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KalineCountry[/color]]Today was 50 degrees and sunny. Felt like April 7, not January 7.
Weather forecast calls for 40's into next weekend when we are expected to get colder temps and snow for the rest of the month. How they can forecast that far into the future (2 to 3 weeks idk). Also said something about jet streams will start hitting were I live more spot on than going north of us to NH, Vermont, and Maine.
Doug, iirc you posted about Yellowknife last winter when I did the same thread at espn...Brrrrrr.
For some odd reason Ron, it just fascinates me that there still are tens of thousands of people (who aren't all Eskimos or who are still living in igloos..lol) who can somehow eke out a living in what are the most desolate, forbiddingly remote, and extremely hostile weather, (temperature and climate-wise) areas, mostly located above the Arctic Circle of North America. Nearby the Richardson Mountains, the Yukon and NWT's Dempster Highway, and further east being Nunavut, in the extreme northern part of Canada, the air temperature in winter, often plunges to ~60 below F, or more, and during the occasional blizzards there, the gusty wind speeds can reach if not exceed 80-100 KPH!!
The "wind-chills" during those blizzards must be very near -100 below zero F. I would love to be able to travel to that region before I pass on, and stay while taking in its scenic areas and natural beauty for say, a month or so, including the Klondike region and the famous late 19th century gold and now diamond-rush city of Yellowknife, NWT and the roughneck gold-miner town of Dawson in the Yukon but only during their brief summertime and/or fall, of course...heh!!
They also enjoy 4 "seasons" of weather, and despite man-caused global warming and climate-change beginning to show negative ecological effects upon that region, for example it is now known that foraging Polar bears who are being forced off their natural habitat of shrinking, melting, and vanishing ice floes and the nearby shores of the Arctic Ocean, are traveling much further inland, far away from the ocean, and sometimes are successfully mating with Grizzly bears in the wild, the female Grizzly or Polar bear producing hybrid offspring, being nicknamed "Grolar" bears, but for now, the three seasons still being mostly limited to only the months of June (spring) July (summer) and August (fall)...yikes!!
Richardson Mountains and the Dempster Highway: