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Most of Yukon has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc), characterized by long cold winters and brief warm summers. The airstrip at Snag , 25 kilometres east of Beaver Creek near the Alaska border, experienced the lowest ever temperature measured in North America, −63.0 °C or −81.4 °F on February 3, 1947.
Temperature Location Temperature 2024 Lytton, British Columbia: 42.5 °C (109 °F) Keg River, Alberta and Old Crow, Yukon: −51.5 °C (−61 °F) 2023 Lytton, British Columbia: 42.2 °C (108 °F) Rabbit Kettle, Northwest Territories: −53.4 °C (−64 °F) 2022 Lytton, British Columbia: 42.2 °C (108 °F) Pelly Ranch, Yukon
Due to the city's location in the Whitehorse valley, the climate is milder than other comparable northern communities such as Yellowknife, however during cold snaps it is not uncommon for temperatures to drop below −40 °C (−40 °F). [4] With an average annual temperature of 0.2 °C (32.4 °F) Whitehorse is the warmest place in the Yukon.
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Summers are warm but short, with July mean temperatures between 12 °C and 15 °C. [5] Alpine weather is more typical beyond the tree line at elevations above 1000 m, where frost can develop year-round. [10] Average temperatures here remain below freezing for most of the year, and snowfall accounts for at least 70% of precipitation. [10]
Most of the Yukon has a subarctic climate, ... The temperature has dropped down to −60 °C (−76 °F) three times, 1947, 1952, and 1968. ... The 10th and current ...
Snag has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dwc/Dfc) with mild summers and severely cold and long winters.. On February 2, 1947, Snag recorded a temperature of -62.2 °C (-80 °F), beating the continental North American record-low temperature that until then, belonged to Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, when it reached -61.7 °C (-79.1 °F) on December 31, 1910.
The climate of the ecoregion is Tundra climate (Köppen climate classification ET), a local climate in which at least one month has an average temperature high enough to melt snow (0 °C (32 °F)), but no month with an average temperature in excess of 10 °C (50 °F).