About 2 days ago Arctic Bay (the body of water) froze over and I think it is safe to say that it is frozen for the season. After several calm days it should be thick enough that no amount of wind will break it up. It will be a nice smooth surface for snowmobiles and travel this year.
Judging from what I saw, Adam's Sound is well on its way to be frozen over as well, and if this weather holds travel on Admiralty should be nice and smooth as well.
Freeze up is only a little bit late this year, about two weeks past normal, which is right around Thanksgiving weekend. It hasn't froze over here at Thanksgiving now for several years, as has been as much as 5 or 6 weeks later. Winter is upon us.
Our temperature dipped this past week, hanging out in the mid minus teens, and I'm feeling it this year. -15C in late October shouldn't feel as cold as it does. But it does, and I'm just going to have to suck it up. We are only a couple weeks from the dark season.
Time for another cup of coffee.
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Yeah, it’s time to suck it up but it seems as if it gets harder for every year… Still and all – I miss the Arctic and I look at your pictures and those from Inuvik with longing in my heart.
We’re having an early hit of Winter here in Southern Saskatchewan. No matter how much I prepare (which I don’t, really), it’s always a shock.
Love all your pix and your stories of your part of The North.
You’re kind of still in the Arctic allmycke, with trees. If it is any consolation, the Arctic misses you also.
Thank you Kathy. Growing up down there, we’d count on snow about every second Halloween. But I imagine that’s changed now that climate change is growing more and move obvious. So snow now, must seem early.