 7 day long wintercourse in the swedish army with -40c a couple of the days. And yeah sure it was cold, but as long as you didnt stand still and moved around it wasnt that bad actually. Amazing nightskies when its that cold also, zero moisture in the air. So you can see all the stars super clear when youre in the forest. It was an amazing experience for a 19 year old. And lets not mention the nordic lights....
I lived in Whitehorse, Yukon from April 2008 to August 2022, before moving back to Calgary, Alberta. The coldest temperatures I've experienced up there was - 46 Celsius, and that was before the windchill. Those temperatures of 40 below or more aren't bad if there's no wind, you get used to it, dress in many layers before you finish with your parka. Now at those temperatures if the wind picks up to 30km/h or more it can feel like -70 Celsius and that's when it gets dangerous if you are not prepared. I still remember how temperatures of 40 below or more are very hard on vehicles, even when plugged in, if it did start was really rough on your vehicle, and while driving takes forever for the interior of your vehicle to warm up, the steering wheel was cold and stiff, put extra effort on the steering wheel to make turns, gear shifting was stiff also, very hard on the oil also, like molasses. Smartphones would only work for a few minutes in these extreme temperatures before going dead. During the winter it wasn't the cold temperatures that got me, it was the 19 hrs of darkness each day and the record snowfall and pact of the winters of 2020, 2021 and 2022, tired of shoveling the white stuff. Whitehorse may be known for being a dry climate, but with climate change, I believe that place is getting more wetter, Summers more rainfall and Winters more snowfall than before. Summers in Whitehorse are beautiful, you have 24hrs of daylight and 19hrs of sun each day, but the temperatures rarely get above 29 Celsius, the hottest temperature I've experienced up there was 30 Celsius, so when I moved back to Calgary and faced 35 Celsius in August and September of 2022, just about died, not used to that heat. Overall l miss Whitehorse, Yukon greatly, the beauty of the wilderness up there, definitely plan to revisit and connect with old friends someday, but Calgary is my home now, was before from 1970 to 2008.
That looks beautiful viewed from inside where it’s warm lol. The problem is there are a lot more problems to deal with when you get those low temps and it’s harder to fix and systems don’t operate correctly. It gets old.
I live in Eastern Siberia, Yakutia republic. In winter we have temperature almost - 50 degrees Celcius. And our coldest village - Oimyakon has a record of the coldest place on earth. - 71.2 degrees Celcius.
Kinda weird. It's 90 where I'm at right now and my AC is doing a very good job. But as soon as I started watching this, I actually started shivering a little and had to reach for a blanket.
It’s a bigger town than I assumed it was. There are trees; I didn’t know if it was too far north for them. And there was flowing water in the river, not frozen.
My chow chow would love wondering around in weather like this. Super thick double coat for arctic winter made him impervious to New York's winter cold. He would run around in thick snow and then make us chase after him.
I could not live in that. Vancouver Island is cold enough for me when the mercury drops on a cold winter night to -6C / 25°F. I don't like winter, even here where there's two seasons - dry (summer) wet (winter).
@@Frazzo Vancouver is a different type of cold though. It's just chilly, grey and rainy for months on end. I could not handle that honestly. The Pacific Northwest is just too dreary, I'd get depressed after a while. But maybe that's on account of me growing up in Southern California and Texas lol.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath I hear ya ... the wet winters aren't for everyone. Stand still for too long and the moss will start going on ya. I love it here. If I was rich, I would always have a home here. My buddy posted a video from today. Finally some rain! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D4Yu59av6v8.html Cheers.
Weather so cold that the heat in your car barely does anything, and your footsteps echo off the building beside you. Winter in Canada is rough but you acquire a taste for it because it really is beautiful. I always get this wonderful feeling when fall hits because I know winter is around the bend.
Lovely pictures. Normally, I love Winter. It is the most beautiful time of year as far as I'm concerned. Here in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) it can get rather cold and windy in those months. But we have ice hockey and outdoor sports to pass the time. Things are a bit different today due to the virus and the perils it may bring. Hopefully, we will be able to endure the coming months and any possible hazards. I'll be sure to have hot bowls of soup with lots of spinach to help keep me warm & (hopefully) healthy when those cold days come. My best to all ...
NW Wisconsin has been -42 real temperature with a windchill of -110. You could take a cup of steaming hot coffee and toss it out the second story window, and it would hit the ground like coffee glass. You could take water in your mouth and spit it out the window under pressure and create instant snow. That's why we live in rural Middle TN, where we actually used the A/C a couple times during the Winter.
I live in Ontario. When it gets to -30 , any exposed skin is bitten raw by the cold. It gets so painful that you begin to be insensitive to anything colder. -40 is bad but I cant tell the difference in pain between -30 and -40
And here i never experienced snow in my entire life. Leave the snow, temperature here never goes below 15° C even in winter. Temperature ranges between 15° C (winter) to 45°C (summer) here..
Oh my god, this is city of my dream.. Well, assuming from video. But I have a bunch of positive emotions when watching snow, fog, mist.. I would escape from stifling Montreal in a heartbeat, but unfortunately cannot now because of work. Thanks a lot for showing all this cold beauty!
I lived in Minnesota for 14 years, I loved the 1st couple winters, after that, I was as depressed as no one could be, so I moved to Florida, 7 years ago, so far, I am not missing MN at all!!!
The harshest Canadian winter Ive encountered was in Regina, Sask. Its a flatland that gets really windy in winter. I had to be outdoor most of the time and it was brutal. We take our heated homes and cars for granted here in Ontario. In Regina, I was actually scared for my life because if my car stopped working outside the city, I know Id be dead. It was that bad.
Minus 40 is fairly cold. We used to see just over -60f in Central B.C. back in the early '70's. Luckily the wind didn't blow when it was that cold. Laid in bed at night and listened to the nails popping up in the trusses as the wood contracted and forced them out a ways. Sounded like .22 shots going off.
looks cold but as of late in Manitoba been have just as cold weather with our none stop blizzards. really cool to see how everything looks with snow on it
This takes me back to a week I spent in Whitehorse in January back in 2012. I think it got this cold just after I left, but there was more snow. I remember watching a plow one night clear the road and it was just a road of more snow behind it.
Deadhorse is an unincorporated community located within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States, along the North Slope near the Arctic Ocean.
Sure miss the Yukon and it's people. Now 87, a veteran and on my own. Think I'll go back next year and some day croak in peace. Living in the south is no hell. Peace everyone.
I lived in North Bay for a while and one morning I woke up and it was -46 C... but man. The Yukon is so amazing. If this pandemic is ever over id love to visit!
I hope you get to visit. I did, for just under 2 weeks last month (September 2022) - best trip ever! It's a great little city and has so much to offer. GO! 😉👍
