If the prairie provinces were experiencing a wave of unusually mild weather, stories like this would be front page news in every mainstream outlet. I thought I could hear crickets, but it’s probably too cold for that.
On Christmas Eve, Deadmen Valley in the Northwest Territories recorded a brutally cold temperature of -45C and the only place that was colder was Jakutsk, Russia at -48C at 4:00 p.m. EST. In fact, the bone-chilling air that sent temperatures tumbling so low in Deadmen Valley originated in Russia before it migrated over the North Pole.
How dare you? That’s just weather, totally unrelated to climate change. We’re still all going to die from overheating unless governments tax everything that moves and anything that doesn’t. /sarc
I was stopped at an OnRoute today and one of the CBC news screens was running the headline “Climate and weather? They’re not the same, and here’s why that’s important”.
F*cking propaganda mill.
Can’t have one without the other.
“Weather” and “climate”?
Or “propaganda” and “CBC”?
It is Winter again.
Imagine my surprise.
Already wishing for Spring.
And Al Gore is still an Idiot, like all of his like-minded fools and hypocritical acolytes.
Not to mention the deliberately evil perpetrators of this royal global warming scam.
Up the carbon tax! The serfs must pay!
Is anyone else annoyed that Environment Canada (branch of Guvament!) feels compelled to tell us how to dress, how to drive, how to care for pets, and on and on ad nauseum?
Just call ’em Enviroguess Canada. Puts me in the right frame of mind to ignore them most of the time.
The Weather network is just as bad.. if you have a newer version of the app, there’s a button on the lower right that says ‘climate’. It should say ‘Propaganda’ but that takes too many letters and is too honest.
As for Yakutsk, these guys will get your car going: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHExzxPL0Q
Watch they don’t melt your bumper or other plastics!
Due to the permafrost, there are no underground parkades there.
Most residents either take the battery out, so it doesn’t freeze and just use public transportation, or get a small circulating heater installed (Wabasto) and tent the car, or leave the car running, once it’s started.
In winter bush flying, you take the battery out of the plane and drain the engine oil into a metal pail and place on top of the wood stove, with battery close by.
Oh, I dunno — the period between late October and mid-December here in Edmonton was gorgeous and unusually warm with very little snow. I’m digging it, ’cause even if it’s cold now, that means we get a shorter season of cold/snow before Spring comes again.
And we’re getting actual snow to boot, which, whilst a PITA to shovel/sweep all the time (‘specially at these temperatures!), will give us some badly-needed moisture this Spring. Last summer was hot with too little rain and too much smoke. Bleccchh.
I’m digging it, ’cause even if it’s cold now, that means we get a shorter season of cold/snow before Spring comes again.
I’m not. I have to drive through all that “climate change” and “carbon tax” to my house in B. C. in the next few days.
Watch for the black ice, especially between Valleyview and Whitecourt. Safe journeys.
Climate change science fiction writers only have to convince one employer to pay them and that’s worked out well for them, the government doles out our cash because they think there’s something behind this herd of writers, directors, and producers. But polls show that climate change science fiction is low on the list of people’s worries, it would be nice to knee cap both the pandemicists and the climateers now that its become obvious our science is fraud.
I remember the good ol’ days at SDA when we used to ridicule the hell out of anybody ignorant enough to equate their local weather with the global climate.
It is unseasonably cold in BC’s S. Interior this week , which means not a goddamn thing more than it is unseasonably cold in BC’s S. Interior this week.
Spent 20 odd years in the okanagan valley, used to roll my eyes when people said it never snowed and was always warm!
Back around 1992, the pipes froze and burst in our house and the drains and pipes froze in the restaurant I was working at. We had about 4′ of global warming as well..
Zon
Yup.
Been retired in the Okanagan for the last seven years and laugh at the homeys every year that they try to deny the snow and cold in front of their faces.
That said, I love the valley winters, having previously endured 35 years in northern Alberta, and, prior to that, a solid 20 years in northern Ontario.
I had the distinction of living in the third coldest spot on earth today. -41 wind chill -54.
Hope you did not venture outside.
Luckily I had the day off.
Environment Canada called this last fall. They are pretty close on their prediction – so far.
More to come.
TAKE A DAY OFF, GRETA!
FFS!
Give us a break.
You can glare at us like a climate goblin all of next year.
Ah yes, the “Weather Network”. They would report on extreme cold winter temperatures and immediately after run a propaganda piece about global warming.
I no longer have their app or tune into them any more.
I guess you just need your solar panels and windmills to work harder, heh, heh, heh.
Boxing Day in BC and Alberta:
Weather summary
for British Columbia
issued by Environment Canada
at 11:20 p.m. PST Sunday 26 December 2021.
Discussion.
