🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE MOST EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS IN US HISTORY!

[@matthewpol7708]

There's a statue in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah of seagulls. Around the same time as this locust apocalypse, same thing was happening there. The area had only been settled recently, so it freaked everyone out. But miraculously, huge numbers of seagulls who next around the Great Salt Lake came and wiped a huge swath of them out, saving the years crops. And that's why the seagull is the Utah state bird.

[@grumblesa10]

They also vomited into the Jordan river, polluting a major water resource in the Salt Lake Valley...

[@vanhattfield8292]

What is a bit funny is that it is specifically the California Gull, making their State bird a bird named for an entirely different State.😂

[@user98xp]

Utah is too far west to be considered Midwest. Utah, Colorado and that Mountain time zone is its own area. It annoys me when people claim everything between the coasts to be the Midwest.

[@EmpressMermaid]

Recently after Hurricane Sally in NW Florida there were sharks tangled in electric lines. Proves Sharknado really is a thing!

[@DreamFearless]

From Snopes: _However, Hurricane Laura (or any other weather event) was not the culprit for this bizarre scene._ _The above-displayed picture was taken in Mobile, Alabama, below the Dog River Bridge circa Aug. 31, 2020, and it shows the aftermath of a traffic accident._ No sharknados unfortunately

[@bigussmokesus8866]

-20 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to around -30 Celsius

[@awelch31]

Was about to say, conversion off on that one lol.

[@pjschmid2251]

Thank you for adding this clarification I heard him say -10 I’m like no no no no it’s much colder than that. Celsius goes negative after what is 32°F so by the time Fahrenheit goes negative it’s way colder.

[@brandonstevenlesher1964]

Specifically just a hair under -29°C

[@ChrisBl33p]

The point where the two scales converge is around -40 degrees.

[@donaldsmartt8532]

Was about to say 0F is -16c so how can -20F be -10c?

[@jorynickila7760]

What they didn't tell you about The Year Without a summer due to the volcanic eruption is that it was actually almost three years without a summer and that's why it was so devastating.

[@jkgannon1049]

The Year Without A Summer led to worldwide devastation. Here in central low lying New Hampshire we had snow in July. Yes, it stayed on the ground, no quick melt. Crops that were grown on south facing slopes had a chance of coming to harvest. There are various testimonies thanking those farmers still able to bring in crops, for keeping whole towns from starvation. Wheat prices would never again rise so high until the 1970s. Thinking this freakish weather was local many Easterners migrate westward. New England's very poor soils & then the Year Without A Summer further spurred the western land grab.

[@krobinson5992]

I grew up in New England and never learned about this until recently There is a book written about it.

[@spaceshiplewis]

When it comes to the cold, the northern states are mostly prepared for it, It's when you get a polar vortex in Texas when things get dangerous because they don't have the infrastructure built up to deal with that freezing weather. Same thing with northern states dealing with heat. In Seattle a lot of apartments don't have AC because it never got as hot as it has been getting with climate change.

[@davidhohn9106]

High at my house in Western WA, on June 28th this year, was 108°. I've lived here my entire life, half a century+, and it's NEVER been that hot on this side of the Cascades.

[@TexasRose50]

This past winter here in Texas we had record breaking cold temperatures. I live on the coast, our pipes burst and electricity went off. So, no lights nor water! Stores were limiting water supplies. Since then I’ve been stocking up on water and anything that produces light like candles and battery operated lights. Mind you, this area is sub tropical. Yes, we do get occasional snow that lasts maybe a day. But this winter left snow on the ground for almost a week! I am now much better prepared!

[@christinegelabert1651]

@SPACESHIPLEWIS YUP! I'M from Long Island NY and listen to some of these temperatures like well - 20° isn't that bad, because we get -10 here A LOT in the winter. That's pretty much our regular end of January beginning of February temps just going on ya know? I don't know if you remember a few years ago when we had that big huge storm in upstate New York in Buffalo. There was this meme going around and all you saw was his car covered in snow and the only thing poking out was the antenna. It said come to Buffalo for the wings stay because you can't find your car! 🐓🍗😂

[@Yugioh420]

That happened not to many years ago in texas I remember hearing about it. Might even have been last year but I think it was year before maybe more I'm really bad with time.

[@christinamann3640]

This is why I wasn’t laughing last February, when some northerners criticized Texas for not handling the cold. I thought, wait for it. Sure enough, southern BC and Alberta spent most of the summer at 100 F, with forest fire smoke as well. 🇨🇦 new record was 114F.

[@Trenton-om9qs]

My grandpa outran one of the tornadoes in 1974 on a motorcycle. He was in Xenia Ohio for something and he left a store or some kind of building he was in and he seen debris and a massive tornado. He said it chased him for a good couple miles before he got away. Little did he know he just outran one of the strongest tornadoes to hit Ohio because im pretty sure it was an F5

[@lwaggoner7293]

There was an F5 in the outbreak. I had family in Xenia at that time. Thankfully they were all fine but hearing the stories is crazy.

