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Post by shalop on Dec 17, 2019 16:45:02 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Dec 28, 2019 3:44:22 GMT -5
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Post by shalop on Dec 31, 2019 18:10:42 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Dec 31, 2019 22:06:54 GMT -5
Interesting temp profile in Iqaluit. Almost steady but very slightly increasing over four days before a cold front blows through with strong winds, dropping the temperatures considerably. From then on, pretty stable temperatures.  |
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Post by Crunch41 on Jan 4, 2020 2:11:04 GMT -5
I was going to post that interior Quebec had some cold weather coming up, but Alaska completely blows this away.  Wow, I had no idea Alaska was getting so cold. It's not odd, since they usually have the opposite pattern of me in the winter. I had a very mild second half of December and interior Alaska had extreme cold. But Bettles Airport had a -55/-60 day on 12/27, that's extreme! Two days later it went back to the single digits F, but they got a foot of snow, which is also extreme. I don't think that is possible anywhere else in the world. Siberia gets that cold regularly, but can they get a large snowfall two days later?  Bettles Field was even colder, with a -61/-63 day. I think the lowest max in the US is -66 in Ambler, so that's close to a record. Snow isn't recorded there, but they got 1" of precipitation with temps below 0F so it must be a lot of snow. The other Bettles station had 0.79" which led to 12.8" /div] Manley Hot Springs had the coldest temp with -65F/-54C.  Sagwon on the north slope reached 44F/7C on December 10th, extremely warm for the area. You can see the milder weather on the stations I posted above, just not quite as warm. Also some other stations on the north slope were over 40F, so it does not appear to be an error. It has been in the -20s to -30s most of the past two weeks. This station is on NOWDATA also.
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Post by shalop on Jan 5, 2020 10:25:38 GMT -5
Crunch41 Yeah the climate in interior alaska and the yukon can be very misleading. If one only pays attention to averages, then any cold lover can easily dismiss this region as being outright inferior to colder places like Nunavut and Siberia. The problem with this viewpoint, however, is that alaska and the yukon actually get a lot more interesting weather than those colder places when they do get cold. Besides the recent cold, a great example of this is the legendary month of January 2012, when Bettles was 25f below average and reached -60f several times. Another example was the -80f temps (~70f below normal) which were unofficially recorded in Tok as recently as 11 years ago ( www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99162528 ). For a third example, Alaska is also the site of the coldest officially recorded temp in North america since 2000 afaik: a coop station in Chicken AK reached -72f:
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Post by Hiromant on Jan 5, 2020 15:40:31 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jan 14, 2020 2:23:12 GMT -5
Mayo, YT is the coldest place in Canada right now at -48C or -54F, and is most likely the coldest place in the northern hemisphere at the moment. Even Summit Camp, Greenland is only -42C right now.  |
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Post by Hiromant on Jan 14, 2020 4:03:49 GMT -5
Yukon and central Alaska are awesome. I like how winters are normally manageably frigid at -20°C to -30°C but there's a good chance for this kind of brutal cold as well.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jan 15, 2020 14:42:23 GMT -5
Saw a -55F reading at Pontzi Mountain, BC earlier today. I think only Rabbit Kettle, NWT was colder at -57F.
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Post by shalop on Jan 26, 2020 19:28:29 GMT -5
Siberia is finally getting some good cold. -69F (-56C) in Oymyakon and -71F (-57C) in Verkhoyansk. The latter also had a -67F (-55C) maximum! www.pogodaiklimat.ru/monitor.php?id=24688
Yakutsk, they reached -48C or -54F. But the station data seems wrong on Pogoda. It doesn't match UEEE's obs.
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Post by trolik on Jan 26, 2020 21:01:55 GMT -5
Siberia is finally getting some good cold. -69F (-56C) in Oymyakon and -71F (-57C) in Verkhoyansk. The latter also had a -67F (-55C) maximum! www.pogodaiklimat.ru/monitor.php?id=24688
Yakutsk, they reached -48C or -54F. But the station data seems wrong on Pogoda. It doesn't match UEEE's obs.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jan 27, 2020 12:07:34 GMT -5
shalop14F snow in Yellowknife now. Must feel warm or at least mild. 
