This video is realy cool. As much as people talk down on alert because of its temperature and limited things to do I see here that it realy could be alot of fun. I hope that sometime in my career in the forces that i get the opportunity to spend some time in alert.
Canadian forces station alert, so what's its function for our military? any interesting stories? if i join the forces any chances i might get sent up ?
1. Siberia is colder than Northern Canada because of the North Atlantic Drift (this is why London is warmer than.. Chicago, despite London's higher latitude)
2. Antartica is colder than Arctic Ocean because of its higher altitude (ice alone accounts for 1600m thickness)
3. As of 2006, there are 5 permanent residents in Alert, Nunavut
4. Alert lies 817km (508mi) from the North Pole
5. Average temperature of 3.3'C in July (warmest) to highly varying temperature in winter (-40'C to -30'C)
i found out why antarctica is colder than near the north pole. antarctica's average altitude is about 8,000 feet, and around the north pole it's pretty close to sea level. so altitude is the reason.
Looks beautiful and like a lot of fun. What a great group of people. Canada is a wonderful place. "Alert" made it's name in its mission to protect the northern hemisphere during the Cold War.
A little background information for the non-initiated what be helpful, ie., what does CFS(I assume Canada __?__?) stand for, what job brings non-Inuit to this place, etc. Any such info would save us a lot of guessing/googling/wikipeding time. Otherwise thank you for posting.
I have heard somewhere before that when the mind is cluttered for normal everyday society, a trip to the arctic will clear your mind and bring perspective back. thats right, a trip to no mans land. Wish I could go there one day myself, but only in the warmest month. Don't want to get sick now or freeze LOL
Actually, the northern islands are in the 40's during the warmest month or months I have read. thats chilly. and that the daytime highs from what I understand. Still can catch a cold, just not drop dead quickly from frostbite.
im assuming when you say 40's u mean fahrenhite, cuz that would be very hot in celcius. But yeah, at least the 40's would be bearable lol. Thats how our weather usually is in the winter time, in calgary.
yes that is not celcius and I was checking last years weather history for alert nunavut, on weatherundergrounddotcom and in august early in the month was 40s but other days30s. a few days in weather history for 2008 was 57 for the high it read. but even in august there was a high of 32 so yea, thats freezing, and in August!
yeah I cannot imagine living there, although I wouldnt mind visiting once (in the summer). But I know a place that is far colder than alert in antarctica called vostok station. Type it up in wikipedia, you will be amazed at how cold it is!
Oh yea I know about vostok station it is an elevated station forget how many feet but holds the worlds record for -129 f years ago coldest on earth. I have looked at their weather on the net in july and saw -105f how bout that. The south pole is colder than the north pole. Siberia in russia beats out the cold temps in the arctic it gets into the -60's I saw when checking. I have never seen the northern canadian arctic reach that. in Eureka which is on ellesmere island I saw -55f.
I should add that Siberia is colder in places but not that throughout all history that the canadian arctic couldn't have been at one time. I am referring to present day.
Yeah I've wondered about that before, why siberia is so much colder than northern canada. And also the south pole stays cold the whole year, and the north pole its only in winter. I just checked the weather for vostok station and the wind chill is -100F right now! And there's actually a couple people that live there year round apparantly. Thats insane!
Yea i always found it odd how Antarctica can be so much colder than the arctic. My only guess is that since there is actual land there, it is at a higher altitude and thus less dense air, which is colder.
would love to see it once, the northernmost permanently inhabited settlement. it beats scandinavians haha :D seriously, one day i will visit it i hope, just because it's interesting.
The artic intrigues me, I look at the weather up there on the net during the winter to see how cold it is. would like to be there myself but in july or august, not january no way too cold!!!!!!!!
i need to go with you guys
SavingYTPs 6 months ago
@MsBryanfreeman None. Because No one is their sane fucking mind would live there.
