German reacts to Climate in the U.S. - Why's It Like That?

[@karenk2409]

Dear German neighbor: the United States is a BIG country and extremely diverse. We are a bulk of a CONTINENT. We go from nearly arctic to tropical, with many cultural variations. I laugh at people's stereotypical ideas of what is "American" - good luck with that! I live in Virginia, mid-Atlantic medium. My relatives live in deserts, northwestern rain forests, and southwestern deserts. And every state and region has their own history and local culture.

[@prettybullet7728]

Agree. There's no way to do that in a country this size. It's too diverse.

[@michaeljones155]

Have you gotten snow in the past 2 or 3 years in Virginia? Down here in NC, we haven’t gotten any in several years, but we’ve had days were the temperature has dropped to below 10 degrees

[@MeanOldLady]

@@michaeljones155 Moving to TN I finally got my dream of only having 1 snow day in a year - a few years back, having come from the north, it was a nice change. The summers however, are misery. =p

[@kirstenwyatt9675]

​@michaeljones155 in my part of VA, I don't remember us getting much snow to speak of in the last 2 years. Ice knocking out power several times, but not much snow

[@DicnballzBitch]

Almost makes wish the states stayed separate countries

[@missteeny1638]

“A tornado is the atmosphere throwing up” is a really funny and accurate description 😂

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

Yes!! He should see the movie TWISTER!!!! IT'S A REALLY REALLY GOOD MOVIE BUT IT SHOWS SOME INCREDIBLE SCENIC VIEWS AND THE COWS FLYING THROUGH THE AIR IS HEARTBREAKING BUT THEN IT KIND OF FUNNY AT THE SAME TIME BY THE WAY THE MOVIE PUT IT TOGETHER.

[@GG-yr5ix]

Tornado is a temper tantrum with explosives. Dericho is the atmosphere throwing up.

[@alexlail7481]

I was thinking of it more as nature imitating a dog kicking off fleas... but it's probably a bit too tame

[@GG-yr5ix]

@@alexlail7481 EF4 & 5 tornadoes are no joke. Violence on the level of a nuke

[@leecarlson9713]

I have been 100 feet away from a house hit by a tornado. VERY SCARY! Now I live at the southmost tip of Texas, and am learning to cope with hurricanes. Lots of warning with hurricanes. Comparing a tornado to throwing up is very accurate, descriptively.

[@misspat7555]

Coming from America, I just thought everyone knew to keep an eye on the weather to make sure it doesn’t literally maul you/land you in the ER. Apparently, people in other countries don’t necessarily know this! If you are visiting America, please please please, ask locals about the weather and how to prepare! We want you to have a safe trip! ❤🇺🇸

[@KimberlyPatton-x1n]

Yes! And large hail stones can be another danger to watch out for too! Especially in Spring& Summer. I have honestly been through a hail storm here in West Texas where they were as big as tennis balls and broke many car windows..not good for being out in !

[@theylied1776]

We have something in the United States and Canada called Thunder Snow. It's a Thunderstorm that happens during a heavy snowstorm. It's Bizarre!

[@jryan9547]

It’s weird when it happens lol I’m in Cleveland.

[@winstonelston5743]

We had that in Atlanta and our neighbors in Birmingham during the "Blizzard of '93." At the time I had a nine-year-old Norwegian Elkhound who loved to bark at thunder, to go out and chase it away, but when I opened the door for her that day, she looked back at me as if to say, "I don't have to go THAT badly."

[@Chrysalis-uu5ec]

Yep. We also had a snownado here in that Christmas video

[@georgeerhard1949]

I've experienced one of those in the Colorado Rockies. It was weird in that the snow muffled the sound and diffracted the light from the lightning, so it was very hard to figure out where the strikes were. We woke up the next morning and our hunting tent was hip-deep in fresh snow.

[@easybreezy4559]

@@Chrysalis-uu5ecyou have any idea how rare that is?! So jealous😂

[@LillibitOfHere]

You have no idea how important videos like this are. We’ve had many European hikers and campers killed by the weather. Three temp points to help you orient yourself is 32F is the freezing point of water, 70F is room temperature, and 98.6F is average body temperature.

[@johndeeregreen4592]

I worked search and rescue in the state of Nevada and found too many hikers dead... even those from the United States. People just don't understand, the high desert can be 100° in the day, but drop into the 30's at night. And, in the winter, you can have a nice, pleasant day of 45° to 55°, and then have the temp plummet to -10° (air temp) just hours after sunset. In Nevada, Utah, and northern Arizona, you have to be prepared for 3 seasons for a single day.

[@luminousmoon86]

Absolutely. I was reading an article once by a park ranger in Death Valley, and he said European tourists come and they think "Death Valley" is some sort of cute marketing term instead of an accurate description. They also seem to not understand just how remote some of our parks and wildernesses are. There are places in the U.S. that if you get into some sort of trouble, there really isn't going to be anyone around to help you or even notice you until it's way too late. Such areas should probably only be attempted by people with experience in that environment or with a guide with such experience.

[@IciziaFae]

0c is 32f (freezing) while 37c is around 98f (body temp) to give some reference. In the desert without plants to regulate the temperature, it can be way above body temperature with no available water during the day and then below freezing at night without cover.

[@johndeeregreen4592]

@@IciziaFae, it's not entirely that. It's the majority of the high desert is greater than 4000ft above sea level (with many areas of Utah and Nevada being greater than 6000ft above sea level). The thinner atmosphere holds less heat. And, with the humidity rarely climbing about 10%, this allows the air to hold even less heat. Couple that with the sparse vegetation, and temperature differentials between day and night can be as much as much as 70 degrees in the winter.

[@shadowkissed2370]

@@johndeeregreen4592 you need to add parts California in with that, I grew up in the Mojave in California. I also lived in Nevada and Arizona and there are only slight differences in the weather between any of them. People always take the desert for granted.

[@suchendelokidottir5673]

My ancestors were Scots, Irish, Dutch, and German. Friendly word of advice. Don't skip the sunscreen.

[@daveb9920]

Sunscreen is our friend 😍

[@AlexKS1992]

Mine is pretty much similar, I’m Scottish, Irish, English and Swedish and yes don’t forget sunscreen.

[@daricetaylor737]

Chris.....here is Fahrenheit to Celsius for you reference.....50 F is 10 C, 80 F is 26.6 C, 100 F is 37.7 C and for me here in Northern CA this past month we have had record breaking heat of 115 F which is 46.1 C for days on end without relief. We have had temps of over 37.7 for 3 and a half weeks straight and the 10 day forecast shows nothing less than 37.7......so basically we have had 100 degrees or more for over a month to month and a half, and we have not yet hit our worst heat of the summer! Kyle failed to mention that yes, Southern CA had great weather, but they (and we in the North) also suffer from devastating fires!

[@johnl5316]

in 1913 the high in ca was 134...in neighboring Oregon it was 117 in 1934, and in Washington state it was 118 in 1928

[@SirTrollerDerby]

And Europeans often wonder why we rely so much on air conditioning. But the kinds of temperatures you've been through are seriously dangerous if you don't have a way to cool down.

[@bassage13]

That's just a normal summer here in Phoenix.

[@daricetaylor737]

@@johnl5316 in I think 1972 we had 117 and 116 for two days here in our town.....it was horrible. It felt like you walked into an oven, the ground cracked like an old lake bed....it was something to experience!

[@daricetaylor737]

@@SirTrollerDerby They really don't understand. How often cooling centers or for that fact, heating centers have to be created in cities for people who don't have access to air controlling in their homes. I know some summers people head to the local mall to walk just to get away from the heat.

[@Lynn-kh5rs]

My husband & I drove from Kentucky to California a couple of years ago. One of our overnight stops was in a mountainous region of New Mexico. Leaving out early the next morning the ground and shrubs were covered in what is called 'hoar frost'. As that was a desert area it doesn't last long but driving along everything sparkled like they were covered in diamonds. It was a special and spectacular sight.

