Here is something that surprised me this year, and that I feel needs to be explained to people from Ottawa and Quebec.
Winters are actually easier here in the north, because the air is dry.
It’s true! While the season is colder and darker, it has its benefits:
1. No soaked boots or coats. Everything is just crisp.
2. No shoveling! There are barely a few inches of show at first, and then everything freezes.
3. No black ice, freezing rain, etc.
4. No slush.
Of course, I should mention: The other day in Sachs Harbour, the airport weather tower guy told me it reached minus sixty-two degrees celcius with the windchill. No amount of wool is going to make that comfortable!
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So is it generally a “normal” winter there with normal temperatures? Because everywhere else in Canada, Mother Nature got drunk or something and it’s weird weather and temperature. Yesterday, for example, it was 11 degrees here, and we’ve still got now snow.
So is -62 normal there? Or is it a weird winter there as well?
Everything is warmer than ususa. Right now, Inuvik is in the minus 20s, when it should be in the -30s or beyond.
I was apparently lucky enough to move here during the warmest winter in recent memory.
It must indeed be a very unusual winter for Inuvik! When I lived there between 1983-1992 I don’t think we ever experienced temperatures like that for any length of time.
By the way, I think you live in the same apt. at Mountainview as I did! Please feel free to contact me – your pictures bring back a lot of fond memories of the people and the area!