Lived here for over forty years. Minus forty is something of a novelty these days. In the 1970's, January and February would commonly bring weeks of minus forty-five. The ice fog, and the way that the cold air carries sound, makes those cold winter days very special, and very beautiful. It also teaches respect for nature - being dumb at those temperatures has consequences.
Same question It's always been a dream to live in cold place like this....😂🤗 Such places are not leads then heaven who grew up in +45 degrees weather conditions..😂😂
Same question It's always been a dream to live in cold place like this....😂🤗 Such places are not less then heaven for those who grew up in +45 degrees weather conditions..😂😂
I lived my preteen years in Whitehorse from 1975 to 1980. I remember weather like this very well. I used to be a paperboy and delivered the Whitehorse Star. I'm not sure if it is still around, but I used to deliver papers in this kind of weather every winter. At the time, it seemed normal to me. When my parents relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, I went out and got another paper route to earn some money with. It was then that I realized that when I was in Whitehorse, I had the hardest paper route on the planet.
@Les Brown Wouldn't it be easier to simply understand the metric system? In Australia, we have had the metric system since 1975 and in agriculture, all tradesmen and all industries people everyone communicate in metric system.
@@30BopLeaveYuLeakinLikeAlFaucet I live in Calgary, it is not always cold in the winter but weather changes a lot and could be drastic. On my perspective, I love cold temperature as long as there is no wind hitting my face. Some people love winter, some people hate it.
zack fair true ik i lot of people who love it i live in ottawa but im still new to canada i come from the desserts so you can imagine how it is for me 😂😂 my skin is just not thick like canadians
From Australia and was in -36 in Ontario in 2008. Snot freezes and feel the moisture in your lungs freeze as you breath in.. Will never forget that experience.
@Viktor Ivanov я сравнивал климатические данные, на самом деле, перед тем как написать свой верхний коммент и тоже удивился на этот счет, но в Уайтхорсе средняя влажность по месяцам ниже, чем в моем городе. И норма осадков тоже ниже. А средние температуры по месяцам примерно идентичные. Казалось бы, как так? Уайтхорс расположен в 250-ти км от побережья океана, а так же вокруг него есть довольно большое обилие озер. Но город так же окружен горами со всех сторон и они создают определенный заслон от влажности, видимо. Ну и, в их части света на климат сказываются совершенно другие факторы, поэтому там имеются свои нюансы. А насчет обледенелых ветвей - вы заметили, что из тамошней речки в -40 пар бьет и она не покрыта льдом? Собственно, от этого пара ветки дерева столь заиндевевшие. На вики написано, что у них там четыре гидроэлектростанции работают, видимо вода подогревается за счет каких-то сбросов, не разбираюсь в этом.
@@qadiyrthego-getterfarmer9171 i live in a region of Western Siberia called Ugra or Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. "Ugra is the historical homeland of the Ob-Ugric peoples: Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, and Selkup. They were engaged in hunting, fishing, cattle breeding. After the Turkic peoples pushed them from south to north, these peoples had to apply their skills in more severe conditions. It is at this new location Ugrians began to domesticate deer". I think it's pretty close to Inuit.
@Виктор Самсонов мои родители примерно в это же время приехали покорять север из теплой БАССР. Тоже рассказывают, что раньше зимы были значительно суровее. Морозы в -40 регулярно случаются и по сей день, конечно, но они уже не столь продолжительны, на пару дней. Это общемировая тенденция. Про Уайтхорс в комментах старожил один пишет, что и у них раньше такие морозы, как на видео, длились неделями. У нас по всей планете температура постепенно растет с конца девятнадцатого века. Это связано и с естественным процессом выхода из ледникового периода, и с деятельностью людей. Парниковые газы, сжигание углеводородов, вот это вот всё. Посмотрим, что тут будет еще через пару десятков лет.
@Виктор Самсонов в поздние советские времена Сибирь считалась растущей и многообещающей, но вот теперь такого не скажешь, увы. Не так уж и плохо, что вы тут только отслужили, а жить не остались=)
I can totally understand *people's aversion to going anywhere cold* ---especially as cold as -40! When someone is either not used to it, or has maybe never experienced real cold at all, it can certainly be shocking. Having grown up in a 'cold winter' climate zone, I learned a few things: ~> *What you think of as 'cold' depends totally upon you* ---your body type and how it adapts; your circulation; your perceptions of discomfort, etcetera. ~> *You physically acclimatize to cold.* I forget the specifics from my university days, but there's actually a loose 'rule' for how long it takes the human body to adapt to colder temps---like, such-and-such a temperature for so many hours per day for 'x' number of days. My own experiences bear this out. Every Fall / early Winter when we'd get the first day of -10 Celcius or so, I thought I was gonna freeze to death. Within about a week of steady temps that low, it actually didn't feel _nearly_ as cold as that first couple of days. (Honestly!) ~> *Dressing warmly mitigates virtually all the feeling of being too cold.* People unfamiliar with being outdoors in a cold climate often can't even imagine _*how_ to dress warmly (to the extent necessary). There is outerwear (and underwear) for every cold temperature. You can actually feel toasty and cozy even in -40C weather. Some areas like the face are a bit trickier, but depending on your skin's sensitivity there are even good coverings for that part of you. ~> *There are advantages to living in a 'Winter cold' climate area.* Granted, whether one views differences as advantages or disadvantages depends on your views on life, but a few totally esoteric, random ones off the top of my head might be: *+ Never having to deal with poisonous snakes* / lizards / other tropical or warm climate creatures or insects when going outside (or sometimes even if you stay inside!). *+ Buildings' exteriors stay cleaner.* Huh? Those used to living in hot climates might not even notice it. But I'll never forget the first couple of times I travelled to warm zones (S.California; India) and noticed all the dark streaks, mould and 'dirt' on many buildings. Never had that back home. My theory is that every Winter cold kills any algae(?) and mould that get a foothold in hot climates. *+ The 'freshness' of cold air.* Cold air just feels, and often smells, fresher than hot air. Could be that cold kills off all the bacterial and mould spores that float around _(
I'm from Windsor, Ontario which is the most southern area in mainland Canada (we're south of parts of Michigan). I have a friend who is from Whitehorse who goes to university with me down here and he says that he'd rather deal with their -40 with relatively low humidity over our -20 with 40-50% humidity because the humidity makes the air sting when it hits you. I've always found that interesting.
