3 Ways British and American Winters Are Very Different

In which I outline the major differences between British and American winters.
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[@tinnagigja3723]

Icelandic person here to add that we are also surprised every year at how "it's getting dark so early already", and then again by how "it's still bright out and it's X o'clock!" despite having gone through literally a thousand years of the same pattern.

[@10thdoctor15]

Even now, it's getting darker later than a few weeks ago, I'm nearly leaving work during daylight.

[@jcortese3300]

Yes, I say the same thing: "We evolved on this planet! Why are we constantly surprised that it's tilted?"

[@Schlottathjotta]

Swedish person here, and omg I do the same! "Oh it's 00.30 and the sun has not gone down yet, cool!"

[@justintime5021]

@@Schlottathjotta is it hard to go to sleep when it's light out? I'm in California so this is not a problem we have. The biggest problem we have is our summers are hot enough to kill bacteria

[@Schlottathjotta]

@@justintime5021 It's not super bright, and honestly, you just get used to it. It is worse in winter time when the sun is up for only 6 hours.

[@srice6231]

When I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, one winter a student at the school where I taught was looking out the window at the red sky and asked "Is that the sunrise or the sunset?" I had to look at my watch and told her I thought it was sunrise but wasn't totally positive. The sun on the shortest days just barely comes up and then goes back down. It is so low in the sky, it is hard to go by East to West.

[@maryhenderson4929]

From fbks too

[@Demigord]

you looked at your watch and couldn't figure out if it was before or after noon?

[@srice6231]

@@Demigord Because of the way timezones work, noon isn't always the highest point in the sky. On the shortest days the sun isn't up for long in Fairbanks and is super low on the horizon. The sun is only up for 3 hrs., 40 mins. and about 90% of Alaska plus the Yukon is all Alaska Standard Time (there used to be 4 zones). It was around mid-day so it was hard to tell.

[@Demigord]

@@srice6231 ah, looking it up, you're completely correct. high noon is at about 2 pm there today. weird time zone. learned something today.

[@sarahferrell5458]

Wow

[@mind-of-neo]

The craziest part about American weather and seasons is not the variation among the various regions, but the variation from year to year.. Your experiences with different seasons are likely to be very different from year to year in the same place. Some years, winter is really harsh even in the south, and let's not even talk about the gamble you take as to whether you'll have a nice spring and fall, or 2 more messy pseudo-winters that year.

[@regsun7947]

I've found in my six decades of living in a northwestern desert area of the U.S. the only thing we can count on for weather is that summer, no matter what, will get stinkin' hot. Every other season's weather can vary drastically but summer just won't.

[@willkittwk]

@@regsun7947 that...well don't get me started on global warming. The only thing I've found out is anything with the word "global" in it is a grooming for a con job. I look at our summer weather in LA and even the news if you can believe that will say it was 107° today the hottest day since 1891 when it was 110. I'm thinking those horse and cow farts put more carbon in the atmosphere than the cars. OK

[@chadleach6009]

Depends where your at, here in Florida it's basically always been the same, gets a bit chilly for 3-4 months then back to the oven.

[@warreneckels4945]

Also, the variation from day to day can be extreme. Lafayette, Indiana has been as warm as 64 F and as cold as 0 F just over the last six weeks. The really strange part so far is that most of Kentucky and Tennessee as well as parts of northern Alabama have seen more snow than Lafayette, Indiana. Not looking forward to Nature paying this debt off, especially since we also missed the December and January tornadoes.

[@regsun7947]

@@warreneckels4945 Yeah, like day before yesterday it was so sunny and warm I was opening windows to let in the fresh air. Yesterday we were socked right back in with the cold and fog of another inversion.

[@Jo1day]

Funny true story: my family moved from Minnesota to Miami in December when I was about ten. We had the pool at the hotel we stayed at to ourselves, because the Miami natives thought they were going through a cold snap. They accused us of bringing the cold weather down with us. We were like, "What cold weather?" I understood exactly what the Miami natives meant when my family moved to Idaho a few years later. Luckily for all of us we moved in August instead of in the middle of winter.

[@cyndialver2130]

Same reaction when my family moved from Colorado to Phoenix! I was young enough to find the fact that the powers that be were de-icing the planes at Sky Harbor Int'l Airport falling down funny. As I got older I was able to appreciate the paramount value of safety first, especially when I was a passenger aboard those Boeing behemoths.

[@BitterBetty76]

I'm in Indiana and as a kid we always vacationed in the Charleston SC. area on the Isle of Palms. We'd spend thanksgiving there and we would go to the beach and get in the ocean and run wild on the beach. The year round islanders took one look at us in the cold water and muttered "Yankees". Hahaha they knew! 😂😂😂

[@TimeLady8]

Buffalonian in Texas here. My son likes to go out and drink his coffee when it's in the 40s & 50s. Our first winter here, he said he's outside in shorts and the neighbors are looking at him like he's an alien as they were taking the kids to the bus in heavy winter coats. I don't even own what in the north is considered a winter coat. My spring jacket works just fine.

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

I’m a Buckeye who lived for a while in a southern California beach town. When my mother, still living in central Ohio, came to visit, she would marvel at the locals walking around bundled up in coats (not heavy parkas, but coats nonetheless) like it was actually cold. Meanwhile, she (naturally “cold blooded”) felt like she was in the sweltering tropics, which, compared to January Ohio, they sort if were. I split the difference and walked around in shorts, long sleeves, and a light jacket-quite comfortable for a So Cal beach town winter. Go inland, though, and you start feeling the cold very quickly.

[@nancyfenity9817]

I'm sitting here in terrible suburban Rochester, NY bundled up in a blanket because the temperature is steadily falling now that the sun has disappeared. It snowed steadily all day and we have about l5 " on the ground where I live.(about a foot left over from a storm we had a week ago). It's a winter wonderland, but nothing compared to the winters we had when I was a kid. We used to measure the snow cover in feet rather than inches. Global warming at it's best. We often have green Christmases and don't get any significant snow until late January. But, we will have tall piles of snow still melting in late April or even early May some years...the remnants left behind by snowplows.