SniperViper1000 8 months ago
excellent remember the good times there.!! Puff 1999. CHIMO, House of chefs,
vimy and the zoo.
cheers.
no town this is Canadian Forces station Alert the must northernly habitate.
hoser651 8 months ago
excellent remember the good times there.!! Puff 1999. CHIMO, House of chefs,
vimy and the zoo.
cheers.
hoser651 8 months ago
I wish travel wasn't so expensive, I'd like to go there.
FloridaRaider 1 year ago
This video is realy cool. As much as people talk down on alert because of its temperature and limited things to do I see here that it realy could be alot of fun. I hope that sometime in my career in the forces that i get the opportunity to spend some time in alert.
Thanks for putting this video together :)
ddavey606 1 year ago
@ddavey606 id go crazy up there
im sure u would too
benchod94 1 year ago
Canadian forces station alert, so what's its function for our military? any interesting stories? if i join the forces any chances i might get sent up ?
solca519 1 year ago
Cool! I wanna go here!
musicluva13579 1 year ago
If I was on the run from the police, I think I would go here. Nobody whould ever know your here!
LordJasonGarfield 1 year ago
there has gotta be alot of alcoholism in a town like this.
DrPoon 2 years ago
@Dr. Poon: Ya, seeing as how it's a community of scientists and researchers. They sure do get into lots of trouble though LOL!
Zorica12 1 year ago
1. Siberia is colder than Northern Canada because of the North Atlantic Drift (this is why London is warmer than.. Chicago, despite London's higher latitude)
2. Antartica is colder than Arctic Ocean because of its higher altitude (ice alone accounts for 1600m thickness)
3. As of 2006, there are 5 permanent residents in Alert, Nunavut
4. Alert lies 817km (508mi) from the North Pole
5. Average temperature of 3.3'C in July (warmest) to highly varying temperature in winter (-40'C to -30'C)
jolazzzang 2 years ago 6
@jolazzzang
With the windchill, alert commonly reaches -70'C
nitrogif 1 year ago
i found out why antarctica is colder than near the north pole. antarctica's average altitude is about 8,000 feet, and around the north pole it's pretty close to sea level. so altitude is the reason.
cooliorox100 2 years ago
Looks beautiful and like a lot of fun. What a great group of people. Canada is a wonderful place. "Alert" made it's name in its mission to protect the northern hemisphere during the Cold War.
Thank you, Alert.
pboscophoto 2 years ago
going in the summer would be awesome. 24 hours of sunlight, and livable weather. PS what's name of first song? im obsessed with it.
cooliorox100 2 years ago
also more people live above the arctic circle than near antarctica, so i think that global warming causes some of it.
cooliorox100 2 years ago
A little background information for the non-initiated what be helpful, ie., what does CFS(I assume Canada __?__?) stand for, what job brings non-Inuit to this place, etc. Any such info would save us a lot of guessing/googling/wikipeding time. Otherwise thank you for posting.
bferre 2 years ago
should be really nice in summer but in winter i wont like it. very cold and the 24 hours of day is dark.
hh12x 2 years ago
how did u guys get there?..just curiosity, thanks
yeisonx 2 years ago
If it is clear skys, small planes. but usualy it is ice breaker ships. I don't think you can get there in the winter, the ice is so thick.
StGeorgeBush 2 years ago
only 5 people live there year round lol
duckfan814 2 years ago
74 people in alert most northern town in the world
leafessucks 2 years ago
Very close to AGARTHA
popupwool 3 years ago
Funny to know this place only has 5 people living in it.
BURPGAA 3 years ago
more like 50-60 people...
tuxtehcrusher 3 years ago
ptm como puede haber vida por ese lugar me imagino qu e esto es en elmaximo verano
JOSSUE82 3 years ago
I have heard somewhere before that when the mind is cluttered for normal everyday society, a trip to the arctic will clear your mind and bring perspective back. thats right, a trip to no mans land. Wish I could go there one day myself, but only in the warmest month. Don't want to get sick now or freeze LOL
bg0821 3 years ago
the warmest month is still freezing cold lol
duckfan814 2 years ago
Actually, the northern islands are in the 40's during the warmest month or months I have read. thats chilly. and that the daytime highs from what I understand. Still can catch a cold, just not drop dead quickly from frostbite.
bg0821 2 years ago
im assuming when you say 40's u mean fahrenhite, cuz that would be very hot in celcius. But yeah, at least the 40's would be bearable lol. Thats how our weather usually is in the winter time, in calgary.
