As a meteorologist myself, I must say you delineated the US climate superbly. Very nice work!

Being such a large landmass, the diversity of geography in just one country is fascinating!

Thank you for explaining why the central US gets so many tornadoes. I'd had never heard that about the mountains being oriented N-S versus E-W as in, say, Europe.

I accidentally came across this video of yours today. I so wish that I had had you as a teacher in high school because then I would developed an interest in weather back then. Your descriptions and diagrams/maps were really effective in getting the facts across while still making the subject super interesting. I'm really looking forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you!

As a meteorologist, I really like this video. Everything you said is accurate. Dew point is indeed the best way to judge "humidity". Honestly, relative humidity is a useless number for anyone except for meteorologists. The fact the media always shares the humidity puzzles me.

And then there’s Utah, hottish summers, but not muggy like the south and not blazing Arizonas, cold winters with snow, but not too terribly cold, rarely gets to the negatives, and snow rarely goes over a foot, and the spring and fall! The weather is GORGEOUS and it goes on for so long!! It’s June today and still I’d say it’s late spring. I wore a sweater last week.

This taught me so much! I currently live in the U.P. (Upper Peninsula) about 3 miles west of Lake Superior but moved here from central texas I’ve always wondered about many things that you explained so easily! I have two teenage boys in high school, I’m going to suggest this to them. I think they will love it too. Thank you for this GREAT video!

Having lived in and around Seattle for many years, I whole heartedly agree that the summers in that region are pretty much paradise on earth. The famous gloominess lasts from about October to June, but otherwise it's basically long days of perfect weather over top of ridiculously beautiful scenery.

Don't forget in the Midwest, especially the cornbelt, it can get very humid during July and August because of the corn evapotranspiration. Here in Iowa we get can get dewpoints near 80 degrees with a temp of 95+.

You have one of the really unique and informative channels on KZfaq. I forwarded your Arizona video to my son, who had just moved to the Phoenix area. He does business demographics analytics for a living, and he was quite impressed. This channel is much more useful than watching dogs and cats entertain humans. Thank you.

MAPS: 4:25 Basic Topography 4:50 Average Annual Precipitation 5:23 Tornado Alley 6:29 World Tornadoes 7:08 All (US) Tornadoes 1950-2016 7:20 Average Annual Tornado Watches* per Year *a 'watch' means only that conditions exist in which a tornado is likely to occur, NOT that a tornado has been sighted -- that's a tornado warning 8:56 Summer in Vegas chart 9:31 Historical Hurricane Tracks 10:37 Average Annual Snowfall 14:12 Suggested Tactic for Winter Sanity

I live in Socal and I am happy I do

can you do a video about all the native american indian reservations in the US?

Dang, this video was EXCELLENT. I not only learned a ton of stuff I needed to understand America and where to move from where I am in America now, but I also learned a bunch of key principles to engineering questions I have had for a while re: building a water reclamation system for off grid living. Your explanations were concise, dense, and yet crystal clear. Really really good job. I'm so upset youtube doesn't give me more thumbs up to give to you.

Great video, California’s topography and it’s effect on climate fascinates me! The diurnal range in Pinnacles National Park, for example, is over 50° in July, further inland, Bodie a old ghost town has never had more than 30 days frost free! what a rich and diverse country the USA is.

You blowing my mind with this dew point thing. I always wondered why other cities felt better than New Orleans despite the fact that the relative humidity was the same. Thank you for continuing to post great educational content!

8:21 I agree. Speaking of dew point I live in Connecticut and the dew point reached an unbearable 78°F.

I live in Canada but my wife is from Eastern Washington. They get really nice weather there. Dry air, no wind to speak of, mild winters, cool nights in summer.

Thank you for explaining dew point vs relative humidity! I try to tell people this all the time.

I have family up in Rochester. My dad had stories of jumping off the second story roof into the snowdrifts for fun because they would periodically get high enough to cover the first floor windows.

That's why I love Virginia. You get a little bit of everything. Hot summers, go to the beach in october, snow every so often. Wonderful

Thanks for this video, I learned a lot. I’m a native of Southern California, in the LA Metro area. Climate is very important to me and weather watching has been a hobby of mine. I can hardly believe how much the weather has changed from the 60’s to the present day. I’d say a Spring day of 70-72 degrees is my favorite kind of day in LA. I get excited when it rains and we sometimes get some thunder and lightening. Sadly, it keeps getting warmer here.