The following areas set a daily minimum temperature record on
December 26, 2021:
Abbotsford Area
New record of -12.4
Old record of -11.9 set in 2008
Records in this area have been kept since 1944
Agassiz Area
New record of -14.2
Old record of -11.1 set in 1937
Records in this area have been kept since 1889
Bella Bella Area
New record of -15.2
Old record of -5.7 set in 2012
Records in this area have been kept since 1977
Bella Coola Area
New record of -18.9
Old record of -17.2 set in 1937
Records in this area have been kept since 1895
Burns Lake Area
New record of -39.0
Old record of -37.6 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1949
Esquimalt Area
New record of -8.7
Old record of -5.4 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1874
Estevan Point Area
New record of -6.0
Old record of -4.5 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1908
Fort Nelson Area
New record of -40.6
Old record of -40.0 set in 1961
Records in this area have been kept since 1937
Gibsons Area
New record of -8.0
Old record of -6.0 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1949
Gonzales Point Area
New record of -8.7
Old record of -5.4 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1874
Hope Area
New record of -15.7
Old record of -13.9 set in 1971
Records in this area have been kept since 1936
Malahat Area
New record of -11.1
Old record of -8.5 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1986
Port Alberni Area
New record of -13.3
Old record of -10.0 set in 1971
Records in this area have been kept since 1900
Port Hardy Area
New record of -11.5
Old record of -7.8 set in 1971
Records in this area have been kept since 1944
Prince George Area
New record of -40.7
Old record of -40.0 set in 1933
Records in this area have been kept since 1912
Prince Rupert Area
New record of -17.8
Old record of -15.6 set in 1968
Records in this area have been kept since 1908
Sandspit Area
New record of -6.8
Old record of -6.1 set in 1955
Records in this area have been kept since 1945
Sechelt Area
New record of -8.0
Old record of -5.0 set in 1971
Records in this area have been kept since 1956
Smithers Area
New record of -36.5
Old record of -36.1 set in 1971
Records in this area have been kept since 1938
Summerland Area
New record of -19.5
Old record of -17.8 set in 1948
Records in this area have been kept since 1907
Victoria Harbour Area
New record of -8.7
Old record of -5.4 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1874
Note: the temperature records reported here have been derived from a
selection of historical stations in each geographic area that were
active during the period of record.
Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial
information and does not constitute a complete or final report.
Up next Alberta
Weather summary
for Alberta
issued by Environment Canada
at 11:38 a.m. MST Monday 27 December 2021.
Discussion.
A cold, arctic airmass has settled into the province setting several
temperature records on Boxing day and December 27. Temperatures will
remain below normal through the week.
The following areas set a daily minimum temperature record on
December 27, 2021.
Airdrie Area
New record of -40.6
Old record of -36.1 set in 1968
Records in this area have been kept since 1881
Banff Area
New record of -37.2
Old record of -34.4 set in 1934
Records in this area have been kept since 1881
Bow Valley (Provincial Park) Area
New record of -40.4
Old record of -35.6 set in 1968
Records in this area have been kept since 1928
Cardston Area
New record of -36.4
Old record of -31.1 set in 1934
Records in this area have been kept since 1918
Claresholm Area
New record of -36.8
Old record of -31.1 set in 1968
Records in this area have been kept since 1951
Coronation Area
New record of -36.4
Old record of -36.1 set in 1968
Records in this area have been kept since 1912
Drumheller Area
New record of -37.8
Old record of -35.0 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1923
Edmonton International Airport
New record of -41.6
Old record of -38.0 set in 1992
Records in this area have been kept since 1959
Elk Island (National Park) Area
New record of -40.0
Old record of -35.5 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1966
Grande Prairie Area
New record of -44.4
Old record of -43.1 set in 1984
Records in this area have been kept since 1922
Jasper Area
New record of -39.5
Old record of -36.7 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1916
Nordegg Area
New record of -40.7
Old record of -39.4 set in 1968
Records in this area have been kept since 1915
Pincher Creek Area
New record of -35.9
Old record of -33.9 set in 1968
Records in this area have been kept since 1893
Sundre Area
New record of 40.9
Old record of -36.2 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1993
Waterton Park Area
New record of -37.2
Old record of -27.1 set in 1996
Records in this area have been kept since 1976
Note: The day has not ended and some values could still be exceeded
before the end of the day.
The following areas set a daily minimum temperature record on
December 26, 2021
Bow Valley (Provincial Park) Area
New record of -38.5
Record of -33.7 set in 2017
Records in this area have been kept since 1928
Hendrickson Creek Area
New record of -42.5
Old record of -35.8 set in 2017
Records in this area have been kept since 1995
High River Area
New record of -33.7
Old record of -33.4 set in 2017
Records in this area have been kept since 1913
Highvale Area
New record of -32.6
Old record of -31.2 set in 2017
Records in this area have been kept since 1977
Red Earth Creek Area
New record of -37.5
Old record of -36.9 set in 2017
Records in this area have been kept since 1994
Waterton Park Area
New record of -34.2
Old record of -33.2 set in 2017
Records in this area have been kept since 1976
Note: the temperature records reported here have been derived from a
selection of historical stations in each geographic area that were
active during the period of record.
