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Thanksgiving northern lights over Iqaluit

Iqaluit residents enjoyed several northern lights shows over the course of the Thanksgiving long weekend. This photo, taken Sunday at Iqaluit’s old cemetery, was captured using a 30-second-long exposure. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

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Winds whip Iqaluit

Schools closed on Thursday due to 90 km/h wind forecast

Waves pushed by high winds crash against the shore in Iqaluit on Thursday morning. Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a wind warning for Nunavut’s capital, forecasting easterly winds up to 90 km/h until mid-day. Early in the morning, the Iqaluit District Education Authority posted on Facebook that all schools were to be closed in the morning because of the high winds. At 11 a.m., the DEA said that Aqsarniit Middle School, Inuksuk High School and Joamie and Nakasuk elementary schools would be closed for the remainder of the day. Schools will reopen Friday unless the DEA advises otherwise. High winds pounded the Nunavut capital throughout the day, making buildings shake and causing waves to splash over the breakwater at low tide. By 3 p.m., wind speeds had dropped to 50 km/h. (Photo by Jason Sudlovenick, special to Nunatsiaq News)

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Photos: A fog falls over Iqaluit

City was blanketed by fog Tuesday morning

Normally a scenic seaside view, Iqaluit’s cemetery near the start of the Apex Trail is blanketed in fog early Tuesday. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

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A walk in the park in Iqaluit

Rhoda Ungalaq, centre, leads a group of people on an educational Arctic plant walk through sunny Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park in Iqaluit on Tuesday afternoon. Ungalaq showed participants how to identify some of the many plants and berries found at the park, such as crowberries, saxifrage and Labrador tea, and shared how Inuit use them for different medicinal and culinary purposes. The plant walk was one of the park’s “Learn To…” events, a series of cultural activities hosted at Nunavut’s territorial parks in Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet and Kugluktuk throughout the summer. Thursday’s event at Sylvia Grinnell park, called How to Light a Qulliq, starts at 1:30 p.m. (Photo by Madalyn Howitt)

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Double rainbow over Iqaluit

After a rainy and cloudy week, a double rainbow could be seen over Iqaluit from the pavilion area of Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park late Friday afternoon. The bright weather carried into the weekend with blue skies over the Nunavut capital on Saturday. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)