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>think of this as the coolest year for the rest of your life

As someone who had to suffer through −40-45°C winters all my life, I can live with that. I don't know if it's due to climate change, but this winter was pretty tame. Only a few −40°C days in total, not three to four weeks as it always had been previously.

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In urban northern Canada, this sounds pretty great. Rural parts are facing a significant challenge, because ice roads are freezing later, and thawing earlier.

What do the ice-road places normally do in the summer? Freezing later and thawing earlier implies that freezing and thawing were expected anyway.

In the summer, the only way to get deliveries is by air. In the winter, shipping is relatively cheap because of the ice roads. Folks try to minimize those costs by not shipping in the summer, only shipping in the winter. If the winter is shorter, these delivery opportunities are reduced.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1863922243701

haha yes living north could become more tolerable. But don’t forget that also means the more centrally located people will all be moving that direction soon.

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