Blizzard buries Iqaluit, shutting down many essential services
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- A massive blizzard has torn through Iqaluit, Nunavut's capital, and shut down essential services like water delivery and waste management.
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Wow lots of snow in Iqaluit, who would have thought.
Free water 💧? 😂
The Arctic actually doesn't get much precipitations. It's basically like a desert because the surrounding seas are so cold that there's very little evaporation
@@PatG-xd8qn Lol this isn't true
@@XYZ_55 It is 100% true.
Iqaluit gets between 1,8 and 2,3 meters of snow on a yearly basis, which might seem like a lot, but not really when considered that they get this amount of snow over a period of 10 months, since snow can fall in Iqaluit at any time between September and June.
In comparison, where I live (Saguenay in Québec) we get 2,5 to 4 meters of snow in just 5 months.
This means that Iqaluit gets very few major snow storms. Thus, they might not be equipped to deal with large snowfalls like other regions of Canada are.
@@PatG-xd8qn It snows in Detroit sometimes in April and October but that's rare as he'll too 95% of the snow in the arctic is during the normal winter months
these guys are just driving around in there snow mobiles LMAO I highly bet the people are not bothered at all enjoy the snow
Was it just 15cm or 50? 15 is not a large snowfall, the winds are crazy and I can see that as the issue but 6" of snow on its own is common in Canada. Need to make clear what the issue was, unless it was 50cm which is a substantial amount anywhere.
15 cm? Did you mean to say 50 cm? Or did the wind blow snow from the surroundings into the city?
Nope, 15 cm. But the winds are so strong that it probably stayed airborne for quite a while.
If this doesn't sound like a lot of snow, keep in mind that Antarctica averages about 15 cm of precipitation ANNUALLY, and it's considered the harshest winter climate in the world, so...
@@anisaguine So interesting. Thanks!
Snow in Iqaluit, hmm that place next to Greenland😂
15cm massive blizzard in nunavut
You can see the icicles appear on his moustache as the reporting continues through the video! 😂
Let him report inside! 😅
The day afhter tomarrow
Newfies: LOL, hold my beer 😂
CBC, please report on Trudeau's censorship bill. He wants to silence his critics 😢
And in my own personal opinion,And one of our Canada's (True north Strong and Free ) northern cities called Iqaluit,Nunavut Territory --- Canada ( True North Strong and Free ) " is definitely a snowstorm/extreme snowstorm or winter blizzard/severe winter blizzard alley " because it is too far north and very close to the remote,isolated and very far away part of the world called the North Pole.
Actually it's far from the North Pole, it isn't even above the arctic circle. Resolute Bay is close to the North Pole as far as villages go. Not much snow there but the winds can obscure your outstretched hand when it's snowing.
Global colding
Yep, thats Iqaluit for ya. I would know.
Snow in the Arctic must be climate change
Well actually it can be. The Arctic doesn't get much snow because of how cold it is. However, with global warming, even the Arctic ocean will get warmer and there will thus be more storms hitting the region
@@schrempskynate8944 If that's the most intelligent reply you could find, then it proves that I'm right.
@@PatG-xd8qn Have you ever been to the arctic. ? I have and for anyone to suggest it's odd that 6 " of snow in February is odd just shows your stupidity
Snow? In Canada?? What next?
If it was enough to shut down essential services, than clearly it's out of the ordinary. Critical thinking skills folks.
It was enough to shut down GOVERNMENT services ,which we all know takes f@%k all . To the people on the ground it was just another day in the arctic
If you want to know how snow is formed
A blizzard...in the winter time, on Baffin Island... in the arctic.
Must be that climate change thing we keep hearing about.
Gotta increase that carbon tax to prevent this.
Maybe carbon tax will fix it
Global warming eh
So if it gets cold anywhere, then the comment section denies shorter winters, longer summers, & warmer average temperatures.
Global cooling is coming 😢
Pool some of that snow so you can have water reserves for fighting fires later down the road.
Baffin Island is above the tree line. Forest fires aren't an issue.
I can tell you failed geography...
this comment gave me brain worms
Totally!!
In so many ways, we're a third world country.
Didnt trudeau give them independance? Good luck...
Snow in the Arctic must be climate change