[@lennybuttz2162]

LOL Growing up in WI we didn't call it hoar frost just frost and it can be beautiful until you're scraping it off your windshield at 6am and the wind is turning your ears into ice cycles. My favorite is when it's above 32 degrees with no wind and a nice soft snowfall with huge feathery snowflakes that gently float down to earth where they sparkle like diamonds.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

We had it on all the trees by our farm in Iowa.

[@karenk2409]

I spent a winter in San Angelo, Texas, many years ago. Yes, it snows in the desert ... but it's 90 degrees by 10:00.

[@JayEvans1911A1]

I'm in Oklahoma, the most significant weather for me in this area is the possibility of tornados. Oklahoma is in "tornado alley". It's also miserably hot and humid here during the summers. Winters here can be cold, but we don't usually get a lot of snow. We get ice, though, which makes it hard to drive sometimes.

[@xliquidflames]

It is like that because the US is huge in terms of land area. I was just talking about this with someone the other day. There is this stereotype that Europeans have of Americans. They think we are not well travled and that we should be embarrassed that only a tiny percentage of us even have a passport. The thing is, though, we don't need to leave the country to go on vacation and see wildly different landscapes, climates, or cultures. We all speak the same language and are under the same government but the culture in Texas is not the same as the culture in California or New York or Florida. You can take a one day road trip starting on a white sand beach, drive through the Redwood Forest, up some mountains into snow, down the other side to the Grand Canyon, come back through a desert and end up in LA, one of the largest cities in the world. Heck, my home state of Florida by itself has swamps, sinkholes, springs, beaches, the largest city by land area -Jacksonville - the oldest continuously occupied city - St. Augustine - theme parks, the space coast, the Everglades, and the Keys. Americans can spend years just exploring our own country. And if we get bored with the US, Canada and Mexico are right here and don't technically require a passport to enter. We have three very big countries right here to explore. On top of that, it takes a dang expensive and long 12 hour plane ride to get anywhere in Europe. Contrast that with someone living in Germany and you can hop on a train get to just about anywhere in Europe in about an hour or so. You can visit France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, and the rest of Europe for very cheap and very little time compared to what an American would need to invest. So, yeah, the weather is crazy because the country is big. And, no, we should not be embarrassed that we never leave the country. That is a ridiculous idea.

[@kokomo9764]

You do need a passport to go to Canada or Mexico. Also, you can not enter Canada if you have any felony convictions on your record.

[@ahoyforsenchou7288]

@@kokomo9764 Imagine having border security. Crazy stuff.

[@edmandziuk3858]

@@kokomo9764 only if you fly. If you have the enhanced drivers license or whatever it is called you can drive to Canada.

[@jimallen1178]

Right, so the criticism that American's never leave the US, is like criticizing Germans for never travelling to the Sahara or Mumbai. The distance and, as Chris said, different kinds of Landschaften Americans can travel without a passport makes it not a fair measure.

[@kdm71291]

Wait, Jacksonville is larger in area than LA?!

[@RushFanatic87]

I was born/grew up in Louisiana and now live in Texas. Growing up, I learned it’s pretty common practice to take a change of clothes with you because you WILL sweat due to the ungodly humidity in Louisiana. My family also would hang towels in our car windows during the summer to keep the car dark and relatively cool while it’s parked. My wife, who’s Texas born and raised, thought I was nuts when she saw me doing things like that. I just had to tell her “Even though they’re neighboring states, Texas heat and Louisiana heat are NOT the same.”

[@jamesanderson5268]

While in the USAF, I was assigned to Havre AFS, Montana which was 6 miles from the Canadian border. The following winter the temperature went down to -35F with a wind chill of -45F for two weeks. There was no snow on the ground so when it warmed up to zero F, a bunch of us went out to the basketball court and played a game, at zero F. It didn't feel that bad though compared to the -35F.

[@mwhyte1979]

Same here. I was stationed at Wurtsmith AFB in Michigan. We caught one of those cold fronts coming out of Canada, and for about a week and a half, we were getting temps ranging from -30 to -37° F without the wind chill factor. The temp suddenly shot up to just above freezing, and I and a bunch of other flightline maintainers were playing tackle football in shorts. After all the negative temps, it was like an early spring day to us. Course the the rest of the folks on base thought we were a bunch of lunatics.

[@jimgreen5788]

@@mwhyte1979, on my first visit to the UP to visit friends, I came into Marquette, where I found it just above freezing, but some college aged guys were playing basketball in shorts, and shirtless.

[@mwhyte1979]

Yep, it's amazing how the human body can adapt to things.

[@danielm4436]

Living in central California, I have no concept of temperatures that cold. We get the 20-110 range and to think there's another 60+ degrees below all of that I can't imagine how miserable being in that kind of cold can be.

[@fazole]

​I drove in a blizzard in North Lake Tahoe 2 yrs ago. 10F and it looked like Alaska, serious whiteout at times at 8000 ft crossing the mountains. The main hughway was closed, so I had to take another route.

[@phytorx1]

The entire country of Germany fits in the state of Arizona. I live in Tucson, near the bottom of the state in the Sonoran desert Within this state alone you can have climates that are arid and very snowy and cold. I Have spent many time in Germany for both work (Frankfurt) and Munich (for fun.) I enjoy hearing about what you are discovering about the US.

[@jryan9547]

Tucson to Mt Lemmon, the change is pretty amazing.

[@sluggo206]

Washington state is the size of Germany and the climate is similar, as my German teacher in high school said. At least the climate in western Washington (west of the Cascades). The sharp contrast between the wet west side of the mountains and the dry east side is real. It takes 2 hours to drive from Seattle to Ellensburg on the other side.

[@johndeeregreen4592]

People are blown away at just how different the climate is between Flagstaff and Phoenix.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

I was in Phoenix back in June of 1988. While there some friends and I drove to the Grand Canyon. {At the time I was living in South Florida, and I am originally from Florida.} It was QUITE STRANGE to be driving through Arizona in June, and look up at mountain tops and see a bit of snow on them.

[@karencox3235]

@@johndeeregreen4592 Yes! Flagstaff is nothing like Phoenix! And they're only 2:15 hours apart!

[@robertvirnig638]

Southern California weather is way more complex than you would think from this video. Often during the winter you could go snow skiing in the mountains and sunbathe in a bikini at the beach, less than an hour's drive apart on the same day. While the summer weather is beautiful on the coast it can be unbearably hot if you are 20 or more miles inland.

[@ptorq]

San Diego has its infamous "June Gloom." Late spring and early summer are quite likely to be cloudy. It (probably) won't rain (maybe a drizzle at most), it'll just be overcast, especially in the morning.

[@fyroseredfury]

13:05 That's the "Spoonbridge and Cherry" at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden! It was designed by a Swedish/Dutch-born duo and it's actually sitting on a pond. A feature of it is that filtered water flows from the tip and base of the cherry stem, giving it a glowing appearance in the warmer months!

[@MeanOldLady]

Neat info.

[@annemariecronen9096]

@@MeanOldLadyit’s a part of the Walker Art Center

[@jdanon203]

Coldest temperature ever recorded in the US was -62°C and the hottest was 57°C.

[@haventthoughtofanameyet6364]

Death valley, back in 1913

[@hlessiavedon]

​@haventthoughtofanameyet6364 actually, that record was broken in 2021 by an area of the sonoran desert near the us/mexico boarder. 177.4 Fahrenheit (80.8 Celcius)

[@haventthoughtofanameyet6364]

@hlessiavedon well it must be unofficial because i googled that temp right before i posted that message to see if anything had broken that record, but google still thinks its death valley so that is what ima go with

[@mushroomsteve]

@@hlessiavedon 177.4ºF? I am very skeptical of that.

[@newgrl]

@@hlessiavedon Ground temperature or ambient temperature?

