Canada

There's an area in the Okanagan which is the only Canadian desert and during the summer it's about 105 degrees, very dry. There's one area called Prince Rupert, it literally rains about 300 days of the year so it's very wet and very fun at the same time getting to know the environment. The island is kind of like tropical, like you'd expect the island to be, Vancouver Island. It's amazing.

You had some really, really crazy, crazy winters in Canada, so I, you know, and the Canadians, they just kind of soak it up, they love it, they're really into it, they play hockey all the time, so it was great.

Unless you're going up north in British Columbia to like Prince George or the Terrace, like those way far away areas, in general around Vancouver itself, not much crazy weather except it just spits rain all the time over the winter. So much that it just like splashes up and so you don't actually use an umbrella because it's worthless. You use an umbrella to block the rain but oh no, everything is wet anyway. You go through a lot of shoes but mainly it's just either sunny or in the summer or just rain in the winter.

Alright, so during the summer, fall, and spring time, it's pretty amazing weather. It's not too hot and not cold, and it rains not too often, but during the winter is when it gets kind of bad. It's, depending on where you are in Vancouver, or in BC in general, you can either get a lot of rain every day, or it'll be really packed with snow, like more of the northern parts of British Columbia, it'll be packed there, but if you ever serve on the island, that's probably the best temperature-wise place.

Winnipeg is known as Winterpeg because it gets so cold there. My first winter there was the coldest winter they had had in 50 years, and I'm from the west coast where it just rains, so I was freezing. The average temperature was negative 35 degrees celsius or below. There was one day actually in Winnipeg where, with the wind chill, it was actually colder than the surface of Mars at negative 57 degrees celsius. So it gets cold, and then the summer it's like super hot and humid. It's just wildly different temperatures in the summer and the winter.

Edmonton weather does get extremely cold. Minus 40 is extremely cold. We had checked the weather, but we forgot to take into account the windchill, which did put it at minus 40, maybe even lower, higher, I don't know how you would say that. But by the end, like when we got home, my scarf was frozen to my face, my eyelashes were white, my hair was white, and my earrings froze in my ears, and it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced. So pay attention to the windchill, pay attention to the weather, because you do not want to be out in minus 40 for very long.

The summers are beautiful, can get really warm though, and depending on where you are, you may have temperatures of like plus 40 Celsius and be really sweaty, but the rain will always come and cool it down, which is good. And then the winters of course can get freezing, so cold, minus 40, it's really painful, but there's always going to be a chinook, which is an amazing thing to look forward to, a warmer wind coming over the mountains into the city and melting everything. I had it go from minus 31 day to like plus 7 the next day in Celsius of course, and it was so nice, it was sunny, it was hot, I had to take off my coat. But the only bad thing about chinooks is that they can give some people, myself included, really bad headaches, so if you feel your head start to hurt and it's warming up, just know that's probably why.

Anyone that spends a winter up in Quebec has a crazy weather story. My first winter, and the first time it dropped to under negative 40 degrees, I walked outside and the very first breath that I took in, in my nose, froze every single thing inside my nose.

I think the coldest I ever got was negative 43 or so, maybe negative, maybe a little bit colder than that. That was with the windchill. It was about negative 35, but then with the windchill it was down past negative 40.

The weather is crazy. It is extremely cold in the winter, but it's a wet cold, so it's humid, which just cuts through your clothes. It is brutal, but at the same time it gets extremely hot in the summer, and the hot is not nearly as long as the cold. You know, you'll have a week in July where it's just brutal, and there's no ACs, by the way. No one has an AC, so that'll be fun for you. But honestly, it is fun. It is fun to have that kind of variety in the weather. I remember one day we got out to our car, and it had been freezing rain, and the entire car was coated in a layer of ice that was this thick, and I had to crack it and shatter it, and it just looked like I was shattering the windows because it was just that thick of ice. Sometimes it would snow so much that the stop signs would get covered. It was wild, but it was fun.

When you're driving, you know, from say Winnipeg up to Saskatoon or Prince Albert or all the way up to Thompson, what they don't tell you is not to rest your hands against the window. You know, if you fall asleep in the car, don't do that. Why? Because if you do that over a long period of time, even if you're in a heated car, you will actually freeze your hand, possibly to the window, but also you might even get frostbite.

So crazy weather in Canada generally means a nasty blizzard or cold storm. Best advice, if you're going to be out in it, is to cover up any skin. As in a previous video I did, I think it was for tips for safety or something of that sort. Layer up and just be smart. Use your common sense or listen to the common sense of others who know better. So stay warm, stay toasty, stay safe and be careful of the weather. I know there was a time up in Yellowknife where without power it got so cold. So don't underestimate it, respect it, be careful.

The weather, it is, it is as cold as people say it is. I remember, so I grew up in Idaho. I remember when I first got there in February to Canada, I was freezing. It was so cold, so if you're heading out there, make sure you get a good winter coat, and you can't wait till Canada to get that. But you'll want it. It is that cold, like minus 60 cold. All the time.

The coldest I saw was like minus 38 and what's special about the Calgary area is every so often I don't know every few weeks or so in your average winter you get a chinook and a chinook is a warm wind that comes off the mountain and it'll go from like minus 20 minus 30 and to almost freezing it's only like minus two and snow will just start melting and water will be running in the streets and you're taking off your jacket and you're like whoa what is this and then two days later it'll be minus 20 again and there'll be ice everywhere from what was water it's so cool you're gonna love chinooks they're the greatest thing ever oh man I love them it makes winter survivable and enjoyable sometimes

It's one of the most extreme climates where you get up to 40 degrees celsius in the summer and up to negative 40 degrees celsius in the winter and that's not including humidity or wind chill for either of those seasons. But one of the craziest things that you'll see is you can get hailstorms in the middle of the summer just on a whim and then in addition to that there's a thing called freezing rain and this is not like your typical freezing rain where the water freezes when it hits the ground. Freezing rain, the water freezes in the air and so it will come out of the cloud as water and then in the air it will turn into nice little pellets of ice which will proceed to pelt you and cover everything in a layer of ice.

So overall, I think the weather is pretty good. It does get pretty cold there, so I think the lowest it's been, it was for me, was probably around like negative 40. But the thing is, especially in the Calgary area, they have Chinook, so it'll be like one week it'll be like super cold, and then next week we'll get like the winds that come in that makes it like super warm. So because of that, it kind of fluctuates a bit, but it's still good. The summers, they also are really nice, can get really warm. I think the craziest is that when I was there in the summer, there's like this huge hailstorm that there's like a lot of damage to like buildings and like cars and breaking things, but that was that was just super weird weather, so you're good.