Something to add that most don't realize: Seattle can get really hot- 95- 100 deg, usually around July. Inland eastern WA & OR can also get very hot in summer but only for 1-2 mo & isn't humid & gets very cold with a lot of snow & ice in winter. The weather is not like Seattle at all- not humid, not dreary. People think Pacific NW & think Seattle; inland WA is not like that. Central WA is actually a desert. Hot AF! 🥵

For years I lived just south of Watertown, NY and commuted to Syracuse. Known as the Tug Hill Plateau, it was a terrifying nightmare of blowing snow from Oct-April. Zero visibility.

Thank you, Kyle, for 14 minutes of accessible yet detailed description of the land surface system and the climate across the contiguous US. As a fellow geographer, I'm really grateful that you've made these informative and entertaining videos that prove geography is more than "you must know what all the state capitals are." It's unfortunate that KZfaq has tagged this video with a "context" warning that seems to imply that your content might or might not be true or accurate. Thanks again for taking the time to provide such a great introduction to what has shaped the US climate over more or less that last 11,000 years and continues to determine the weather Americans see and live every day.

Can I just say.... I absolutely LOVE your videos! I’m a total geography nerd and I am really into meteorology as well. Most people think I’m weird as hell for it too! And being smart shouldn’t be strange!!! Anyway- love, love, LOVE the videos!!! Keep up the great work!

This video answered so much for me. Up in New Hampshire we had a 3 foot snowstorm this year, 2021, been over 2 decades since we had a storm like that.

Good old physical geography. This is great! Nice job explaining about the orographic effect and variable temperatures over land and water. Have you done a video explaining how climate is based on earth-sun relationships and the tilt of the earth on it's axis? I don't think most people know that this is the basis of all climate. Variations in topography are secondary (though, as you point out, extremely important).

I find the climate you have in the US to be super interesting and unlike anything that can be found somewhere else. Im from Sweden and the climate here is very boring for the most part compared to the US. I cant imagine how much nice year round good weather would be. Here, during the "winter" months (basically late october to march) the sun only rises for a couple of hours a day and even when its up there is usually a thick clowd cover that gives everything a greeyish colour. I spent one Christmas in the northernmost part of sweden and I almost didnt see the sun a single time because of how north we were.

I find that the most severe weather or the "sweet spot" for any kind of weather is the major northeast cities from DC to Boston including Philadelphia and NYC. This area has seen blizzards, ice storms, heat waves, hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, and even a tornado or two. If you like exciting weather, move to NYC. You'll never get bored of the weather.

“I believe the climate is the most important aspect of where you live, it affects every aspect of your life...” 😔😔😔 hearing that when you live in the UK is hard

If I recall, tornado alley is still in the plains, though it has grown, the area down in Mississippi and Alabama is called ‘Dixie alley’ and is completely separate.

Love your videos. Thank you for taking the time.

"The Giant Lakes" I am from Akron, OH and I have never heard of "The Giant Lakes". But that was a good explanation of why Erie and Ontario produce so much more snow....

I live in Erie, PA, we got dumped on with lake effect snow on 12/25/17. Broke a ton of records, and was the most snow I've ever seen in such a short amount of time in my 36 years living here. Lake effect is no joke

Love it. You answered a lot of my questions about the correlation between the weather in the us and Australia. Keep it up.

You make a lot of cense about the weather than the weather man. You made it easy to understand. Thanks.

Possibly my favorite bit of information I've seen/heard from you, so far. I've been watching the shit outta your channel since I found you a few days ago. I really enjoy everything you've got, but as you've mentioned...it's the Climate & Weather which effect SOOOOO much of EVERYTHING we do, feel, think, act, experience, etc.... I'm a fan, good man. Thank you for all your research :D

Thank you so much for this video! I've rewinded and rewatched it so many times, I'm just fascinated with climates and geography, this answered a lot of questions I've had.

Great video. I knew bits and pieces of this already, but you tied it together nicely. I had never even thought of the impact of mountain range orientation....east-west vs north-south.