[@andrewjackson8421]

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was a German-Polish physicist and engineer. He came up with the Fahrenheit (F) scale basing it on the most abundant form of water in the world, sea water or salt water. At 0°F sea water freezes, and at 200°F it boils. This is different from fresh water which freezes at 32°F and boils at 212°F. He divided the scale into 200 units from freezing to boiling because he was a scientist and aiming for a more precise measurement. The Celsius (C) scale is based on fresh water and only divided it up into 100 units. So 0°C is where fresh water freezes but 100°C is where it boils. Both have their advantages however if you are ever stranded on an island it’s easier to make a F thermometer than a C one cuz you can use sea water and mark when it boils and when it freezes and divide the difference into 200 equal units. I guess in his day that was a consideration because people still sailed the sea in ships to get around. So why doesn’t Poland & Germany still use F? Mostly because Napoleon conquered them and set the C scale as the standard. The metric system is used a lot in science however my science teacher preferred F over C because it was more precise. The US attempted to go over to the Metric System back in the 70s but there was too much opposition. Everyone was used to Fahrenheit; Miles, Feet and Inches; Tons, Pounds and Ounces; Gallons, Quarts, Pints, Cups, Tablespoons & Teaspoons, etc for measuring things. England and Canada changed over to metric, but still many older people know the old measurements and still use them.

[@jovetj]

The Metric system makes a lot of sense but for some things, like describing weather and comfort of temperature, Fahrenheit is superior. It's more precise because there is more granularity. Decade differences in Fahrenheit are also intuitive to grasp.

[@hkandm4s23]

I'm in Oklahoma.....a brewing tornado feels similar to standing in front of the fridge with someone waving a hairdryer at you from across the room. Fascinating stuff until the sirens go off and the hail begins.

[@winstonelston5743]

And the greenish color of the hail-laden supercells. I saw and was hit by grapefruit-size hail (I was well-padded by a large bag of what had been dry laundry held over my head) in Columbia, Tennessee on 3 April, 1974. Another Columbia story, I attended a boarding school there and my first year when my parents came up for "Military Weekend" they brought our brindle pit bull mix puppy. It was brutally hot during the drills and parades on Saturday and there was enough snow on the ground Sunday morning that the dog was bounding through and only visible during her high jumps. She had a fine time. The roads over the high ridge near Monteagle, Tennessee were closed so Mom and Pop and Doggerel were stuck in Columbia and followed the snowplow all the way to Chattanooga on Monday, reporting for work on Tuesday. None of their coworkers believed that they had been stranded by snow --- Atlanta weather had been warm all weekend and remained so all the following week, except the Studebaker was covered with road grime and Mom had the Polaroids.

[@ptorq]

Missouri isn't as bad as Oklahoma for tornadoes, but still ... there's a particular color to the sky that always makes me turn on the radio to see if there's a tornado watch or warning. I'd describe it as a kind of greenish orange, which may not make a lot of sense to you if you've never seen it.

[@1QU1CK1]

The guy left out one of the crazier places for weather in the US- Colorado's Front Range. The Rockies are actually two mountain ranges, the Front Range and the Back Range. Around Colorado Springs is Pikes Peak which sits in front of both ranges, making the air swirl even weirder. Denver and the Springs both get more sun than Miami and more wind than Chicago. It can snow in the middle of summer, there are heat waves in the winter. The weather is wildly unpredictable and can be totally different from just across the street! Let me describe Springtime in the Rockies-- generally there are ever warming days and mild nights... interspersed with wind storms, snow storms, outright blizzards, thunder storms, dust storms, sudden deluges, heat waves and cold snaps. But really, most of the time, the weather here is beautiful.

[@sivonni]

I lived in Denver, CO for a couple years, did a lot of hiking and was fascinated that I could see Pike's Peak from the mountains in Yosemite as a kid.

[@winstonelston5743]

There was snow on the ground in the Purgatory area (between Durango and Silverton) when I went to geology field camp in mid-June, 1981. Not much of it and it was isolated and in locations that were shady all day, but there was snow.

[@nicklibby3784]

​@@sivonni You could see Pikes Peak from the Mountains in Yosemite as a kid??? Are you confusing mountain ranges? Yosemite mountains are in California, you can not aee Pikes Peak from there.

[@sivonni]

@@nicklibby3784 Possibly a telescope was involved? I remember it pointed out on a sign in Yosemite. There's about 775 miles directly between Yosemite and Pike's Peak and Utah and Nevada's highest elevations are lower than either. It's a memory that came back when I was visiting Pike's Peak.

[@KillerRabbit1975]

@@winstonelston5743Uh, snowfields exist year-round in Colorado. Trail Ridge Road is famous for it. I have gone skiing at A-Basin on the 4th of July.

[@justintrefney1083]

We have thunderstorms here in Missouri that are so powerful you can lay in bed at night and hear the cutlery shaking in the kitchen drawers.

[@delmaplain5358]

I call storms like that window rattlelers, because I hear the windows rattles! Growing up, one of our homes had tin roof over my bedroom. Lucky me. I found out what it's like to try and sleep thru a hailstorm hitting that tin roof!

[@fazole]

A Belgian guy recently died in Death Valley where temps were 131F, 55C. Others who went there in rubber sandals had the shoes just melt off their feet. I even went camping last Nov inland from Monterey, CA. Daytime was around 22C, night was below freezing. My water bottle, left outside overnight, was SOLID ice.

[@Torby4096]

Death Valley is no place this American ever wants to go😊

[@timmooney7528]

In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan there are only two seasons - Winter and August

[@jimgreen5788]

@timmooney7528, I've also heard it said in some state that the 4 seasons are winter, more winter, still winter, and July, and in AK, it's winter and road repair.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Florida has two seasons: (1) HURRICANE SEASON (2) WAITING FOR HURRICANE SEASON 🤭🤭🤭

[@Thom1212]

@@jimgreen5788 Chicagoland area has only two seasons. Winter and road construction!

[@EmMiller-wu3dy]

😂

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Minnesota has two seasons: Snow Removal and Road Repair. Or possibly the other way around.

[@katherinemadson4137]

I’m in Minnesota where the weather toughens you up and makes you appreciate our beautiful summer. Today, it’s cloudy and warm, slightly humid. About 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

[@jeffeck9934]

Prepare your self to see people in shorts In the winter ❄️🥶 -20 is still short weather there

[@kimlockhart8937]

When I lived in MN, the temperature once swung 90° in one day ( from 60 to -30).

[@theblackbear211]

Kyle has some good information, but even within regions, there are some very specific micro-climates, particularly during different seasons. Things like "lake effect" snow is a good example. In the mountain west (basically anywhere west of Denver) the differences in climate between the western slope of a mountain range, and the eastern side of the same range can be very dramatic.

[@liviia305]

Here in Buffalo, at nearly 10 a.m. on August 5th, we currently have 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 C.) and sunny, with a high of 83 possible. Yes, we can have a lot of snow, so much so that several years ago, roofs of structures collapsed from the weight. Still, I'd rather have snow than hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, and tornadoes. That's one great thing about the U.S.: if you don't like the climate where you are, you can always move somewhere else! Love your videos! Thanks!

[@jovetj]

I live in eastern Nebraska. You may not get "hurricanes" up there but you can be touched by a Nor'easter. Tornadoes, Derechos, Blizzards, and Droughts are the biggest weather "fears" here. Of those, tornadoes are the scariest, but also the most isolated. Tornadoes impact such a small area, unlike hurricanes, derechos, earthquakes, even blizzards, which can affect a _huge_ area at once. Until this year (I'm in my late 40s) I could say I'd never seen a tornado, but this year I saw one 5 miles from my house. Wrecked many people's lives, who I am sure are still recovering, but the huge windstorm we had a month ago put 222000 customers out of power.

[@jenniferkane7340]

I live in Wisconsin. I was always told that our German ancestors settled here because it looked so much like Germany. It reminded them of home so they settled here. If you ever get the chance to come to the US be sure to visit Wisconsin.

[@derekaldrich330]

I'm from Syracuse, NY and will attest to the validity of some of the pictures shown with regards to snowfall. It should be understood that snowfall events measured in multiples of feet only happen a handful of times in a given winter. It's generally more of a consistent snowfall of a few inches per day.

[@Spnlgrl1985]

We had tornadoes in February this year which was a historic weather happening. Wisconsin is great because we get all of the seasons. Spring was very warm again this year and early. Our summer has been very wet this year but our winter last year was dry. We don't get as much snow as i remember us getting when I was a kid. Someone mentioned Thundersnow and we also get that. It's always interesting in the Midwest!

