Category: Weather

The white crap just keeps falling. I’ve never seen the likes of this in the Yukon – we just don’t normally get a lot of snow. At our city property, the piles are over 8 feet high and there’s no room to put any more, so this morning I...

I went down to Canadian Tire yesterday, thinking about buying a snowblower – shovels just can’t keep up with the white crap this year in the many places that my truck-mounted plow can’t get to. What did I find instead? The front of the store is jammed with barbecues,...

Climate change – in the southern Yukon the most noticeable effect has been warmer winters with less sun and more snow. Yesterday morning, the business of the day started at 08:50 with plowing the driveway (and ended 9 hours later when we got home from the kitchen reno job)....

According to The Weather Network, it’ll be darn near Spring, with temperatures hitting about 0°C (32°F). Given the accuracy of weather forecasts, I’m not going to hold my breath, though 🙂...

You would think that Yukoners would know how to drive on icy roads, wouldn’t you? The roads are extra-icy right now, and the number of vehicles off in the bush is amazing – people who were just driving too fast. Usually accidents here are single-car because there are few...

Here are a couple of photos I took on the way home yesterday at 4:25, with the temperature sitting at -33°C (that’s -27.4°F). To get these shots I made a detour over to Long Lake Road, one of my favourite shooting locations. It offers a good broad look at...

It is so beautiful when the mercury drops out the bottom of your thermometer. No, really! Check out these photos taken in the past few days, for example: The historic sternwheeler SS Klondike in an icy fog rising off the open water of the Yukon River as it flows...

The sky yesterday morning was wonderful for a few minutes – these pastels are winter-only colours. Yesterday was a cleaning-up day, starting with clearing the snow that’s fallen the past few days. Not a lot but if you let it build up it gets tough to move. I thought...

Despite weather forecasts that called for sun in both Whitehorse and Skagway today, it turned out to be high fog for most of the day. Dropping down to Tutshi Lake, the scene was stunning, though – a gunmetal-gray lake below and thick fog of the same colour parting just...

As the snow gets deeper and deeper, my mind occasionally wanders to warm places, and last night I ended up in Costa Rica, where friends of mine are developing property, and then in Panamá. I love history as much as I love warm beaches, and I discovered that the...