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Post by knot on Feb 3, 2021 6:35:39 GMT -5
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Post by Crunch41 on Feb 4, 2021 0:08:47 GMT -5
Eureka Nunavut is recording strong wind. Not sure if it's real since the wind is usually mild there, but it's giving some extreme numbers. At 80 degrees north, even a southern wind is cold.
The 9pm reading in imperial units is -49F, wind 35mph, wind chill -96F
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Feb 4, 2021 0:15:21 GMT -5
Eureka Nunavut is recording strong wind. Not sure if it's real since the wind is usually mild there, but it's giving some extreme numbers. At 80 degrees north, even a southern wind is cold.
The 9pm reading in imperial units is -49F, wind 35mph, wind chill -96F
weather.gc.ca/past_conditions/index_e.html?station=nekI suppose those numbers are real but it does look strange. 6 km/h with 65 km/h gusts? Jesus christ! ...if that is real. |
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Post by Crunch41 on Feb 4, 2021 8:59:25 GMT -5
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Post by Nidaros on Feb 4, 2021 11:46:54 GMT -5
Valley town 62'N, 482 m ASL  |
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Post by shalop on Feb 5, 2021 16:37:16 GMT -5
Yellowknife has a forecast low of -52 F (-47 C) tomorrow night. Very rare to see that. Also Yakutsk finished the entire month of January 10 F (6 C) below average.  |
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Post by kronan on Feb 16, 2021 11:01:51 GMT -5
frigid forecasts for much of european russia.  |
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Post by Crunch41 on Feb 16, 2021 22:05:54 GMT -5
Minus 69 in Alaska. It's fake, has to be. The station is near Tok which "only" recorded -48F that day. The diurnal range is too big.  |
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Post by alex992 on Feb 17, 2021 14:39:55 GMT -5
^ Lol. 0/-55, 5/-53, etc those temperature look very suspect. I don't think Alaska can see those type of diurnals in the middle of winter, maybe from a significant shift in air mass but it doesn't look like any significant change came through. Also, extreme cold in the interior of Alaska tends to be with strong inversions, ice fog, etc so the daytime highs don't warm up much from the low.
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Post by shalop on Feb 17, 2021 18:40:35 GMT -5
Could be fake, could be real. I remember some isolated part of CO reached -50F in December, while most nearby areas of the state barely got to 0F. The point is the unique geography of frost hollows and sinkhole type areas: they are really (sometimes absurdly) good at the kind of cold air drainage that creates massive inversions at night once the sun sets and the wind dies down.
Another example is Peter sinks in UT, which can be 60F colder than surroundings. Further examples from Europe can be found in the frost hollow thread by rozenn. That place could be the Alaskan counterpart. The little depressions and valleys near Tok and Chicken AK are famous for exactly this type of crazy inversion behavior. In recent decades those places have recorded the coldest temps in North America outside of Greenland. That's why I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss those numbers. Even if they're fake, the truth could be a lot closer than it might seem. |
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Post by alex992 on Feb 17, 2021 18:49:29 GMT -5
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Post by shalop on Feb 17, 2021 18:59:30 GMT -5
Nah I hadn't seen that alex992. That's crazy, -95F! It would be a cool project to install some of those automated measurement devices in those kinds of super remote valleys. I think they'd reveal temps below the official record lows of various places. In Switzerland there's a group of researchers doing exactly that (see rozenn's thread). |
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Post by shalop on Feb 24, 2021 20:42:48 GMT -5
Current conditions, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut:
Temp: -43 C
winds NW 15 mph sustained
Feels like: -61 C
In fact, a whole large swath of the northern canadian archipelagos are below -40C with moderate to high winds right now. Taloyoak, Gjoa Haven, Sachs Harbor, Aulavik Park, etc. I am really jealous. Would love to be in the middle of that.