[@NarestWhal]

Just a little fact to put the size of the U.S.A. to scale: The distance from central California to central Maine is 2,633 miles (4,237 kilometers) and the distance from Lisbon, Portugal to Moscow, Russia is 2,428 miles (3,907 kilometers)!

[@karencox3235]

That's nuts!

[@nicklibby3784]

I live in Seattle, Washington, and I have relatives in Florida that lived in Miami. We are 2,738+ miles away(4,406 kilometers) if you measure a straight line there, and that line cross the ocean (gulf of mexico) so obviously actually driving there is a much longer distance. According to google maps, the shortest & fastest route from my town outside Seattle, WA to Miami, FL is 3,346 miles (5,384 Kilometers). Which is the amount of distance from London, UK 🇬🇧 to Afghanistan 🇦🇫 in a straight line. It is also almost 1,000 kilometer longer drive than from Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 to Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺 (4,580km according to google maps fastest route). That means you could drive to Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺 from Lisbon, Portugal faster than I could drive from near Seattle, Washington 🇺🇲 to relatives near Miami, Florida🇺🇲. The USA is really quite huge.

[@jovetj]

Yes, most Europeans have no concept as to the actual size of the US, even just the contiguous US. It's why they think they can take a week and "see all the sights" just by driving around. The USA is the third-largest country by land+lake area in the world. If you subtract Alaska (itself 18% of the US footprint), it's still the fifth-largest country in the world.

[@danielmarek4609]

I live in Wisconsin. The highest temperature I've experienced here is 104 F (40 C) and the lowest temperature is -27 F (-32 C). In Wisconsin it's not dry here, we get rain, so when it's hot it also gets really humid.

[@pyrovania]

Help with Fahrenheit: 50F is 10C. 60F is 15.5C. 70F is 21C. 80F is 27C. 90F is 32.2C. 100F is 37.8C. 110F is 43.3C. 120F is 48.9C. Oh and -40F is -40C.

[@nullpoint3346]

Bloody hell, I've seen _50C_ in Oklahoma?

[@RageKage1776]

212°F = 100°C Boiling point of H2o

[@jovetj]

@@RageKage1776 *H₂O

[@RageKage1776]

@@jovetj correct

[@davidlloyd150]

👍 Your reactions are one of the few that seem truly genuine. Thanks

[@staticthewhitewolf7040]

Washington State has only about 60 days of no rain on the west side of the state. When they claim no rain during the summer they forget we have a state split by a mountain range. The west side gets more rain than the rainforest, but the east side is almost a desert. The West side of the state might have 50 to 60 days of no rain. United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 3.63% the size of United States.

[@grumblesa10]

Yes, it does vary. Here in Nevada, we had snow in April, the mountain snow pack did not melt until June, and now we are having daily temps around 40-44C. 1 person literally died from the heat at Death Valley (52c- yup), and 2 of his friends were flown to Las Vegas for medical treatment. These temperatures are NO joke. This is also why you see comments advising Euros NOT to visit the South/Southwest in July or August.

[@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938]

My mom immigrated from Germany and when my aunts and uncles visited it was clear they just didn’t know how enormous the U.S. was…we live near Philadelphia and they’d suggest going to Disney World for the weekend…or Chicago or something…err…not unless you plan on flying…and even going down to Ocean City Maryland for vacation was six hours due to traffic and they found that a “very long” trip … 🤷‍♂️ one bathroom break because we were kids but we tried to get moving early…

[@brentdillahunty3314]

Ich genieße eure Vlogs auf KZbin so sehr. Du wirkst so freundlich und aufrichtig. Ich liebe die Deutschen, weil ich in einer Armeestadt im Südwesten von OK aufgewachsen bin. Lawton/Ft. Sill. In meinem Viertel gab es vierzehn Häuser. Die Hälfte von ihnen waren deutsche Mütter. Sie reichten von München, über Berlin, BadenBaden, Frankfurt bis nach Bayern. Ich konnte die feinen Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Akzenten erkennen. Es war ein schöner Einblick in die deutsch-amerikanische Kultur, besonders zur Weihnachtszeit. Die Deutschen wissen, wie man Weihnachten❣️ ❤️ Das Gebiet Lawton/Ft.Sill befindet sich in der Tornado Alley. Wir haben kalte, nasse, bittere Winter in den Great Plains. Wann haben Sie das Bild von den Büffeln/Bisons gesehen? Das ist identisch mit der Gegend in Oklahoma, in der ich aufgewachsen bin.

[@imdebra]

Born and raised in the US, and I'm >60 years old - and I learned a lot from that video :-) !

[@danielmcgrane5698]

One of the things that I enjoy about living in the US is the ability in the wintertime to fly two hours from snow and cold to warmth and sunshine without the need for a passport.

[@A_Name_]

Someone else just reacted to a similar video(that one was about hot places in the US) so I had it all prepared for ya lol It's cooled off today but it's been 90-100 all but one day over the last month with the humidity over 70% almost every day. The heat index is what you really want to look at. Panama city Florida. For refrence 90 at 70% is 105f or 40.5c 90 and 80% is 114f - 45.5c 95 at 70% is 122f - 50c 95 at 80% is 134f - 56.6c 100 at 70% is 143f - 61.6c Yes, humidity is a killer.

[@ringo2995]

THUNDERSTORMS! Luv your reaction content. Cheers, from Ocala. Florida.

[@malcolmschenot6352]

To give you an idea, according to Google Maps, Los Angels to New York is 2,780 miles (4470 km) and takes 41 hours to drive with no stops and no traffic. Seattle, Washington in the NW to Key West, Florida in the SE is 3,493 miles (5622 km) and takes 51 hours to drive with no stops and no traffic. So when you go on your Great American Road Trip, remember you can drive for months and only scratch the surface. California alone from San Diego to Crescent City, going through San Francisco and never leaving the state, is 856 miles (1377 km) and takes 14 hours to drive with no stops and no traffic.

[@c2rail]

I live in the southern tip of Texas. We are right on the border with Mexico and right on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In the summers we have about three straight months where the temperatures are always in the triple digits meaning it's always above 100 degrees (over 38 degrees Celsius). And the humidity here, during the summer is often about 80%. So it stays hot and humid all summer. We never have snow here. You have to drive about 400 miles north to find snow in the winter. We have palm trees and cactus. A lot of crops are grown here because we can grow crops all year long. We only have a few days each year where the temperature drops below freezing. You should come to South Texas sometime. We have great mexican food down here and the beaches are great!

[@geraldfrost4710]

Here in Florida in the summer, the nighttime low is 28°C. It won't get lower until the hurricanes start. Hurricanes are giant heat engines, dumping the ocean heat into space. The energy gets used to make wind, which blows on the ocean, which evaporates water, which condenses, and the cycle repeats. The faster the wind, the more energy is extracted from the ocean. After a hurricane, the air temperature drops 3 to 5 degrees C, which feels wonderful.

[@winstonelston5743]

I attended a bicycle rally in the Live Oak vicinity over Halloween weekend, must have been thirty years ago, It rained solidly from Friday afternoon (did get to ride to lunch at Roy's in Steinhatchee), 'til Sunday morning when there were frozen patches on the puddles. When we drove back to Atlanta I stopped off to see some friends in Thomasville and when I was leaving there was light snow falling. I think it was the weekend after River Phoenix OD'd, but it was time-change weekend.

[@geraldfrost4710]

@@winstonelston5743 Snow has fallen in Miami. Sometimes an atmospheric river of polar air brakes loose and heads for the equator. Yes, it can really mess up a weekend!

[@winstonelston5743]

@@geraldfrost4710 I remember the battery freezing in my car during Christmas Eve services in 1983, had to roll down the hill and pop the clutch. Snow has fallen in Miami several times I can remember (or at least heard about) in my lifetime. I was commenting on a storm in mid-autumn, not winter. As I recall, it has even snowed in Havana. I went to Okeechobee for a fossil-collecting field trip some years ago, (February, as I recall, maybe 2007 or so?) and I stopped near Kissimmee for an overnight and there was very heavy frost there that night.

[@murlthomas2243]

I live in Oklahoma. Summers can get as hot as 107 degreees F (41.66 C) although we have hit 117 degrees F (47 degrees Celsius) occasionally. The last few winters, we have been below freezing for extended periods of time. Last year we spent over a week at-13 degrees F ( -25 degrees Celsius). Fortunately, our winters are short, and our summers very long.

