Welcome back to Learn English with Camille and most of the time, Calvin.
We are here for an exciting new video or podcast where we will be giving you loads of vocabulary about the Weather.
Weather, yes.
We have done a beginner level video talking about the weather, where we speak slow and we do common things.
So if your English is not intermediate yet, you can go check that out.
We might even put in some advanced vocabulary words today.
We'll try.
We'll do our best.
I actually like talking about the weather.
Do you, Calvin?
Yeah, I think it's like the older you get, the more weather you talk about.
It's just this like up going or up.
Yeah, it's a graph going up.
Yeah.
Well, I kind of was told by a couple of people that I need to stop checking the weather app.
I don't know if you guys have it on your phone, but I have the weather app and so I'll go check the forecast.
And I'll check it not only in my city.
Sometimes I check it in southern Portugal, my sister's city, my friend's city in Turkey.
I'm just checking the weather all over the map.
Yeah, I do that on occasion too when I'm bored.
Oh, what's the weather like in Barcelona?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's good to see, but it's kind of sad because it's usually better than here.
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Yeah, so where do we start?
I mean, we talked about the app.
We could talk about the weather in this place that we live now.
Okay, yes, it's rainy.
Every day.
Every day.
It's pretty consistent.
It's been a rough winter, you guys.
We have had more rain on record in Portugal this year than I believe any year in history.
We have had flooding, which that means that the water is rising like covering houses coming into buildings.
On the streets, we're seeing boats go by, not here in our city, but in mid to southern Portugal.
Yeah, it's very sad right now.
I think there's a lot of flooding in a lot of places around around Europe really, and even in like Morocco and things like that.
So, yeah, it's a weather can be dangerous.
That's for sure.
It's true.
It's true.
And also here, sometimes it's just drizzly like a mist, but there's wind.
So if I go outside and I go with my umbrella, It often just gets blown away or ruined.
So I go with my raincoat and any part of me not covered gets wet because of the wind.
So like sometimes we walk our kids to school and we get there and I feel really bad because I'm like they have their rain boots on, they have their raincoats, but like their jeans are all wet.
Yeah, we need a poncho.
You know, a poncho is like a plastic, basically like a trash bag with holes.
Yeah.
And it just protects your pants and everything.
It'd be good for our kids.
Or I've heard of like...
I mean, I used to wear snow pants growing up because I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
And so there we wouldn't get much rain, but we would get a lot of snow.
Sometimes there would be blizzards, which means you couldn't see past a few feet in front of you, because everything's white.
The snow was just coming down so hard.
How many feet of snow or meters of snow would you get some winters?
I mean, some winters, literally, my dad would plow our driveway with his snow plow.
And so the snow would blow up, you know, so we could get in and out of our driveway.
And it would be above my head.
So I'm like 5'6".
So that's like a lot of snow.
A lot of snow.
A lot of snow.
And we've had snow.
I remember growing up sometimes as early as October and sometimes as late as May.
So I do not miss snow.
Our kids want to go to like a snowy place.
And I'm like, I grew up in it.
I don't mind if I actually never see it again.
I'm okay, like two or three days.
You know where you can play in it and maybe you have a four by four vehicle.
But after that, I'm like, okay, that's good for me.
What about sleet?
What is sleet?
Sleet is usually, I think it's like a mix of rain and ice or snow.
Sometimes the weather men or women will say like, oh, it's going to be a wintry mix.
Yeah.
That's a good way to say sleet.
Yeah, it's very unenjoyable.
We have had much hail.
Yes.
We have had a lot of hail. living here in northern Portugal.
And also in South Carolina, when we lived there, there was a lot of thunderstorms.
Usually it's with thunderstorms where there's a big change of weather, where maybe a cold front is coming, and so some of the I guess rain droplets Turn into big balls of ice.
Or little balls of ice.
Yeah, hopefully little balls because otherwise your car is going to get dented.
We actually had to replace our roof in South Carolina from hail damage because the hail was really big and it caused damage to our roof.
Yeah.
On our house.
Yeah.
I heard somebody say pretty much in South Carolina, you shouldn't have to pay for any roof replacements just because there's almost always every season hail and they can always find hail damage.
So the insurance companies just pay for the roofs of the people that know about it, I guess.
That's a good thing because...
Roofs are expensive.
They are.
But yeah, you can tell that ice falling from the sky can do some damage.
Have you ever been outside and get hit by hail?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've been outside here in Vienna and I started like hailing.
The good news is it lasts just a few minutes so you can try to take shelter and wait it out.
And then the storm passes and then all of a sudden, oh, there's a rainbow in the sky.
Yeah.
And now it's sunny.
Yeah.
I've never lived in a place with more dramatic weather than here in northern Portugal.
That's true.
Yeah.
It can be rainy and sunny about 20 times each day.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
You just have to be prepared.
Yesterday I went to pick up my son from school and I walked 15 minutes and then walked home and I carried some groceries.
I got so hot that I had to take off my jacket.
I was like, why is it so warm out?
And it wasn't raining.
I was like, this is crazy.
Our weather is crazy.
Yes, it's true.
You never know what you're going to get.
I guess that's good.
I just wish there was a little more sunshine in the mix.
I know.
Sun, sun, sun, sun.
I need the sun.
Sunshine is my favorite.
Where has been the best weather?
Where have you lived where there was the best weather?
I guess that's how you would say that in English.
Yeah.
So, I mean, we've lived in many places around the world.
