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Hottest temperature ever recorded in the Yukon 10 years ago, and not a word in the media


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I was looking over the weather records last night because I was curious how often the Yukon achieved 35C/95F weather when I stumbled upon the unreported all time record high.

 

Environment Canada and the Yukon government says that the all time record was recorded in June of 1969 (interestingly a mere half a year after the coldest winter on record) when 36.1C (97F) was recorded at Mayo.

 

Aside: we see this same pattern in other places like the prairies in 1936 where the coldest winter on record was followed by the hottest summer on record.

 

There have been some other extreme hot spells in the Yukon with the the greatest heat waves being:

- June 1950 when Dawson and Mayo were 35C/95F,

- May 1983 when Forty Mile was 36C (96.8F) [i'd consider this a tie with 1969 since temperature was rounded to the nearest 0.5 degree C instead of the nearest degree F prior to the 1980s],

- 1998 when Mayo Road was 35C (95F),

- June 2006 when Drury Creek was 35C (95F), and

- 2009 when Watson Lake was a record setting 35.4C (95.7F).

 

There was one more, and that was June 2004. In that month Mayo Road was 36.5C (97.7F). This was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Yukon, and while the heat wave did get a lot of press for number of days above 30C, I cannot find a single media release about this new record setting temperature. 

 

It's 10 years late, but you've heard it here first. 

 

Just to clear up confusion, the Mayo Road weather station is near Whitehorse, and not at the town of Mayo. 

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