[@Rebelwill74]

At band camp here in Mississippi the temperature likes to get up to 112 degrees on the heat index… Fun fact: I don’t like getting cooked

[@cheese135...9]

I'm from Minnesota and our band camp temperatures don't get as hot as that, but we do have a 50% our Halloween parade will get canceled due to snow and cold weather

[@crazydrummer181]

@@cheese135...9I live on the Mississippi Coast. I’ve only witnessed snow twice in my 33 years. I’d love to experience real snow some day, though I’m sure it can be a pain to live with it routinely.

[@crazydrummer181]

Last August on the coast, we had nights where the heat index was hovering around 115 until 3 or 4am. Absolutely nuts.

[@MommyDontSeeMe]

I grew up in Louisiana and went to Girl Scout camp in July for several years. I know what you mean...

[@winstonelston5743]

I rode from Causeyville to Quitman to Stonewall to Enterprise, through the Buckatunna Watershed and back to Causeyville with a group of Meridian cyclists on a particularly hot day in August. I showed them a low-traffic route paralleling the main road from Quitman to Enterprise, only about a half mile of heavy motor traffic instead of about fifteen. It was hotter than the lower reaches of Purgatory that day, but my new friends stopped off at a convenience store to recharge the glycogen stores a couple of miles from the end of the ride. The cook at the lunch counter was a Louisiana Cajun who had worked as chef on an off-shore oil rig, and he served the best etoufee shrimp and jambalaya I ever ate in my life! The food was fresh-off-the boiler hot, spicier than a Buddy Hackett stand-up routine, but it was so refreshing after that ride!

[@karencox3235]

And then you can have snow in the desert! It''s dry, but snow can fall..

[@newgrl]

If you're someone who gets 2nd degree burns in the sun and you're wanting to visit the US, the Pacific Northwest is the area for you. They have an average of 222 cloudy days per year and it's beautiful. Totally worth a visit.

[@JETZcorp]

Ehhh. It's not a very nice place to be while it's cloudy because it's also drizzling endlessly and all the scenery is erased. Going to Seattle and not seeing Mt Rainier is a crime against humanity. Once the rain stops, the summers are deceptively hot - 40C all the time. I'd say Montana in not-winter is probably more Euro-friendly because it's just cooler.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

SEATTLE: A Native American word that means _52° Fahrenheit and rain._ 😉🤭

[@pyrovania]

Southern Alaska too, you can see temperate rain forests in both places, but no surprise, it rains a lot in places with temperate rain forests.

[@ricardosaenz569]

In the continental US; the lowest record temp was in Montana in 1950's and was -70 F or about -57 C, the hottest was in Death Valley California (no surprise ) 134 F or 57 C (temps around 120 F/ 49C are common )

[@MikeIsCannonFodder]

14:40 The Pacific North West is also a rainforest, so add that to the list. Also, keep in mind the continental US is about the size of Europe, so having this many climates in that large of an area isn't that strange. 15:48 It's still a lot of snow, but that looks like plowed or shoveled snow along the street, so it's probably quite a bit higher. I wonder if they have trucks haul a lot of that snow away. Here in my city in Minnesota they sometimes have trucks haul snow that doesn't get plowed (plowing did happen, it's just not perfect removal) if it builds up too much in intersections. 16:15 The summers here in Minnesota are pretty humid, especially in July. I didn't know the NE got that humid, huh.

[@dogbarbill]

Simple conversion for temperature to change "F" to "C": Temperature in "F" subtract 32, then divide by 1.8 equals "C". Example: 50F minus 32 is 18. Divide that by 1.8 equals 10C. It's easy on a calculator.

[@BillionSix]

I like the Fahrenheit scale because 0 to 100 is a good range for where humans are likely to live. 0 is "Holy fuck, it's cold!" and 100 is "Holy fuck, it's hot!" The only thing you have to remember is that 32F is freezing (0 Celsius). The 70s is pleasant weather. 60s is cool, 50s is chilly. 80s is warm, 90s is hot.

[@Celestia282]

Metric is way better for distance, mass, and volume measurements, but Celsius just sucks. Fahrenheit is the one Imperial measurement that I will stand on the hill defending.

[@BillionSix]

@@Celestia282 I heard it said once: Kelvin is for molecules. Celsius is for water. Fahrenheit is for people.

[@DaNintendude]

temperature ranges change from person to person, but what you said is probably what most of the general population would agree with. Low 70s is usually room temperature, so anything above that is warm. 60s is what I would describe as pleasant. It's cooler than inside, but not cold yet. 50s is cool. 40s is chilly. 30s and below is cold. Of course, this also depends on aspects such as humidity, cloud coverage, sunshine, and wind. 90 degrees on a very cloudy day is not really that annoying, but 90s on a sunny day is downright unbearable. 50s weather is really nice to me, but if it's windy, I could end up feeling pretty cold.

[@richlisola1]

I agree in terms of weather temperature descriptors, Fahrenheit is superior. It’s a wider scale, capable of describing temperature with more nuance.

[@prairiedweller8917]

I prefer the finer gradations of Fahrenheit.

[@mrszee-g9f]

I'm a military brat and have lived all over the US. California, Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Florida, Missouri (currently) and even Guam! I've also lived in Germany for a year and the weather there isn't much different than the weather here in the Midwest. I don't recommend visiting Phoenix, AZ in the summer! Temps reach up to 110°F!

[@pop9095]

It's not just the 3 terrain types you mention, we actually have almost every type of terrain on earth in the contiguous US. Savanna, tundra, jungle, scrubland, mesas, desert, lake dotted hills, lake dotted plains and all manner of forests.

[@carvelvance7577]

I do like how you are trying to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius it's very nice of you also adds to your show...Mir gefällt, wie Sie versuchen, Fahrenheit in Celsius umzurechnen. Das ist sehr nett von Ihnen und trägt auch zu Ihrer Show bei.😊

[@SamGray]

Here in Arkansas summer temperatures can routinely go from 90-115°F (32-46°C) while winters as low as -5°F (-20°C) can be expected. These are extremes, but not as uncommon as we'd like.

[@jamessnee7171]

Most people talk about the weather because they have nothing else to talk about. In Buffalo people talk about the weather because its really important. Fun Fact! Buffalo is rated 'Best Summers in the Northeast'. Due to Lake Erie acting as an outside air conditioner and a lot of sun.

[@britth1744]

I live in Alabama and I remember the 2011 tornado outbreak like it was yesterday 😫 storms traumatize me so much now! Especially when they roll through at night. Night tornadoes are the worst cause you can’t see them and we’ve been getting more and more of those lately.

[@chairde]

Most Europeans don’t understand the size of the USA. They also don’t understand that we have some really dangerous animals. Wolves, bears, alligators and crocodiles can eat you. Think of Fahrenheit as %. 70 degrees F is 70 % warm.

[@iotech1]

Quick APPROXIMATE conversion from Fahrenheit to SI: Subtract 30 from the Fahrenheit number, then divide by 2. This is usually within 2-3 degrees of exact. The actual formula is (F-32)*5/9= C

[@Snipergoat1]

And when it's -40 its too damn cold to care if it is C or F

[@jovetj]

@@Snipergoat1 I've only experienced -40° wind chills twice in my life. I don't ever need it again. Of course, as I write this, the temperature here is 98°F (37°C) and the heat index is 114°F (46°C). Feels like an oven out there. Thank heavens for air conditioning!

[@TheCynysterMind]

This is funny to me as I live in the USA and have lived in various parts of the country. People around the world tend to forget just how HUGE the USA really is. I have been to 40 or the 50 states (including Alaska and Hawaii) And they only thing that is more unique to the areas of the US than the weather are its people. People have a variety of habits and speech accents based on what region they reside. I live on the coast or the shallowest of the great lakes and the temps range from -10f to 110 (though the norms are 30 in winter and 80 in summer) Tornado's are a thing but the most dangerous place is to be boating on Lake Erie during a storm.