[@brandonstevenlesher1964]

The largest temp change in US history within 2 minutes was in my state, South Dakota. In Spearfish the temp went from -4 to 45°F or -20 to 7.2°C. But the biggest change in happened in Fairfield, Montana in a 12 hour span the temp went from 63 to -21°F. Which is 17.2 to -29.4°C by midnight.

[@ChrisBl33p]

Damn.

[@jennifertimberlake6522]

Colorado had bigger than that last year when we had that big cold snap. Where we were we went from the 70s to -20 in 12 hours and it got down to -25 that night

[@brandonstevenlesher1964]

@@jennifertimberlake6522 woah I didn't even know! I heard with that type of temp snap glass can break on buildings, any idea of any propery damage?

[@jennifertimberlake6522]

@@brandonstevenlesher1964 I don't think we had much damage, at least that I'm aware of as we were out of town for a few days as we weren't used to that cold but we didn't see anything broke or anything when we got back in town and I know it was those temps because our neighbor was sending me pics of the thermometer

[@brandonstevenlesher1964]

@@jennifertimberlake6522 still it's amazing how fast the temperature can change, kinda makes getting ready in the winter a fun guessing game. Unless it's an atlas storm, then not so much

[@brandyforsythe1882]

Great reaction Kabir! Tornadoes are so VERY powerful. They drive a piece of straw through a telephone pole and throw vehicles incredible distances.

[@TexasRose50]

And they can blow trains off the tracks.

[@ItsMeAnn628]

Growing up on the coast in Texas, I’ve always been so much more afraid of tornados and earthquakes than hurricanes. We usually have a week or more to prepare for a hurricane but the others can’t be predicted.

[@Toywins]

@@ItsMeAnn628 and with the amount of flat land in Texas??!! 😢

[@timreno72]

I live in Reno, NV. and I'll never forget when it snowed on July 4th. Not a huge snow event but snow never the less.

[@SuperNovaKat64]

In 1998 in New England there was a major Ice Storm. I lived in Maine at the time and it left people without power for months. Everything was coated in a very thick layer of ice. Our power was out for about a month, but we were lucky as our stove was gas powered so we were able to stay warm. As far as food, we had a closed in porch and we put the refrigerated items closer to the door of the house on the porch and we put the freezer items closer to the outside porch door. It was crazy, but it was also beautiful.

[@grumblesa10]

I grew up in northern Utah, and we did the same thing. The garage was typically about 35-40 with the door shut, so we would store our sodas and beer out there, and some non-perishables closer to the door...

[@douglascampbell9809]

You have to remember in 1810 food didn't really get shipped around.

[@kabirconsiders]

True, a lot of people must have starved

[@TheCanadianGuy56]

Just gonna add to this to. A simple glass of OJ back in 1920 was 60 cents. Aka about 15$ today. Go back more then 100 years, humans basically just drank water and alcohol. Everything else was to rare and expensive.

[@thomasmckenney3518]

The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley (Furnace Creek) was 134°F (57°C) on July 10, 1913. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached 129° F (54°C) or above. Death Valley holds the record for the hottest place on earth.

[@MrYabber]

8:00 oh yea, they lift semi trucks with the trailer on the back, which can weigh up to an insane 70,000 pounds. If they are category 4 or 5, they can just lift houses from its foundation and derail trains that make semi trucks look like toys.

[@grobinson7507]

I remember the cold day in the 70’’s. I’m in Green Bay Wisconsin, the temp was -35 and the windchill was -72. We opened the front and frost rolled into the house. We took hot water and threw it into the air and instant crystals. I remember my Dad going to work. He had to jump the battery and let it warmed up for 45 minutes before he was able to go to work. We got 3 days off of school,. It was amazing but very deadly. We got pretty cold on 2-2-1996 and it reminded me of the days in 1971. We are being told a very cold winter this year! I love winter and I want snow this year, not colder temperatures. ✌️

[@jessicathomas9935]

Interesting, I just saw the other day that NOAA released their predictions and we’re supposed to be near or above normal temps this year. I’m in Appleton, hi neighbor lol

[@grobinson7507]

@@jessicathomas9935 Hi. I’m in DePere! Farmers Almanac says Wisconsin will have one of the coldest winters in years. Wisconsin will be cold and dry. I rather be mild and more snow. Remains to be seen.

[@richardsbrandon5027]

Go Pack go!!!!! I wish I lived in GB, at least for a yr or two.

[@krysd8594]

I remember the Ice Storm of '98. The entire NE and Canada being destroyed.

[@valhopeless856]

The exact cause of extinction for the Rocky Mountain Locust isn't known, but it was most likely a combination of several factors. Laws were passed saying that people had to work two days a week killing locusts, bounties were placed on them, and farmers switched to crops like winter wheat which matured before locusts could migrate, leaving them without crops to eat. Also, the locusts laid their eggs on the ground, and farmers would plow them up or they would get trampled by lifestock before they could mature, making the population smaller and smaller year by year. Basically, as usual, it was humans.

[@mistytharpe3991]

Hey do you think we can do the same thing from mosquitoes? I mean would you miss them? Would you?