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Post by shalop on Jan 27, 2020 13:12:20 GMT -5
^Yeah, I'm sure the streets downtown are packed full of Chinese and Korean tourists, sweating in the oversized parkas they rented from Aurora Village because they were expecting -30c all week, and slightly disgruntled because it was too cloudy to see any aurora last night, but with high hopes for tonight. I can imagine it vividly lol.
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Post by trolik on Jan 27, 2020 13:16:08 GMT -5
^Yeah, I'm sure the streets downtown are packed full of Chinese and Korean tourists, sweating in the oversized parkas they rented from Aurora Village because they were expecting -30c all week, and slightly disgruntled because it was too cloudy to see any aurora last night, but with high hopes for tonight. I can imagine it vividly lol. how on earth will they be sweating in 14f weather |
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Post by shalop on Jan 27, 2020 13:23:55 GMT -5
^Because those huge expensive parkas are made to be comfortable at -30C. At -10C you just need a regular jacket (and trust me, you can sweat at any temperature if you are overdressed).
I mean, if you haven't experienced -10C then this is likely difficult to comprehend, because both -10 and -30 probably just sound like different variants of "extreme cold" to you, but this is complete nonsense: there is nothing extreme about -10C.
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Post by AJ1013 on Jan 27, 2020 13:25:17 GMT -5
^Yeah, I'm sure the streets downtown are packed full of Chinese and Korean tourists, sweating in the oversized parkas they rented from Aurora Village because they were expecting -30c all week, and slightly disgruntled because it was too cloudy to see any aurora last night, but with high hopes for tonight. I can imagine it vividly lol. how on earth will they be sweating in 14f weather My thoughts exactly. I’ve experienced 14F many times and I’ve never been “sweating” lmao. The coldest temp that has felt mild to me before is around -3C. And for the record I have experienced both -10C and -30C |
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Post by shalop on Jan 29, 2020 10:53:29 GMT -5
As usual Alaska is the story of this winter. Lows this morning in the North Slope: Deadhorse: -43C Nuisqut: -45C (with those wind chills! w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/PAQT.html ) Barrow: -34C Wainwright: -38C Barter Island: -37C I still haven't been able to verify just how high and how accurate this forecast for upper Denali is, but just looking at the numbers makes me really happy (-65c Friday night). In other news, Verkhoyansk posted 5 consecutive maxima below -50c. Impressive by any standards; resembled a typical week in my dream climate. Also, AJ1013 I initially misunderstood what you were saying, but no you're full of crap. While it's certainly valid to say that -3c is the lower threshold of "mild weather," you incorrectly deduce that it's not possible to sweat below that point. Sweating at subzero wind chills is a very real (and dangerous) phenomenon, most often caused by overdressing combined with overexertion, see the last bullet in this NWS page: www.weather.gov/arx/wind_chill . |
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Post by alex992 on Jan 29, 2020 11:30:57 GMT -5
^ As pissed off as I am about this shit show of a winter we've had in the Eastern US, I'm pretty happy to see Alaska and Siberia have a cold winter.
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Post by shalop on Jan 29, 2020 11:42:18 GMT -5
^Yup after this gayhole of a winter I've learned to be content as long as the daytime highs here stay below 50F. But even that's not happening: it looks like we have a shot at 60F early next week, so at least it's a little bit soothing to see numbers like -70F in these places. It has a strangely therapeutic effect.
Edit: This January was solidly below avg at Eureka Nunavut, coming in at -36.5/-42.6C. The whole first week had lows below -45C, including -49 on the 3rd! Before this it seems like March 2018 was the last below avg winter month (-34.8/-41.1C). The cold really seems to be staying up there this year.
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