We lived in Hawaii.
And though it never got cold and there was rain and even sometimes torrential downpours.
I remember it being pretty consistently warm.
We had some humidity for sure being right on the ocean.
So there was that.
But I feel like the sunsets were always beautiful.
Hawaii really had very... moderate climate.
Yeah, it was so consistent, like basically the polar opposite of Viana do Castelo, because it would be like 85 or 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
What would that be in Celsius?
Maybe coming up on 30.
Yeah.
Every day.
And so, like, you actually get to the point where you're like, I need other climate.
And so thankfully, the big island of Hawaii has all the climate zones of the world.
I think is the statistic.
Yeah.
And so we drive an hour and a half to Waimea, a town up on the mountain.
And we'd get like spring, fall weather.
We'd be like, oh, we can wear a coat.
Yeah, or a hoodie.
You get tired of wearing shorts and flip flops.
So yeah, pretty much you can't please us.
Sorry.
No, I don't mind having four seasons.
But I would say my least favorite season is winter because I just don't like cold.
And living in places where the heating is not really there inside the house really impacts how you feel all winter long.
Oh, yes.
100%.
So Portugal is not great with their infrastructure and a lot of the houses aren't heated.
We have a stove this year.
Yes, we got a stove.
It's our third winter here and the first year where we're like, we need one.
It's warm.
We really need one.
And so we feel a lot more comfortable.
But still, I'm looking out our windows and they're just, I can't see out them.
They're smeared with rain.
You can't even see our town right now.
It's foggy, which means it's like the low clouds, like white in the air.
Yeah, I think that's part of it.
The weather here.
The clouds can be, you know.
You can have clouds that are higher, you can have clouds that are lower.
When it's low clouds for multiple days, you just feel like you're like in this, like small world or something, and you can't get out of it.
You're just like, I can't even see far.
Where is there life outside of this world?
We don't know.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
It's true.
What about like really hot weather?
Do you like hot weather?
Yeah, I like hot weather, but I can't handle too hot.
I feel like we were in Izmir, Turkey, in the middle, middle of the summer.
July.
Yes, and it was just like... 40 degrees.
Felt like you were in a sauna, Finnish sauna, you know?
You just get out and it's like...
Yeah.
And it's the same in South Carolina sometimes during the summer.
You definitely need like a pool or an ocean or something like that.
Yeah.
But what about you?
Yeah, I like to feel warm, but yeah, of course I don't like 40 degrees.
I think 30, 32, okay.
Once it starts getting close to 40, that's tough.
It is, yeah.
But then there's a difference also between dry heat and kind of wet heat or humid heat.
That's true.
It makes a huge difference.
That's true, because you can look the weather and it's like 14 degrees, feels like six, you know.
So what would make it feel like six?
Than the wind or the humidity?
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, definitely the humidity.
I lived in Eastern Oregon and it's dry, desert kind of climate mm-hmm, and the heat didn't feel as hot okay, and the cold didn't feel as cold because it was dry.
That moisture in the air we say it just chills you to the bone.
You know if it's cold, i don't know if there's a phrase for if it's hot and humid, but I'm melting.
Yeah, I'm melting.
I think that's a good one.
I have so much moisture content.
Yeah.
Well, have we experienced natural disasters, Calvin?
Relating to weather.
I've been in a lot of tornadic storms or tornadic areas where there's a tornado or a risk of a tornado.
Very, very active or energetic thunderstorms, things like that.
Never been in a hurricane, I don't think, right?
No, no.
Our city in South Carolina, I think it was last year experienced the after effects from a hurricane that came through Florida.
And the wind, damn it.
It did knock trees down on our property, and there was a lot of damage in South Carolina.
And North Carolina.
The whole town's gone.
Wiped out.
Crazy.
We have experienced earthquakes, though.
Yes.
That's not necessarily weather-related, but...
Yeah, that's true.
It is a natural disaster.
A natural disaster.
Something related to nature, I guess you could say.
So yes, many earthquakes.
Weather, I'm trying to think.
I think tornadoes, no winter weather, like ice storms in South Carolina where like, everything turns to ice and like then you know you have heavy tree branches and they take out power.
So we've been without power in South Carolina before.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's it.
I'm trying to think of other weather-related things that we've experienced.
Well, what is your ideal weather, Calvin?
What kind of climate would you like to live in?
Mm-hmm.
Mediterranean.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So what are we doing here in northern Portugal?
Well, it is a beautiful area in the summer for that three-day period.
Yeah.
We've actually been wrestling you guys with this wet rainy, cold winter here in northern Portugal.
When we're filming this today is what, February something?
10th.
10th, I think.
Okay.
February 10th, yeah.
And it's still winter, rainy, not very nice weather.
But in the 10-day forecast, I see sun on there twice.
And in January, like, it didn't come.
So we have... 40%.
Yeah.
My kids are not going to get any help from me in math.
Oh, man.
Well, I just don't want to miss anything.
I can't remember if there's anything else.
My ideal weather as well as Mediterranean.
What does that mean, though?
How can you describe Mediterranean climate?
I think it means you still have four seasons, but none of the seasons are extreme.
And it might have hot summers, though.
Really hot summers, yeah, depending on where you are.
I'd like to be in a place where I can go in the sea during the summer and enjoy it, and it not be frigid ice like here.
Yeah, that's a nice desire.
We'll see what the future brings for now we're here.
Speaking it out into the future.
Yes.
What is your favorite type of weather?
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