[@davidhohn9106]

@@mistytharpe3991 Sadly, mosquitoes don't eat crops, they eat blood! We don't want to go there!

[@Cmoss114]

@@mistytharpe3991 That is actually something that is currenty being attempted. It was examined some years back on the ecological effect if mosquitoes were to be exterminated and no ill effects were found. The plan is to release genetically modified infertile males into the population and slowly kill off them lil shits

[@TexasRose50]

Mosquitoes are the food source for bats. They are part of the food chain. Everything has its purpose.

[@Cmoss114]

@@TexasRose50 I perhaps shouldn't have insinuated that the impact would be zero if eliminated, but at the same time their impact would negligible in comparison and most likely compensated for in other ways

[@jameseyman9078]

I live in Michigan and its not uncommon in winter to have temps of -10 before you consider wind chill. There are days where they say exposed skin begins to freeze in 30 seconds. Once the temp gets below a certain point it all feels the same as long as there is no wind. Its the windy days that make being out of doors intolerable

[@ladyshark6485]

People around here in southern Ohio still talk about the tornado that hit Xenia as part of that outbreak in 1974. It was both a very destructive and deadly F5 tornado. It basically wiped out the entire town.

[@bridgetpaul663]

Water spouts (look like tornadoes in the water) pick up aquatic life across rivers and lakes and when the spout dissolves it deposits that aquatic life on land.

[@reaganpratercallen60]

My friend did reearch on fire tornados to try and learn more on what conditions cause them and affect their size and length. She got to help create a bunch in controlled settings. Also, im surprised they didn't include the day it rained meat in Kentucky, USA when they mentioned it raining fish and stuff

[@Honkey-Donkey]

Living in the low desert of Arizona, I have always felt safe. Yes, it gets to at least 118 in June every year, when your skin hurts just stepping outside and your lungs burn with every breath, not to mention the burns from touching your car. However, we don't get true tornados or hurricanes (we do get the odd tornado warning and funnel clouds... not dust devils, lol). Then the monsoon season hits and it cools down a little. The dust storms like those shown in the video with rain/hail (yes it's terrifying to drive in it) hit. When I was a kid this was a daily thing. Power outage, downed trees, building damage and flooding... every day. (BTW, we have the "Stupid Motorist Law" for those who get stuck trying to cross flooded areas.) There is also the microburst which can be equivalent to an F1 tornado but they are not very common. I've only been through three, maybe four. There is the matter of the wild fires though. Not usually an issue in the city, but I live on the outskirts and we've had two recently come within 1.5 miles. We don't really get seasons but many years it does snow but then melts quickly. I guess no matter where you live, you learn how to deal. I feel fortunate that I do not have to shovel snow but if I want to play in it I need only drive an hour or two. I don't have to worry about tornados, hurricanes or earthquakes. I did feel my fist earthquake about a year ago but it originated far away so barely felt it. I am, however, truly tired of the heat and I miss the rain.

[@CelticStar87]

Swarm of locusts was one of the ten plagues in the book of Exodus. The Dust Bowl is what lead to crop rotation in modern farming. I was in Tuscaloosa, AL, in 2011 serving on a disaster relief team after the tornado hit the area; it caused a trail of damage from Birmingham, AL, to Tuscaloosa (a distance of roughly 60 miles). It only picked up once or twice but is considered the same tornado. Shortly after, while I was still in Tuscaloosa, a massive tornado hit Joplin, Missouri. I live in FL and I would rather go through a hurricane than a tornado... unfortunately tornadoes can and do accompany hurricanes.

[@Andrew-vw5vb]

"As far north of Pennsylvania" I was a few miles from there. It was like an F negative one lol. Tore a shingle off then left.

[@jamesigorreilly979]

I’ve seen semi trucks picked up by tornados and yachts flying onto shore by storms - water spouts are tornados over water

[@noraa1991]

Still never forget in elementary school when it was 70°F or 21.1°C and sunny and then a hour later it was snowing and 30°F or -1.1°C gotta love the great lakes "lake effect"

[@juliemanarin4127]

I was in Chicago in the 1985 when it was a record -27 degrees below 0 which is about -33 Celsius! I have never felt anything like it...I felt like I were in the arctic!

[@jen-a-purr]

This video makes me smile and happy that I live in Florida. Except when we wake up to 19 degrees with no power. That’s gotta stop.

[@sturdevk]

Kabir, please remember that 200 years ago (the year with no Summer,) shipping and travel took WAY longer. So, produce or meat from elsewhere was a dream, since refrigeration was still a dream. Hells, produce from over 15 miles/km away wasn't even really a thing yet. Something to tempt you about that same phenomenon. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was written during this Summer. When she, her husband, and some friends were living together in... I wanna say Switzerland, and they had a competition on storytelling to amuse themselves. And I know I've watched at least one video either about the Year without a Summer, or the Indonesian volcano blast recently, but can't find the link. Good reaction. And yeah, the US has some wild weather events.

