While my Dad has already blogged about spring’s arrival in Southern Ontario, we are a ways off up here in the Yukon. After starting today at -34C, it peaked at…
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Yep, still cold
It’s January. Of course, it is still cold. Turns out, that was our 6th-coldest December in Dawson City since 1898. Zooming in on that chart for Dawson City: I’ll have…
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The never ending cold…
We were below -40 for some part of 19 straight days. That’s a decent streak! But yesterday we tiptoed into the minus twenties. Oh so warm! We spent the weekend…
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I’m 50! Recap of the week
When my brother and his wife told me a few months ago that they were thinking of coming up to visit us for my 50th birthday, I thought they were…
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Hundreds of earthquakes and the cold is here!
On Saturday afternoon I was decorating the house for Christmas and I was a little damp-eyed as I set up the little Christmas tree that always sits on the kitchen…
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The end of times
Am I referring to it being day 17 of this ridiculous cold? Or the 24 hours we spent thinking the geomagnetic storm cut us off from the rest of the…
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Hiking in cold weather
I stopped my daily hikes for the dark, cold, Christmas season of snacking and hibernating. And it would be really easy to just keep on hibernating until spring, but NO!…
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-50°C!?
It’s been super cold here for days… weeks? Since we moved here, I wanted to experience -50°C. We’ve gotten close before, but not until this last week could I truly…
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Whitehorse again, and it is cold!
Chilly day today! It didn’t get any warmer than -43C / -45F today, and we have an “Extreme Cold Warning” alert right now warning of possible windchills of -50 C…
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Thoughts from a cold bath outside
Nope. Don’t do it. I don’t recommend. After you fill up your hot tub with fresh water, wait until it reaches your desired temperature. Is it March in Dawson City?…
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Brains, and -20 never felt so warm!
Finally the warmth arrived! Well, not warmth like you’d expect, but warm for us after a long stretch in the minus forties! When we warmed up to -38C, I couldn’t…
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Hey, it’s still cold here!
The extreme cold was supposed to end on Sunday. Then Monday. It’s already moved on to Friday and now it’s been extended now until tomorrow too. This is extraordinary! I’m…
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It’s pretty cold
It is -45C here today, oh, just dropped to -46! That’s not windchill or exaggeration. Here’s a new thermometer I took out to the porch today: We’ve just taken over…
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Cold
I love the cold. It’s clean, it’s crisp, it’s fascinating, yet it hurts. We’ve gone into the -40’s for a few stretches this winter. Most people will never experience this…
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Hmm, should we go triple pane?
We’ve got big old wooden windows in this house. They are two pane, but I suspect if we upgrade to triple pane windows, we may have less frost in here:…
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Mid November update from the frosty subarctic
We’re down to -35°C right now and I’ve slowly morphed into my deep winter gear, which includes multiple layers of life saving, skin warming fabrics. Today the Skookum parka finally…
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Cold and northern lights
It’s below -20°C now and will be staying below -20 (-4F) until next week! Pretty good for early November! We had a sky full of northern lights tonight. Horizon to…
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Is winter leaving too soon?
Nope! Not here it isn’t! Here’s the forecast for the week: Look at all that sun in the forecast! It’s now getting light when we get up in the morning!…
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Early December Updates
Christmas season is in full swing here in Dawson City! We kick it off with the Festival of Lights on December 1st. This is food, and a scavenger hunt for…
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Christmas forecast, gardening, and Monty update
Weather Update While the rest of the continent is enjoying their tropical Christmas forecast, here is ours: It is 11:43am and the street lights just shut off. We’re getting snow…
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