[@ds-zs8zo]

My Father lived in Alaska…the coldest temperature he encountered was -80F or -62C in the interior of the state…the highest I’ve encountered is 126F or 52C…in Death Valley California…In the Midwest states, the temperatures and humidity ,in summer , is brutal…at 90F (32C) and 80-90% Humidity is practically unbearable…and hard to breathe…Winter in the Midwest can be cold and blowing winds with a wind chill factor. (Temperature and wind makes you feel like a given temperature )…Wind chill factor can be -20 to -40 F (-27c to -40C)…Crazy snows as well…15-20 inches of snow (38cm-50cm )…..

[@knewsome47]

I grew up in Fairbanks and I never want to see snow again. In the 1960s school didn't close until -40. I walked to school in more clothing than you can imagine. I remember one new years when it got up to 0 F.and it felt like a heat wave. In the summer I didn't have a curfew because people stayed up until 2 or 3 am in the sunshine. Wild!

[@anonomas6126]

@@knewsome47 now they don’t cancel school at -40 they just cancel out door recess at -20. We had over 100 inches of snow in 2021 that’s when I tapped out. The coldest I felt was -36 and they didn’t cancel school or anything.

[@knewsome47]

@@anonomas6126 as i.temember 20 below was so common that schools stayed open. Only when it rarely hit -40 did it get dangerous to go out because it was too cold to breathe safely. My mom taught school so closing.school Washington always of interest. This was 1960.

[@HemlockRidge]

Oakland California is just East of San Francisco. It can be 90F (32C) in Oakland, and 55F (13C) in San Francisco. Mark Twain, the American Humorist and Writer, said, "The coldest winter I ever spent, was a summer in San Francisco".

[@lorriescott8775]

We have deserts, rain forest, massive mountain peaks, many volcanoes, & hundreds of islands all in Washington state. You do not need 50 states to see it all.

[@azielnik]

Weather in the USA varies greatly by region, ve much wider but in general we have a much wider seasonal range in temperatures than in Europe, as well as more severe weather. This is due largely to geography, prevailing west to east winds , north-south mountain ranges, the Great Lakes, etc., and to ocean currents. The amount of moisture (humidity) plays a larger role in how a particular temperature "feels" here.

[@lorriescott8775]

@@azielnik I lived through a Typhoon in 1962, in Washington. Though tornadoes are rare, we are having more and more. Thankfully they are not like the ones back east. We can get as much as 1,000” of snow, but the weather gods keep it to mountains and not where people live.

[@Xedric-0]

Maaaan you're not even wrong. I live in spokane and drive to seattle and it's hilarious. I start in spokane and it's mountainous, snowy, and thick with trees. I hit the middle of the state and it's canyons, scrubland, rivers, and lowlands. You hit the mountains again and find cliffs, high peaks, and even more snow. You drop into seattle and now you're on coastal swamp lands, endless drizzling rain, and a cold puget full of little islands of all kinds.

[@ziggym4414]

To summarize: when you're in the water, 50 F is cold as Hel. (yes, the indo-european or Norse version)

[@lorriescott8775]

@@ziggym4414 it is! The Puget Sound is 45-50. Maybe pockets at low tide get warmer. I’m still amazed that I swam in it in my youth.

[@markmorningstar5374]

Hello Chris. Great reaction videos! When our family moved from the beaches of California to Southern Vermont in 1978, that Winter 78-79 was the coldest it had been in 80 years. The high temp never got above -20 deg. F (-29 C) for 13 days! The lows dropped to a wind chill of -63 deg. F (-53 C)! I looked at my parents (I was 16 then) and said "You MISSED this weather like you had in Indiana when you were children?" As soon as I graduated High School, I went out to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend UNLV. Two weeks ago Las Vegas broke their record high temp reaching 120 deg. F (49 C)! One long summer day I was driving all over Las Vegas in 115+ deg F temps. I took a gallon of water to drink all day long. When I got home, I noticed I drank 3+ quarts (3 liters), was gone 12 hours and realized I didn't have to pee all day. There is that much evaporation from your skin, trying to keep you cooled-off. Wow! So I have lived in both extremes in the USA! Neither is any fun.

[@MERollered]

I am in Oregon, in the Valley (Portland, Salem, Eugene). Depending on the year and the El Nino or La Nina patterns, we typically get rain starting mid to late September to October and that lasts pretty solidly until March/April then rains on and off from April to late June (ish). Then we turn on the heat from July to mid September. Our Oceans stay cold year round usually around 10C. But our beaches are gorgeous and typically always stay cool. They host a wide variety of native animals, we are attracting sea otters, we have puffins, bald eagles, sea lions and seals, pelicans, a ton of tide pools that you can see starfish and anemones. In the right seasons you can watch for Gray Whales more commonly but they are here year around. What's cool about our beaches is no one can own the beach portion of the coast. So if you want to actually walk down a distance, no one can yell at you to get off their property. But I love Portland because it's uniquely situated, 1 hour to the coast, lots of forests and parks, 30 minutes to an hour for wines that are awarded world wide, an hour and a half to Timberline Lodge where there is hiking and camping and swimming in the summer. Then skiing, tubing, and snowboarding in the winter. Then we have the gorge that has waterfalls, hiking, windsurfing, fruit picking and so much more. I really do love our state.

[@elkins4406]

Plus, it doesn't take very long at all to cross the mountains to the east and then suddenly be in desert! That transition from our wet green western side of the state to the dry silvery eastern side just on the other side of the mountains thrills me each and every time. It's just so abrupt as to seem magical! You flank Mount Hood and start your descent into Warm Springs, and it's like Dorothy stepping out of her house into Oz. Even the way everything *smells* is suddenly completely different. I never seem to get used to it.

[@MERollered]

@@elkins4406 exactly! We live in the Valley and my daughter wanted to do her senior photos at the Painted Hills, I knew why too, all her friends would have waterfalls, city, trees, or fields and she wanted to stand out. She indeed did that! She's lucky her mom is a wedding photographer and had the gear and ability to just drive east for a day spend the night, do photos, and take the longer route home and spending the night again.

[@onetakem]

I lived in Portland ages 3-11, during the 80s, I remember what felt like "all-day rain" as a energetic little boy I hated that i was stuck inside all day some times. But i deeply miss the forest and mountains. I live in Michigan which i love, but nothing compares to the Willemite Valley.

[@elkins4406]

@@onetakem My first winter here in Portland, I kept thinking about that heartbreaking Ray Bradbury story "All Summer in a Day," the one about the little girl living on Venus, where the sun only comes out for two hours every seven years. I imagine the rain must have felt a lot like that, *endless* to an energetic little boy. It's much easier to take as a sedentary middle-aged woman who has invested in quality waterproofs and has no one around with the authority to make her stay indoors. 😀

[@MERollered]

@@elkins4406 exactly. I have quality rain gear and my dog does too. My favorite activity is hiking in the rain!

[@csong9940]

I live in San Diego and I fully appreciate how good we have it here, weather-wise. And we definitely pay a sunshine tax for it. Oh but we did have a hurricane last fall. Didn't really do any damage because it kind of died on its way up from Baja California. But we did have massive flooding here in January of this year.

[@jryan9547]

San Diego has damn near perfect weather.

[@Marilyn-mw4bf]

I live in Phoenix, Arizona. It is often 115 degrees F (46.111 C) at this time of year. We also have monsoon rains at this time of year that increase the humidity quite a bit! NOT a pleasant time of year for Arizona!

[@anthonyv6962]

No need to write .111 as it is of no value .

[@loganshaw4527]

113 degrees is 45 C so 114.8 degrees would be 46C.

[@OMGitsaClaire]

I live in Nashville. I left the house at 5:45am this morning and it was like 24°C and 80% humidity. It was soupy! But you mentioning the Eastern plains looks like Germany… the German immigrants of the 19th century thought so too! Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota saw massive waves of German immigrants in the 19th century because they liked the climate so much! (Including my ancestors.)

[@merchernel123]

I just need at add that the past few years California has NOT had wonderful weather. It's been experiencing extremes worse than much of the country. Wildfires, flooding and snow has been wreaking havoc on its inhabitants. I lived there when I was young in the 80s and it was awesome. I dont even want to visit these days.