That historical hurricane chart is crazy. I looked it up and yes there was a hurricane that passed over the driftless region on 9/11 in 1900. Crazy stuff. Keep posting this awesome cartography and geography stuff man.

This was a great video. I’m pretty sure this answered just about every question I have ever wondered about weather and climate in the us.

Love your channel. Please keep educating us about geography

Great video. Very informative. I love your page!

Great video! Growing up near Buffalo NY I learned about lake effect snow storms at a young age. We do get a lot of snow but I still think this is one of the best areas of the country to live. We were in Rockport Texas about 6 months after Hurricane Harvey. I would never want to go through something like that. The devastation was unbelievable! We very rarely get a tornado or earthquake. We don’t have ginormous forest fires either. The winters can be very long though.

Thanks for the knowledge Kyle!👍

Even in Costa Rica the Pacific Ocean is colder than the Atlantic Ocean along the Carolinas during the summer.

I grew up right between Rochester and Syracuse in a tiny town called Newark. Not even horror movies can accurately depict our winters. I remember having a snow day once when we got like 18 inches of snow over night. It was almost the end of April. Ah, good times. I loved our winters though. Everything became quiet and beautiful. The entire world seemed to shut down for brief periods of time, but we also knew how to live our lives. My parents went to work and I went to school and everything remained functional and okay. It was a great time in my life.

This is one of your best videos. And so far they've been all good.

This was fantastic! I think an interesting topic (at least for me) would be a video on the crazy hot winds that blow down the slopes of some mountains--The Chinooks, Santa Ana's, Scirocco, etc. They have an amazing affect geographically as well as psychologically.

Granted the snow belts are heavier in upstate NY than what you get along Lakes Michigan and Superior. However the snow depth totals for the North and West side of lower Michigan are substantially enhanced with places like Maple City and Gaylord getting approx 150 inches of snow each winter. In the Upper peninsula it is even worse as Lake Superior is a more west to east lake and really dumps heavy loads of snow in the northern 3/4 of the UP. Places like Houghton and Ishpeming can and normally exceed 200 inches of snow per winter. So I guess everything is relative.

Love your videos. You're so genuine and passionate about the US. Cheers

The maps and satellite images are amazing. Great work!

On the tornadoes of the Southeast: tornadoes used to be largely a spring phenomenon, but they are getting more frequent, especially in the southeast, in the fall and winter when they used to be rare.

I'm so happy to grow up between alabama and florida. The tornados suck and the hurricanes but the warm weather and thunderstorms are a blessing. A rainy night in alabama or florida makes u sleep better then u will ever sleep in ur life.

The moisture (or lack of it) coming east from the Rocky's is very evident by watching the farm fields. Lots of irrigation in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, but as you get into Iowa, Illinois, Indiana it's rare to see a field irrigated. Consistent and fairly even rain throughout the growing season eliminates the need for irrigation.

Here in Santa Fe, NM we have beautiful winters. Sunny and chilly with the occasional chance of snow. But the real precipitation happens during monsoon season which is in the summer. So a little bit different than most of the country. Dry winters and wet summers.

Way to go, Geography King. Watching you is like learning Latin root words. We learn the underlying knowledge that explains so much.

this guy is so chill and informative

This information helped me research where I want to live. Thank you.

Another great video

Thanks for that! I learned about hurricanes and snow, and also what is a 'dew point'!

Your videos are so incredible!

ALL of your videos are awesome!

I just discovered your videos today and I'm binge watching.

I think this is your best video by far.

Dynamite stuff. Logical, once you've explained it. Really enjoyed this. Thank you.

what a great great video, loved it.

Very nicely explained, terms we've heard mentioned in media brought to life.

Good video this was an interesting topic thanks for the video enjoyed it.

Excellent

Weird how the UK and Ireland are on the same latitude as Central Canada, yet have a climate more similar to that of San Francisco, which is on the same latitude as Southern Italy

A really great video👍

Great content 👍

Very informative video.

Weather and climate. The importance cannot be over-stated. I love meteorology. I studied it in college along with the other earth sciences. Great video!

I remember going for a run at my uncle's house down in Virginia one morning. I thought that because it was 75 degrees, it would be okay. It was 100% humidity.