Please note that this summary may contain preliminary or unofficial
information and does not constitute a complete or final report.
End/PASPC
Hendrickson Creek Area
New record of -42.5
Old record of -35.8 set in 2017
Records in this area have been kept since 1995
-42.5 would not have broken our record low here in Edson Alberta
The coldest temperature ever recorded was −48.3 °C (−55 °F) on 22 January 1943, and 14 January 1950.
clipe – Your records align with this CTV news report:
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-s-cold-weather-leads-to-nearly-2-dozen-temperature-records-being-broken-on-boxing-day-1.5720467
Watch them while you can…
It was colder than this in the winter of 1949-50. January 1950 had readings 5 to 10 degrees lower than the daily records we are setting this week. So it can get colder. And it probably will. There’s more of this Siberian connection to come before we get through January which is normally the coldest month of the winter in most places (not every winter of course).
These weather stations you hear about with the super low temperatures — Rabbit Kettle and Deadmen Valley, are in Nahanni National Park. They are relatively new weather stations that were installed with the park facilities and they will likely run colder than many other locations as the topography is like the central Yukon and cold air can really settle in without being disturbed. The mountains to the south of the Nahanni valley block out low-angle winter sunlight that might warm the air masses slightly too; basically there is about two or three hours a day of actual daylight in that area around the winter solstice. If you know roughly where Virginia Falls is located on the South Nahanni River, Rabbit Kettle is about 100 kms west of that, near the park boundary, and Deadman Valley is about 100 km east.
There is probably two feet of snow on the ground in that valley and with clear skies and no air movement, it’s not surprising at all that temperatures would fall into the mid to high -40s (C), the topography is probably fairly similar to the famous Siberian cold spot Oymyakon which is sometimes a bit colder than Yakutsk, the comparison would be like Rabbit Kettle and Fort Simpson as Yakutsk is in a lower valley on a big river (the Lena I believe, it rises from mountains north of Lake Baikal and flows north into the Arctic Ocean). Oymyakon is in a valley further east than Yakutsk and north of the Sea of Okhotsk.
The record low there is -64.4 degrees (C) in Feb 1891. The mean December and January temperature is -37 C for both months. This is quite a bit lower than any places in the Yukon as they tend to get a few incursions of milder Pacific air but both regions have similar extremes. Snag in the Yukon had a low of -63 C in Feb 1947. That weather station does not operate any more and Mayo is probably the coldest regularly reporting location but these Nahanni valley locations are probably a bit colder than Mayo (they are no doubt automatic stations, our kindly government would not force anyone to stay all winter in the Nahanni valley, that was the privilege of dying and lost prospectors who decided they might try a different way into the Klondike, hence the name Deadmen Valley).
Oymyakon has mean temperatures of -45.0 in Dec and -45.7 in Jan; the extreme low there is -67.7 C. Some other place called Verkhoyansk has had -68 C. That is further north than Yakutsk. These three places and any other small towns in the region are the coldest inhabited places on earth (by winter temperatures) other than the Vostok research station near the South Pole.
The coldest spot in Canada is probably Eureka on Ellesmere Island, but their winter means are in the -35 C range. You might find a location somewhere in the Yukon or western NWT mountains that has a -40 C average in January but there’s no thermometer at that location so we cannot be sure; however I would guess it’s a bit colder in some of the side valleys of the South Nahanni which are higher than Rabbit Kettle and even more sheltered by high mountains from sunlight so effectively they have a short interval of polar night despite being south of the arctic circle. The western arctic can have months in colder winters that average around -40 but overall they average closer to -30 because faint remnants of Pacific warmth get in there from time to time, it can get up around -5 to -10 C for a day or two in that region although it’s almost always below -25 in the winter.
And to think I doubted Dear Leader.
These freezing conditions are proof of how wonderful Dear Leader and his Glorious Carbon Sin Tax is saving us all.
Pay more tax and we can bring Global Warming down to minus 60 C.
We are all in this together,give all your money to Dear Leader(And minions) and you too can freeze in the dark.
I would throw in the observation that not all Environment Canada sites can be trusted,during the 1990s they discovered that their “precision automated weather stations” could not operate over the full range of Canadian weather.
So they chose summer range,easier to calibrate in summer,hence no -40 measurements were made..”Warming at twice the rate of anywhere else”.
Environment Canada’s Science…
As opposed to data based science.
Fear not,this too is good enough for government.
So we’re having a cold snap. Big deal! By the way, more extremes in weather is part of climate change.