I am from the United States of America. Where I live, I have a hard enough time with 0 degrees, let alone -40 degrees. Those people must be used to it. I got frostbite in -22 degrees when I was only 19 years old. I know that I be in trouble with -40 degrees. Great video 👍 and scenery. Thank you for posting this.
well, of course there is always a flow under the ice cover, but rivers do freeze and u can stand on this ice, even in Moscow (quite a warm place for Russia) rivers freeze fully (covered fully with ice) and people stand there and set markets. in my region huge rivers ( 4km width) freeze fully and trucks ride on them with no problems
@Les Brown of course they do!! Even in London the Thames River used to freeze every winter in the 1800s. It’s quite uncommon now due to the climate change but rivers do freeze in most Nordic countries. The bottom may be running, but the top can quite easily be completely frozen.
when I'm walking around the desert in the Middle East, its normal for me. I'm sure its the same over there in Yukon, when you guys walk around in the middle of snow.
Finland represent! The coldest I've experienced was -35 while in the Army doing my national service. The cold is no joke. I was super exhausted and slept like a log every night after a full day outside, even when it was just shooting range or something not so physical, your body consumes so much energy by just shivering. :D
In my younger days I rode a bike in -15C just for the fun of it, but not longer than for an hour at a time or so. A good cap covering the ears, thick gloves and a warm scarf or similar around the neck were most important, more than a good jacket, because the physical effort produces enough "waste energy" to keep most of the body warm. The biggest problem was with my glasses becoming foggy from my breath. When there is no wind, the air is dry and the sun is shining on the snow-covered landscape it is very pleasant to take a walk even at -20C. Finland has an interesting climate - while it can get as cold as -40C in winter, especially in the north, during summer temperatures often rise above +30C (when I visited Helsinki in July several years ago it was +32C and about +28C in Oulu). This amplitude must be a challenge to construct bridges, pipelines, railways and roads that can handle it. Of course there are other regions in the northern hemisphere with similar temperature characteristics - inland parts of Canada, Siberia, parts of Kazakhstan to name a few.
Lived there over 40 years ago and still think about the place a lot. I see that Murdoch's is still there and even has the same old sign. Hougen's has moved across the street and doesn't appear to be the ''big'' department store it used to be. Many fond memories and have always wanted to go back but living a little far away for that now especially with all the covid restrictions. Thanks for the video although I do remember quite a few days that were a lot colder when we huddle up in the Yukon Inn or the Klondike Inn and drink beer and laugh about it.
@Les Brown i dont know what ''tim horton'' is ....but then, someone wrote tim horton is a coffee house in canada..how does someone holding a tim horton coffee cup makes someone look canadian?
brown buter because it’s freezing ass cold outside, and that Canuck is just walking along with his Tim Horton coffee like it’s the middle of summer. That’s why it’s so Canadian lol.
Living in a place that never sees snow and whose lowest temperature along the year are around 7 ⁰C on the coldest winter nights, I must say: too beautiful, but too hard to bear. Walking carefully to avoid falls, cleaning the car and waiting a lot to get the engine hot (mine takes it in 7 minutes) and driving very slowly, winter tires, all-wheel drive as a must... I respect. Greetings from Brazil.
Born and lived there as an adult Beautiful!! Also lived in Winnipeg. Difference is That at those temperatures in Whitehorse there is no wind Smoke goes up like an arrow. In Ywg it howls. That makes it much colder. Portage and Main is very very chilly place Main at Waterfront is beautiful in any season
As a kid,I grew up in south central Alaska on a homestead( back before statehood). Cold was not a stranger. Trees would explode, nose hairs froze, frost lungs from over exertion, steps squeeked in the snow. Moved to Michigan's Upper Penninsula & about froze!! We were not prepared for the snow totals but, the biggest thing was the WIND!! There was cold there too but, those damm winter winds sweeping in off Lake Superior were another world. Constant blizzards, humongous snow drifts, constant snowfall & the constant winds would create a world not seen outside siberia.
Living near the equator I would probably die in that place. But I have to say that the place and the atmosphere are stunningly beautiful. Greetings from Ecuador, South America.
Sometimes when it's this cold out and a very, very clear day with no wind you can just see smoke from chimneys going straight up and up and up and up into the sky.
I live in Eastern Siberia, Yakutia republic. In winter we have temperature almost - 50 degrees Celcius. And our coldest village - Oimyakon has a record of the coldest place on earth. - 71.2 degrees Celcius.
Weather so cold that the heat in your car barely does anything, and your footsteps echo off the building beside you. Winter in Canada is rough but you acquire a taste for it because it really is beautiful. I always get this wonderful feeling when fall hits because I know winter is around the bend.
I did a 7 day long wintercourse in the swedish army with -40c a couple of the days. And yeah sure it was cold, but as long as you didnt stand still and moved around it wasnt that bad actually. Amazing nightskies when its that cold also, zero moisture in the air. So you can see all the stars super clear when youre in the forest. It was an amazing experience for a 19 year old. And lets not mention the nordic lights....
I've been reading a book series that takes place in the Yukon wilderness but it frequently mentions places like Whitehorse and Dawson City, so I've been looking up these places out of sheer curiosity and idk I find it fascinating.
That looks beautiful viewed from inside where it’s warm lol. The problem is there are a lot more problems to deal with when you get those low temps and it’s harder to fix and systems don’t operate correctly. It gets old.