[@ashleydixon4613]

Yes, Mary and Percy Shelley were staying just outside Geneva with a group that included Lord Byron. The Gothic atmosphere of the old mansion rented by Lord Byron and the constant bad weather- watching the lightning, listening to the storms-helped inspire Mary to write the story. (she was only 19 at the time!)

[@lisawharris1539]

Once in Boston my car froze shut under more than an inch of ice. I couldn't get to my scrapers as they were in the trunk. I was really stumped, but also working for a real jerk so didn't want to be late. Normally you can start your car and blast the heat and defrost, but it was frozen solid. I boiled a pan of water on the stove and pouring it on the door opening enough to open the passenger door. I was worried that the extreme temperature change might burst the glass, but luckily it didn't, at least that time. I'm not recommending this, but I wasn't fired or admonished that day! Best regards from sunny Tampa Florida, Lisa Watson Harris

[@katharrell3737]

I lived in Montana for a few years. With windchill it gets below zero frigid often (-60, one winter). The Dakotas are the same way. I had to fuel my truck one night in Sioux Falls, it was -34° I think I finally felt my toes about an hour after I got back in the truck!!! 🤣 🤣

[@kabirconsiders]

The temperatures you guys get in America are crazy! Literally both ends of the extreme 😅

[@prollins6443]

When I lived in South Dakota, we had a temperature of -71* F with a wind chill of -108*. You got frostbite within 8-10 minutes if your skin was exposed at all

[@mtfrosty2cor471]

I could only laugh one night when I got off work after 10pm. Took me a few tries to get my car door open and just as many to get it shut again. The thing was groaning at me when I started it. Tried to scrape off ice before realizing it was INSIDE my car, so I sat in the front seat scraping off the inside of my windshield and getting frost shavings everywhere, haha. Thankfully I was only a 5-min drive from home cuz my brakes were pretty stuck up too. -34 F in Montana for a few days with wind. I was in high school at the time. Pretty typical in January and February in the northwestern states. 🥶👍

[@katharrell3737]

@@mtfrosty2cor471 I so enjoyed this post. Montana can be so brutal. Takes longer to get the car ready to go than it takes to get where you're going. I also remember those white out, can't see your hand in front of your face, blizzards.

[@kayne2889]

As someone from Kentucky we all have an issue with going outside during a tornado. My family goes and sits on the front porch or the tail gate of the truck in the front yard. I went to my grandma's apartment complex and a tornado warning went out, I went outside and most of the neighbors were all sitting outside so I joined them. Every time things turned green and the birds got quiet it got so silent in that complex you could hear a pin drop. We were just waiting on that crap, my long time boyfriend is a northerner he's from Michigan. It didn't occur to me how crazy we all had to look until his first tornado season was here and he was freaking out over why everyone in the house got their drinks and smokes and went outside when the tornado siren started. He was astonished that the tornado missed us, like he thought this weather event would take what we were doing as a challenge or rebellion and was gonna come right to us. XD

[@Ozefan2580]

Laura Ingalls Wilder described in a couple of her books, with a lot of detail, the impact locusts had on her family. It was horrible.

[@timheller8475]

I'm 59 and when i was a kid in the 1970s there was a picture in a book in our school library of a stalk of wheat that had been driven right through a telephone pole by a tornado, and I believe the hottest temp was from Death Valley at 137 degrees F, but I could be mistaken, and here in Minnesota USA we usually get a few winter days below -20 degrees F, ( I'm in Buffalo MN) But it gets much colder up north closer to the Canadian border. I believe those falling fish and frogs get sucked up from a tornado or a water spout and get deposited to the astonishment of the locals! another great reaction Kabir

[@elizabethjones9216]

I’m from Deep East Texas, if you’re familiar at all with Nacogdoches then it’s just 30-38 minute drive(depending on traffic🚦) down the road to where I live in Angelina County. Anyway, getting sidetracked here, I’ve experienced my fair share of Tornado warnings through my short 20 years of life, but I’ve only been witness to actual significant damage half of those warnings, if that makes sense. Actually 2 weeks ago we had a funnel over downtown and it took the roof off our locksmith smith there and you know other damage like trees, power lines, other debris. To add to the statement that multiple tornadoes can touch down in one place, my dad was out fishing on Sam Rayburn Lake and 3 waterspouts touched down around him and then preceded to move onto land as tornadoes. It’s scary stuff. I’m so sorry, this is my last point! I was going to add that I grew up with a fear of tornadoes, but I did end up finding them fascinating after hearing stories about them and watching “Twister”. When I was in 2nd grade one of the books we read was “Little House on the Prairie” as well as “Little House in the Big Woods”. Alongside reading those, our teacher would read to us from books that described life in the prairie. One chapter was on the hardships people faced such as tornadoes. A particular story recalls that a little boy was picked up in a tornado, but he survived by somehow landing in a haystack(I now wander if my teacher fabricated the ending) and the other part of the story mentioned a cow or cows that were picked up in the storm and that when the storm was over the cow or cows had lost all their hair from it being pulled off by the wind. That right there gave me the heebie-jeebies. I’m soooo sorry I wrote so much, I didn’t plan on it!!!!

