Nunavik on track for warmest winter ever

Source: Nunatsiaq News

KANGIQSUJUAQ – Nunavik is on track to claiming its warmest winter on record.

Environment Canada logged an average temperature of -14.5C during December, January and February.

That’s the mildest three-month winter period seen since at least 1947, when the agency began monitoring weather from Kuujjuaq.

... Several Nunavik communities have reported losing snowmobiles through the ice this year, including in Tasiujaq, where a man died in February when he tried to retrieve a machine stuck in slushy ice.

Only weeks ago, a snowmobiler in Kangiqsujuaq lost his machine under the sea ice roughly ten km from town – a place where the ice is usually guaranteed to stay thick throughout the winter. The hunter was unharmed.

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