[@cassidybyars8614]

Also worth mentioning the difference between humidity and no humidity. Typically the north has more of a dry cold and south humid cold making the feel like temps different for the same degree.

[@KristenRowenPliske]

Oh but that humidity is a b*tch in summer! Dry heat is so much more tolerable than heat with a wet blanket thrown on top! (I live on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Visited Arizona in August; 100-plus temps were actually not that bad.)

[@stacyr2775]

Humidity makes such a massive difference. Back in high school, I went to Germany as part of an exchange program and that year had been the coldest winter since WWII. So naturally all us Southern teenagers thought we were going to freeze. Nope! To my host mother's horror, I was fine walking around town in a light coat. The poor woman kept trying to get me to wear a scarf or hat to keep warm, not understanding that their cold temperatures feel oddly warmer than our cold temperatures.

[@anthonyuchello2031]

Very true. 32 degrees in New Orleans with 80% humidity is colder than 20 degrees in upstate New York with 10% humidity. And it's not even close.

[@theredrover3217]

Except of course the far northern maritime climate of costal Alaska. Sopping wet AND freezing cold. 😆

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

I like to call those “damp cold” and “damn cold.” Damp cold is when it isn’t that cold, but the dampness makes it feel colder. “Damn cold is when it really *is* that cold. Damp cold makes you shiver. Damn cold freeze-dries your skin.

[@dorfrez]

I live on the gulf coast of Mississippi. When my children were 7 I woke them up at 11pm so to drive them 35 miles north to see snow for the first time. It was about an inch deep.

[@charlesrat3703]

Ask around about the winter of '78 sometime. Anyone from the Midwest who was over 4 will respond. Personally I remember snow drifts higher than our one story house, no power for about a week, and watching the National Guard slowly plowing out a canyon on the road we lived on. They just don't seem to make Midwestern Winters like that anymore.

[@essaboselin5252]

I was in Maryland at the time, and our road was closed for weeks. First, it took forever for a snow plow to come down it, then the plow flew over a hill into a drift that went all the way across the road at a height of 12 feet and went back about 30 feet. For two weeks it sat there until they could bring in some equipment to dig it out.

[@crowttubebot3075]

I was 10 and remember that winter very clearly. My best friend and I made tunnels in our front yards through that mountain of snow, complete with larger caves to hang out in. Our parents didn't believe how extensive our tunnels were until spring, when they collapsed. Then it was apparent on the surface how much we had made. Wisconsin native here, and, as a kid, that winter was fantastic. (So many snow days)

[@debjoy12]

my dad was driving to upstate NY for Christmas and he said the thruway only had 1 lane plowed and he was forced to take a different exit because the plow truck had gotten off earlier on that exit. he had to talk to the toll booth worker so that he could get back on instead of paying the toll. I'm not sure how much snow was on the ground but where he comes from they tend to measure snow by the foot 😂😂

[@katieandkevinsears7724]

I'm an Ohioan and can't comment on the blizzard of 78. I was born nine months later. You can ask my parents how it went though.

[@theproplady]

Minnesota during Halloween of 1991 would like to have a word with you.

[@JoshColletta]

Speaking of the snow in my hometown of Miami (which was a HUGE deal when it happened, and my mother, who was in high school at the time, remembers it vividly), fun little factoid: the fact that it almost never drops to freezing temperatures is the reason why the city was founded. Julia Tuttle wanted Henry Flagler to bring his Florida East Coast Railroad down from West Palm Beach and build a resort hotel at the mouth of the Miami River, in exchange for which Tuttle would give up much of her land and help start a new city. Flagler, at first, was not convinced. He felt that West Palm Beach was the ideal stop for both the resort he had built there and the citrus and sugar crops that grow in the region. But when a winter freeze struck most of the state and almost completely wiped out that year's orange crop, Tuttle invited a couple of Flagler's employees to see that the orange crops in "Biscayne Country" were just fine. That finally convinced Flagler, and the rest is history. As such, Miami is considered the first major North American city to be founded by a woman, which is something we Miamians are rather proud of.

[@TheDellaniOakes]

That's a very cool fact! I live in Daytona, where it does occasionally dip into the freeze zone. We even had "snow" about 30 years ago. It didn't really stick, but it was coming down.

[@randomestchannel]

I don't mean to ruin this but a factoid is a false fact

[@JoshColletta]

​@@randomestchannel Yes and no. Merriam-Webster allows for both definitions, though they list the one you're citing in the specific context of something that is only "believed to be true because it appears in print." The other definition, as I used it, they list as "a briefly stated and usually trivial fact." In my experience, the "brief, trivial fact" definition is more commonly used. Your mileage may vary. Interestingly, some people will tell you that my little tale IS a factoid in the sense that you defined the term, because the story of exactly how Flagler was made aware of the oranges seems to be up for some debate, and the common narrative that "Tuttle sent oranges to Flagler" isn't entirely accurate to the exact details, but the story gets told that way (in print just as often as verbally) so often that it's become the folk tale everyone loves to cite. Additionally, one might argue that the story isn't truly trivial, since it forms the basis for the founding of an entire major metropolitan area (or at least the larger portion of it; as West Palm Beach would have existed regardless), thereby disqualifying it from being a factoid by my OWN definition of the term. However, the way I see it, it remains trivial, because most people do not know it, and no one actually NEEDS to know it to understand much of anything else about Miami or South Florida altogether, the orange groves in the area included.

[@catherinehenry6762]

In Florida, when the temperature comes anywhere near freezing, most of the state goes a bit insane with worry about the orange/ citrus crops. They can't tolerate ANY kind of frost, and are an enormous factor in Florida's economy, so the growers invest in heaters and water sprinklers , over thousands of acres to protect their precious trees from the deadly frost. I once asked a farmer if that was where frozen orange juice came from and received a really disgusted look for my "clever" question.