Oh my god, this is city of my dream.. Well, assuming from video. But I have a bunch of positive emotions when watching snow, fog, mist.. I would escape from stifling Montreal in a heartbeat, but unfortunately cannot now because of work. Thanks a lot for showing all this cold beauty!
Kinda weird. It's 90 where I'm at right now and my AC is doing a very good job. But as soon as I started watching this, I actually started shivering a little and had to reach for a blanket.
It’s a bigger town than I assumed it was. There are trees; I didn’t know if it was too far north for them. And there was flowing water in the river, not frozen.
Lovely pictures. Normally, I love Winter. It is the most beautiful time of year as far as I'm concerned. Here in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) it can get rather cold and windy in those months. But we have ice hockey and outdoor sports to pass the time. Things are a bit different today due to the virus and the perils it may bring. Hopefully, we will be able to endure the coming months and any possible hazards. I'll be sure to have hot bowls of soup with lots of spinach to help keep me warm & (hopefully) healthy when those cold days come. My best to all ...
I lived in Whitehorse, Yukon from April 2008 to August 2022, before moving back to Calgary, Alberta. The coldest temperatures I've experienced up there was - 46 Celsius, and that was before the windchill. Those temperatures of 40 below or more aren't bad if there's no wind, you get used to it, dress in many layers before you finish with your parka. Now at those temperatures if the wind picks up to 30km/h or more it can feel like -70 Celsius and that's when it gets dangerous if you are not prepared. I still remember how temperatures of 40 below or more are very hard on vehicles, even when plugged in, if it did start was really rough on your vehicle, and while driving takes forever for the interior of your vehicle to warm up, the steering wheel was cold and stiff, put extra effort on the steering wheel to make turns, gear shifting was stiff also, very hard on the oil also, like molasses. Smartphones would only work for a few minutes in these extreme temperatures before going dead. During the winter it wasn't the cold temperatures that got me, it was the 19 hrs of darkness each day and the record snowfall and pact of the winters of 2020, 2021 and 2022, tired of shoveling the white stuff. Whitehorse may be known for being a dry climate, but with climate change, I believe that place is getting more wetter, Summers more rainfall and Winters more snowfall than before. Summers in Whitehorse are beautiful, you have 24hrs of daylight and 19hrs of sun each day, but the temperatures rarely get above 29 Celsius, the hottest temperature I've experienced up there was 30 Celsius, so when I moved back to Calgary and faced 35 Celsius in August and September of 2022, just about died, not used to that heat. Overall l miss Whitehorse, Yukon greatly, the beauty of the wilderness up there, definitely plan to revisit and connect with old friends someday, but Calgary is my home now, was before from 1970 to 2008.
I could not live in that. Vancouver Island is cold enough for me when the mercury drops on a cold winter night to -6C / 25°F. I don't like winter, even here where there's two seasons - dry (summer) wet (winter).
@@Frazzo Vancouver is a different type of cold though. It's just chilly, grey and rainy for months on end. I could not handle that honestly. The Pacific Northwest is just too dreary, I'd get depressed after a while. But maybe that's on account of me growing up in Southern California and Texas lol.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath I hear ya ... the wet winters aren't for everyone. Stand still for too long and the moss will start going on ya. I love it here. If I was rich, I would always have a home here. My buddy posted a video from today. Finally some rain! ua-cam.com/video/D4Yu59av6v8/v-deo.html Cheers.
Very impressed with both the town and the people. I have always wondered what the capital of the Yukon looked like and was pleasantly surprised. I liked the way the townsfolk just went about their daily routines. Here in London anything below 40 fahrenheit is considered cold let alone minus 40 celsius.
Deadhorse is an unincorporated community located within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States, along the North Slope near the Arctic Ocean.
NW Wisconsin has been -42 real temperature with a windchill of -110. You could take a cup of steaming hot coffee and toss it out the second story window, and it would hit the ground like coffee glass. You could take water in your mouth and spit it out the window under pressure and create instant snow. That's why we live in rural Middle TN, where we actually used the A/C a couple times during the Winter.
This takes me back to a week I spent in Whitehorse in January back in 2012. I think it got this cold just after I left, but there was more snow. I remember watching a plow one night clear the road and it was just a road of more snow behind it.
And here i never experienced snow in my entire life. Leave the snow, temperature here never goes below 15° C even in winter. Temperature ranges between 15° C (winter) to 45°C (summer) here..
Loved the novelty of brutally cold winters, when living in MSP MN and Plattsburgh NY.... it’d be so cold that your nostrils would freeze/stick to your nose bridge lol
Actually, I find temperatures just above freezing harder to digest than when it is waaay below 0 degrees. When it is just cold or very mildly freezing, the humidity in the air makes it feel a lot colder than it is. But when temperatures go really low, the air dries out and the cold somehow becomes less intrusive. I can get the shivers at 1 degree Celsius but will happily walk around in my t-shirt at -10, as long as the sun is out and there's no wind.
@@daved3948 Lucky you. Here in Belgium, winter means short, dark and drizzly days with temperatures well above freezing. Some winters we get a few days of frost, but those are becoming increasingly rare in more recent years, unfortunately (I love a good frost!).
looks cold but as of late in Manitoba been have just as cold weather with our none stop blizzards. really cool to see how everything looks with snow on it
@@idopshik i mean living there, not about being homeless in this place.... there is nothing better than after going outside for sometime and coming back to warm home.
Minus 40 is fairly cold. We used to see just over -60f in Central B.C. back in the early '70's. Luckily the wind didn't blow when it was that cold. Laid in bed at night and listened to the nails popping up in the trusses as the wood contracted and forced them out a ways. Sounded like .22 shots going off.
Lived here for over forty years. Minus forty is something of a novelty these days. In the 1970's, January and February would commonly bring weeks of minus forty-five. The ice fog, and the way that the cold air carries sound, makes those cold winter days very special, and very beautiful. It also teaches respect for nature - being dumb at those temperatures has consequences.
