Category: Weather

This post was written this morning for my page at The Outbound Collective, but they have suddenly gotten greedy and the pages are so bloated with bandwidth-intensive ads that the articles aren’t even readable. The writing is a bit different than my normal because it’s written for people who...

A wonderful spell of warm weather has prompted me to get out a fair bit. I wanted to do two road trips – one to the White Pass and one to see the new bridge being built at Teslin. A storm warning about a system moving in with heavy...

I haven’t been getting out much this winter, but the past few days I’ve finally pulled myself away from my desk and got out a few times. Nothing very exciting, but here’s a bit of what the Whitehorse area looks like in January. It’s been a very strange winter...

I started by titling this post “Running errands at 40 below” then decided that normal terminology here might make no sense to people in other places 🙂 Anyway, with the temperature right at -40°C (which is also -40°F), I needed to go into Whitehorse this morning because I offered...

Yesterday started off as a drive into Whitehorse to pick up a new phone, but kept evolving and turned into a superb drive to Kluane Lake and back – 8 hours, 511 km. I had taken some extra photo gear and clothing with me with a drive of some...

I’ve been watching the weather forecasts for Whitehorse and Skagway recently, waiting for a good day to make the drive to Skagway. The last time I was down was in July when I took the motorcycle, and it’s hard to say when Cathy’s last visit to our coastal neighbour...

On October 16th we were docked at Kailua-Kona (usually just called Kona) from 8:00am until 6:00 pm. Unlike our busy 2014 visit when we rented a car and went to Kona Joe Coffee and Pu’uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (see “Exploring Kona, Hawaii“), we had no plans and...

As is often the case, the southern Yukon has had a dramatic heating-up the past week or so. May is probably the month with the most extreme shifts in average weather during the month. The temperature in Whitehorse officially reached 25.6°C on Thursday, May 18, demolishing the old record...

Just about the time I was going to just give up on Spring, it’s here. Well sort of… Now that the nights are a bit above freezing, the back yard is opening up quite nicely. Bella and Tucker are very happy to have a larger world, and grass. I...

Spring hasn’t actually arrived yet – even the 14-day forecast calls for temperatures to remain well below seasonal norms. Given our above-normal snow load, the slow melt is very good news for all the people who have been flooded or threatened by floods the past two years. But yesterday...