[@JoshColletta]

@LTNetjak Different kind of snow 😆

[@stephenbacks3100]

I live near Miami, and I remember the one time, in 1977, that snow fell here. I was in 5th grade, and a student came to class late, announcing it was snowing. We rushed the teacher, who tried to stop us, and saw snow for the first time.

[@thatwiseoldbitchchannel]

I was born in fla in 77 and it had "snowed" that January... Some lady actually scooped up some of the snow and has kept it in her freezer for years...

[@Birdbike719]

The worst part about winter in the south is that were more likely to get ice storms rather than snow. (Last Feb being the exception). Ice coats the tree branches which get heavy and break causing power outages. Ice is awful to drive on so we all stay home and eat soup and make French toast. Unless the power goes out. Then you pray you have a gas stove or a BBQ grill on tour patio.

[@c.phillips7728]

I absolutely agree, Linda. (I'm in North Carolina.) The storm we had last week began as fluffy snow and then changed to sleet - no freezing rain, thanfully. The sleet just bounced and didn't stick to the trees and power lines. How frequent are weather-related power outages in the UK?

[@Cricket2731]

When I was in art school, we had a Scottish exchange student. She waa told that winters where she was going got--on the average--was about 20°. She wasn't told that 20° was in FARENHEIT! She thought Celcius & about froze to death! I'm sure she was very glad to go home to Scotland!

[@missytheiss266]

I'm originally from Chicago. I moved to Florida seven years ago. Interesting enough I have seen Florida natives wearing parkas when the temperature drops below 60 degrees. Lol..... True story!

[@lout3921]

It's true for sure

[@dannykyle7950]

Moved to Jacksonville from Detroit a year ago and I've seen the same thing. It's hilarious. I'm the only person outside walking at the park before it hits at least 55.

[@brianb8060]

I'm the opposite. I lived in Florida from birth to 40, and lived in Cleveland for the last 2. I see people wearing shorts and t-shirts when it's snowing. They must be insane. 🙃

[@missytheiss266]

@@dannykyle7950 I am in the panhandle of Florida. I don't even own a coat anymore.

[@mariowalker9048]

@@dannykyle7950 Jacksonville gets surprisingly cold, but it never snows. The last time it did was in 1989

[@McFlingleson]

As someone who lived in Indiana for years but doesn't currently live there and isn't originally from there, I think Laurence's impression of a Hoosier is pretty spot-on.

[@sunflower7045]

My husband was in the Mountain Division in the US Army. They had to march and camp through the rough countryside, mid winter in the mountains of upstate New York. 😳 I was cranky shoveling 3 inches off my walkway today, just to get tacos.

[@ralphbalfoort2909]

That's the 10th Mountain Division, which was formed in Colorado during WW II; I was stationed at Fort Carson, CO, not far from where the 10th was formed, and I've lived most of my life in "upstate" New York. I know winter.

[@jeffburdick869]

The 10th Mountain Division in Fort Drum?

[@bullettube9863]

That would be the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Fort Drum near Watertown NY. The area gets some real wicked winters, and it's said the 10th gets better winter training then if they were stationed in Alaska. Probably because of the lake effect snow coming down the length of lake Ontario.

[@justathought958]

He also, probably, froze on the top of Mount Washington while climbing and training. The 10th trained on that mountain and on the very TIP of it can be found the plaque dedicated TO the 10th Mountain. KUDOS and HONOR to your hubby!

[@sunflower7045]

@@jeffburdick869 Yes 10th Division, Fort Drum

[@alonespirit9923]

Another difference is happening right now on Jan 16, in the morning; in the Carolinas there is snow, sleet, ice, & at same time 2 states south in Florida there have already been severe thunderstorms with several tornados by 10am.

[@faegrrrl]

I've noticed this happening as well. I believe it's from the polar vortex shifting.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

I have a sad story to do with snow. Vince Guaraldi, the guy who did the music for Peanuts (and the Jazz Mass, and Cast Your Fate To The Wind), a native San Francisco chap, always said that it hadn't snowed in San Fran since he was about 6, and he wanted to see it again. One day, he got his wish (and there was quite a lot of it too). Next day, he died of a massive heart attack. But, hey, at least he got to see snow again.

[@Vivian_Bush]

Snow is pretty rare here in Houston, so our multi-day "Big Freeze" last February (with temperatures around 10F) was a literal disaster. The power grid failed and nobody knew how to cope (or how to drive on the icy roads, which our city services didn't have a way to thaw). It's nearly unheard-of to get that cold here, and even when we do have below-freezing temps, we rarely have snow because our weather is usually either cold-and-dry (from the central plains) or warm-and-wet (from the Gulf of Mexico). We have to get just the right mix of moist Gulf air and a cold front to get actual freezing precipitation. One nice thing about being so far south, though, is that our winter days tend to be longer than those up north. North-and-south makes more of a difference in total winter daylight than east-and-west in the time zone does, because the daylight hours are actually longer. Living far west in your timezone gets you later sunset, but also a later sunrise.

[@Nick_Trevino]

fellow Houstonian here -- since Houston plumbing isn't built for freezing temps, we also had water damage due to bursted frozen pipes...that was pretty common throughout the area

[@jukthewise8776]

I'm in the Rochester, NY area. Expecting to get 4-16 inches of snow between this evening and tomorrow. A roast is in the crockpot, plenty of basic supplies on hand, and the whole-house generator ready to go if there is a power outage. Time to hunker down and be cozy.

[@MrDan708]

Winters in Eastern PA are fairly chilly, but snowfall can vary greatly between "WHAT snow?" and "If it snows one more inch, I'm jumping off a bridge!"

[@amybrock2592]

As a lifelong New Englander, I thought I was at least a little prepared for the weather when I moved to Syracuse. No, I wasn't. I still remember getting up one morning and realizing nearly three feet of snow had fallen. The roads were pristine: plowed and treated to perfection, the sidewalks, not so much. I currently live in Rhode Island, whose weather I describe as "New England Light". It's not as harsh as Boston; so much coast makes it noticeably temperate- unless you live in the Bermuda Triangle of Foster-Glocester, which is Arctic by comparison. This year so far, we've had one major storm that got things canceled. So, it's been an easy winter so far.