What's your opinion about going for a job to this place
@@Jeevan_john14 yes same question from me plz
Same question
It's always been a dream to live in cold place like this....😂🤗
Such places are not leads then heaven who grew up in +45 degrees weather conditions..😂😂
Same question
It's always been a dream to live in cold place like this....😂🤗
Such places are not less then heaven for those who grew up in +45 degrees weather conditions..😂😂
Looks like such a beautiful city I hope to visit one day...
I lived my preteen years in Whitehorse from 1975 to 1980. I remember weather like this very well.
I used to be a paperboy and delivered the Whitehorse Star. I'm not sure if it is still around, but I used to deliver papers in this kind of weather every winter. At the time, it seemed normal to me. When my parents relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, I went out and got another paper route to earn some money with. It was then that I realized that when I was in Whitehorse, I had the hardest paper route on the planet.
Wow! nice info my friend :)
@danks den absolutely :)
@untrepid two I know....coldest city in Canada ☺
Hello there paperboy!
I love being a northerner (although I'm WAY south of Whitehorse). I think it makes people resilient.
When the snow squeaks like that you know it's cold.
Feel like everybody from the north can just imagine that
When did it squeak? I've never been in anything below 10 degrees
@@raing8942 3:53
@@raing8942 its squeaking trust xD
TheRyansLion reminds me of spongebobs boots.
me: looking for a white horse in the video
A to Z Pest control management hahaha
A to Z Pest control management Whitehorse is the Capital City of Yukon in Canada.
A to Z Pest control management how about Yellow Knife ??
Michael Clarke Duncan in Armageddon
Is this a Red Dead reference? If so, I keep trying to break in that horse but fail every time!
I think people there sleep in the fridge to keep warm
Pengoled 😂🤣🤣
Lol
lol
I dont think they even need to own a fridge. Would be pretty useless in that weather
UnboxViews haha agree
UA-cam recommendations: Wanna see average people doing average things in tundra conditions?
Me: yes, perfect.
Same. 🙂
This stupid meme needs to stop
Mike McGlock and you need to develop a sense of humor
"If you liked that, you're going to love the cars running at idle while their exhaust spews forth in an elegant display of chemicals and water vapor!"
@@AlexSmith-tt8kh The OP's comment is unfunny because its overused
Interesting fact, -40 C is also -40 F.
Most interesting would be..
Why is that so?
@Les Brown
At last someone bilingual
@Les Brown
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. Merely a bad attempt at humour.
@Les Brown
Wouldn't it be easier to simply understand the metric system?
In Australia, we have had the metric system since 1975 and in agriculture, all tradesmen and all industries people everyone communicate in metric system.
@Les Brown
Yes, I now understand what you mean.
Especially as US is imperial measure
As long as there is no wind, its pretty nice to walk outside at -40.
no its not nice i live in canada and i fucking hate it
@@30BopLeaveYuLeakinLikeAlFaucet I live in Calgary, it is not always cold in the winter but weather changes a lot and could be drastic. On my perspective, I love cold temperature as long as there is no wind hitting my face. Some people love winter, some people hate it.
zack fair true ik i lot of people who love it i live in ottawa but im still new to canada i come from the desserts so you can imagine how it is for me 😂😂 my skin is just not thick like canadians
I bet -40 would knock covid 19 on its ass! The instant the vapour comes out of your mouth it freezes.
From Australia and was in -36 in Ontario in 2008. Snot freezes and feel the moisture in your lungs freeze as you breath in.. Will never forget that experience.
I used to live in Western Siberia and always believed that we had the harshest winters on the planet. But now I feel Siberians are not alone.
yukon: freezing temperatures that could kill you in minutes
humans: ah yes, a perfect place to live.
Similar to very hot places.
They obviously don't just move there for no reason. There is likely some natural resource that attracted them to those places.
oooodin aren’t there heaps of indigenous people in places like this?
Also everyone YES I know there are reasons people move to arid regions. just read the dry joke and give it a pity laugh thanks!
At least with cold, you can always put on more layers. In the heat, there is only so much you can take off.
I live in Western Siberia. Whitehorse's climate is very similar to ours. Alas, our city is less beautiful.
@Viktor Ivanov я сравнивал климатические данные, на самом деле, перед тем как написать свой верхний коммент и тоже удивился на этот счет, но в Уайтхорсе средняя влажность по месяцам ниже, чем в моем городе. И норма осадков тоже ниже. А средние температуры по месяцам примерно идентичные. Казалось бы, как так? Уайтхорс расположен в 250-ти км от побережья океана, а так же вокруг него есть довольно большое обилие озер. Но город так же окружен горами со всех сторон и они создают определенный заслон от влажности, видимо. Ну и, в их части света на климат сказываются совершенно другие факторы, поэтому там имеются свои нюансы.
А насчет обледенелых ветвей - вы заметили, что из тамошней речки в -40 пар бьет и она не покрыта льдом? Собственно, от этого пара ветки дерева столь заиндевевшие. На вики написано, что у них там четыре гидроэлектростанции работают, видимо вода подогревается за счет каких-то сбросов, не разбираюсь в этом.
@@drainglaive what do the inuits look like in Siberia?
@@qadiyrthego-getterfarmer9171 i live in a region of Western Siberia called Ugra or Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
"Ugra is the historical homeland of the Ob-Ugric peoples: Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, and Selkup. They were engaged in hunting, fishing, cattle breeding. After the Turkic peoples pushed them from south to north, these peoples had to apply their skills in more severe conditions. It is at this new location Ugrians began to domesticate deer". I think it's pretty close to Inuit.
@Виктор Самсонов мои родители примерно в это же время приехали покорять север из теплой БАССР. Тоже рассказывают, что раньше зимы были значительно суровее. Морозы в -40 регулярно случаются и по сей день, конечно, но они уже не столь продолжительны, на пару дней. Это общемировая тенденция. Про Уайтхорс в комментах старожил один пишет, что и у них раньше такие морозы, как на видео, длились неделями. У нас по всей планете температура постепенно растет с конца девятнадцатого века. Это связано и с естественным процессом выхода из ледникового периода, и с деятельностью людей. Парниковые газы, сжигание углеводородов, вот это вот всё. Посмотрим, что тут будет еще через пару десятков лет.
