Yellowknife, Northern Lights (Braeden Cordero, CMRU.ca)
For the first time in 30 years, Yellowknife had a Halloween with no snow on the ground. The 2021 fall/winter season in the Northwest Territories has been set up to be one of the, if not the warmest season we’ve had. Temperatures only recently started to hit the -20⁰ Celsius mark when in previous years that type of weather would arrive in mid/late October.
This article talks about how typically, this time of the year would have people by the outdoor rinks, instead the ice is only starting to freeze over.
Yellowknife is a city that takes pride in its cold climate so the delay of the cold weather is something every Yellowknifer has noticed.
I have fond memories of the colder days in Yellowknife, many great moments and stories were made through the cold.
In elementary school, we had a competition between all of the classes in which we had to race our custom toboggans down the hill that was in front of the school. Our teachers cut classes short that day to ensure that our time was devoted to mankind the best toboggan possible. My class never won but at the end of the day the whole school got maple taffy.
Just because we’ve become accustomed to the cold, does not automatically make us fans of it.
The true wonders of Yellowknife winters comes in the form of the sense of community everyone feels.
From sharing a coffee with your neighbor as you both shovel your driveways, helping someone who got their vehicle stuck in a snowbank or even playing hockey with the people at the local outdoor rink.
Yellowknife’s winter is determined by the residents of the city, not by the weather outdoors.
– Braeden Cordero
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