[@gregorybatz7297]

As a ten-year resident of Fairbanks, Alaska, I approve of this message. 👌Please stay away unless you like darkness and sub-arctic cold. That way I have fewer people on the highways in the summers, which are glorious.😎

[@you_can_call_me_T]

I live in Memphis, and we don't typically get much snow, at least not by northern standards. But what we do get is ice. In the winter, we're way more likely to have an ice storm than a snow storm.

[@audraphillips448]

Ice storm of 94!🥶

[@you_can_call_me_T]

@@audraphillips448 Lol it was legendary! So far the worst in my lifetime, I believe.

[@you_can_call_me_T]

@@audraphillips448 Right now it's ice storm 2022. I know a LOT of people who still don't have power.

[@alexmonstrous]

Fellow Memphian here! Hope you survived the weird ice storms & tornadoes lately lol weather has been a variety

[@janjackson7732]

Okay, I'm a PNW Oregonian who lives about 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean. I live about two hours away from the very place where Lewis and Clark's explorers spent the winter playing cards and wondering if they were EVER going to see a break in the rain much less sunshine again. This area is very much like Britain and Scotland. I was born in a town called Kelso in the state next door, which was named after the place in Scotland. You need to come here and visit any time between November and May for a fun packed day of freezing cold rain. You'll think you're home.

[@brianb8060]

I remember back in '88, my brother drove home to Palm Beach County from FSU (Tallahassee,Fl). There were still icicles still on his car. As a 9 year old, I thought it was very strange, I had never seen real icicles before. I never saw snow till I was 25.

[@TheOnlyOneStanding8079]

Dont eat yellow icicles 🤣

[@brianb8060]

@@TheOnlyOneStanding8079 You mean they're NOT lemonade flavor. 😁🙃

[@TheOnlyOneStanding8079]

@@brianb8060 naw you go ahead than have a taste 🚽🚽🚽🚽🤣🤣🤣

[@WWatch48]

Utah is right in the center of the West, so it can go either direction every year. One year could be cold and snowy, and the next dry and warm. No winter seems to be the same. The coldest winter I remember experiencing was about -5 Fahrenheit with tons of ice and snow on the ground and the warmest was about 60 degrees with brown mountains and plants. My particular community tends to get a little bit of lake effect, but nothing in comparison to the places back east, due to our small lake sizes.

[@Lobo4ever]

Elevation plays a big role. It was in the negative teens during the 1990 December holidays in Park City. Guests from all over the country had arrived for my wedding, and they were cold, cold, cold; couldn't understand how we could ski in those temps. (The advantage of being local is you just wait for it to warm up, of course.) Lots of jumping batteries, but we still got to the church on time!

[@theredrover3217]

@@Lobo4ever I was there lol. No not your wedding, one of those patrolman also enjoying an uncrowded mountain. 😉

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Well metro Denver many times may get 4 or 6 inches when the mountains get 3 ft of snow and we have about 300 days of sunshine so usually in a day or two most of the snow melts!!!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

@@Lobo4ever yup Pikes Peak has a car race in the summer and can be 80 degrees on the bottom and above 14000 ft can be snowing and high wind!!! Drives in 2021 had to stop below the summit cause of snow

[@cs5384]

To me the craziest part is how it can change from day to day here in Memphis, Tennessee. A few days ago it was in the 70s. Yesterday it was beautiful. Sunny high sixties. Today it was in the 30s and supposed to get in to the 20s in a few hours, pouring down raining right now with 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow.

[@agarfan]

I live in Flagstaff, Az and we average 9-10 feet of snow during winter. In ‘67 we had a 7 foot blizzard.

[@elizabethw.6154]

In Ohio, we have tons of snow. I remember in high school us having it as late as the last weekend in May. And just this past year, 2021, we had a bad snow storm mid april. If you're a veteran Gardener here in Ohio, one of the things we always recommend is not to put vegetables in outside until after Memorial Day (May) to lessen the likelihood of Frost or cold snaps killing them.

[@beth.icanfly3983]

I'm in southern Ohio, we do 1st of May. Are you near Lake Erie? I know that makes a big difference in weather for the northern section of the state.

[@MissRyukkie]

I'm in the snow belt so I know that all too well.

[@elizabethw.6154]

Yes. North Central and North Eastern, Ohio. I agree, that how near the lake can make a big difference.

[@VerucaSalt70]

I'm southeast Ohio...here it's not uncommon to start with rain, turn to sleet, snow, then go back to rain for a nice layer of ice over everything. Only to be sunny & 50° the next day & melt it all away!! LOL

[@beth.icanfly3983]

@@VerucaSalt70 That is TRUTH. Winter is mud and gray skies and more mud. I keep threatening to move just far enough north that snow covers the mud and reflects the light!!

[@Dsdcain]

-4 degrees F right now at my house. Got up to 6 degrees today. You know you live in a state that has very cold winters when the temperature gets up to like 36 degrees F in mid February and you're ready to go out in shorts and a t-shirt. 🤣🤣

[@P-B-G_YT]

8:00 In 1977 when Miami was getting snow flurries, Whitehorse Yukon (North of Juneau, Alaska) was above freezing, and people were walking around wearing T-Shirts. It was so warm the river didn't freeze over and the local winter festival had canoe races on the river instead of dog sled races.

[@jpwoelfling]

I keep trying to tell people, that the coldest winter I ever experienced was the Summer I was stationed in Adak, Alaska with the US Navy. In June, it was -10 degrees Fahrenheit and we had 3 feet of snow on the ground that didn't melt until August.

[@p.w.352]

This has been my general winter wear for general activities, not recreational, in the states that I have wintered in: Michigan- long sleeved shirt, sweater, coat, hat, gloves, and lined boots when it snows. Utah- winter coat, hat, gloves. Washington/Oregon- rain coat, umbrella. California/Arizona- A sweater.

[@elvinjonas5451]

Thanks for mentioning Scotland in this video. Most Americans don't realize how far north it is and that they get harsh winters in northern Scotland.

