Less than a week after the official start of fall, northern Canada has already recorded its first -20℃ day of the season, making it feel like fall was skipped entirely for the start of winter.
Reporting on cold temperatures, The Weather Network noted, that Canada had experienced its first -10℃ temperatures of the season just over a week earlier.
Temperatures on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island, the northernmost continuously inhabited place on Earth, dipped to -21 on September 27, and fell even lower on the 28th, when a temperature of -23.5°C was recorded. High northwesterly winds on the latter date produced a windchill of -30℃.
“It may feel like summer across parts of Canada weekend, but things are cooling off in a hurry up north,” wrote The Weather Network, discussing the early arrival of winter in Canada’s arctic region. “Canada just recorded its first -20°C reading of the season on Friday, an achievement that arrived just over a week after the country experienced the season’s first -10°C temperature.
“The bitter chill is a reminder to savor fall for as long as possible,” The Weather Network said.