[@DaNintendude]

Yeah, I was surprised that the video was describing California as having great weather. Every time I've went, I hated the weather.

[@pyrovania]

@@DaNintendude It is a big state with multiple types of climates. It depends on where you visit and when. Central and inland California gets very, very hot in the summer. Far northern California has Pacific Northwest type weather.

[@pyrovania]

The last two years have been very nice, we got lots of rain and it made everything green. Fires are part of the process. There are several species of native plants that don't germinate their seed unless there has been a fire.

[@steev927]

Just stumbled on this channel, and the "Yo that's Bespin out of Star Wars!" got an insta-sub! Loved the video!

[@kdm71291]

If you include Alaska and Hawaii, the US has just about every kind of topography and just about every kind of weather! I live in Ventura California…it’s part of the Gold Coast of California and we have what is called a “Mediterranean climate”…but as you move inland, the temperatures can become more extreme; hotter or colder, depending on the season. Of course if there is a “Santa Ana wind” event, that becomes the dominant condition. It is a weather condition that happens in nearly all of Southern California with very powerful, hot and dry winds from the North-East…..this is when we have severe fire danger!

[@geraldfrost4710]

Lived in Santa Barbara. If a fire starts during a sundowner, it will burn across highway 101 in the night. In the morning, the wind reverses and blows inland. Any hot spots will reignite, and burn up hill. Coming down, they burn through the canopy; going back up, they burn the underbrush. Best defense? No trees to fall burning on your house, non-fflammable roof and walls.

[@kdm71291]

@@geraldfrost4710 And when they tell you to evacuate, you evacuate….which is why nobody but that elderly woman fleeing in her car in Santa Paula and that one firefighter died in the Thomas fire…because people heeded the evacuation order.

[@geraldfrost4710]

​@kdm71291 If the fire is coming at you, leave! If the hill above you is glowing like a furnace, that is THE clue.

[@frankscarborough1428]

I'm in central Texas we've been having 95 to 100 degrees every day. It'll cool down in the middle of September and October.

[@nancyjanzen5676]

Wisconsin looks a lot like Germany. So dies the hill country of Texas.

[@robertofernandez7773]

I live in Miami Beach. I'm watching this video at 11:39 pm. It is still 99 degrees or about 37 degrees Celsius and humidity is 85%. Even it is night time, it doesn't cool down. We're in the miserable time of the year for us. Now in the winter time, our weather would be like summer time upon Germany. In the US you can experience any weather event that exists in the world without leaving the country.

[@roaaoife8186]

The best way to undermine Fahrenheit is "percent hot." 0° is 0% hot. 100° is 100% hot. 50° is 50% hot. And yes, in many places in the US it routinely gets to over 100% hot, and below 0% hot. Or as someone else put it- "Fahrenheit is the temperature based on how hot humans feel, Celsius is based on how hot water feels, and Kelvin is based on how hot the Universe feels."

[@jovetj]

Fahrenheit is the superior scale for describing temperature and comfort for people. It's much more granular. In other words, there are more degrees between 100° and 32°F than there are between 38° and 0°C. Each decade of Fahrenheit is its own little convenient zone of comfort. 30s are cold for many people, 50s are alright, and 70s are quite pleasant. I describe the average yearly temperature range where I live as 0-100°F. Some years it gets colder and some years it gets warmer, but those are easy round numbers to grasp. Putting that into Celsius (-18-38°C) is just ugly.

[@maryelizamoore7870]

This implies that 50 degrees is the neutral temperature. Some people may like 50 degrees but most people consider 50 degrees to be chilly.

[@roaaoife8186]

50° F is neutral though- no one would describe it as either cold or hot. It's in the middle, and 'chilliness' depends entirely on wind speed, cloud cover, and humidity. Also, neutral doesn't mean ideal. Most people prefer decidedly warm temperatures, not neutral or middle temps.

[@maryelizamoore7870]

@ Most people would say 50 degrees is cold or at least cool. A 50 degree day would have most people wearing jackets. This is especially the case if it’s cloudy and theirs lots of wind and humidity.

[@roaaoife8186]

@maryelizamoore7870 Again, neutral doesn't mean ideal. Most people are comfortable in the 70s which are decidedly warm, not neutral. Also, you're nitpicking a tool to help people who grow up with Celsius understand Farenheit without doing math. It doesn't have to be exact. A light jacket is neutral and you're a pendant.

[@Barb5001]

This answer is the USA is just very large..... from sub tropic to almost sub artic in areas.

[@ABtheButterfly]

50 Fahrenheit is 10 Celsius 50 Celsius is 122 fahernheit so if you ever hear 50 degrees in the US that's good if you hear 50 degrees honestly anywhere else that's bad so you better hope their an f and not c by the 50

[@maruka1716]

The way I think of air temperatures in Fahrenheit is: below 0 -- Just stay home in the heat. 0-15 -- Put on more winter clothes than you think you need, including your heaviest long underwear and sock and glove liners. Then add another layer. 15-30 -- Normal winter, with snow and ice. Bearable if you know how to dress for it. 30-35 -- Danger zone. Maybe it will rain, maybe it will snow, maybe you'll get a sheet of black ice on the road with a mixture of snow and ice on top of it. Just stay home. 35-45 -- This is when you can wear your elegant wool winter clothes, as opposed to the ones that make you look like a polar explorer. 45-55 -- In October, people will put on sweaters and jackets. In March, people will take off sweaters and jackets, and some may wear shorts. 55-70 -- Best temperatures if you have to wear a suit, or jeans and a long-sleeved shirt. 70-85 -- Shorts and t-shirts if you can get away with it. 85-95 -- Shorts and t-shirts and you'll still sweat and complain. above 95 -- Just stay home in the air conditioning.

[@brina4058]

I'm in Ohio. The weather isn't generally too terrible, but we do say "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes, it will change. " At times it can feel like you go through all the seasons in a day. Right now it's sunny and a comfortable 77 degrees (25 Celsius).

[@lorriescott8775]

@@brina4058 I’ve learned that every area says that phrase. I can say that Ohio does have quickly changing weather, at least in the summer. It is hot and muggy. The wind picks up, lightning, thunder, & torrential rain. Then the wind stops, clouds disappear and hot as ever, but even more humid.

[@edmandziuk3858]

@@lorriescott8775 I was going to say the same thing. We say that in Michigan all the time and just about everywhere will say that.

[@elkins4406]

@@edmandziuk3858 They even have that saying in the UK, and every time someone says it, they all deliver the same "We have a saying here in [name of city or region]" line that we do here in the US. I suspect that they even have that saying in Australia. It seems to be a universal Anglophone thing to claim that particular saying as a local one. While everyone claims that saying as local, however, it is still far more true in some places than in others.

[@lorriescott8775]

@@edmandziuk3858 for Washington, it is late fall and winter. Snow, ran and be sunny all in a few minutes. Weather moves on.

[@pyrovania]

@@edmandziuk3858 San Diego doesn't have weather. It has a climate. It's always 70 degrees and sunny.

[@robinwest-4949]

There's a reason why so many Germans settled in northern midwest (especially Wisconsin) in the 1800's. The climate and landscape is very similar to Germany just a little colder. In the winter it's usually down to around -18 c, but a few years ago it got down to -45 c. In the summer it usually gets up to about 32 c but can get up to 38 c. I spent a few years in Arizona and it was regulary 38 c for most of 6 months. I like his "Like riding on a bike that was on fire.." but I describe it as preheating your oven to 200 c then opening the door and sticking your head in. That's what it felt like walking outside from the nice air conditioned inside. I found I missed weather and seasons because it was pretty much sunny and hot every day. Right now I'm living in the Virginia mountains, so pretty mild, but still temperatures for the last few years have gone from -18 c for a week or two in winter to the last few weeks of 33 c weather this summer. Not too rainy, and get all 4 seasons. I'm used to the midwest though were temps can swing 25 c degrees in a day. And yes it is super windy and tornado prone those days.

