Category: Weather

Weather forecasts make me nuts – they are so seldom right it’s really a waste of time even looking. But now they can’t even get the Current Conditions right 🙁 On Tuesday morning at 11:00, the Current Conditions said sunny and 16°C – it was actually raining and 8°...

We went on a bit of a flood tour yesterday. We don’t have to go far, as the water level at Carcross has flooded several historic cabins and done a great deal of damage to the beach and the White Pass & Yukon Route rail line, but we drove...

The weather forecast for both Carcross and Skagway this morning was for rain, at times heavy, but when I left home at 07:30 (Yukon time) it was cloudy but warm and dry. I carried some warmer clothes than the t-shirt and shorts I wore, but hoped that the forecast...

Brief, violent storms are pretty rare in the Yukon, particularly in the winter. Yesterday, though, Cathy and I witnessed “the perfect storm”, Yukon style. Part of what made it perfect was our vantage point, as you’ll see from the series of photos below. Below, the storm approaches at 6:29...

Apparently that’s what some weather media Outside are saying. In Whitehorse it was only -40°C this morning, which is bloody cold for November, but in January is no big deal. There was a term on the Environment Canada site this morning that I don’t recall seeing before, though –...

This “summer” was so crappy that I’ve really been trying to hang onto the concept in case we got a warm spell. This morning it became obvious that I need to accept the fact that Father Winter is knockin’ on the door. Looking down the hill from Granger this morning,...