@Виктор Самсонов в поздние советские времена Сибирь считалась растущей и многообещающей, но вот теперь такого не скажешь, увы. Не так уж и плохо, что вы тут только отслужили, а жить не остались=)
-40 does not feel that cold because the air is so dry. Wind is what makes you feel cold.
And moisture
We have here in Siberia like -31c with wind sometimes, its much worse that -50c
@@Swomie Yep, ive peeled skin from my nose and cheeks many times after heavy freezing. Not a best emotions i would say.
wet cold feels much worse than dry, If russia gets rain after snow it's bitter.
@@WayToManyAssassins we have no rain for 7 month or more, average temp for winter here is about - 25c, so only snow
I can totally understand *people's aversion to going anywhere cold* ---especially as cold as -40! When someone is either not used to it, or has maybe never experienced real cold at all, it can certainly be shocking.
Having grown up in a 'cold winter' climate zone, I learned a few things:
~> *What you think of as 'cold' depends totally upon you* ---your body type and how it adapts; your circulation; your perceptions of discomfort, etcetera.
~> *You physically acclimatize to cold.* I forget the specifics from my university days, but there's actually a loose 'rule' for how long it takes the human body to adapt to colder temps---like, such-and-such a temperature for so many hours per day for 'x' number of days.
My own experiences bear this out. Every Fall / early Winter when we'd get the first day of -10 Celcius or so, I thought I was gonna freeze to death. Within about a week of steady temps that low, it actually didn't feel _nearly_ as cold as that first couple of days. (Honestly!)
~> *Dressing warmly mitigates virtually all the feeling of being too cold.* People unfamiliar with being outdoors in a cold climate often can't even imagine _*how_ to dress warmly (to the extent necessary). There is outerwear (and underwear) for every cold temperature. You can actually feel toasty and cozy even in -40C weather. Some areas like the face are a bit trickier, but depending on your skin's sensitivity there are even good coverings for that part of you.
~> *There are advantages to living in a 'Winter cold' climate area.* Granted, whether one views differences as advantages or disadvantages depends on your views on life, but a few totally esoteric, random ones off the top of my head might be:
*+ Never having to deal with poisonous snakes* / lizards / other tropical or warm climate creatures or insects when going outside (or sometimes even if you stay inside!).
*+ Buildings' exteriors stay cleaner.* Huh? Those used to living in hot climates might not even notice it. But I'll never forget the first couple of times I travelled to warm zones (S.California; India) and noticed all the dark streaks, mould and 'dirt' on many buildings. Never had that back home. My theory is that every Winter cold kills any algae(?) and mould that get a foothold in hot climates.
*+ The 'freshness' of cold air.* Cold air just feels, and often smells, fresher than hot air. Could be that cold kills off all the bacterial and mould spores that float around _(
Might not have poisonous bud and snakes but the Mosquitoes in the north are fucking unbearable
Moving to this place so that my pc stays cool while gaming !!
bruh you will stay cool while gaming,like you will simply freeze :D
In too cold weather devices like smartphones starts to malfunction - very slow response time or stops working until warmed up.
That sounds like something someone of your age would say. Just put your xbox in the ice box, that would work to (Nah just kidding little guy)
My selfmade NASA like gaming PC would still heat up the whole city while I'm gaming.
The perfect place for intel system lmao.
I'm from Windsor, Ontario which is the most southern area in mainland Canada (we're south of parts of Michigan). I have a friend who is from Whitehorse who goes to university with me down here and he says that he'd rather deal with their -40 with relatively low humidity over our -20 with 40-50% humidity because the humidity makes the air sting when it hits you. I've always found that interesting.
Cold weather for Canadians: -40°C
Cold weather for Australians: 5°C
XD
Yes
Britain had a very bad taste of land
Cold weather for Brazilians: 18ºC
@Les Brown you mean 20?
Les Brown i va notice that British people wear shorts and sandals starting at 10c
I am from the United States of America. Where I live, I have a hard enough time with 0 degrees, let alone -40 degrees. Those people must be used to it. I got frostbite in -22 degrees when I was only 19 years old. I know that I be in trouble with -40 degrees. Great video 👍 and scenery. Thank you for posting this.
@Les Brown I only dress like that in the summer time. Not the winter time.
The quality of this video is incredible! I can feel the cold thru my display 😂
I'm actually surprise the water wasn't completely frozen.
@Les Brown some do of course ;-)
well, of course there is always a flow under the ice cover, but rivers do freeze and u can stand on this ice, even in Moscow (quite a warm place for Russia) rivers freeze fully (covered fully with ice) and people stand there and set markets. in my region huge rivers ( 4km width) freeze fully and trucks ride on them with no problems
@Les Brown of course they do!! Even in London the Thames River used to freeze every winter in the 1800s. It’s quite uncommon now due to the climate change but rivers do freeze in most Nordic countries. The bottom may be running, but the top can quite easily be completely frozen.
@Les Brown There are thermal waters right there that's why it didn't freeze even salt water would freeze at those temps
@@sampejke There are thermal waters right there that's why it didn't freeze even salt water would freeze at those temps
Kinda reminds me of Edmonton in Feb....,waiting for the bus to work at 6 a.m with one nostril frozen shut....eyes full of ice.....LOVE it!
Beautiful. Look at all those brave souls going about their day like it's just another day. 😆 Thanks for the upload.
The locals call it Tuesday.
Nice weather, no need to fight with mosquitoes.
It is just another day. I work on this street.
what are their options???
It is just another day. And -40 when you have proper clothes is OK. It's not the same as if it was unexpectedly suddenly -40 in some warmer place.
That's cold weather!