[@michaelmcgowen8780]

In my part of the U.S. (Illinois & Missouri around St. Louis), 90 degree F plus (32 degrees C & above) with corresponding humidity has been common during Summer, especially during July & August. We also have had spells of -10 degrees F (-23 degrees C) during Winter, especially during January & February.

[@odemusvonkilhausen]

I've never seen it, literally rain animals, however, when I was about 12 or 13, my family and I went to Myrtle Beach, SC immediately after hurricane Bertha. The tide was still much higher than normal, trees were still down, and many hotels and businesses were still closed. We saw literally thousands of jellyfish that had been washed ashore. You had to watch your step, walking on the beach, because they were everywhere. They were no more than a foot apart from each other, as far as you could see, in both directions.

[@karentucker2161]

My third time trying to watch this....hopefully no more distractions

[@michaelm1670]

After the fugashima incident I was in Mexico a few months later and caught a 118lb rooster fish which commonly are around 40lbs and yes it was only because the entire ocean had changed pushing these deep water breeding fish into the shallows. Storms around the world have an impact here in America.

[@TheCanadianGuy56]

A good tip to remember for the cold. Once it hits -40 Celsius and Fahrenheit no longer matter. They're equal.

[@jimmyjams9036]

Where I live, it gets both very hot and very cold. In this last year, the high temp was 101 F and the low temp was -22. Some areas are prepared for both hot and cold.

[@rebeccahanson6941]

Those pyro tornados are no joke. I think we had one this ye in the Dixie fire. I think there was a big one in Canada too.

[@ms_scribbles]

A swarm of locusts is actually one of the Plagues of Egypt. So not necessarily the apocalypse, but pretty damned close, for Egypt at least.

[@thescarletgraywitch8052]

Those tornadoes destroyed Xenia, Ohio. It was horrible. I was a little kid, but my dad had to go there right afterwards, and it's imprinted upon my memory. There was nothing left in the town but piles of debris and very large sticks.

[@Mathmaticalfuninthesun]

The locust part reminds me of the cicadas that were out this year. Apparently they only come out every 17 years and I was unlucky enough to be out of town in an area that got them bad. They were disgusting. I watched one guy clean all the dead ones off a sidewalk using a leaf blower. Some of the locals said they just come up out of the ground to mate and then go back in the ground for 17 more years. Oh, and they are really, really loud.

[@ruthdeckman9781]

I actually had one of those cicadas get caught in my hair! I didn't notice until I was inside the store I went to. I was able to get it out of my hair, but it stayed in the store.

[@BrockMak]

14:32 I almost thought last year (Southern Hemisphere) had no winter at one point. The last two years were so hot and dry, water restrictions only ends in Auckland on Saturday, it started from May last year!

[@neshobanakni]

Some years ago, the boys and I made our yearly trip to the Wind River Mountains in Wyoming. One of us had a Brit friend who accompanied us, and insisted on bringing his guitar. This was the sort of trip where one night we couldn't find a flat spot to camp, and I kept waking up to having my knees bent upward in the "bottom" of my tent. I carried that guitar at least half the time - we were all suffering from altitude sickness. I learned to cut my gear down to the minimum. Once you get near 12,000 feet, napping in your tent is a wonderful relief. Also, climbing is easier that going down, due to the wear on one's knees. The Brit soldiered on and did alright. We were hunting mule deer, and a couple of guys has elk tags. Have you ever played horseshoes with lower deer legs?

[@o0Silverwolf0o]

Tornadoes are scary powerful, Ive seen multiple drunkard F1's dancing in the lake, and a larger one that touched down a couple blocks from where I was sheltering in a basement ripped large old trees out of the ground as a child. I couldn't imagine living in Tornado Alley. Americas got it all, volcanoes, earthquakes, blizzards, hurricanes, Tornadoes, flash floods, raining fish.

[@texasnewt]

Yeah, true diversity.

[@barbaracoleman6641]

In Virginia you can sit on your front porch in the sunshine and watch it pour rain on the other side of the street. The old saying is if you don't like the weather in Virginia, wait 5 minutes!😆

[@TexasRose50]

I’m surprised they didn’t even mention the year the Gulf of Mexico freezing over! It’s fans colder temps to freeze salt water. And, I remember seeing the north wind blow all the water from the bay back out to the gulf. That was a sight to behold! Very interesting video. Thanks! 👍

[@ArtheniaPendragon]

When I was a kid in Northern Ohio I experienced a truly crazy winter storm right before Christmas. It was so cold and windy the powerlines snapped before the storm even fully rolled in. Then we got at least a half inch of ice. We put blankets over the doors to the other rooms and the back glass sliding door to concentrate the heat from the woodstove into the livingroom and kitchen. When we finally went to go outside we found a solid icicle that went from the roof to the ground. It was several inches in diameter.

[@lwaggoner7293]

Raining animals, specially spiders, would be my worst fear manifested. That would be a HELL NO!

[@johnwray393]

I believe there was a event somewhere in Europe where it basically did rain spiders or ad least they took over a whole community. Entire homes and fields were just one huge web with billions of spiders everywhere. I can't think of anything that would drive me more crazy than waking up to a spidey invasion.

