Category: Weather

Although Winter Solstice has passed so we’re getting more and more light each day, January is the month that usually brings the coldest temperatures, so I’m not going to get too cocky yet about having an easy winter. The weather so far this year has been incredibly erratic, but...

For the past 3 days, everyone in Whitehorse is talking about the weather. On Wednesday we got one of the wilder storms I’ve seen in my 22 years in the Yukon. This is what the deck looked like at 11:00 am on Wednesday – the Xmas decorations didn’t fare...

We’ve had a bit of snow on the ground for almost 6 weeks now, but Winter truly arrived on November 11th – it’s been snowing every day since then, and we have an accumulation of perhaps 9-10 inches now. The 14-day weather forecast at The Weather Network is quite...

Why bother forecasting the weather when the forecasts are usually wrong anyway? Look at the 2 forecasts below, both for Whitehorse a couple of minutes ago. The top one is the one I usually use for no particular reason other than that they have a handy widget, Environment Canada....

A pair of pictures is worth at least a thousand words so I won’t type any more 🙂...

We’re now in the most extreme part of winter. It can go from being very dark and ugly to being stunningly beautiful in a very short period. The first photo was shot from my desk at the travel agency on Friday at 09:53 am, with ice fog caused by...

The world’s weather seems to get more bizarre every year. Yesterday, 49 states had snow cover according to the National Weather Service (every state but Florida, which did have snow a few days ago). Here in the Yukon, it’s looking like it will go a bit below -40°C tonight,...

Yesterday was the perfect day for a drive to Skagway – very cold with high north winds at Skagway but clear all the way. This is a shot of the temperature gauge in my car as I was about to turn onto the Alaska Highway at 9:24am. It only...

Holy climate change, Batman – check out the weather forecast for Whitehorse for the next few days!...

Over the past 48 hours or so we’ve had high winds and almost constant snow. The wind and snow have stopped and now it’s time to assess the damage and start the cleanup. I was quite shocked to look out the bedroom window yesterday and see the portable garage...