That's not cold, that's f**g cold.
hey Anton what the hell are you doing here?
/nicholas cage you dont say pic goes here
Diane Albrecht thats not f***ing cold , its mother****ing cold
@@Ramstein31469 thats a whole lot of mothers being f*cked...
when I'm walking around the desert in the Middle East, its normal for me. I'm sure its the same over there in Yukon, when you guys walk around in the middle of snow.
Nikki B I’ve been in both, minus forty, plus 50, that’s why they have malls.
Humans are evolved to live in hot weather. Extreme cold? Not so much.
@@tacocruiser4238 i dont think so,bottom of your feet boils alive when in desert
Doesn’t snow much when it’s that cold
I love cold weather...snow, cold winds, fog, rain, rain with some lightning on the mix, I just love it.
Finland represent! The coldest I've experienced was -35 while in the Army doing my national service.
The cold is no joke. I was super exhausted and slept like a log every night after a full day outside, even when it was just shooting range or something not so physical, your body consumes so much energy by just shivering. :D
In my younger days I rode a bike in -15C just for the fun of it, but not longer than for an hour at a time or so. A good cap covering the ears, thick gloves and a warm scarf or similar around the neck were most important, more than a good jacket, because the physical effort produces enough "waste energy" to keep most of the body warm. The biggest problem was with my glasses becoming foggy from my breath.
When there is no wind, the air is dry and the sun is shining on the snow-covered landscape it is very pleasant to take a walk even at -20C.
Finland has an interesting climate - while it can get as cold as -40C in winter, especially in the north, during summer temperatures often rise above +30C (when I visited Helsinki in July several years ago it was +32C and about +28C in Oulu). This amplitude must be a challenge to construct bridges, pipelines, railways and roads that can handle it. Of course there are other regions in the northern hemisphere with similar temperature characteristics - inland parts of Canada, Siberia, parts of Kazakhstan to name a few.
Respect you.
@@adamzieba8364 You wore a scarf at -15C ?? You wimp
Lived there over 40 years ago and still think about the place a lot. I see that Murdoch's is still there and even has the same old sign. Hougen's has moved across the street and doesn't appear to be the ''big'' department store it used to be. Many fond memories and have always wanted to go back but living a little far away for that now especially with all the covid restrictions. Thanks for the video although I do remember quite a few days that were a lot colder when we huddle up in the Yukon Inn or the Klondike Inn and drink beer and laugh about it.
This recommended by UA-cam when we are experiencing a heatwave in the Netherlands.
Experienced Amsterdam at plus 35, not fun......Also live thru Northern Ontario winters at minus 30-40 every year, Love it.
In Southern Ontario, we got minus 35 and plus 35 in same year, I love Canada but the weather tests you every year
@Ocean WLL?? I didn't say 10 concecutive days, I said in the same year, and it common to see the deep swings was my point, like Aug and Jan
Here in Southern California it was 46 celcius
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I'm from Costa Rica,I was living there ,Love canada love white horse!!❤️,Soy de Costa Rica, estuve viviendo ahí,amo Canada,Amo white horse!❤️
Love the guy all bundled up carrying his Tim Hortons... so Canadian...
um, i dont get it...maybe cuz im amurcan
tim hortons is a coffee shop chain that’s only in canada i think
@Les Brown i dont know what ''tim horton'' is ....but then, someone wrote tim horton is a coffee house in canada..how does someone holding a tim horton coffee cup makes someone look canadian?
brown buter because it’s freezing ass cold outside, and that Canuck is just walking along with his Tim Horton coffee like it’s the middle of summer. That’s why it’s so Canadian lol.
drizzleRomanceGirl Tmmy Ho’s is also in some parts of the US. For example, my hometown Buffalo, NY.
I'm from Las Vegas and some of the shots look postcard perfect....just majestic looking town! Thansk for showing!
Severe, yet beautiful
Living in a place that never sees snow and whose lowest temperature along the year are around 7 ⁰C on the coldest winter nights, I must say: too beautiful, but too hard to bear. Walking carefully to avoid falls, cleaning the car and waiting a lot to get the engine hot (mine takes it in 7 minutes) and driving very slowly, winter tires, all-wheel drive as a must... I respect. Greetings from Brazil.
I live here!!! I actually love it when it get cold like this! Although I must say winters are not as cold as they used to be
As an Aussie, I lived just outside Whitehorse for four years. Beautiful country up that way.
Being from the South I am shivering just watching. It is beautiful.
These UA-cam recommendations keep getting better.
yep. This is the stuff I like.
WHERE'S THE GOD DAMN HORSE??????????????????//
Interesting comment. Ever since I deleted everything with the word ‘Trump’ in it, I’ve started getting better videos.
Until you experience it you can’t even imagine what -40 feels like. Been there done that
Born and lived there as an adult
Beautiful!!
Also lived in Winnipeg.
Difference is That at those temperatures in Whitehorse there is no wind
Smoke goes up like an arrow. In Ywg it howls. That makes it much colder. Portage and Main is very very chilly place
Main at Waterfront is beautiful in any season
This feels so serene and peaceful. Canada is truly a beauty:)
You want to go there in the summer
As a kid,I grew up in south central Alaska on a homestead( back before statehood). Cold was not a stranger. Trees would explode, nose hairs froze, frost lungs from over exertion, steps squeeked in the snow. Moved to Michigan's Upper Penninsula & about froze!! We were not prepared for the snow totals but, the biggest thing was the WIND!! There was cold there too but, those damm winter winds sweeping in off Lake Superior were another world. Constant blizzards, humongous snow drifts, constant snowfall & the constant winds would create a world not seen outside siberia.
Living near the equator I would probably die in that place. But I have to say that the place and the atmosphere are stunningly beautiful. Greetings from Ecuador, South America.
Sometimes when it's this cold out and a very, very clear day with no wind you can just see smoke from chimneys going straight up and up and up and up into the sky.
