Where Winter Lingers in June
6/4/2008 3:20 PM
The start of June finds spring's warming well underway and the thaw of winter snow and ice essentially complete northward to the Arctic Circle and
beyond. But there do linger patches of substantial snow and ice, mostly near shores of the Arctic Ocean and its offshoots.
In North America, one swath of lingering snow as of this first week is over northern Canada, especially the Arctic Archipelago. Wednesday, snow lay
12 inches deep at the Lupin Mine of mainland Northwest Territories. On western Victoria Island, Holman also saw a foot of snow linger as of Tuesday.
Also on Victoria, but in Nunavut, Cambridge Bay still lay beneath 11 inches of snow. At King William Island, 15 inches of snow still blanketed Gjoa
Haven.
Over the North Pole in European Russia, the city of Vorkuta was still in the grips of winter, notwithstanding the long sunlight of Arctic June.
Tuesday's snow depth was 18 inches, which was little-changed since June 1, owing to persisting freezing weather.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Forecaster Jim Andrews
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