[@everettrailfan]

I was actually shocked at how similar the British climate was to my home climate of Seattle, especially the rainfall. Just a little thing I noticed.

[@quycksylver4822]

Texas is off on its annual 2-3 month bender. It was up in the 70s over Christmas; last week it was in the 60s, and today was in the low 30s. I think it's supposed to be back up in the 60s next week. We'll probably get another snow storm in February or March...then maybe it'll sober up for awhile.

[@all-americanboy1776]

In the Texas panhandle it gets cold and snows some in the winter but it’s basically the Midwest. Texas is so big it’s amazing, west, east, central, north, south all have different climates and it’s one state

[@HamtaroEL]

Think of Texas as its own country instead of a prefecture.

[@captainskippy4560]

Another fantastic vid, always enjoyable listening to the differences the U.S. and Britain have

[@dannykyle7950]

Detroit native.. So no stranger to cold weather. Now live in Jacksonville Florida where it was a balmy 67 today.

[@peterjohnson388]

The sun sets here in western Michigan around 9:25 during the summer, more time to enjoy the warm weather.

[@ryanbrothers5377]

This past Christmas (like 3 weeks ago), we had the hottest Christmas ever in Evansville, IN. It was over 70 most of the day! I saw people not only wearing t-shirts but even outside shirtless, running and skateboarding...on Christmas! That's unheard of.

[@tarantulady8565]

Weather moves in cycles, typically surrounding changes in our sun’s output, known as solar maximums and minimums. If one doesn’t know any better, one could believe it’s “climate change,” rather than cyclical weather. In Indianapolis on January 12, 1916…the high was 68°F. I’m sure they thought it was “weird” too…but probably just decided to enjoy it and thank God for a break in the cold. As January is, on average, a colder month than December, 68°F would definitely seem out of the ordinary.

[@AeroGuy07]

We set a new record high temperature for Christmas day in Cincinnati.

[@elfdream2007]

I've lived in New England and experienced 'real' winter'. Ice, snow, wind, cold etc....and it seemed to last forever. Then I moved to the Northern part of Virginia and once again experienced 'real' winter. The ice, the snow, the wind, (and of course it varies from year to year) but the difference was, Virginia was just far enough south that the 'real' winter was very brief. I think of it as the reverse of the Alaskan summer.

[@andfoundout]

Yes! This is the thing I miss most from Virginia-- all four seasons

[@jacquelinedawson7219]

I was sitting in middle school in Miami back then. The whole class emptied out screaming! Lol we even had a song …. Christmas in Miami we don’t see the snow,all we see is rain and sunshine everywhere we go…😂

[@jovanweismiller7114]

The first time I drove from Kansas to Mexico,. I realised I was in the South from two indicators. 1) There were no 'Watch for Ice on Bridge' signs, and 2) grits came with your breakfast, whether you ordered them or not.

[@jenlovesjesus]

I enjoy your winter videos, Lawrence, because you clear up some of the misconceptions about American winters. For instance, a lot of Europeans think that winters in the US are milder than their own. A Russian man I met said he was surprised at how cold and snowy our winters are. It's funny that thos has come up, because I've just started reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. 🤔

[@willkittwk]

American winters are way warmer than European if you live in certain parts of Florida or California. I live in Southern California where it's usually in the 70s in January in the days around LA area. But you can go 70 or 80 miles East to Big Bear and it's around 30-40 in daytime and 10 or 15 degrees at night. And of course if raining here then snowing there.

[@jenlovesjesus]

@@willkittwk Right, but that's just one region. I live in the Midwest and our winters are cold and snowy. Today was 17 degrees, and it's quite common for temperatures to go below zero. Also, keep in mind that certain regions of Europe are also warmer, such as Italy and Spain

[@your_royal_highness]

I am a Chicagoan spending time in southwest Florida on 1/15/22 when this video was released and in the 18 days I have been here, the temperature highs have been between 73 and 83 degrees. The average also includes mostly sunny skies with cool breezes. Being closer to the equator the sun is surprisingly hotter than a summer day in northern Illinois. I don’t miss Chicago one damn bit right now! I also get to stay here until March 1st, so I am a happy camper.

[@marion6015]

If you like winter, come up to Canada. Just west of Montreal along the St Lawrence River the other night it was -31 degC. We get the snow too.

[@geniej9093]

Snowed in Rotonda West, FL 33981 on Christmas Eve 1988. I woke my kids to come out and they danced in the wee flakes. Thanks for the memory flash back. PS: no accumulation❄

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

When I visited London for 7 days for New Years 02-03 (was in the New Years Day Parade), it rained every day except 2 and on one of those days it snowed.

[@maryc5252]

I am north east of Atlanta and we are waiting to see if we get any ice or snow from the latest winter storm that is currently hitting the southeast. I checked out the local grocery store this morning and almost all of the milk and bread shelves were empty and strangely enough the produce section was wiped out as well. Though we have enough food to last us through to Monday morning my greatest concern is loosing power. All of the power lines in my subdivision are underground but beyond it the power is above ground and susceptible to trees or branches falling and causing power outages. It should not get cold enough for there to be concerns about the water lines freezing. However, we will have wind gusts around 45 mph and that will cause power issues as well as damage roof tops.

[@TanyaQueen182]

Grew up in the Boston suburbs. Talk about snow. I moved to Jacksonville, Florida 5 years ago where our average temp in January is 68. Now there have been days in the 40s, but maybe 3 all winter. It's awesome. People here tell me there were flurries one day in 1989 and I laugh so hard.

[@littlemissmel88]

We are expecting 1-2" of snow tomorrow, really more ice. The town is freaking out, roads had been brined (salt water mix to keep them from freezing) since Thursday. If it was a school day, it would have been cancelled. North Carolina really doesn't handle it's winter weather well, especially since it was in the 70s like a week ago.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Well we in Colorado will go from 70 to 20 in 3 or 4 hrs!!! New Years eve it was really dry and then got 100 mile per hour winds and the suburbs between Denver and Boulder had about 800 houses destroyed but only 2 deaths

[@TheGeekess]

In the South, we tend to get ice with our snow. That's why the entire region shuts down. Nobody (not even those up North) can drive on ice.