Find me a video of this!! Why does it happen?
Whitehorse has a dry cold. I would take that over Ottawa's humid -20C any day of the week.
That dry cold thing is rubbish. Minus 40 is life endangering without any wind.
@@sarpsarp8987 Yeah lol
Ottawa cannot compare in the sightest. On record cold days with windchills yeah sure. But rarely does windchills go below -40C
I live in Eastern Siberia, Yakutia republic. In winter we have temperature almost - 50 degrees Celcius. And our coldest village - Oimyakon has a record of the coldest place on earth. - 71.2 degrees Celcius.
У вас -40 вообще норма.
Note the "carpet" attached to the front grill (2:07) to help with keeping the motor warm. My Dad did this every winter on his truck grill.
Still not cold as my mother in law
put his corpse in a freezer
One of the first businesses you see is YUKON TRAVEL. I would have thought there would be a line out the door.
Weather so cold that the heat in your car barely does anything, and your footsteps echo off the building beside you. Winter in Canada is rough but you acquire a taste for it because it really is beautiful. I always get this wonderful feeling when fall hits because I know winter is around the bend.
I did a 7 day long wintercourse in the swedish army with -40c a couple of the days. And yeah sure it was cold, but as long as you didnt stand still and moved around it wasnt that bad actually. Amazing nightskies when its that cold also, zero moisture in the air. So you can see all the stars super clear when youre in the forest. It was an amazing experience for a 19 year old. And lets not mention the nordic lights....
I've been reading a book series that takes place in the Yukon wilderness but it frequently mentions places like Whitehorse and Dawson City, so I've been looking up these places out of sheer curiosity and idk I find it fascinating.
Nice and warm , I'd love to take a vacation here
Hi from Winnipeg - last winter -49 and it was great! Love the cold.
That looks beautiful viewed from inside where it’s warm lol. The problem is there are a lot more problems to deal with when you get those low temps and it’s harder to fix and systems don’t operate correctly. It gets old.
Just another beautiful day in Whitehorse, Canada. I can't wait to visit this winter! ;)
It’s August, why am I watching this right now?
natasha Woodbury huh it was a joke.
@@silencenhikes6692 I'm sorry man, my gf Natasha was having that time of the month... I apologize if any offense was taken.
Oh my god, this is city of my dream.. Well, assuming from video. But I have a bunch of positive emotions when watching snow, fog, mist.. I would escape from stifling Montreal in a heartbeat, but unfortunately cannot now because of work.
Thanks a lot for showing all this cold beauty!
Funny, because I often want to live in Montreal again. But you're right, I think, in that lots of good things happen here.
Kinda weird. It's 90 where I'm at right now and my AC is doing a very good job. But as soon as I started watching this, I actually started shivering a little and had to reach for a blanket.
@Les Brown Lol. 90° F. Haha.
It’s a bigger town than I assumed it was. There are trees; I didn’t know if it was too far north for them. And there was flowing water in the river, not frozen.
Lovely pictures. Normally, I love Winter. It is the most beautiful time of year as far as I'm concerned. Here in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) it can get rather cold and windy in those months. But we have ice hockey and outdoor sports to pass the time.
Things are a bit different today due to the virus and the perils it may bring. Hopefully, we will be able to endure the coming months and any possible hazards. I'll be sure to have hot bowls of soup with lots of spinach to help keep me warm & (hopefully) healthy when those cold days come.
My best to all ...
I lived in Whitehorse, Yukon from April 2008 to August 2022, before moving back to Calgary, Alberta. The coldest temperatures I've experienced up there was - 46 Celsius, and that was before the windchill. Those temperatures of 40 below or more aren't bad if there's no wind, you get used to it, dress in many layers before you finish with your parka. Now at those temperatures if the wind picks up to 30km/h or more it can feel like -70 Celsius and that's when it gets dangerous if you are not prepared. I still remember how temperatures of 40 below or more are very hard on vehicles, even when plugged in, if it did start was really rough on your vehicle, and while driving takes forever for the interior of your vehicle to warm up, the steering wheel was cold and stiff, put extra effort on the steering wheel to make turns, gear shifting was stiff also, very hard on the oil also, like molasses. Smartphones would only work for a few minutes in these extreme temperatures before going dead. During the winter it wasn't the cold temperatures that got me, it was the 19 hrs of darkness each day and the record snowfall and pact of the winters of 2020, 2021 and 2022, tired of shoveling the white stuff. Whitehorse may be known for being a dry climate, but with climate change, I believe that place is getting more wetter, Summers more rainfall and Winters more snowfall than before. Summers in Whitehorse are beautiful, you have 24hrs of daylight and 19hrs of sun each day, but the temperatures rarely get above 29 Celsius, the hottest temperature I've experienced up there was 30 Celsius, so when I moved back to Calgary and faced 35 Celsius in August and September of 2022, just about died, not used to that heat. Overall l miss Whitehorse, Yukon greatly, the beauty of the wilderness up there, definitely plan to revisit and connect with old friends someday, but Calgary is my home now, was before from 1970 to 2008.
Its a privilege and blessing living in a country like Canada i love it
I could not live in that. Vancouver Island is cold enough for me when the mercury drops on a cold winter night to -6C / 25°F.
I don't like winter, even here where there's two seasons - dry (summer) wet (winter).
@@Frazzo Vancouver is a different type of cold though. It's just chilly, grey and rainy for months on end. I could not handle that honestly. The Pacific Northwest is just too dreary, I'd get depressed after a while. But maybe that's on account of me growing up in Southern California and Texas lol.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath I hear ya ... the wet winters aren't for everyone. Stand still for too long and the moss will start going on ya. I love it here. If I was rich, I would always have a home here.
My buddy posted a video from today. Finally some rain! ua-cam.com/video/D4Yu59av6v8/v-deo.html
Cheers.