[@shag139]

50c is 122f , 40 is 104, 30 is 86, 20 is 68f, 10 is 50 and 0 is 32

[@sorchasilverwillow]

Where I am, it's been over 110f (approx. 43c) for the last month. I'm about 2 hours or so from Death Valley, where it's been near 130f (54c). European tourist have a hard time dealing with this and they seem to be the ones getting in trouble with the heat lately.

[@beerbikesandblues]

Weather is like that in the Central US because of a continental climate pattern. Hot summers, cold winters, high potential for severe weather.

[@JohnnyReykitty]

Hey Chris, I've really been enjoying your channel. You we're talking about temperature. From Celsius to Fahrenheit. I live in Mesa, Arizona, and our summer temps reach very hot. This past summer we had temps above 115 for 56 consecutive days. Conversion from F - C at a temp of 115, that equals 46.11. Arizona is typically in the 70's (21 C). Just beautiful. But summer its like a furnace. Anyway, keep your videos coming. You teach me a lot.

[@samvimes9510]

I live in the southeast. Winters are super comfortable, usually the temperature ranges between 40 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Sometimes it drops into the 20s or 30s and snows, but that usually only happens for a week or two. Spring and autumn are nice, usually in the 60s and 70s. Summers are brutal though. Temperatures are usually between 90 and 100 degrees, and the humidity makes it so much worse. The air actually feels wet and sticky, it's like being trapped in a sauna. If that sauna was also full of mosquitoes.

[@maryelizamoore7870]

Compared to much of Western Europe, Southern Winters (barring Florida) are quite chilly.

[@kirstinjw.wilkinson4143]

I was born in southern Arizona, and my favorite season is Monsoon! This is the time of year (usually summer) where we get the most rain... and Thunderstorms! We can also get hit with microbursts, which are sudden and severe changes in temperature and wind, and can be incredibly destructive. We hardly ever saw snow when I was little, and never more than an inch where I lived. You can tell when a storm is coming, you can often watch the Thunderheads building, and it'll be stupidly hot and MUGGY all day, as you watch the clouds building and the sky getting grey... then you smell the creosote, and start seeing the lightning... and if you're lucky, the rain hits you, but then you have to look out, the winds might pick up, I've seen penny-sized hail before, and buckets of rain dumped down in minutes, the storm probably moves on in half an hour or less, and you might have an inch of rain... and after, the mugginess is gone from the air, and it's cool and clean and fresh, the wildflowers and cacti will bloom overnight, desert toads come out to breed (as do the mosquitoes). Needless to say, I'm a born Desert Rat. I love daily highs in the 100-115 F (37.7 - 46.1C)range with a low dew point. Winters can be rough, sure the daily high might by 55-65 F (12.7 - 18.3 C), but at night it is common to drop 20-30 degrees. I've seen it as cold as 17 F/-8.33 C, as a child. I now live in the Pacific NW, in Oregon... so lots of winter rain, and my bones are never warm. I still love it, all the green. :)

[@cynthiaalver]

Chris, take it from another blue-eyed blonde, sunscreen is your very best friend in the summer. Buy a brand name! Don't save a dollar on a cheap sunscreen. I made that mistake only once. I had blisters as big as my palm on my back and shoulders as well as weeping blisters on my scalp. Weeks long misery! Use a good sunscreen and enjoy your time outside.

[@starparodier91]

As a blue eyed blonde with translucent skin, I highly recommend Japanese sunscreen! It’s not expensive (well one of them I use just on my face when I wear makeup is a bit pricier) and I’ve been using it for 10 years now.

[@vincentlavallee2779]

I live in Arizona, in the dessert. We have essentially no weather or other types of calamities (no earthquakes, no fires in or around the city, no mud slides, no hurricanes, no tornadoes, no snow or blizzards), BUT we have very high temperatures from mid June to the end of Sept. Our high temps in these months varies from 100F (38C) to 118F (47.5C). But the highs in the winter are between 55F (13C) and 75F (24C). Also, during the hot months, it is the sun that is so very intense, more so than in any other non-dessert place. This is because the humidity is so low, that the suns rays have no obstruction, and bleach everything, and makes all that it hits very hot. So, while southern CA is probably the best weather in the world, I prefer the dry hotter weather here in AZ. I have lived in both areas. I have also lived in Minnesota (13 years), and the weather there is the pits - very cold in the winter (-20F to -30F at night), and rather hot and muggy in the summer, with lots of mosquitoes and other flying bugs (gnats). The equation to convert F to C is: (1) subtract 32 from the F value. (2) Multiply that by 5. (3) Divide that by 9. To go from C to F: (1) Divide the C by 5. (2) Multiply that by 9. (3) Add 32. Note the -40F = -40C. My wife is from northern Minnesota, and I have been in -40 often!

[@waltermaples3998]

Chris I Love ❤ You My friend. I hope someday you come to America 🇺🇸. Hopefully to Florida where I live..😉👍❤️🇺🇸

[@scottstewart5784]

I lived in coastal Maine, at 2KM altitude in Colorado, coastal LA California, the DC Swamp (N. Virginia), and now wild and wooly mountainous West Virginia. We have a saying - it's not the heat, it's the humidity. Washington DC in July/August is a hell hole. Hot and humid and usually very still. If youyre going to watch vids with Fahrenheit - take a moment and print out the two scales as a handy reference.

[@terrycarter1137]

Chris, You definitely need to check out I think it's called the the 12 weirdest weather events in US history. Here in southwestern Virginia summers run somewhere in the 30s C, and winters roughly average -5 or so C daily with a few centimeters of snow between mid December to mid February.

[@atg_alejo]

i live in virginia and something we say is dat the weather is bipolar 😂. in my city on march 14, 2024, at 6:45 am it was 37 degrees and by 2:50 pm it was 86 degrees. i hate the weather hear bc even tho its fine for a few weeks out of the year, its 10 degrees thru out most of winter. then its 105+ thru all of summer, plus we get a bunch of severe thunderstorms in spring and summer, and abt every other year in the winter we get a decent sized snow storm. not extremes like the cold in the midwest or storms like the deep south but we get a moderate mix of all of it. cant wait to move 😂😊.

[@glenmel78]

I've been fishing on a lake in Louisiana when the temp. and humidity hit 122°(50C) and worked in North Dakota when the wind chill was -45°(-42C). The U.S. has crazy and amazing weather.

[@DebiB53]

Greetings from Colorado Chris!!! Yes, the Rockies are massive!!!

[@scruffyscrubs5468]

I live in Minnesota. Our temperatures can be from 50 degrees below zero in the winter to 105 degrees F in the summer! A lot of the immigrants from Europe many years ago were from Sweden, Germany, Norway, and Poland. The giant spoon with the cherry is the city Minneapolis, Minnesota. Your video was really interesting!

[@healdogtoe2c]

Geography King is a great channel to learn about the U.S..

[@pjcornelius]

I live in the mountains of Colorado just west of Denver. We get quite a bit of snow in the mountains but because of the low humidity and temperatures it is usually a ‘dry’ fluffy snow, or ‘powder’ that is great to ski on. The biggest snow storm I’ve experienced at my house dropped almost 6 feet (1.8 meters) in 72 hours. During the summer it can get quite hot, but again because of the lower humidify it does not feel as bad as the southeast. I used to live in south Florida and it was unbearable for me (I hate the heat).

[@WonBrainCell]

It rained a ton, like sheets of rain today in St. Paul, Minnesota. The major hospital I work for lost power! Some street lights were blinking on the drive home lol. I love that we have 4 seasons here.

[@Adiscretefirm]

40F-4.4C 50F-10C 60F-15.5C 70F-21C 80F-27C 100F-38C 115F-46C. Welcome to Las Vegas!

[@KimberlyPatton-x1n]

I live in West Texas ,near Abilene.Our weather last week was every single of over 103° to 113°.....simply unbearable heat! No one goes outside of the ac in the afternoon unless they have to! Now this week we are having what we feel like is a " cold front"!!! Our twmps are going to be in the mid to upper 80's!😂...We do have some "golden days" in the early fall and Spring that I look forward to very much..these are the rare days when the temperature is so great and you can even enjoy yoyr windows being open at night! But the heat of July and August not only wears you down, but it zaps all your energy and hydration.We keep a close eye on others for signs of heatstroke who must work outside..