[@nowhereusa]

Yeah as a Brit living in Minnesota, its a little different than Blighty! After working outside in the polar vortex a few years back the British temps would feel like a heat wave. Today was a high of -9C and it wasn't bad at all.

[@DeannaPiercy]

I live in Southeastern Oklahoma and we got a light dusting of snow today with low temperatures in low 20s. And yet on Thursday it was in the upper 60s and sunny. It was 79 degrees on Christmas Eve day. We have quite a range of weather here. ;)

[@unamary57]

I live in southern Ontario Canada. Right across the lake from Erie Pennsylvania. We had 12” of snow overnight. Broke the handle of my snow shovel. Got to love the lake effect.

[@ShinKyuubi]

GA boy here and can confirm. Snow is such a rare event for us that even the MENTION of snow tends to send us into a tizzy of grocery stocking..with current things as they are that exacerbates a problem. It don't matter if we get it or not..we've learned it's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to snow and food supplies..it's ALWAYS the milk and bread that take the biggest hit in that case. We're actually getting ready for between 2 to 8 inches of snow on the 16th...8 inches is the high end for the most northern parts of the state. We got a massive ice storm in 2014 that just crippled us..there were cars and school buses stranded on the interstate of people and kids trying to get home before it hit..it was not very successful..the school students had to hole up in any building that had power..I personally lost power for 3 days at the time, had no back up generator, and a grandmother on oxygen at the time..touch and go right there, and we were iced in and couldn't leave for a place with power or heat.

[@spinalobifida]

I believe the year before Atlanta got it's last snow fall, I got to see my first snowfall in south Georgia and built a 5 foot snowman

[@Miesque1973]

Central Texas Hill Country, Christmas Day: 80F. New Year's Day: about 30F. Today: roughly 40F. Winters here can be loony.

[@amandahibbs3690]

Living in upstate ny (NORTH of Syracuse) wasn’t my cup of tea…we lived 30 minutes from Lake Ontario. Back south I went.

[@eclconsulting]

I lived in Atlanta for 17 years and for 16 of those years, there was snow. Granted, usually under 1" but still enough to shut down the city for a week. As for southern Arizona where I currently live, we've had snow at only 2500' elevation 5 times in 12 years. The moral of this story: once you say something is true on the Internet, reality will prove you wrong.

[@donaldwert7137]

It's usually not the snow itself, it's the ice/sleet that falls either before or during the snowfall and freezes to the streets underneath the snow. In 1982 I first witnessed what can happen when that kind of weather hits after a previous night of below freezing temperatures. I stood in what was then called Central City Park in downtown Atlanta and watched traffic come to a complete standstill in under half an hour, with buses sliding sideways on the icy streets that had been clear hours before.

[@eclconsulting]

@@donaldwert7137 Yup, always great fun.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

@@donaldwert7137 yup the Ice can cause multiple pile ups

[@fairykeileyshobbies]

I live in Phoenix Arizona. Last January, we had snow in Phoenix. Usually doesn't happen because our elevation is 1,086' (331 meters), while Flagstaff (that gets considerable more snow) is at elevation 6,909' (105.8 meters). So if you don't mind the heat in the summer, the winters are amazing!

[@mediumjohnsilver]

Greetings from Pasco County on the west side of central Florida, where the overnight temperature will be in the sixties, but there are coastal flood warnings and thunderstorms approaching.

[@joermnyc]

Being from New York, my first trip to Southern California in January, I was surprised at how much later the sunset was… conversely going to Toronto in July, the sunset and twilight ran until almost 10pm! I thought that was nuts until my wife told me of her childhood visit to Leningrad, USSR in summer during “White Nights” where twilight goes all night until sunrise (she’s been in the US since she was 10, to the point that other Russians, tell her “you speak Russian with an American accent”!)

[@Nagranddan]

I would love to go to New York but I'm a little afraid as someone from SoCal, I wouldn't be able to tolerate the rain, snow or humidity (aka having weather). That said, I still really want to see NYC, I've only seen it in movies and the idea of it having sprawl plus a lot of skyscrapers and working public transit seems amazing to me.

[@MR-hu3ht]

@@Nagranddan Don't come now, it is currently 10 degrees Fahrenheit. So far January has been pretty frigid. I suggest you try May or June. Usually May and June are warm but the overbearing heat and humidity hasn't started yet.

[@Nagranddan]

@@MR-hu3ht I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the advice! :) Are there any must see things you would suggest for a future tourist?

[@willkittwk]

Yeah we're about 34° north latitude and New York City is about 40° north latitude so winter will have longer days here and summer will have longer days there. And if you live upstate NY even more pronounced. I think the UK is in the 50s latitude but they get some oceanic influence on their weather so even though it's much more North than NY they're not gonna get the snow blizzards you guys are prone. I live in LA and most people put up with the bullshit just for the weather. I know I do. Lol

[@Zertules]

@@Nagranddan Mid spring or mid fall. September averages 76F and if you get lucky it'll be sunny. Summers get hot, winters get cold, and both tend to be humid. I love summers in NY, but no one can complain about 75ish and sunny.

[@davidray6962]

Close to the Arkansas/Louisiana line, we just got snow - only a little, but still. We just had snow last year! (I know we've had snow in consecutive years within my lifetime, but honestly can't remember when.)

[@christianoliver3572]

We had a windy day here in Corpus Christi Texas. It still got up to almost 70 farenhight.... In January

[@TammyMitchell5]

I’m in the Mississippi Delta and we’re expecting a “wintery mix” tonight/tomorrow. 😳

[@christianoliver3572]

@@TammyMitchell5 I grew up in the DFW Metroplex & I remember the snowy mix!! It's just enough to make it kinda scary to drive over a long bridge or overpass but not enough snow or ice that people in Chicago go OH SH!T!! I went to Saint Rita and Dallas Jesuit & I lived in Plano. When ALL schools in Plano, Richardson & even Dallas were closed for snow & ice we still had to go to school! The Fathers told us & our parents to get chains for our tires!! We would even get Penance Hall (Detention) if we were more than 15 minutes late for First Bell! I'm not entirely sure but I have a feeling that nobody would do that nowadays!!

