Warm front brings big melt to Iqaluit; schools to stay closed all day, says education authority
A pool of water flows near the Iqaluit breakwater as temperatures were forecasted to rise to 3 C Monday, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. The City of Iqaluit warned people in a public service announcement to drive slowly due to roads that remained slippery before the mercury rises. The Iqaluit District Education Authority closed schools for the morning due to the icy conditions, and later announced Aqsarniit, Inuksuk, Joamie and Nakasuk schools will remain closed for the afternoon but are expected to reopen Tuesday as usual. Despite the warm temperatures Monday, the remainder of the week is expected to be consistently below zero. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
WOW, that is nuts! save a bit on heating.
-50 this pot is too cold. +3 this pot is too hot… school being closed due to it being too warm – give me a break. If it were that slippery… the GN would have jumped all over it – the love a good closure. No water for a few mins shutter down… someone got a whiff of a seal fart – there’s fumes shutter down again.
Nunavut is the only territory that constantly create new holidays. New holidays almost every month. For what? Stay at home? Nunavut only like to hunt animals too. They say cost of food is too high. No wonder cost of food is so high. Nunavut create holidays to not work. And yet complain about cost of food is so high. Or worry about money. Nunavut holiday only for gn employees.
Kind of deceiving photo. Tides are high and seawater floods the shores monthly all the time.
People have turned into whimps. To warm. We get a so called weather event. 5cm and all schools shut down. Called major snow event. I went to school in far north Ontario. School never shut down. Warmer spring weather then normal. Wear rubber boots. Whimps
Hey John, when you walked to school, and then back home again, was it uphill BOTH WAYS?
Asking for a friend.
The City didn’t even shut down and people are in here virtue signaling about what big tough Northerners they are.
If the school closure is a problem then take it up with the overly litigious parents the schools are protecting themselves from. Staff were there yesterday and this morning.
Yah warm weather means my family and household emit less carbon means I save some money.
1 less heating oil usage = less carbon = more money in my pocket
2. Less electricity usage (dont need to plug the truck in over night) = less carbon = more money in my pocket
3.Less time warming up my truck = less carbon = more money in my pocket.
Mother nature realized we need a tax break and has given it to us. At least the government cannot control the weather, if they did they probably put us in a deep freeze so we have to emit more carbon and pay more carbon taxes.
Funny how the Federal Government still allows Canadian mined coal to be shipped to China so China can produce cheep electricity so they can produce use cheep TV’s and Cell phones that we buy. Maybe they should start charging a carbon tax on goods made with electricity produced with burning coal. So the real carbon cost of the cheep items at the store.
Lets move to Nunavut and expect the weather to be tropical in the arctic. Even little bit of snow or wind is enough to shut down Iqaluit now.
Nunavut doesn’t create holidays
It’s the weather if you want to move up here then please by all means but don’t cry when it hits – 50 with 60 windchill. Or if you have to pay 60 for a small roast beef and 30 for small bagga coffee. 🤧