5 U.S. States With Way Colder Winters than Britain

The most mid-west winter thing to say is, "it wouldn't be so bad without the wind." lol

This cracked me up. "Nobody should be walking around when it's -15°" 😂😂😂 A few nights before I watched this, I took a pleasant stroll around my town in Northern Minnesota. It was -32°F.

Alaskan here. You are right: If you went out in -80 F weather dressed like that for an hour you probably would die. To go out in temperatures below -50 F you’d need specialized gear.

Im from Michigan and my dad once told a story about a guy from Hawaii he knew in college. In winter he was wrapped up in his jacket and constantly freezing and miserable. One day, the temperatures got up to around 32 F. Everyone from Michigan was taking off their jackets saying it was a heat wave. The guy from Hawaii, huddled away in his jacket, said all michiganders and insane, its freezing out here!

Fun fact if it's -40° it's 80° warmer in your refrigerator.

In North Dakota one of our fave sayings is, “-51 keeps out the riffraff.”

Many years ago I saw a TV news story about the extreme winters in Maine. An old man with a thick Maine accent told the reporter "if you can't take the winters you don't deserve the summers." I went to college in northern Vermont and loved it, but I do not miss the winters.

I can say from experience that both Wisconsin and Minnesota get cold enough at times that propane fueled furnaces stop working. The propane in the backyard storage tank is not warm enough to turn from liquid to gas... subsequently no pressure in the system to push fuel into the the house and furnace! Homeowners can buy a special electric heating blanket made to attach to their tanks.

"I saw palm trees and wanted to move there!" Ends up in Chicago. Life is cruel.

There's a reason Wisconsin's unofficial state motto is "It's too cold to be sober."

Winter in South Dakota was so fun last year! It’s always a good time when your state is slightly colder than Antarctica.

Growing up in rural northern Wisconsin, we had to go to school until the temperature fell below -20 F. Nearly every winter there are a few days below -40 F which is -40 C. I wasn't sure of my memory, so I looked up the temperatures for those years. We kids just thought that that was what the world was. We were just north of Sawyer County. Back then we also spent a year in North Dakota where my father got a job near Grand Forks. There we were more worried about summer tornadoes than winter cold. There were, and maybe still are, lodgings that are just basements. That is to say, there was no house above and the basement was the habitable space.

I'm from Wisconsin and now live in the south. When they say something is cold, I just smile.

Being a Minnesota child the reason it's not on your "snowiest" states is easy. It's too cold. You need higher temperatures (or a nearby ocean) for snow. At cold temperatures moisture can't collect in the clouds.

Minnesota: it's -40 out, no wind Schools: So an hour delay, got it

As someone that grew up in Michigan, the coldest I remember it getting when I was in High School was -27 degrees F. At that point they cancel school because it was unsafe for kids to wait outside for a bus.

Minnesota's 4 seasons: Almost winter, Winter, Still winter, and Road Construction.

Minnesota...ahh how we love having to explain how sometimes it's just too cold to snow

Coming to this video late, but I was born and raised in Fairbanks, AK, and you should DEFINITELY visit there . . . just do it in the summer! We have colder winters than the other major cities, but we also have warmer summers! And it's beautiful, with the tundra, mountains, and midnight sun.

I spent a winter up in Maine on a radar station 30 minutes south of the Canadian border and about 500 yards from the Atlantic ocean and the first snow storm we had I had to climb out the front window with a snow shovel and dig out the door so we could get out the house