PS: dont forget to invite me if you go :)
duckfan814 2 years ago
yes that is not celcius and I was checking last years weather history for alert nunavut, on weatherundergrounddotcom and in august early in the month was 40s but other days30s. a few days in weather history for 2008 was 57 for the high it read. but even in august there was a high of 32 so yea, thats freezing, and in August!
bg0821 2 years ago
yeah I cannot imagine living there, although I wouldnt mind visiting once (in the summer). But I know a place that is far colder than alert in antarctica called vostok station. Type it up in wikipedia, you will be amazed at how cold it is!
duckfan814 2 years ago
Oh yea I know about vostok station it is an elevated station forget how many feet but holds the worlds record for -129 f years ago coldest on earth. I have looked at their weather on the net in july and saw -105f how bout that. The south pole is colder than the north pole. Siberia in russia beats out the cold temps in the arctic it gets into the -60's I saw when checking. I have never seen the northern canadian arctic reach that. in Eureka which is on ellesmere island I saw -55f.
bg0821 2 years ago
I read somewhere also that interior alaska can get to like -80f
bg0821 2 years ago
I should add that Siberia is colder in places but not that throughout all history that the canadian arctic couldn't have been at one time. I am referring to present day.
bg0821 2 years ago
Yeah I've wondered about that before, why siberia is so much colder than northern canada. And also the south pole stays cold the whole year, and the north pole its only in winter. I just checked the weather for vostok station and the wind chill is -100F right now! And there's actually a couple people that live there year round apparantly. Thats insane!
duckfan814 2 years ago
Yea i always found it odd how Antarctica can be so much colder than the arctic. My only guess is that since there is actual land there, it is at a higher altitude and thus less dense air, which is colder.
EviICookie 2 years ago
yeah I think your right. It also gets less sunshine I think.
duckfan814 2 years ago
I think the permanant Ice pack in Antarctica contributes to it also.
bg0821 2 years ago
WOW.... nice video thank you
chammpuzz 3 years ago
would love to see it once, the northernmost permanently inhabited settlement. it beats scandinavians haha :D seriously, one day i will visit it i hope, just because it's interesting.
naaaaaagz 3 years ago
hate to live there
backstrom19 4 years ago
must be in summer.. very interesting to see this part of Canada without snow... very interesting though there is quite nothing to see...
shado474 4 years ago
nothing to see ?
or everything to see.
VANDRO81 4 years ago
agreed. the high north is where its at.
amarsh85 3 years ago
I like that great perspective.
bg0821 3 years ago
I live in costa rica, and I thank you for this video. Its truly another life that you live up there.
gchacon 4 years ago 4
Alert, poplation 7
lol j/k its a military base aparently?
Nsphere 4 years ago
that last scene at 3:29 is extravagant what a view!
bgineat 4 years ago
The artic intrigues me, I look at the weather up there on the net during the winter to see how cold it is. would like to be there myself but in july or august, not january no way too cold!!!!!!!!
bgineat 4 years ago
Alert is on Ellesmere Island, right? That's far north!!
Thepinkninja2 4 years ago
Can't get any further north than that without being in russia
bgineat 4 years ago
Russia doesn't go as far North...
fourtyblinks 3 years ago
If you cross over the top of the north pole the other side of the earth should be siberia that you will enter into.
bg0821 2 years ago
Wouldn't it be the ocean north of Siberia? :\
fourtyblinks 2 years ago
yea well, I meant landwise after the ocean I know there is water first.
bg0821 2 years ago
I never meant that russia is farther North than North America just that you would be in russia no more land
bg0821 2 years ago
Alert, what a party town!
tare2222 4 years ago