[@george217]

The one I like is during hurricane Ida in 2012 the Mississippi River flowed backwards for the first time since 1812...

[@liamengram6326]

It flowed backwards during Katrina as well...

[@george217]

@@liamengram6326 That I didn't know.

[@krisd2071]

Yeah... I'm from Georgia & was at my brother in laws house in the 2011 outbreak. We were hit by an EF3 tornado & we found pieces of forklifts and motor homes in his yard from businesses on the next street over. There was someone's porch roof in the power lines and the gas station at the corner of the next road over was completely gone... just the concrete foundation was left. Luckily for us, the trees that hit the house didn't break through to us... but we did have to crawl out between the branches to get off the front porch.

[@1955hoosier]

In the late 1970''s, I had just gotten out of the U.S. Navy and was living in the southern [warmest) part of the US state of Wisconsin. I vividly recall that winter for it's low temperatures. I remember one cold snap in January, when the temperature dropped to -29 Fahrenheit with 60+ mph winds - which means that it felt like (wind chill) about 90 degrees below zero (farenheit). Your skin would freeze instantly if exposed to the outside temperature. I recall ice forming on the inside walls and ceiling of where I was living at the time. When you would try to go anywhere by auto, the tires would stay flat on the bottom where they touched the ground until you had driven on them for a while. I also recall that, when you would throw a glass of warm water up in the air, it was completely frozen halfway to the ground. The only coat that I had which stood up to these temperatures and wind was a down coat with snorkel hood - which kept your face hidden inside. I was once in the Mojave desert in California with a few thousand marines doing war games. We had to wear full fatigues, Wool socks, Flak jackets, and helmets. The temperature during the day was over 125f in the shade. Just to stay hydrated, I drank 20 quart canteens of water (5 gallons) per day - and I went for days and days without urine being produced by my body. I recall in 1964, near Greeley, Colorado, where a beautiful tornado went within a few hundred yards of our house. We got tennis ball sized hail which tore up a lot of things. The hail piled up for several inches on the ground. In 2010, I retired from my computer job and moved the family from Chicago, Illinois area to Bentonville, Arkansas - Walmart headquarters. We lived in NW Arkansas when the EF5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri in 2011, an hour's drive North. A lot of my friends and neighbors went there to help with rescue and cleanup, but I was sick and couldn't go. We lived here during all the EF4 and Ef5 tornadoes in Oklahoma in the years following the Joplin tornado. Some of the more deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma have occurred since then - Moore, Norman, El Reno, etc. We moved to Oklahoma a couple years ago and are right in the path of the tornadoes that come from the South and West. We have an under ground storm shelter that we spend significant time in anytime tornadoes threaten. I have to mention another of the more memorable tornadoes I have experienced and been affected by. In the 1974 'Super Outbreak', I was in the US Navy and had been visiting a sister and her family in Southern Indiana, when I was on leave from the Navy. I drove back to the Navy base 6 or so hours North, when I heard that one of my nephews was killed by a tornado coming home from school on the bus. The tornado met the bus (and the dad returning from work), on a small rural bridge over a creek. My oldest nephew got all the kids off the bus and headed for the ditch. They all made it alive (albeit with cuts, bruises and fratctures) except for the boy who was next to the youngest - David. I have or experienced other tornadoes, but these are the worst.

[@donnarhodes4008]

I grew up in the Panhandle of Florida. When I was a preteen, my mom and I were driving between Panama City and Tallahassee. We drove into a strong storm and had to pull over to the side of the road. We were scared when it started hailing, and REALLY scared when it started raining fish. It was only for a minute or so and only stretched for about half a mile, but it absolutely did rain fish with that storm. I'll never forget it. We had to run them over when we started driving again. It was crazy.

[@bradkirchhoff8264]

Not uncommon. Its simply an updraft from water vapor in the water. Raining fish actually occurs all over. Just need a lake, pond, river or sea and updraft.

[@williamtauriello1581]

In regards to a flying pickup truck, several years ago a tornado set down in a Schneider Transport yard in Dallas and took two (empty) 53’ semi trailers between 300-500’ feet up into the air. Amazingly, a local news helicopter was actually filming them from above as the trailers flew through the air (God protects the hopelessly stupid). One of the trailers landed in some woman’s front yard between her house and the large tree in the front yard. When interviewed, she appeared to have no realization of how lucky she was.

[@MacTechG4]

Back in college in central NH, at the summit of a local ski slope (Crotched Mountain) it wasn’t unusual to be -52F, back in 2004 when I lived in Barre, Vt, temps stayed -30+F for an entire month!

[@donaldsmartt8532]

A fire in a tornado kabir or "firenado" is simply a weather phenomenon when a fire strengthens enough that the wind resulting from it or a "fire storm" starts rotating just like a regular tornado.