The poster before me is a meteorologist ... I am not ... but, I join in his praise. I learned a lot. Save for 4 years in Oregon, for school, I've lived in San Francisco all of my life. Oregon taught me to love the rain. SF has taught me how fortunate I am that I'm not subject to searing heat. And, yes, we have humidity that we can actually SEE, blowing down the street. In the spring of '23, I'm planning a cross-country trip via Amtrak. We don't know, yet, about which routes to take east/west. I'm going to review this video as we get closer to the journey. Thanks.

Excellent!

Great video

Best weather video pretty much ever

Thank you so much for this video! I used many facts that I have learned in my speech about the USA. You saved me!

I grew up in Big Bear Calif, and have been living in the mtns of Rio de Janeiro state for 20 yrs, a place called Petrópolis, where the big flash flood destroyed so much last week. My house sits at 3,000ft in the forest and the temp. goes from 32°-90° with lots of rain, mostly drizzle and fog, all yr. But the city spreads from the wet southern plateau to the dry northern foothills. While at sea level coconuts and mangoes fruit well up here they won´t produce fruit but avocados and bananas thrive. Being from the US and having spent 3 yrs in Charlottesville VA I wanted fall colors in fall and no obstruction of sun in winter time so I planted several varieties of plane trees, which have real challenges with mistletoe and leaf-cutting ants but fit well with the bromeliads and orchids that cling onto everything and give a show in the winter set among the leafless branches. The sweetgums are ruthless so they´re perfect for this region, and now I´m experimenting with pin oaks and elms. I often think that our dry winters recall a coastal Calif. climate and our humid summers an Appalachian one. Demographically it´s also interesting that the city was the imperial seat for Brazil, along with Rio and was settled by Germans, Italians, Portuguese, mulattoes and some Japanese, so when you add all this together you don´t really know where you are! Anyway Brazil´s southern and southeastern coast is full of these plateaus where there´s frost enough for the native monkey puzzle trees to grow and where, like this summer, we haven´t seen the sun pretty much since Oct. Check it out some time, you might find it interesting. Keep up the great videos, I´m learning a lot!!!

As a meteorology major I approve! Great video again king kyle!

The coast of Chile is basically is just the opposite of North America's pacific coast. Temperate rainforests on the outer areas and as you move closer to the equator it gets drier and even extremely dry as in northern Mexico and the Atacama desert.

“A tornado is the atmosphere throwing up” …………..brilliant!

thank you!

Very interesting and informative! I always wondered why Midwest had tornadoes....

Great video! I would love to see you do a video about the best places to live in US in next 25-50 years as climate change impacts our communities.

I live in Southern Maine where we get snowy and cold winters, super rainy springs and falls, and even though most people don’t know it, we get pretty hot summers (particularly brutal over the recent years especially - around 100 in late July with insane humidity). also summers are usually not particularly dry or wet but we get lots of thunderstorms then

utah gets way more snow than the northeast from lake effect coming off the great salt lake, some places like alta get 500 inches per year.

Thank you Sir!

This is excellent.

Really cool video. I read an article about “tornado alley” shifting slightly east every year due to moisture levels being drier in the west and the “moisture line” shifting east. I was in Cullman, AL in April 2011 and saw that F4 hit. Was awful but incredible at the same time.

The 100th Meridian West is considered the delineation of the humid East of the continent and the arid West of the continent. Your Average Annual Precipitation map shows that very nicely.

Live in the UP of Michigan during the summer, and So Florida in the winter and, it's said when a person in Duluth, MN sneezes we in the UP get 4 ft of snow

Living in western Oregon I can say that Summers in the PNW are wonderful. It's true that it doesn't rain as much in Summer (usually) but when it does its usually after a heatwave. August is prime time for thunderstorms as well. ⛈

In the florida panhandle, we see a “monsoon” season in the summer - peaking in July, and a dry season in the fall- peaking in October. Then the cold season starts in December and lasts through February where it regularly gets to a “freezing” 50°F. Pretty Tropical here and when it rains it pours down but most of the time its sunny.

Howdy Geography King 🤴🏽

One day this summer it was a beautiful day, high 70s, a few light clouds, just enough breeze to keep any bugs down. My wife said I wish it could be like this all the time. Then I told her, "yah, but then EVERYBODY would want to live here"