Category: Weather

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...

I’m not getting out much anymore, but decided to go into town and get a few groceries yesterday. It’s been dark, cloudy and dreary lately, but despite there being no good weather forecast, I wondered if perhaps the Fish Lake Road might climb up into better weather. Did it...

I finally got out yesterday for some photography – a 2-hour wandering drive with no plan except to take pictures of whatever caught my attention. It felt great, and I’ve posted 24 of the photos here as well as 3 short videos. I’ve been pecking away at the 3...

It’s been 7 weeks since I last talked to you. In that time the southern Yukon has gone from a nice Fall to a dreary but fairly mild Winter, with a more normal snow level than the last two extremely heavy-snow Winters. Another Winter like those two might get...

I had my daughter up for a visit for 3 days over this past weekend, and the one thing she had on her must-do list was seeing Skagway again. On Sunday we headed down, with strong winds and flood warnings in the weather forecast. The Fall colours were mostly...

We can usually count on having snow that doesn’t melt away by October 31st – this year it arrived almost a month early. I’m not quite ready for Winter, logistically or mentally, but it’s here anyway so I had better get everything in order in the next few days....