[@jillhobson6128]

@@christianoliver3572 Fahrenheit

[@christianoliver3572]

@@jillhobson6128 Hey Jill Is that like farfegnuggen? hier wird es manchmal richtig kalt!! Every now a man d then it does get very cold hee in Texas!!

[@justmeannie1956]

January is 'Sweater Weather' here in San Diego. Anything below 60 degrees is considered freezing. 🥶 Although it was a balmy 71 degrees today. 🏖

[@russellwortham2902]

We get measurable snow in Tucson about every say 10 years.

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. One thing that might surprise people who move here from Britain (or even from the midwest) is that we get no rain for half the year. It typically starts raining in late November or early December, and stops raining in mid-May. There may be a couple of rainy days in June, but that's it. The hills in the Bay Area are covered with introduced grasses, such as wild oats. They're well-adapted to our climate, because they germinate, grow, and go to seed in just a few months. After that, the grasses die, producing what we call the "Golden Hills of California." That is, during summer the hills aren't green. I once worked with an immigrant from Wales who told me that he first arrived in the Bay Area in winter, and in late spring he noticed that the hills were turning brown. He was alarmed by this die-off, and didn't understand why he was the only person who noticed it.

[@kevinwallis2194]

The difference is san fran. I always took a jacket when i went there, because even though it wont rain a lot, it was foggy or misting. then working on the roof of a high rise made it even worse.

[@shantereed]

When I lived in Sacramento what surprised m e was The difference in temperature between Sacramento and San Francisco. I learned at the my first visit to San Francisco to always have a jacket with me. I grew up in Georgia and Augusta which is two hours from Atlanta would have s similar temperatures and like Sacramento in San Francisco.

[@naturedetectiveminecraft6362]

Welcome to Florida where it's raining on one side of the street but not the other

[@willkittwk]

@@shantereed SF and Sac are about 80 miles apart but it can be 68 in SF and 105 in Sac on the same summer day. What's even more crazy is it can be 70 in Santa Monica and 100 in LA about 10 miles East inland from the ocean and 110 in parts of the San Fernando Valley on the same summer day.

[@kevinwallis2194]

@@shantereed I was in antioch and commuted to all parts of the bay area, but san fran was the worst unless you were working inside.

[@themoviedealers]

Kudos for pronouncing Syracuse correctly. Having gone to college there, I do recall once it snowed every day for a month. Not a lot every day, some days very lightly, but a measurable amount every day for 30 days.

[@patriciajackson1457]

Today, Jan.16,2022, in Charlotte NC we are having a snow storm! Yay! I’m from Philly and I love snow! However, here snow does one of two things 1) melts before kids would get out of school ( but they close the school anyway) 2) turn into ice, like a great big ice skating rink for cars.

[@jamesoneavatar8644]

I live in South/Central Florida and I've seen snow twice, that I can remember. Once around 1989 it fell to eyeline, but not to the ground. Around 15 years ago, it snowed in Spring Hill overnight. There was snow on my roof, until the sun hit it. The birdbaths froze over further North

[@alexgreen1523]

Here in Alabama, there’s a chance of snow tonight and tomorrow. Most of the time so far, it’s mostly things being slick on the roads. But I know what snow is like in Chicago as I live there once, also know how snow is in Milwaukee due to having a vacation house there.

[@saffroneallen]

I'm in Winnipeg, Canada so honestly all of those temperatures sound balmy. We just found our way out of two weeks of -30 to -35C during the day/-46 to -48C at night. January and February are deep freeze time so we're expecting a lot of -35C for the next few weeks. Then March is ice storm season. April we usually get 1 or 2 more big snow storms, and then the thaw finally; but that means it also has the risk of being flood season.

[@kaldo_kaldo]

Yeah, that's colder. But you're not really comparing the same thing. The average January temperature in Winnipeg is -18C.

[@saffroneallen]

@@kaldo_kaldo before windchill. This cold snap has been an anomaly, but not entirely unheard of. Even if it's -18C at the heat of the day the wind can and often does make it feel more like -28C or worse. I live right downtown near Portage and Main so the wind is absolutely brutal down here.

[@arrgghh1555]

@@kaldo_kaldo That's the average low. When you talk about 'averages' you use average highs which would be -10

[@kaldo_kaldo]

@@saffroneallen -18C was the average low actually, not the actual average. But yeah all of the figures he's quoting don't include wind chill.

[@ccarroll4339]

From upstate NY. Always prepared for snow. In watertown, winter begins in October and ends around May 1st. The snow mound on the airfield at fort drum usually takes until June to completely melt.

[@eisgeistschiller5244]

Its 40 near Rome GA. I hiked up by NC today and there was a very light snowfall. Come on down here its beautiful, - An Ohio native

[@ladyjustice1474]

You neglected to mention the north east ice storms. That makes going out side dangerous due to falling icicles as they slowly melt.

[@gigiwills7851]

Ice storms are my personal favorite. When the sun comes out the following day, the ice melts off the black macadam roads and safe to drive on. The sunshine turns the world into one glittering fairyland. It's absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. And hopefully doesn't last too long. The trees suffer from the weight of the ice, and don't care about how beautiful it is.

[@kathyastrom1315]

I was in Orkney in mid-July, 2012, and I was really startled by how short nighttime was. I think the sun set around 11 pm and then rose by 3:30 am! Its latitude is just south of Stockholm’s, so it really is far north. My grandfather immigrated to Chicago from Lulea, Sweden, which is just 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle, and I know that their days are exceedingly short right now.

[@lizbignell7813]

Why were you shocked, it is basic geography?