[@karlmoles6530]

Hi Kabir. I lived through both the 1974 and 2011 Tornado super-outbreaks. In 74 I watched an F-5 wipe the town of Sunshine Kentucky off the map. In 2011 I watched a line march inexorably across the entire state, there was no escape anywhere. I was stuck at the side of the interstate when it rolled through and watched it flip 18 wheelers over like toys. The town next to when I lived was wrecked by an F-4.

[@krobinson5992]

I remember one year in the late 1980s, in Connecticut we had one day in the middle of January that it suddenly heated up to 80 degrees. The next day it was back down to about 35 degrees.

[@GordotheGamer]

I remember that 2011 tornado outbreak. There were 3 tornados within 3 miles from me, the closest one uprooted trees.

[@christinapratt7371]

F5 is the strongest tornado. Look them up man. That will blow your mind. Joplin Tornado in 2012 is a example

[@girlwithaguitar24]

In Minnesota, it usually gets down to below -20F at least once a year here, and usually once every few it'll get down below -25F, which for context is -31C. That's so cold you can toss a cup of boiling water into the air, and it'll freeze by the time it hits the ground.

[@darlenedurgan1340]

In upstate NY we get temps below zero all the time.

[@kabirconsiders]

Yeah I hear upstate NY can get reeeeally cold 🥶

[@JonnyQuest64]

I can attest to the raining animals. I'm a roofer and did a 2 story massive house after a big storm last year in Illinois and found a bullfrog in the gutter.

[@jujudj7885]

Last night here in France the weather was crazy we have a freezer outside and the wind blew it over and our grill

[@alinesarabia1544]

Weird that he would call the air the "warm desert air" in Kopperl, TX. That isn't desert, it is a subtropical climate.

[@SC457A]

I thought the same thing!

[@Utoober729]

In upstate NY (in western NY) the winter can be very wicked. I remember we had swarms of grasshoppers when I was a kid.

[@Kno_Buddy]

I live in Ohio, just a small lake away from Canada and every time they have a polar vortex it hits us. We often have winters with -29 Celsius and three feet of snow sometimes from mid-October to mid-July.

[@texasnewt]

Very, very cold and windy winters ... and, part of tornado alley.

[@Kno_Buddy]

@@texasnewt are you talking about Ohio? We definitely aren’t in tornado alley. In 30 years I’ve seen a tornado once. Also, our winters aren’t as bad as you’re making them sound, just when polar vortexes come through.

[@gtgodbear6320]

70°f in the morning to 30°f with snow by 1:00pm in jetstream states.

[@TheCosmicGenius]

Over the years, I've heard various meteorologists say that for various reasons Kansas City has the most unpredictable weather in the country. We'll get rain or snow on otherwise clear days, and, yes - we do get extremes in temperatures all the time - going from like 80° F (26° C) to below 40° F (4° C) in the course of one day - just a matter of hours! And, all year long - especially in spring & autumn we'll have bright warm sunny days during the week, then freezing temps on the weekends. I refer to it all the the Kansas City Weather Rollercoaster.

[@martha3445]

Pete Seeger wrote a song about the dust storms named "My Oklahoma Home". Bruce Springsteen did a cover of it on his album "We Shall Overcome ".

[@Ira88881]

Remember how amazed you were that a several-ton truck was lifted into the air by a tornado? Well, a water spout is just like a tornado, so why do some experts believe they’re incapable of lifting fish out of the water…transporting them to land…where it loses steam and drops its cargo? I’ve never doubted this cause at all.

[@bobd2659]

I think they doubt it because the fish etc generally get dropped far inland, where waterspouts 'usually' die out as they reach the shore. Some of course can and do move inland, and some tornadoes move over water... I think what the video itself may miss is that it's not one or the other, but BOTH that cause it. Waterspouts (and landspouts) aren't as powerful as tornadoes, but they can draw things up in them, into the winds aloft, which can carry them many miles with the help of updrafts. The lighter the 'object' or the stronger the updraft, the farther it can travel.

[@Ira88881]

@@bobd2659 Makes sense! The first week I moved to South Florida, 1994, a waterspout picked up a guy in shallow water and slammed him into a building and killed him. (Pompano Beach.)

[@bradkirchhoff8264]

Doesnt need a water spout. Fish are picked up by an updraft…Water vapor escaping into the atmosphere. Causes a draft and lifts them out. It happens in the midwest even…

[@Ira88881]

@@bradkirchhoff8264 Never really understood it.

[@dntdie6256]

I was near the Carr fire in redding CA. Seen the fire-nado. 5 miles from my house. Wild time...you'll have to look it up because it's larger than in this video

[@tracysnow349]

When Mt St Helens erupted in Washington State, we were living in the Denver area and everything was coated with ash. That's basically, 1800 miles away.

[@skyeking171]

I live 40 miles outside of downtown LA. We get 100°F days in the summer at least once a week our winter's can be in the range or 40-50°F average, but can go even lower, we've had it snow at just under 2000ft. California gets strange weather.