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Post by Crunch41 on Feb 26, 2021 0:06:15 GMT -5
Current conditions, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut: Temp: -43 C winds NW 15 mph sustained Feels like: -61 C In fact, a whole large swath of the northern canadian archipelagos are below -40C with moderate to high winds right now. Taloyoak, Gjoa Haven, Sachs Harbor, Aulavik Park, etc. I am really jealous. Would love to be in the middle of that. Wow. Most places are not below -40 now, but some are very windy. All current conditions
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Churchill, MB -32.8C, wind WNW 27km/h, wind chill -49C Keats Point, NT -34.5, wind WSW 72 gust 81, wind chill -58
Whale Cove, NU -37.1, wind WNW 63 gust 73, wind chill -61 Stefansson Island, NU -44.0, wind ESE 27, wind chill -63 Rankin Inlet Airport, NU -36.8, wind NW 65, wind chill -60 Gjoa Haven, NU -44.1, wind SSE 2
Baker Lake, NU -39.7, wind WNW 37, wind chill -60 Arviat, NU -36.7, wind W 39 gust 49, wind chill -56 US units
Churchill, MB -27F, wind WNW 17 mph, wind chill -56
Keats Point, NT -30, wind WSW 45 gust 50, wind chill -72
Whale Cove, NU -35, WNW 39 gust 45, wind chill -78
Stefansson Island, NU -47, wind ESE 17, wind chill -81
Rankin Inlet Airport, NU -34, wind NW 40, wind chill -76
Gjoa Haven, NU -47, wind SSE 1
Baker Lake, NU -39, wind WNW 23, wind chill -76
Arviat, NU -34, wind W 24 gust 30, wind chill -69
Yesterday Thomsen River, NT reached -50C/-58F. The station is at 73.23N 119.54W which is near the center of Banks Island and uninhabited.
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Post by shalop on Feb 27, 2021 17:40:08 GMT -5
Churchill, MB -27F, wind WNW 17 mph, wind chill -56
Keats Point, NT -30, wind WSW 45 gust 50, wind chill -72
Whale Cove, NU -35, WNW 39 gust 45, wind chill -78
Stefansson Island, NU -47, wind ESE 17, wind chill -81
Rankin Inlet Airport, NU -34, wind NW 40, wind chill -76
Gjoa Haven, NU -47, wind SSE 1
Baker Lake, NU -39, wind WNW 23, wind chill -76
Arviat, NU -34, wind W 24 gust 30, wind chill -69
For coastal Arctic locations in North America above 60N or so, this is how I interpret wintertime wind chills: -50s F is normal weather. -60s F is below average but still very common. -70s F is uncommon but tends to happen a few times a year in all these places. -80s F is rare but at least a couple of these places will reach that mark in a typical winter season. -90s F is very rare and most of these places have only reached this range once or twice, if at all. -100s F is extremely rare and based on official records I only know of two places that have ever reached that mark: Deadhorse AK and Cambridge Bay NU. |
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Post by Crunch41 on Feb 28, 2021 21:45:01 GMT -5
For coastal Arctic locations in North America above 60N or so, this is how I interpret wintertime wind chills: -50s F is normal weather. -60s F is below average but still very common. -70s F is uncommon but tends to happen a few times a year in all these places. -80s F is rare but at least a couple of these places will reach that mark in a typical winter season. -90s F is very rare and most of these places have only reached this range once or twice, if at all. -100s F is extremely rare and based on official records I only know of two places that have ever reached that mark: Deadhorse AK and Cambridge Bay NU. Those match what I've seen when checking current weather for a few years. I have not seen a wind chill below the minus 80s personally.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugaaruk wiki claims to have the lowest wind chill in Canada. The source is the hourly data from Environment Canada so it seems real. I didn't check nearby stations for that day to be sure. -51.1C with a wind of 56km/h, wind chill -79. That's -60F, wind 35 mph, chill -110.2F
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Post by Crunch41 on Jul 19, 2021 22:10:46 GMT -5
Time to bring this thread back. Inukjuak is averaging below 10C this month, at 12.4/4.6 (54.3/40.3F). The hottest temperature all year is only 18.5C/65F, not even 20. Their current forecast has a heat wave with a 19/7 day on the 22nd. Also someone decided to make a 2001-2018 box for Inukjuak.  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukjuak |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Jul 30, 2021 0:11:00 GMT -5
yes Crunch41...it is TIME to bring this thread back! Just look at this Grytviken forecast...  |
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Post by Speagles84 on Jul 30, 2021 8:18:03 GMT -5
Time to bring this thread back. Inukjuak is averaging below 10C this month, at 12.4/4.6 (54.3/40.3F). The hottest temperature all year is only 18.5C/65F, not even 20. Their current forecast has a heat wave with a 19/7 day on the 22nd. Also someone decided to make a 2001-2018 box for Inukjuak. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InukjuakUtqiagvik (Barrow) maximum temperature thus far is only 59F that's bad even for them. |
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Post by Crunch41 on Oct 10, 2021 16:00:51 GMT -5
Kuujjuaq (58N) in northern Quebec has an 18/11 day forecast. This is about 15C above average! (3/-3)  Their record high in October is 20, and the July average is only 17.4/6.1 (for 1981-2010) so this day is warmer than a lot of summer days. |
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