What’s with the semi-arid climate?
Carrie posted in Recreation on November 3rd, 2008
So ever since I got here people have been telling me “Well we don’t get much rain because Whitehorse is in this semi-arid climate.” I think the whole thing is a crock because it has rained PLENTY since I’ve gotten here. In fact, our climbing season was essentially over on Discovery Day weekend (August 18) because it proceeded to rain for about 4 weeks after that. Now that winter is here (and yes, I realise it’s November but winter is definitely here) it’s snowing A LOT. I had to dig my pumpkins that I left out on the front porch out from under the snow this morning so that I could put them in the compost. Someone SNOWMOBILED across our front lawn! We live in the city!
Halloween was interesting since no one wanted to keep their doors open too long to admire the kids’ costumes as it let all the cold air in! A guy from Boston was asking Ryan the other day what we do for Halloween since it was -15 by the time the sun set and he answered, “You have to make the costume to fit around a snowsuit. So we have a lot of really fat unicorns and really fat princesses.” My French teacher also said that her kids have 2 costumes: 1 they can wear to school or a small party and another they actually wear outdoors when they go Trick or Treating.
The point is that winter is here and it’s not looking like any semi-arid climate to me. The hills are about to open and the cross-country skiers are almost ready to put away their rock-skis and pull out the real ones. To enjoy these early snowfalls when the weather isn’t too cold, I went horseback riding with a group of friends! We wanderd through some trails riding casually and bareback just enjoying the scenery and making conversation. We took some pictures but dusk is so early that it was mostly dark and we didn’t get too many scenic shots. Hopefully though, it’s not my last ride of the season and I’ll get out there some more! Since this still doesn’t look to me like a semi-arid climate we should enjoy quite a bit more snow!
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