[@nightsspell368]

~* That first cloud you showed...was in our small lil Edgewood Washington...I seen the weather turn a yellowish eerie sky...than these clouds just like that rolled in...my son was at his school playing with his friends. I tore down there so fast...along with I think every other of the worried parents.... they were all soooo scared and he cried and hugged me... and said mom ty ty tty... I was so scared.. I knew you would get me....on the news that night.. they never said anything about it which is strange.. because it was literally sooo frightening...I closed vents in car..windows up and we drove home and just hugged him ... closed blinds and turned his fave movie on...I still remember it looking like a fist...coming at us filling the sky ... only wasnt bugs..was just the clouds...shakes head I hope somebody could tell me what it was... beautiful summer night .. just came on quick*~ PS: you soo cute :) hehe

[@lydiaedwards8100]

We had a swarm of grasshoppers (locusts) in Las Vegas in 2019. It was horrific. Bats swarmed at night too because they were feasting on the bugs.

[@Easy_Skanking]

When I lived in Dallas/Ft. Worth, there was a tornado outbreak sometime in the late 90's. A friend on my hockey team had his neighbors Corvette put through the second floor of his house. I was watching that funnel out my sliding glass doors chanting: "Don't come this way. Don't come this way. Don't come this way." Seeing tornadoes in person is crazy frightening.

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

Last February we had 4 inches of snow out here in the Mojave Desert.

[@ScissorsRockinPaper]

I had a fountain in my front yard after a big storm. Minnows were found in it.

[@thissailorja]

In the blizzard of 79, we got hit on friday evening in chicago area. It dumped about a meter of snow in 24 hours, then got seriously cold. The air temp was about -15F (-26C) but that was air temp. the wind chill was almost -60F(-51C). It was dangerous cold. told not to go outside unless absolutely necessary by all the news channels. exposed skin would experience frost bite in under a minute. The reason i remember this? They called and told us not to come to church on Sunday morning!!!....

[@McSnacks930]

You gotta hit up Chicago, it’s an incredible food city! Italian beefs from Als, bars on every corner, and incredible views from the Hancock building

[@nacy55]

Another thing you should check out is Columbus Day storm in Portland Oregon back in the 1960s. I remember watching my neighbor's cat fly by. I never did like that cat.

[@rj-zz8im]

A way to begin to understand the atmosphere (where our weather occurs) is to think of the air as water or fluid. It behaves the same, and the motions are the same.

[@loveit7484]

Just realized, few videos you asked about writing the date as month/date/year- honestly, Id never known any other way. Loving your videos!! Im learning alot about British way of life since I live in the U.S. Cant wait for you to travel acoss the United States. Its a hoot! And I say that as someone who lives here.

[@fitzofrage5292]

2:51 -62C in Alaska and -57C in the lower 48.

[@MotherOfDistruction]

Every year we get several day 100 degrees Fahrenheit or up in Wisconsin in summer and we're one of the northern states

[@DMWolFGurL]

I live in Oklahoma and remember Tropical Storm Erin, that was wild and caused the town I live near to flood.

[@zackgeldhof1206]

They didn't even give a proper look at a fire tornado. You can look up videos of them. They're amazing. We also get dust storms at times. Also known as Haboobs (The eastern name for them). Another cool one to see videos of.

[@pugsabi]

There was a tornado that came through Fort Worth a couple years back that went through a semi truck trailer storage area and tossed them around like toys.

[@ht9851]

Come to Alberta, Canada. We've experienced temperatures -40 Celsius and below and 24hrs later 20 Celsius. Our weather is truly stunning!

[@brandonmcginnis7679]

The center of the tornado you were looking at is called the eye of the tornado and is actually calm in the center.

[@toomasargel8503]

Yes in Estonia is same weather like in UK / Scotland Mid Yell.

[@bradkirchhoff8264]

We have had around -15 to -20 here in illinois. We get some extreme ice storms every few years.

[@jennifertimberlake6522]

Colorado had bigger than that last year when we had that big cold snap. Where we were we went from the 70s to -20 in 12 hours and it got down to -25 that night. Also the picture with the vehicles covered in very heavy ice was in my hometown in Charleston SC. The tornado that they are saying was supposedly 5 miles wide, I have never heard of that one I just seen a video the other day that was recently posted saying the largest one on record was only 2.5 miles wide in I think it was 2017 that went through kansas. The raining animals happens when tornados pull them up and then drop them elsewhere once the updrafts weaken

[@ashleymeggan]

There is a Ken Burns documentary about the Dust Bowl.

[@katharrell3737]

@Ashley Meggan It's a good one.

[@thedrunksaiyan2227]

I only lived about 10 miles away from one of the biggest tornadoes in recorded history that hit El Reno Oklahoma

[@jaredmize960]

I remember back in 2019 here in Detroit like he said it got cold. I remember it was close to -20 and then with the added windchill try nearly-25 Fahrenheit at night in the suburbs around the city

[@rama30]

The thing about the grasshoppers is they arrive, eat everything, screw. lay eggs and leave. No point in planting crops next year because as soon as the hatch it happens all over again. It sometimes took years to get rid of them.

[@vanessamikawa7970]

The fire tornado was part of a huge fire in SoCal I suggest watching that. There is KZbin videos about it. Amazing story. Ty