Snow Today Cold Tomorrow
Last night the snow began falling again after a couple of days of reprieve and rain, the precipitation has turned to snow.
Vancouver is on par with Montreal and St. John's NL at -10*C to -15*C, while Halifax and Toronto hovers around 0*C
Forecast is for up to 20 centimetres of snow in various parts, due to a low pressure system that continues across the south coast early Sunday.
Sunday Evening: Flurries ending around midnight, then cloudy with 60 per cent chance of flurries, up to 5 centimetres.
Monday: Cloudy, wind up to 15 km/h. Wind chill near minus -10*C.
Even so, we got nothing to complain about... In Yellowknife it's a bone chilling -45*C below!
Syrian refugees in Canada's north: Warm Smiles in Freezing Temperatures From Blazing Sun to Icy Cold (Yellowknife)
In communities such as Yellowknife, the biting temperatures can sink below -40C, a dramatic change for refugees who have never experienced it.
After a rocket hit his sister’s house and killed his brother-in-law and nephew, Mustafa Alhajy knew he had to leave Syria.
Mustafa, his wife, and four children were the first Syrian refugees to arrive in Yellowknife in 2016 to share their story.
"There were rockets that came and actually hit [my] brother-in-law and killed him," said Mustafa in Arabic. "And [my] nephew
was in pieces on the walls," he said through a translator.
But Syria-sly : . Mustafa said he had to "pick up the flesh from the walls."
Mustafa took his family and fled his village near Al Zawiya mountain, located between Aleppo and Damascus. They arrived in
Lebanon, where they would spend the next five years in a refugee camp, with no possessions or even photos from their war-stricken home.
Then one day, Mustafa said he got a call from the United Nations office in Lebanon. Zeina, Mustafa's wife, said she cried tears of joy
as she got off the plane in Canada, greeted by a group of Canadians in a city that would soon become like a "second home" for them.
Local businesses have given the family some gift certificates, and a local dentist even fixed their daughter's broken teeth.
"She was shy before. She used to put her hand on her mouth," said Rami Kassem, one of many volunteer translators for the family.
"You can see her smile better."
"Everywhere they go in Yellowknife, people welcome them. They did not feel like they are living in the middle of nowhere.
They feel like they're living in between their own people," said Kassem, a co-owner of Javaroma, offered Mustafa a job - he
now works part-time in the kitchen. "I'm looking for a future in Canada," said Mustafa.
When asked what makes them happy, each of the Alhajy children had the same answer: "My school."
Although the Alhajys found what they call a "second home" in Yellowknife, they still yearn for their family members, who are
still in Lebanon and Syria. Alhajy said he hopes that they, too, can find sponsors in Canada.
"I thank you a lot, a lot," said Zeina in Arabic.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/20/syrian-refugees-canada-yellowknife-cold-temperatures
In Yellowknife, among the world’s coldest cities, temperatures can drop to -40C. Photograph: Piero Damiani/Getty Images
"We'll take the Northern Lights over the rocket's red glare, any day!"
.
Vancouver is on par with Montreal and St. John's NL at -10*C to -15*C, while Halifax and Toronto hovers around 0*C
Forecast is for up to 20 centimetres of snow in various parts, due to a low pressure system that continues across the south coast early Sunday.
Sunday Evening: Flurries ending around midnight, then cloudy with 60 per cent chance of flurries, up to 5 centimetres.
Monday: Cloudy, wind up to 15 km/h. Wind chill near minus -10*C.
Even so, we got nothing to complain about... In Yellowknife it's a bone chilling -45*C below!
Syrian refugees in Canada's north: Warm Smiles in Freezing Temperatures From Blazing Sun to Icy Cold (Yellowknife)
In communities such as Yellowknife, the biting temperatures can sink below -40C, a dramatic change for refugees who have never experienced it.
After a rocket hit his sister’s house and killed his brother-in-law and nephew, Mustafa Alhajy knew he had to leave Syria.
Mustafa, his wife, and four children were the first Syrian refugees to arrive in Yellowknife in 2016 to share their story.
"There were rockets that came and actually hit [my] brother-in-law and killed him," said Mustafa in Arabic. "And [my] nephew
was in pieces on the walls," he said through a translator.
But Syria-sly : . Mustafa said he had to "pick up the flesh from the walls."
Mustafa took his family and fled his village near Al Zawiya mountain, located between Aleppo and Damascus. They arrived in
Lebanon, where they would spend the next five years in a refugee camp, with no possessions or even photos from their war-stricken home.
Then one day, Mustafa said he got a call from the United Nations office in Lebanon. Zeina, Mustafa's wife, said she cried tears of joy
as she got off the plane in Canada, greeted by a group of Canadians in a city that would soon become like a "second home" for them.
Local businesses have given the family some gift certificates, and a local dentist even fixed their daughter's broken teeth.
"She was shy before. She used to put her hand on her mouth," said Rami Kassem, one of many volunteer translators for the family.
"You can see her smile better."
"Everywhere they go in Yellowknife, people welcome them. They did not feel like they are living in the middle of nowhere.
They feel like they're living in between their own people," said Kassem, a co-owner of Javaroma, offered Mustafa a job - he
now works part-time in the kitchen. "I'm looking for a future in Canada," said Mustafa.
When asked what makes them happy, each of the Alhajy children had the same answer: "My school."
Although the Alhajys found what they call a "second home" in Yellowknife, they still yearn for their family members, who are
still in Lebanon and Syria. Alhajy said he hopes that they, too, can find sponsors in Canada.
"I thank you a lot, a lot," said Zeina in Arabic.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/20/syrian-refugees-canada-yellowknife-cold-temperatures
In Yellowknife, among the world’s coldest cities, temperatures can drop to -40C. Photograph: Piero Damiani/Getty Images
"We'll take the Northern Lights over the rocket's red glare, any day!"
.