Very impressed with both the town and the people. I have always wondered what the capital of the Yukon looked like and was pleasantly surprised. I liked the way the townsfolk just went about their daily routines. Here in London anything below 40 fahrenheit is considered cold let alone minus 40 celsius.
Stunning. I'd move there tomorrow if the lottery comes in.
Just came across this. I was there at that time. Have felt -50c in Quebec City.. thanks for the memories!
Thank you very very very much
I love your videos like this
Thanks for the memories- used to live above the airport, and at the Hatch house!
I see a lot of white, but I didn't see any horse... CLICKBAIT!
also this is a joke, I know it's the name of a place.
Not to be confused with DeadHorse which is also cold.
@@everready2903 redhorse
I think he is referring to WhiteHorse Pike in NJ
No it is a place in Canada.
Deadhorse is an unincorporated community located within the CDP of Prudhoe Bay in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States, along the North Slope near the Arctic Ocean.
NW Wisconsin has been -42 real temperature with a windchill of -110. You could take a cup of steaming hot coffee and toss it out the second story window, and it would hit the ground like coffee glass. You could take water in your mouth and spit it out the window under pressure and create instant snow. That's why we live in rural Middle TN, where we actually used the A/C a couple times during the Winter.
You can't even imagine how much I would love to live in a place like this...It's beautiful 😪
Surprised the river wasn't frozen over. I actually drove through White Horse in 1995 coming back from Alaska. In the summer of course.
2:15 a bmw indicating is more gob smacking then the cold
This takes me back to a week I spent in Whitehorse in January back in 2012. I think it got this cold just after I left, but there was more snow. I remember watching a plow one night clear the road and it was just a road of more snow behind it.
Everybody in the comments be like: "i lived there in the mid 70s...." etc
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Yes, that's good :-)
I've never lived there
@@crystalmethking me niether
"Everybody in the comments be like: "i lived there in the mid 70s...." etc"
Ya what is up with that. Was there a gold rush or somethin' at the time?
This is just breathtakingly beautiful !!! I wish it would get like this in WA state!
try Winthrop, Wa and the Pasayten plateau in the winter. It gets that cold.
Beautiful Canada
10 uears under my belt... my grandparents still live there... i kinda miss it but definitely dont miss the darkness and -40-60c temps
And here i never experienced snow in my entire life. Leave the snow, temperature here never goes below 15° C even in winter. Temperature ranges between 15° C (winter) to 45°C (summer) here..
where?
Sounds like you’re talking about India haha
Loved the novelty of brutally cold winters, when living in MSP MN and Plattsburgh NY.... it’d be so cold that your nostrils would freeze/stick to your nose bridge lol
Fun fact: negative 40 C is also negative 40 farenheit!
Why is the Fahrenheit so flexible?
At warmer temps
Matt called it an "interesting fact" 2 weeks ago. I'm sure you know Matt.
You just copied the comment above you.
Ricky you're a big fat phony!
@@nicoh332 I did, but unknowingly
Even here in Ottawa, Ontario Canada we often get down to -35 to -40 in the winter its crazy
People going about their business like bosses. Proud to be Canadian.
Beautiful City. I was there for a week during some -35 weather. I loved it!!
Who else thought a white horse will be coming through the fog running..😅
raises hands, **looks uncomfortably around**
I lived in yakutsk. Minus 54C with a 15 mile wind blowing ...that's cold....Whitehorse warm.!!!!
In the words of John Turner, "Are you Canadian or are you a tourist!"
A chinadian these days 😌
Made many trips to Whitehorse flying cargo planes. Always enjoyed flying in the remote places in Canada.
I can't even survive a 4° temperature
Actually, I find temperatures just above freezing harder to digest than when it is waaay below 0 degrees. When it is just cold or very mildly freezing, the humidity in the air makes it feel a lot colder than it is. But when temperatures go really low, the air dries out and the cold somehow becomes less intrusive.
I can get the shivers at 1 degree Celsius but will happily walk around in my t-shirt at -10, as long as the sun is out and there's no wind.
@@berttroubleyn3475 this is true and weird at the same time. my ohio weather is somewhat like this.
@@daved3948 Lucky you. Here in Belgium, winter means short, dark and drizzly days with temperatures well above freezing. Some winters we get a few days of frost, but those are becoming increasingly rare in more recent years, unfortunately (I love a good frost!).
@@berttroubleyn3475 it all depends on the humidity of the air
looks cold but as of late in Manitoba been have just as cold weather with our none stop blizzards. really cool to see how everything looks with snow on it
I remember this day, I was at Starbucks on main :) I love me some freezing temps.
Probably a dumb question - does your coffee freeze at that temp if you take it outside?!
I miss winters like these! Nowadays all we seem to get in Southern Finland are winters of wet snow and rain...
why is this in my recommended?? xD i live this every year i don't need a reminder of what's coming lmao
Absolutely frightening.
looks like my dream world.
Very strange dream world where you could freeze to death only by spending a night outside.
@@idopshik i mean living there, not about being homeless in this place.... there is nothing better than after going outside for sometime and coming back to warm home.
I was a driller in Northern ont. and we had to work in minus 55 degrees up in Timmons, Minus forty is tough but I bet it gets colder than that.
I feel like I am at the start of RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2
that’s cold! I complain about zero temps in winter in southern Australia!
I have a friend who lives here due to work, it's hard for him, but a visit would be nice.
Really? Does all the work places have heater systems?
Mini Mathew yes all the work places have heaters here
@@minimathew4182 he's military so I imagine most are heated. He spends most days flying aircraft though. It's *damn* cold over there.
@@seth_yukon Are you a Yukon citizen ?
its so beautiful
Hey random person scrolling down the comments.....
Have a wonderful day :)
You too, be safe...
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Thanks brother
Minus 40 is fairly cold. We used to see just over -60f in Central B.C. back in the early '70's. Luckily the wind didn't blow when it was that cold. Laid in bed at night and listened to the nails popping up in the trusses as the wood contracted and forced them out a ways. Sounded like .22 shots going off.