[@kathyastrom1315]

@@lizbignell7813 I hadn’t realized the latitude nor really thought about how that would affect the daylight time. It was my first trip abroad (I got my passport on my 46th birthday), so that wasn’t even on my list of things to consider. I was just startled when I was in our Orkney B&B, woke up at 3:30 to make a bathroom run, and looked out the window to see sunlight.

[@miamidolphinsfan]

And I was in 11th grade at Miami Coral Park Senior High School the one and only day it ever snowed in the greater Miami area, January 19th, 1977....I was in Home Room at 6:50am when a girl burst into our room (which had no outdoor windows as it was an interior schoolroom, and we all ran out of the school only to find the few flakes that had come down, had melted & it was back to sprtzing misty rain...however there were ice warnings down in the southern part of Dade County in the agricultural areas (Homestead, Perrine, Naranja, Goulds, the Redland) because overnight the farmers had turned on their irrigation pipes to help keep the strawberries, pole beans, tomatoes & other fruits and veggies from freezing...and they had sprayed some water onto the streets surrounding the fields & it caused an ice alert !!! By the way the high temp was only 44º, and the low 29º...Miami's coldest day was back in 1939 at 27º...right now at 9:20am here in Miami it's 72º on January16th, 2022 and expecting a high of 78º today but tonight much colder at 52º, which will be the coldest morning in 3 years

[@melissaboyce3942]

Down in Houston and it’s been a very blustery day, currently 40F. But I think it was in the 80s this Christmas and I recently wore shorts, a tshirt and flip flops to the store. But the summers are humid waves of hell.

[@allisondaugherty5963]

All very accurate. Also, the sun's setting around 545 these days--a function of how far south we are (subtropical), not how far west we are in our time zone.

[@BarTGila]

The Pacific Northwest has winters very much like England. They are actually on similar latitudes weather wise.

[@ColonelSanders17]

Where I live (CO) it got to roughly -7°F for few days that isn't too normal, but I had to work outside in it. Last winter we received a storm that dumped ~4½ feet of snow. I can say it is crazy to know that a person could die in those conditions if not equipped right. I grew up here so it isn't anything new for me.

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

I grew up in northern PA right along the boarder with NY so I'm pretty used to snow. I moved to Denver a couple years ago, and every fall I meet someone who's about to go through their first winter because they moved from somewhere warmer. It's always fun living "your first winter" vicariously through another person lol.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

@@MrC0MPUT3R well I've lived thru a few blizzards in metro Denver one in March that was about 3ft and shut most of the metro area down!!! Sometimes King Soopers during blizzards will sell outta food and people have to hit 7-11 and get price gouged!!!

[@katherinemcintosh7247]

When I was working in the Gulf of Mexico Oilfield south of Louisiana, it snowed offshore and the deck of the boat I was on was covered with ice. This was during the winter of 1997-98. A lot of the guys I worked with had never seen snow in real life. It was that wet, “great big clump snow.” We had to shut down the job for weather.

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[@Emilaria]

We had snow today in Missouri. I'm not sure the amount, but it's been snowing for the last 12 hours.

[@sferg9582]

Here in Arizona today January 16th, I rode the motorcycle with my wife to Lake Pleasant north-west of Phoenix and sat outside in a tee-shirt and had a picnic, and watched the guys on jet ski's blast around the lake. I used to live 30 miles west of Chicago, and I literally HATE the cold.

[@julietannOsfan1972]

I suffer from summer SAD & love it when it gets dark early. It feels so cosy. I hate it when it starts getting lighter earlier from December 21st. Also, I eat ice cream in the winter, rather than in the summer. Yes, I'm very unusual.:)

[@BurningheartofSILVER]

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[@DougPowell01]

My wife, from Fargo ND, talks about a weather phenomenon she called 40-40-40. Meaning 40 inches, 40 below, and 40 MPH. BRRRR!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

I love when a Southerner comes to Colorado and tries to drive in 1 or 2 inches of snow!!! Funny watching them in the drifts off the side of the road

[@dawnofapril3055]

Here in Sothern California I went hiking in a tank top and shorts this weekend. It's been in the 70's in the daytime, that's why I love winters here!

[@theresatrahan6282]

Live in northeast Texas. Looked outside at 10pm tonight cause the dogs and cats all decided they needed to go out. It snowed. Just enough to to know it snowed. 😆 😆

[@Jon651]

Where I live in Central Florida we have all of the seasons - baseball, basketball AND football!

[@mariowalker9048]

Lol. In North Florida we techically get all 4 seasons just no snow in the winter.

[@lout3921]

I live at Ft Lauderdale Beach. The beach was packed with snowbirds. 73 Degrees Fahrenheit.

[@JoeHusosky]

I was there for the snow in Miami not only has it not snowed since that was the first time and recorded history. We were outside playing basketball during physical education PE for short. I was in eighth grade.

[@rianaconklin6954]

I live in New Hampshire in the USA lol and we had snow up to or passing our waist many times but I actually grew up in Florida in the USA and would get teased because my family would go to the beaches when it was 60 degrees lol we thought that it was warm but was told by locals that it was in fact freezing out . I think it all depends on where you were raised honestly. Love your videos and content thank you so much for sharing your view point and story, you are a true joy to watch ❤😊❤😊 hope that you and your wife are happy and warm 😁❤😊❤

[@candygram4435]

Growing up in so cal, it snowed once. Everybody, including teachers and administrators, abandoned the buildings for the 10 minutes the snow lasted

[@markboozer3234]

I remember a snow storm in June that closed down a festival in Flagstaff, Arizona. All the vendors were Pissed! 6900 + elevation. And a winter morning that was -22 F. Conversely, I was in Phoenix, Az. while it was a 122 F. summer. These are around 125 miles from each other.

[@jamesblanton3744]

Key West Florida has never had a below freezing temperature ever recorded

[@bryanhumphreys940]

Some Montana ski towns can get well over 100 inches per year and the resort itself get over 300 inches per year. Our record cold was -70 F or -57 C without windchill.

[@jeffburdick869]

7:10 As a native Syracusan, I appreciate the shoutout! I'm from the north suburbs, which gets even more snow than the city.