On this day in 1947, the temperature in Snag, Yukon dipped down to -63 C, pretty much as low as the thermometer there could go. This was the coldest recorded day in North American history. Let's learn more about that chilly day! 🥶 🧵1/7 - ThreadSky

cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social • 20 days ago

On this day in 1947, the temperature in Snag, Yukon dipped down to -63 C, pretty much as low as the thermometer there could go.
This was the coldest recorded day in North American history.
Let's learn more about that chilly day! 🥶

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valymonahan.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Okay, but this is a very bad map of the Yukon, then and now. Like, the reason Snag existed was The Alaska Highway, not pictured. There has never been/still is not a community called "Kluane". Kluane is a region and the name of a giant lake, in that region. Snag was a short-lived community, now gone.

cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social•20 days ago

For the previous eight days, the temperature had been hovering around -58 C in the community.
It was so cold out that people in Snag could hear dogs barking in a village six kilometres to the north.
When breath was exhaled, it made a tinkling sound in the air.

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valymonahan.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Are you claiming this is taken at Snag? Show your work/provide credit. As a "historian" don't you want to share actual images, with credit, from the place, with others? Ugh....

cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social•20 days ago

When the breath reached the air, it turned into a fine white powder and fell to the ground.
The husky dogs, usually okay with cold weather, slept on top of their kennels to escape the cold ground, with their noses tucked in under their tails.

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cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social•20 days ago

Even when wearing a large parka, people could feel the cold coming through it and reaching their skin.
It was also so cold that Gordon Toole, the government weather observer, couldn't make a mark on the thermometer with his pen because the ink had frozen.

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valymonahan.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Again, not a picture of Snag? Guessing not, since you don't claim it is. Why? Sad.

cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social•20 days ago

After using the telegraph to transport the weather observation to Toronto, Toole was told to send the thermometer back to be re-calibrated.
It took a week before that could happen because it was too cold for any aircraft to land at Snag.

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cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social•20 days ago

Three months later, the weather service corrected the value to -63 C. No one had every heard of Snag, Yukon prior to this day in 1947 but within a week, it was making headlines across Canada and North America.
This record remains to this day.

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valymonahan.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Yeah! Actual images of Snag. Please share credit with the source of these photos. You didn't dream them up. You don't own them. Why are you like this? Weird.

cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social•20 days ago

I hope you enjoyed that look at the coldest temperature in North American history.

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